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[Padblaze]

does someone know why is there no video today??

[Mr Gigor]

Just now, Padblaze said:

does someone know why is there no video today??

I mean presumably someone at LTT would know yes

[Frodo Baggins]

Still no video today. Maybe they ran out of videos?

[Ruslanets]

On 4/16/2021 at 5:08 PM, hackky said:

I got MSI 3080 Sea Hawk from 29. Mar drop and they send me "we shipped it" e-mail 1. Apr. 

Fedex tracking saw it first 8. Apr and now it's stuck in customs. I'm in Europe, so that could delay things, but if I were you, I would not hold my breath. I'm not ungrateful, this is just how world works right now and we have to obey by it..

How much the shipping price was?

[Mr Gigor]

Crazy fan theory time. LTT probably upload videos to youtube the same day they upload them to floatplane they just schedule the release a few days latere. Someone already said today's video was uploaded on floatplane already as was mentioned in the WAN show. I'll bet what happened is during the work day necessary conditions for a VAGP drop happened and they decided to take down and reedit today's video in order to add in Linus's VAGP bit then re upload it, I'd further bet this happened later in the day which is why the video is so late.

[Trailboss3]

21 hours ago, dizmo said:

As a model, yes, not of all of the inventory the company produces.

It's not so much about transparency as it is about consumers not understanding how business works.

Fortunately, I do have a decent understanding of how business works. I have been involved in almost every facet of the company I have worked at for over 27 years, but yeah, a lot of people only see the surface.

 

I will clarify my statement on the "transparency" a bit.

    " What is the policy on stock allocation for fulfilling the que versus the allocation for other distributors and do they consider certain channels a higher priority?"

 

Now, I get that they owe us none of this information nor am I demanding any, its just nice to know their methods and prioritizations so people can adjust their expectations.

 

EVGA has a sterling reputation to uphold in my eyes. I've been buying their products since I bought my first "GeForce 8800GTX 768MB"  and my "nForce 780i SLI 775 Motherboard" in 2007 and they still work.

[Frodo Baggins]

Still no video today. I choose to believe Linus was working late on the video and fell asleep at his workstation at the office and now all his employees are drawing funny things on his face. Linus is going to look like the next Post Malone by (his) morning.

[SuperMrBlob]

It's no longer today's video being late, we should think of it as tomorrow's video being early ^_^

[Padblaze]

1 minute ago, Frodo Baggins said:

Still no video today.

lol are you too waiting each hour for a video?

[Kredbu]

Is it too optimistic to hope that they somehow got their hands on 120 extra cards and are trying to push to drop 420 cards today, so they are running late cause things weren't quite ready yet?

[Frodo Baggins]

1 minute ago, Padblaze said:

lol are you too waiting each hour for a video?

Every 30 minutes starting at 2:28am my time to about 4:35am, then again at 9:58 am till now (about 12:05pm), that's how desperate I am to get a graphics card for my zen3 system. Like many others, I've been reduced to borrowing a very old temporary card just to run my system from my cousin. Sucks we can't all just have the opportunity to buy a card at reasonable prices :-(, but Linus and LTT is at least trying to help.

[Padblaze]

2 minutes ago, Frodo Baggins said:

Every 30 minutes starting at 2:28am my time to about 4:35am, then again at 9:58 am till now (about 12:05pm), that's how desperate I am to get a graphics card for my zen3 system. Like many others, I've been reduced to borrowing a very old temporary card just to run my system from my cousin. Sucks we can't all just have the opportunity to buy a card at reasonable prices :-(, but Linus and LTT is at least trying to help.

hey same but i need a 5900x and a rtx 3080 (or 6800xt but prefer 3080) i hope i can get them before june

[inund8]

6 hours ago, Random_Person1234 said:

Linus usually reacts to the Apple event on the main channel on the day of the event.

For example, here is his reaction video to the M1 announcement back in Nov.:

he also did one for the iPhone 12 announcement:

 

Maybe I'm imagining this but I thought linus said in a wan show that he didn't want to do these videos anymore? I probably imagined it on second thought. But I did call it, techlinked did make a video about it today

[LordPoopGreen]

3 hours ago, Frodo Baggins said:

That is wrong sorry. Several videos over the last 12 days have been at the 30 to 35 minute mark of the hour.

Don't remember seeing one, I usually check every one as they release, most of them are at 10AM PST, I've seen a few at 9AM and 6PM but other than that I haven't really seen ones uploaded at the 30 minute mark

[Gavagai]

Besides, I don't believe that Linus would miss the opportunity to do a drop RIGHT after a video called, "You don't need a graphics card."

[Frodo Baggins]

Well still no new video today so surely there wont be one till tomorrow my time.

[LogicalDrm]

6 hours ago, Frodo Baggins said:

Still no video today. Maybe they ran out of videos?

FP has some 2 videos backlog still. Though its bit harder to track since ALL LMG channels are in single view on FP and the YT releases are 0-14 days after FP release. If there are still unreleased videos older than 6 weeks, I'm not sure. Wouldn't be first time.

 

The theory about them preparing for live event and the sales event online during it might be one reason why there has been no drop in over a week. But its probably not only thing. This Apple event might also be contributing factor, and who knows whether there are other NDA things going on which would require simultaneous release.

[Khali]

There is a video, and it's from apple event

[Kilrah]

No

[Frodo Baggins]

I was at a birthday dinner and my phone was showing a notification, but it was 30 minutes old and I thought I missed the VAG drop after getting up at 2:30am for it lol. Turns out it wasn't a VAG drop today.

[Serpents_Smile]

So, what do we expect? No video today because the mac event one was technically released today (I believe, dunno.. time zones.)?

[wONKEyeYEs]

The current setup of click through as fast as you can serves a certain segment

but discriminates against those who can not devote the time.

 

Since there are multiple drops could not one of the drops be distributed by

a different method, for example lottery, so that other people who can't be perched

eternally ready to frantically click might have a shot?

[AlexP11223]

3 minutes ago, wONKEyeYEs said:

for example lottery

no, read the pinned post.

[wONKEyeYEs]

2 minutes ago, AlexP11223 said:

no, read the pinned post.

If you have a point to make it would have been considerate to include it in your post rather than asking me to review the totality of a lengthy post ne?

[Amongalen]

7 minutes ago, wONKEyeYEs said:

The current setup of click through as fast as you can serves a certain segment

but discriminates against those who can not devote the time.

 

Since there are multiple drops could not one of the drops be distributed by

a different method, for example lottery, so that other people who can't be perched

eternally ready to frantically click might have a shot?

I think LMG is open to ideas. If you have any that is quite easy to do, isn't against the law and won't be an issue on the global scale then feel free to suggest it.

Someone earlier suggested a tournament in one of the games. On paper cool idea but how to choose a game to make it fair? How to organize it for thousands of people? Linus is doing that as a local event but it isn't feasible globally for a normal drop.