Do any of you find some Internet PC "experts" quite cancerous?

[teddygala]

On 4/3/2018 at 2:18 AM, MrUnknownEMC said:

Lmao, still on facebook?

 

Anyone who takes advice on facebook, it is his/her fault.

Honestly just don't take advice from the internet.

[WallacEngineering]

On 3/3/2018 at 6:07 PM, Crunchy Dragon said:

I'm a nerd with no social skills, which is why I spend my days moderating here instead of out with friends or something

 

 

Eh Im a nerd with limited social skills as well but I do still hang out with friends. The only issue is NONE of my friends know PCs at all, my girlfriend kept flipping out as I tried to teach her how to build her own system. It was hilarious lol - "Babe OMG I think I broke it", "No, no, no; were fine, the plastic cover is supposed to come out after you put the CPU in". It was a ton of fun and I just could not stop laughing, we had a blast :).

 

But I would totally chill with you or most of the community if I knew you IRL but my hopes are low that anyone on these forums lives anywhere near me.

[IntMD]

13 hours ago, Bhav said:

I just noticed your location....

 

Edinburgh is pronounced Edin-borough right?

 

....

 

Somehow this is what I ended up being on after looking up 'Aloooooominum' on YouTube.

Edin-bruh

[Mutoh]

A buddy of mine once gave me a bit of shit and implied that I didnt know what I was doing in terms of overclocks. This same buddy then asked me to help him get his 965 BE stable after a bad OC a few weeks later.

[Eduard the weeb]

some have been to me before especially when I was first learning about pcs, but I try to not be rude because I now compared to some people I know like pretty much nothing, but I have been rude before to a few people trying to scam people and shit and also when my father tries telling me he knows more about pcs then me and same with cameras and my sister.

[Yoinkerman]

No way dudes some rando tech youtuber with no technical background said something about a piece of tech I'm going to take it as gospel

[kokakolia]

The more time I spend on the internet, the more I grow to dislike the experts for overselling me on stuff with their authoritative tone. You don't need 16gb of RAM, a core i5 and a GTX 1060 at the very least to game. I think I would have been super fine building my computer with a core i3 and a GTX 1050 because I only play League of Legends anyway. Also, gaming at 720p won't make your eyes bleed. It's quite fine. 

 

I think that it's quite cancerous to seed that kind of information into peoples heads. It makes people buy more, and feel more buyer's remorse. 

 

With PCs it's not so bad however. Because I consider that PCs have always been around $1000 or $2000 anyway. The difference today is that PCs are getting cheaper. Well, if you ignore the absurd prices of RAM and GPUs. My point is, the price is what you expect.

 

However, with watches is a different level of brainwashing into buying more than what you need. For 99.9% of the people a nice affordable quartz watch is all you need. It can be a Fossil, Casio Timex, Skagen or Daniel Wellington and it will perform its job admirably. However, these so-called watch experts (snobs, really) will convince you otherwise. It's gotta be an in-house mechanical movement with hacking and super bright lume and 200m water resistance

...bla bla bla. And then before you know it you spend $1000 on watch that keeps worse time than a $20 Casio or Timex.

[Ithanul]

I can think of two in a specific water cooling thread on a different forum board.

A mention of Borrow barbs is the trigger.     Stinkers manage to get the thread locked three darn times, each time the rest of us telling them to cool their jets.  Or, the few threads on a specific electric car company, o boy, the fanboys come out big time (which I have a bad habit of just poking them for fun - slow days at work can do that).

[Mooshi]

Had to re-read the OP a few times. Anyway, the general population are full of idiots regardless of the internet. The anonymous nature just breeds more rudeness.

[Rain7]

I get my daily dose of them in this very forum.

[LienusLateTips]

14 hours ago, kokakolia said:

The more time I spend on the internet, the more I grow to dislike the experts for overselling me on stuff with their authoritative tone. You don't need 16gb of RAM, a core i5 and a GTX 1060 at the very least to game. I think I would have been super fine building my computer with a core i3 and a GTX 1050 because I only play League of Legends anyway. Also, gaming at 720p won't make your eyes bleed. It's quite fine. 

 

I think that it's quite cancerous to seed that kind of information into peoples heads. It makes people buy more, and feel more buyer's remorse. 

 

With PCs it's not so bad however. Because I consider that PCs have always been around $1000 or $2000 anyway. The difference today is that PCs are getting cheaper. Well, if you ignore the absurd prices of RAM and GPUs. My point is, the price is what you expect.

 

However, with watches is a different level of brainwashing into buying more than what you need. For 99.9% of the people a nice affordable quartz watch is all you need. It can be a Fossil, Casio Timex, Skagen or Daniel Wellington and it will perform its job admirably. However, these so-called watch experts (snobs, really) will convince you otherwise. It's gotta be an in-house mechanical movement with hacking and super bright lume and 200m water resistance

...bla bla bla. And then before you know it you spend $1000 on watch that keeps worse time than a $20 Casio or Timex.

Linus thinking everything he says is law and true

Later in the page JonnyGURU says otherwise