In the video it makes it seem like Alex went hogwild with the company card. What seems likely to me is that Ohcanda (the sponsor of the video) set them up with a couple of machines. Like the air compressor you can clearly see is labeld 2017 when the video was shot in 2019. Then im gonna guess they payed for the smaller stuff.
Best option beside an actual giant ass game cabinet is a Polish pad like I said for $250 + $100 shipping to US. They also have the diagonal arrow variant for PIU. I hooked mine up to Stepmania and I even have all the chart packs from every Konami DDR release ever.
Yeah I totally believe that noted control freak Linus would let his stooges run off with the company card.
Do the tiniest bit of research into real estate values and you'd see that Vancouver BC is such an insanely expensive place to buy a home, due primarily to Chinese "investors" that the situation there is actually taught in economics classes as an example of a broken market. Google "the Vancouver model".
It's actually more due to foreign immigration than investors, but that's not politically correct to say.
RedOctane filled that niche well, until they sold out to ActiVision when Guitar Hero hit big.
If it really was immigration, in the case of Vancouver and Calgary, there wouldn't be so many empty condos that have never been occupied or rented out by the Chinese nationals who own them.
Canada imports over 1% of its population every year and it isn't increasing its housing supply by the same amount. Both are issues, but immigration is the worse one by far. No Chinese investor is buying 400,000 houses a year, but that's how many new people are brought into the country each year and they need a place to live. It's just not PC to say because "Canada is a nation of immigrants" and "diversity is our strength", so all the blame is deflected to the "evil rich investor" because hating on the rich is still allowed (for now). 400k is also an underestimate as that is only permanent residents.
While Linus does seem to be at least a competent businessman (inasmuch as he built up his company and LMG isn't on fire everyday), at the heart of it, he is still an ADHD Manchild--even with that beard
It further solidifies my theory that Linus is at a constant state of cognitive dissonance between the values he preaches (pro-consumer, tech enthusiast friendly, etc) versus the values that he would need to grow a successful company (exploit brand recognition, cut corners wherever you can, exploit legal loopholes, fuck over your userbase)
But he is not a small company. He's quoting 10 mill a year.
The only side Linus will ever take is the pro-Linus side. Remember his tantrum when he destroyed an iMac Pro and Apple wouldn't fix it due to him violating the warranty, and wouldn't sell him the replacement part because her wasn't certified to repair Apple products, which was the whole reason he killed the machine with his incompetence to begin with?
What if, and it's honestly not unlikely, what if his wife is the actual businessman of LMG? I wouldn't be surprised if she would be the one doing the actual business side of things. Time and again it's presented as if Linus is the "ideas guy" and Yvonne knows the Ins and Outs of the matters.
And if his wife is actually doing the shots, some of the cognitive dissonance makes sense, too. He's the front facing persona and sometimes just says the things he thinks, which don't necessarily align with Yvonne's business decisions.
All the evidence we have, including the circumstantial evidence, suggests Yvonne handles business much better than Linus. He acts very unprofessionally to his employees and customers, and he doesn't seem that good with finances either. Or to put it cynically: at least chinks over soyboys know how to run a business.
seriously, if you asked most people to piss away a million dollars or two they'd come up with more exciting fun ideas than "over priced backpack and screwdriver"
despite how we think of it, LMG is still a small business, and most of them especially because they're private are mainly successful despite the businessowner and not because of it. either that or they reached their market saturation point a long time ago and are mainly still going because of inertia.
i've been saying for awhile its a reverse situation of Naomi Wu. Yvonne is just Linus' suitcase pimp, he shakes it and she handles the business stuff.
The difference being that with LMG neither of the two has serious IT knowledge.
LTT has very much been living solely off of brand recognition, he and mkbhd have become the face of tech youtube and have made millions already, thats why he's able to still grow and maintain an audience despite his content in a state of decay and his complete lack of intelligence and integrity.
