Linus Gabriel Sebastian & Linus Media Group / Linus Tech Tips - Narcissistic corporate shill YouTuber driving his media empire into the ground. KILL COUNT: 2

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I think I found the removed Gamers Nexus video that Linus was attacking, that may have been his source for Steve being "above ethics". Sorry, haven't had the time to give it a proper listen yet. This is the video made in response to some doctor guy as referred in the WAN show (the clip of some guy talking 3 minutes in).

Reddit post concerning the video and its prompt removal (A)

Someone's unlisted reupload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNNQVo2dGuE
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I remember this being posted about here and someone did upload a recording of it, but it was so long ago I wouldn't be able to find it.

Here's a 360p archive of that YouTube video


Personally I don't take Linus' word for it when he says he's being misrepresented etc. For instance, why doesn't he provide the apparently very important missing context on his statement about Honey? A minor detail that struck me as dishonest on Linus' part was re: Billet Labs, he says they said it "Should work with a 4090", but pause the video at 7:22 and read the e-mail, it does not say that.

The text Linus highlighted says "(it may also fit a 4090 FE but we haven't got one yet to try it with - you're welcome to give it a go)". In what universe does "welcome to give it a go" mean it should fit and therefore it's on Billet Labs that it didn't fit? He goes on to say "Steve missed that the block only went into our charity auction because of an internal miscommunication."

How is it relevant that it was an internal miscommunication? Does Linus genuinely think that Steve believes he deliberately auctioned the block to fuck with the company? That's insane, it was obviously a mistake but that doesn't diminish how fucking stupid LMG was for auctioning it off nor excuse their blasé attitude when telling Billet Labs their priceless prototype was auctioned off. LMG staff acted as though they should be thankful that thanks to them it's no longer gathering dust on a shelf.
 
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Linus is genuinelly retarded. Nexus has raped him in every single encounter and that was with them apparently holding back. The only thing makes sense to me is that Linus doesn't care about his reputation and just wants to farm a few drama clicks. I hope nexus is effecient and brutal to discourage this behaviour.
 
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Personally I don't take Linus' word for it when he says he's being misrepresented etc
Nor should you. It is one of his go to deflection tactics.
He did the same thing over the backpack warranty and the Bilet Labs prototype. You can read his own forum posts, and respond to his entire premise in those posts in good faith. But the first thing he says back to you is: "You misrepresented me". It is a standard tactic to get the upperhand in the debate. Everyone left leaning does it. DesTiny has made a career out of "I did not actually say that, you are misinterpreting me". Go back and check all the Linus spergouts and drama, he always does this. You are always taking out of context, you are always bad faith against him. He always tries the victim bullshit. Thing is, it wears thin as he has done this shit so many times. So GN expects it, and will probably nail his ass in their response.
with them apparently holding back.
I would love the twist where they know Anthony did something wrong and LTT covered for him because he is a troon, and that is why he was quietly let go.
 
Linus is genuinelly retarded. Nexus has raped him in every single encounter and that was with them apparently holding back. The only thing makes sense to me is that Linus doesn't care about his reputation and just wants to farm a few drama clicks.
No, it's because of what you said in your first sentence. I think he truly believes that he makes no mistakes, and when his mistakes are pointed out he does everything to "set the record straight". Here it's "muh context" which somehow absolves him of not being a cunt. With the Billet Labs block mentioned above it's "it wasn't malicious!" which he believes absolves him of guilt. He just can't take the L. I remember in the backlash of the block he had to do like 4 rounds of "my bad" because every fucking time he had to shift the blame somehow.

It's in the title, he's a narcissist.
 
Steve isn't a reporter
Typical redditor unaware of SCOTUS rulings. Actually sweaty, anyone who claims to be a reporter is a reporter, and here's why that's a good thing.
And yet, he doesn't follow core tenets of real journalism
List them.
However, there are some criticisms (as Linus mentioned in his response) that are misleading at best, and at worse, completely inaccurate to the actual truth - which is why the whole journalistic integrity thing is important in the first place.
Name 3 to establish a trend.
As far as I am aware, Linus claimed that Billet Labs told them the waterblock was a gift, and that it would work on a 4090. I have seen no conclusive proof one way or another. If you would like to post it, then feel free.
but he's not a True and Honest journalist
Explain in detail why, using examples.
and it's undeniable that he has had some bad faith arguments, and intentionally maliciously clipped him out of context to sow distrust.
Again, cite examples. Since you are basically agreeing with everything Linus claimed about GN, and since this is the Linus thread, there's no reason why you shouldn't explain this in great detail. I promise that everyone is really interested.
Steve calls himself a journalist while Steve is intentionally misleading his audience for profit.
Nobody cares because he uses that profit to purchase highly specialized testing equipment nobody else has (schlieren imaging) and to file lawsuits against companies that everyone hates. Linus, and everyone else for that matter, are retarded retards, so people will naturally forgive Steve for his personal failings as long as he keeps up his standard of general excellence. As long as Linus keeps up his standard of being a fucking retarded canadian who appeals to the authority of the BBC's best journalistic integrity practices, that is what he will be known for.

Overall I rate your post anime avatar/10. Stop playing genshit impact.
but the reason I even posted was because people are misrepresenting his argument and then criticizing their misrepresentation as a quick own rather than addressing what he actually said, which like I said I think he's pretty retarded for even doing this in the first place
Literally what are you talking about. What was misrepresented, and what did Linus actually say? Can you provide a single fact to back that up?

Is he really married? Is there any source? Otherwise its just a rumor.
Actually I don't know if he is married. I saw a Chinese woman with him in a video once who gave the impression of being his girlfriend. I really couldn't recall what video that was, years ago at this point. He also speaks Mandarin sometimes, with a shockingly high effort accent for a white boy.

In the original video by MegaLag. He was the one who even brought up Linus in the first place. Citing LTT's forums and not agreeing with Linus about the situation either. How it was all swept under the rug, the first half of the video is dedicated to Linus. Why MegaLag isn't getting hate? Simple, he's not pursuing litigation.
This. If Linus gave a fuck, he would have complained about MegaLag too. The truth is that Linus is the one with the true conflict of interest. He is the one who can't bring himself to take a step back and look at things from a different point of view where GN is concerned, because he has been genuinely felted by them before and he probably knows on some level that they're totally right. He is a faggot who chases low effort algorithm clickbait slop. He is a cucknadian who calls a fat ogreish man a beautiful woman. He thinks the canadian truckers were no better than petulant children as their money was seized by the authorities for the crime of not wanting foreign substances forced into their bodies. He sees nothing wrong with black people because his country has 1 million as opposed to 45 million. He knows.
 
The only thing makes sense to me is that Linus doesn't care about his reputation and just wants to farm a few drama clicks.

Worse, he genuinely believes he's in the right. He's fooled himself into believing he's a victim, to the point that he's on the verge of tears while talking about it on the WAN show.
And because he's fostered a hugbox to kiss his ass no matter what he does, he's reinforced that belief to the point nobody can tell him otherwise.

It's so fucking over, there's no coming back from it at this point.
 
If you look at his shill cope on his subreddit they don't really call him wrong just "mean" "bully" "negative" "hollier then tho" "chasing the high of exposing scammers" ect, because if there is anti consumer scams you can just ignore them and only read off corporate bullet points. What pisses me off about Linus is that he larps as some hard hitting and pro consumer when is just a blatant like Marques Brownlee who just gives glowing praise to every new Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung ect product. Linus had the reach to where he could have used his Linux series to not only show the flaws but also provide a guide for those interested, but nope he just acts stupid, doesnt offer any solutions or guidance, and writes it off as a lost cause until Valve makes desktop SteamOS (they wont SteamOS is a hyper specific version of Linux that will pretty much only be best on the handheld PCs Valve specifically supports. If you want desktop SteamOS look up Bazzite).

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IIRC the LTT chart was all fucked up because, from what I understand, they didn't run the AIO's long enough to let them set in/break in/whateveryouwannacallit in which threw off the entire chart and basically made it useless.
That would have made the water coolers overperform, not underperform.
Is this the review that you watched? The chart at 4:54 (timestamped) shows it beating what were good AIOs at the time.
I'm no expert but even I know that shouldn't be be possible. I don't understand what could've messed up the numbers though. As Susanna says the AIOs would've scored lesser if they didn't let it reach stable max temp so its probably something else. Luke mentions that they were using an i7 4820k in a C70 case (whichever one that is) with a GTX 580 running Kombustor while the CPU ran p95. My theories:

Stray airflow from the D15 cooled down the GTX 580 and impacted the overall thermals, including cpu temp
The difference in time in reaching steady cpu temp between the D15 and AIOs allowed the GTX 580 and its temp to alter overall temp and hence cpu temp somehow
They didn't mount the AIOs correctly
They didn't turn off some kind over power / temperature limit and the CPU downclocked when the D15 couldn't keep it cool enough. Wouldn't have happened with the AIOs since they wouldn't have allowed the CPU to touch that ceiling. But Did the 4000 series have such throttling behavior?
 
Looking at the twitter comments, I find it interesting that there are a lot of lefties and some conservatives are accusing GN of taking out of context this issue.
In the case of lefties/normies I understand, but those conservatives defend a literal anti-white, woke schmuck.
They all forget the fact that Linus a lot of times started all this charade.
 
accusing GN of taking out of context this issue.
I don't understand how the context absolves how stupid the statement is. He's theoretically prepared to speak the truth on bad hardware, because he claims he's a consumer advocate. He's theoretically and practically ready to shill for things that will get his reputation tarnished further, like he does with sponsors or his merch. Yet suddenly this was something too hot for Trump-deranged, politsperging Linus to talk about.
Actually I don't know if he is married.
OK; but as AltisticRight said it doesn't matter anyway since he's kept that separate from his public persona and work. He's a chad if he actually is married and has been able to keep it private in the rabidly autistic sphere that PC hardware is.
 
I just said you shouldnt glaze Steve and you are already putting words in my mouth. You shouldnt self expose this easily. How many Gamers Nexus coasters do you own?
I only own the one mouse mat actually. If you want to try to do a better job than the anime faggot of pointing out how GN isn't all it's cracked up to be, go ahead. There has never been a better time than now, as Linus spergs out and makes claim after claim with almost nothing to back them up. Do you want to emulate Linus?
 
I only own the one mouse mat actually. If you want to try to do a better job than the anime faggot of pointing out how GN isn't all it's cracked up to be, go ahead. There has never been a better time than now, as Linus spergs out and makes claim after claim with almost nothing to back them up. Do you want to emulate Linus?
I'm actually curious on how the mousemat is compared to other mousemats, in terms of texture and whatnot... for research.
 
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I only own the one mouse mat actually. If you want to try to do a better job than the anime faggot of pointing out how GN isn't all it's cracked up to be, go ahead. There has never been a better time than now, as Linus spergs out and makes claim after claim with almost nothing to back them up. Do you want to emulate Linus?
Self admitted fanboy wants to litigate over his surrogate daddy when all I said was that you should just sit back and enjoy the show. Enjoy your mouse mat.
 
This thread is becoming dangerously close to a Gamers Nexus glazing thread. He isnt without his faults either. Remember you dont have to pick a side, you can enjoy two retards fighting.
It's a thread for shitting on linus, folks are happy to see dude shit on linus, how the fuck are you confused on this? GN is mostly respected by the technerds, this shouldn't surprise you.
 
I'm no expert but even I know that shouldn't be be possible. I don't understand what could've messed up the numbers though. As Susanna says the AIOs would've scored lesser if they didn't let it reach stable max temp so its probably something else. Luke mentions that they were using an i7 4820k in a C70 case (whichever one that is) with a GTX 580 running Kombustor while the CPU ran p95. My theories:
Testing CPU coolers in Windows is really bad because sometimes Windows just decides to hammer your CPU for no reason, and the baseline load changes from update to update meaning if you want really accurate results you need to rerun your tests every time, more or less. If you're going to test coolers in Windows you have to run your test suite like 5-10 times and throw out the outliers if you want any reasonable degree of accuracy and LTT has never taken the time to do that to my knowledge. Maybe they did it once to say that they did it so that people would assume they did it every time. My guess would be that the Noctua just got lucky and didn't experience a spike, or equally likely they just fucked up installing the plates because they don't give a shit about anything.

GN's numbers are way better than other tech testers in this area because they have a custom made heating block topped with a CPU heat spreader hooked up to a lab grade power supply with a bunch of high accuracy thermal probes integrated into the setup, enough probes that they get a heatmap of the heat spreader as they run their tests. The room they test in also has its own thermostat to ensure the ambient temperature is always the same across tests regardless of time of year

I don't think they would have had it at the point the LTT video aired since that hardware is ancient, but the whole reason they had it built was because they got sick of having to redo their tests every time which led to them having smaller sample sizes than they wanted

The one downside of their testing method is that it isn't indicative of real world results, but it is indicative of real world relative performance to a far higher degree than even the most optimally performed windows based testing
 
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