Pretty damning review.

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      LTT should be getting the pants sued off of them for that kind of behavior. No way this whole cooler prototype thing was not nefarious.

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          ruining a prototype product, talking shit about it, and then selling it is a lot worse than being “just an ass”

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                    So?

                    Edit wait are you claiming redditor is an ad hominem? Do you think that migrating to lemmy from reddit for a month puts you so much higher above redditors that u perceive being called one as an attack directed against you??? LMFAOOOOOO

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              the dictionary definition of evil is “morally reprehensible”. you don’t need to overreact by going straight to a godwin

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      I think that their point that it’s an $800 product for a last-gen card, there really isn’t anyone out there that should buy this, and therefore it’s a bad product is valid. They could have handled the whole thing better and honestly should’ve just scrapped the video before release.

      Auctioning off the prototype when the company asked for it back is pretty inexcusable. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that it wasn’t malicious, but they clearly have problems with internal communication of things like this are happening.

      At any rate, it’s going to be a spicy WAN show this week. Linus needs to actually watch the video and address this point-by-point. If he “reads the comments” or cherry picks some of GN’s weaker arguments he’s just going to end up throwing fuel on the fire.

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        It’s pretty normal for water blocks to come out well after a GPUs release. Also it looks like it was a new product/company so it makes sense the design took longer than the competition.

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        Then they shouldn’t have reviewed it if their decision was made before even holding the product in their hand.

        They could have reviewed it from the point of view of an R&D curiosity with the potential future iterations and cost reductions as the new startup finds their feet. Because, you know, that’s what it was. But they decided to shit all over it for dishonest reasons instead.

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        I dont think it was malicious, but it is incredibly negligent. It puts a huge stain on the company that’s expected to honor embargos for unreleased products.

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        I feel that if LMG looked at this product and thought “hey this is really dogshit”, the decent thing to do would have been to go back to billet and tell them we can’t cover it at all (and cop the loss of few hours as part of running an ethical business)

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      I don’t understand why he won’t just own up to the wrong gpu thing and move on. It’s like getting pissy that the f150 exhaust sounds like shit on your ford ranger.

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      If LMG gave out a prototype for their latest screwdriver to be reviewed and it was onsold, I highly doubt it being called a “mistake” would have sufficed, heads would be rolling

      Feel terrible for Billet and how they were treated here

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        Ltt is certainly not innocent here but this one I’ll disagree with since it basically just happened to them with an early sample of the backpack.

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        Billet was treated very bad here and i’m not trying to defend anyone, but i didn’t saw the video and only heard from them because of this shitshow

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      This is hard to believe, it seems too comical.

      I believe you of course, and without accumulating enough about Linus’ & LTT’s antics I would have doubted you. I wonder what it is that causes these kinds of things to happen. I want to say success but I think there may be something about their ethos. Not what they espouse but what they sorta believe internally.