The Situation with Sponsors and Gaming Hiatus

casually putting out Foods on the tables and so people are not being fooled by these excuses this time around the same excuses that were used when lioness made mistakes in the past anyhow guys I hope you I'm not going to say I hope you guys enjoyed this video but it's not really a topic that you would enjoy I guess I hope you guys have found this video enlightening or easy to break down and easy to digest if you did then be sure to hit that like button for us and also let us know in the comment section below what you think about this whole situation have you had any personal experiences as a fan of Linus tech tips and would love to read those in the comment section below too

The Question of the Day

he here which comes from all dad gamer and they say yo Brian how you been where you've been we missed the videos champ hope you're all good and back in a Scrappy and so this one might be a little bit embarrassing but I'm just gonna say it man like there's no point there's no beating around the bush because I've pushed back sponsors and I've really um just pushed back a lot to play Baldur's Gate three and for me it was a game so I've been in a Hiatus just because I started playing Baldur's Gate 3 they had the Paladin class and they larion Studios had just done such a good job on this game it reminded me of Baldur's Gate 2 and the whole experience I had in Baldur's Gate 2 where it just set the neural network on fire and it's just pinging in all different directions figuring out what the best multi-class is what's going to be the best damage and uh figuring out certain effects and combos for winning battles this thing has it all in terms of game mechanics in terms of planning out battles and it's not only that they've added in like from when I played Baldur's Gate 2 you've just got more Dynamics with things like jumping and flying and other mechanics that really make it its way into the game that makes it so thoroughly enjoyable I've actually played through it twice now on Paladin where I've eventually come up with a paladin level 7 oath breaker and a level 5 warlock I think that's probably the most powerful combination in the game I don't know but that's sort of my conclusion after just playing and messing around with different items and things like that but really enjoyed this game it's so enjoyable the story I think's the icing on the cake as opposed to the well planned out game mechanics the battles themselves the character placement the surprise situations the character customization and all that good jazz I really enjoyed it it took me away from life it sucked me in a vacuum in a black hole where I just had to get that final answer of what was the best combo what was the best items all together where it was just so much fun I haven't enjoyed PC gaming like that in a over a decade which games like Baldur's Gate 2 were the games that got me into PC gaming and all this YouTube channel and everything you see was because of games like Baldur's Gate 2. so in ways I'm paying my homage to the original formula but in ways I'm also just enjoying myself with PC gaming I mean enjoyed myself because I don't know when the next game that's like Baldur's Gate 3 is going to come out but until then I'm going to dedicate myself to getting out awesome Tech videos for you guys and uh I guess sometimes I need to take a Hiatus when a game like bg3 comes out and that's just I think that's the truth it's just it's such a good game it was such a good game it fired my neural networks in ways that I had forgot and so and

Personal Experiences with Baldur's Gate 3

so there's actually two excellent releases back to back but ultimately I feel like bg3 did top D4 and it actually has topped games in the last decade for me personally and I think in ways you've got to enjoy turn-based games they're not for everyone but this one delivers and then some so if you've got experiences with bg3 do let us know in the comments section below but uh yeah enjoyed that one a lot however it wasn't just that too there is summer holidays in Japan and there's a thing called Matsuri which is Summer Festival and I had to help out family and friends with that quite a bit too

The Road Ahead

anyhow guys I'll catch you in another tech video very soon and if you stayed this far and you want to keep watching the content be sure to hit that sub button ring that Bell I'll see you in the next one peace out for now bye thank you

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enLinus Tech tips has been coming under heavy criticism as of late for the amount of errors that have been showing up in their videos now if it was just errors that are popping up and even if it was a lot of them I actually wouldn't be making this video here today it's more so the arguments that Linus Tech tips raises after these errors have made and also the behavior that as Gamers Nexus pointed out in two of their videos is very concerning not just for the biggest Tech Channel on YouTube but arguably the biggest Tech channel in the world when it comes to focusing on parts that go in gaming PCs like gpus and CPUs so in today's video I'm going to break down this whole situation with my thoughts and opinions as well as add-in which we'll do straight away my own encounters with Linus Tech tips were over a year ago I made a video in response to a video that Linus Tech tips made about used CPUs and in that video they had grossly underestimated the performance of first generation xeons and my only conclusion from when I did the testing was that they just simply had this CPU running so poorly that it was giving out bad results however they went on and published the video and not just that when I pointed out these problems in an email to them they then just basically went cold turkey after a few responses said they were going to look into it but the video is still left up on the channel and in fact they've gone and changed the name on the video and they haven't even taken out the bad results they've just pretty much left these misleading results up on their Channel and that right there is my only interaction with Linus Tech tips on a professional basis when it comes to meeting them at events we'll talk about that right after today's video sponsor never pay full price for Windows 10 or 11 again with today's video sponsor SED Keys you can get activated there's a little 15 using that coupon bftyc links in description below welcome back to Tech yes City and this whole situation began to unravel on Twitter I believe where Gamers Nexus and however unbox got tagged in a tweet where there was video footage of one of Linus's employees saying that they were going to do things differently to benchmarking as opposed to Gamers Nexus and harbor and box and give the public what in their terms I guess they were implying that they were going to be giving better data and better results and I think this is coming across as an insult and when you insult someone even if it's an implied insult they're not going to take that happily they're going to respond and then do their response in a manner that could also be damaging for your brand and in this case I believe Gamers Nexus who are renowned for doing their research saw this clip and said okay well let's take a look at how accurate your data is coming out of Linus Tech gives and so what they found was a huge amount of errors in the data that was just didn't make any sense if you just looked at it from their own results you didn't even have to cross-reference with other people's results because their own results just weren't adding up and so when you were getting these errors you're then making recommendations that are essentially wrong and can be misleading and people go out and buy the wrong product that they otherwise if they had saw proper results would have bought something else however mistakes errors we all make them as human beings even if they're being made this much it's how you deal with it that is the biggest concern and this is where the reason for making this video mainly is the responses to these errors where liners responded to these issues directly not just on his live stream called the WAN show but also on posts on Twitter and also on their forums where some of the posts have since been taken down and the arguments are very hypocritical when you break them down and we'll get on to why that is after we look at the two main examples here and the first being the Billet Labs which is a startup company that was making a prototype and this custom water cooling monoblock then got featured on Linus Tech tips as Channel and it pretty much just got Eldritch blasted by not just his employees but Linus himself and the problem here was is that they did not test the product properly the company said that it was designed with a CPU and an RTX 3090 TI in mind and later on in the discussion you can see that the 4090 which is the product that Linus tested it with actually has a height difference which can affect temperatures drastically even though it's one millimeter if you guys have ever put memory pads on a GPU and they've been too stick even by one millimeter the GPU core temperatures will just get a lot hotter than they should and so what we had here was poor testing done by Linus Tech tips which came to a conclusion that basically this product was crap and no one should buy it even if it gets made into final release however in their own admittance on that video they then said that they dropped the CPU temperatures down after a little bit more testing and then after copying heavy criticism on even that video in the comments section they then said on the live stream that they couldn't be bothered to spend another 100 or 200 or 500 on employees time to test it out because the conclusion would have been the same regardless however the hypocrisy that we were talking about before really starts to unfold when we look at these responses and especially when we look at the put food on the table argument because this one for me hits really hard when someone says like Linus is saying well we're going to basically make errors they do happen but we have to put food on the table for our employees we have to provide when you've just thrown a company under the bus and not just one company we'll get onto the second company soon but they're throwing companies under the bus where those employees and those people at those companies also have to put food on the table so at the end of the day if you're making an unfair recommendation and telling people this product's bad because you haven't tested it properly you got the potential to really damage your products sales as well as the brand and this is where we're now going to lead into the second example which really concerned me and this was on their short circuit unboxing Channel where they got in a mouse from a company called pwnage and they left the plastic seals on the feet of the mouse and then concluded that nobody should buy the mouse because the friction was terrible and so I do have to stop here and take this one in because the behavior here was that they didn't test the mouse properly but also there's numerous people working on projects at any given time at Linus Tech tips does someone not just take a close look at the mouse and say hey the plastic feed is still on here or when you saw this news why didn't you just take down the video all together and just apologize and say hey guys we actually made a big mistake here we're taking this video down we're not going to leave it up because the video is still up to this date much like the Xeon video and much like all the other videos that have all the mistakes in them they're still up on their Channel though it still gets worse and Linus on this particular issue responded on their live stream saying that no there was no problem but then later on they've now officially admitted in the video that the feat were covered in plastic and so the whole video is null and void yet the video is still up on the channel and so what concerns me here is that how do you get in a mouse and rush through it so quickly with multiple employees that one person doesn't take the time to just say hey guys there's still the seals on the feet of the mouse maybe we should take those off and rerun the video or redo the testing before we release this video and not why one person had the oversight to do that on not just the mouse video but also the Billet Labs video where Linus himself was in that video so there's no more excuses on saying hey it was the employees they made some mistakes and we came up with a wrong recommendation but the video is still up on the channel take the pwnage Mouse video down apologize to the company directly take the Billet Labs video down apologize to the company directly here but we're going to get back onto the Billet Labs video because it starts to unfold even more the situation where then LTT is a company someone decided to auction off this prototype monoblock at the LTX convention so they sold off something that they had only had for a month and it was a prototype and so there's just no excuse for this I feel really sorry for Billet Labs that they had to go through this kind of uh ordeal when it comes to their product and since then though I think they've had a lot of good exposure and I think a lot of people have seen what's actually going on here and been sympathetic towards Billet Labs however there is still more to this situation and that is this time around we can see that during the video itself Linus is noticing that there's already issues water cooling fittings aren't tight enough and it looks like he's a bit confused himself but it's time to keep going on with the video and so that is where I think if there's any feedback from me personally to Linus Tech tips would be there's nothing wrong with making mistakes and correcting them as you go along for instance if I was making that video and even if I was strapped for sponsors and I had a busy schedule which I kind of am now I'm behind on my schedule so I put a sponsor spot in this video I would just cut that video short and I would say sorry guys we've got to do more testing on this it looks like we don't have the proper setup we have to uh install the fittings more I have to educate some of these new guys on water cooling customers especially custom water cooling a little bit more testing procedures Etc and we're going to go back and do a part two on this Billet Labs water block that would have been completely acceptable I don't think anyone would have had a problem I think it actually would have been positive for Linus Tech tips to show humility everybody in this world makes mistakes and in this case that would be a good way to show people hey if you haven't done the testing properly don't release the recommendation but instead they had to get the product finished through Billet Labs under the bus and then they went and doubled down on all these excuses past that video and then made an apology video after game as Nexus called them out and said that they were stopping making content for seven days yet what concerns me is that initially in the apology video it seems like the mistakes that were previously made in these videos where I'm more so concerned about doesn't someone just watch this back after the whole video is complete and says that's bad that shouldn't be in there or guys maybe we should do this differently the fact that there's that kind of oversight lacking at Linus Tech tips really concerns me because in that video there's an employee called Nick and they just start Shilling lttstore.com and they sort of shrug it off and laugh off the whole situation and that right there is the problem is not just the employee making these comments but also isn't someone watching these videos back and saying that's just terrible take that out cut it out it just it not only looks bad it is bad and so after seeing that and then watching through that apology video which started off with the CEO just reading from a script it really didn't resonate with me at all however the only person in that video that I really uh thought was sincere was Luke and this is going to go back to my personal experiences with Linus Tech tips we will conclude this video with um what I've had in terms of professional experiences with Linus Tech tips and so now here is where we're going to go with the Casual interactions I've had with Linus Tech tips over the years and they've been good or bad depending on who I've spoke with for instance I have run into Linus two times now and the first was in 2016 at an event called Pax in America in Seattle and my experience there was really bad where Linus just wouldn't talk to anyone and unless and this is what I was told he wouldn't talk to anyone unless you had one million subscribers or more and that left me scratching my head but then I saw him at computex in 2018. he was at a Corsair party and me and also a few other people from media Outlets various media Outlets we went up to Linus Tech tips and we just said hey man like how are you I mean maybe you just had a bad day at the Pax event and um loved to have a quick chat I mean chatting with other people at this event and he just brushed all of this off he just said like who am I talking to who are these guys extremely arrogant but then we went back to the uh Table and there was the newcomerin at this meteor Outlet there was a newcomer who came in and he just said oh is that Linus Tech tips this was coming in after we had all went up to Linus and we just said yeah dude that's that's him like go say hello as a joke we just said go say hello to him and here's where the newcomer went up and just said hey liners I'm your biggest fan and we watched him get just shut down instantly and we're like wow is that how you treat your fans when you're off camera or you're not in the public eye like I just thought it was really disgusting if you don't have time just say hey sorry I don't have time at the moment I'm extremely busy instead all that we got people with under a million Subs at the event was who are these people why are they here and it's like well dude it's a Corsair party where All Tech media Outlets been invited to mingle and so you guys have asked me in the past why I don't go to LTX and why I wasn't going this year and the reason for that is if someone if I meet them in person and they just what I would consider lacking basic mannerisms it it's sort of it it's just doesn't sit well with me I wasn't raised that way at all and I wouldn't treat someone like that in person at all it's I think it's it's bizarre however on the other hand when it comes to Luke I've had the opposite experience and has been extremely nice to not just me but everyone else at events everyone I talked to says yeah Luke's amazing I'm like well this relates to the experience I had with Luke as well uh one time I bumped into him on a train and we were just chatting about World of Warcraft some of the old school PC games and life in general and it was just really cool to know that people that you watch on a YouTube channel are really just down to earth people in real life so anyhow with all that out of the way looking at all these errors and problems I would say they are much deeper than a professional we made an era we're sorry we made a mistake there's a lot lot of other things going on at Linus Tech tips that I would have no idea about because I'm in Japan and before that in Australia they're in Canada but there is an ex-employee recently who came out on Twitter and made a very scathing review of their time at LTT and reading some of these accusations just it made me sort of really I was blown back in my chair uh thinking what is going on here because I actually always wondered what happened to Madison Linus Tech tips it was very weird how she was on the videos and then she just gone just vanished and so there's the explanation it came out now on Twitter when I guess all this other information is coming to light and I'm in ways it's good that people know the truth about everything that's happening with this company and this brand before they wish to watch the videos and ultimately support the channel so I think if you're supporting someone especially in tough economic conditions you're doing so knowing that hey they're doing their best because I know a lot of people out there at the moment that actually Linus are struggling to put food on the table and they're not making errors or mistakes in their jobs so that's the issue here I think it boils down to is this company is conducting themselves in a way that's very blase and the excuses that they're running out uh pretty much going back to that argument of fool me once shame on you for me twice shame on me and so people aren't being fooled anymore by the whole put the food on the table argument which Linus is just casually putting out Foods on the tables and so people are not being fooled by these excuses this time around the same excuses that were used when lioness made mistakes in the past anyhow guys I hope you I'm not going to say I hope you guys enjoyed this video but it's not really a topic that you would enjoy I guess I hope you guys have found this video enlightening or easy to break down and easy to digest if you did then be sure to hit that like button for us and also let us know in the comment section below what you think about this whole situation have you had any personal experiences as a fan of Linus attack tips and would love to read those in the comment section below too and with that aside we've got the question of the day he here which comes from all dad gamer and they say yo Brian how you been where you've been we missed the videos champ hope you're all good and back in a Scrappy and so this one might be a little bit embarrassing but I'm just gonna say it man like there's no point there's no beating around the bush because I've pushed back sponsors and I've really um just pushed back a lot to play Baldur's Gate three and for me it was a game so I've been in a Hiatus just because I started playing Baldur's Gate 3 they had the Paladin class and they larion Studios had just done such a good job on this game it reminded me of Baldur's Gate 2 and the whole experience I had in Baldur's Gate 2 where it just set the neural network on fire and it's just pinging in all different directions figuring out what the best multi-class is what's going to be the best damage and uh figuring out certain effects and combos for winning battles this thing has it all in terms of game mechanics in terms of planning out battles and it's not only that they've added in like from when I played Baldur's Gate 2 you've just got more Dynamics with things like jumping and flying and other mechanics that really make it its way into the game that makes it so thoroughly enjoyable I've actually played through it twice now on Paladin where I've eventually come up with a paladin level 7 oath breaker and a level 5 warlock I think that's probably the most powerful combination in the game I don't know but that's sort of my conclusion after just playing and messing around with different items and things like that but really enjoyed this game it's so enjoyable the story I think's the icing on the cake as opposed to the well planned out game mechanics the battles themselves the character placement the surprise situations the character customization and all that good jazz I really enjoyed it it took me away from life it sucked me in a vacuum in a black hole where I just had to get that final answer of what was the best combo what was the best items all together where it was just so much fun I haven't enjoyed PC gaming like that in a over a decade which games like Baldur's Gate 2 were the games that got me into PC gaming and all this YouTube channel and everything you see was because of games like Baldur's Gate 2. so in ways I'm paying my homage to the original formula but in ways I'm also just enjoying myself with PC gaming I mean enjoyed myself because I don't know when the next game that's like Baldur's Gate 3 is going to come out but until then I'm going to dedicate myself to getting out awesome Tech videos for you guys and uh I guess sometimes I need to take a Hiatus when a game like bg3 comes out and that's just I think that's the truth it's just it's such a good game it was such a good game it fired my neural networks in ways that I had forgot and so and just before that Diablo 4 came out but that didn't take me out as much as Boulder's Gate 3 did so there's actually two excellent releases back to back but ultimately I feel like bg3 did top D4 and it actually has topped games in the last decade for me personally and I think in ways you've got to enjoy turn-based games they're not for everyone but this one delivers and then some so if you've got experiences with bg3 do let us know in the comments section below but uh yeah enjoyed that one a lot however it wasn't just that too there is summer holidays in Japan and there's a thing called Matsuri which is Summer Festival and I had to help out family and friends with that quite a bit too anyhow guys I'll catch you in another tech video very soon and if you stayed this far and you want to keep watching the content be sure to hit that sub button ring that Bell I'll see you in the next one peace out for now bye thank youLinus Tech tips has been coming under heavy criticism as of late for the amount of errors that have been showing up in their videos now if it was just errors that are popping up and even if it was a lot of them I actually wouldn't be making this video here today it's more so the arguments that Linus Tech tips raises after these errors have made and also the behavior that as Gamers Nexus pointed out in two of their videos is very concerning not just for the biggest Tech Channel on YouTube but arguably the biggest Tech channel in the world when it comes to focusing on parts that go in gaming PCs like gpus and CPUs so in today's video I'm going to break down this whole situation with my thoughts and opinions as well as add-in which we'll do straight away my own encounters with Linus Tech tips were over a year ago I made a video in response to a video that Linus Tech tips made about used CPUs and in that video they had grossly underestimated the performance of first generation xeons and my only conclusion from when I did the testing was that they just simply had this CPU running so poorly that it was giving out bad results however they went on and published the video and not just that when I pointed out these problems in an email to them they then just basically went cold turkey after a few responses said they were going to look into it but the video is still left up on the channel and in fact they've gone and changed the name on the video and they haven't even taken out the bad results they've just pretty much left these misleading results up on their Channel and that right there is my only interaction with Linus Tech tips on a professional basis when it comes to meeting them at events we'll talk about that right after today's video sponsor never pay full price for Windows 10 or 11 again with today's video sponsor SED Keys you can get activated there's a little 15 using that coupon bftyc links in description below welcome back to Tech yes City and this whole situation began to unravel on Twitter I believe where Gamers Nexus and however unbox got tagged in a tweet where there was video footage of one of Linus's employees saying that they were going to do things differently to benchmarking as opposed to Gamers Nexus and harbor and box and give the public what in their terms I guess they were implying that they were going to be giving better data and better results and I think this is coming across as an insult and when you insult someone even if it's an implied insult they're not going to take that happily they're going to respond and then do their response in a manner that could also be damaging for your brand and in this case I believe Gamers Nexus who are renowned for doing their research saw this clip and said okay well let's take a look at how accurate your data is coming out of Linus Tech gives and so what they found was a huge amount of errors in the data that was just didn't make any sense if you just looked at it from their own results you didn't even have to cross-reference with other people's results because their own results just weren't adding up and so when you were getting these errors you're then making recommendations that are essentially wrong and can be misleading and people go out and buy the wrong product that they otherwise if they had saw proper results would have bought something else however mistakes errors we all make them as human beings even if they're being made this much it's how you deal with it that is the biggest concern and this is where the reason for making this video mainly is the responses to these errors where liners responded to these issues directly not just on his live stream called the WAN show but also on posts on Twitter and also on their forums where some of the posts have since been taken down and the arguments are very hypocritical when you break them down and we'll get on to why that is after we look at the two main examples here and the first being the Billet Labs which is a startup company that was making a prototype and this custom water cooling monoblock then got featured on Linus Tech tips as Channel and it pretty much just got Eldritch blasted by not just his employees but Linus himself and the problem here was is that they did not test the product properly the company said that it was designed with a CPU and an RTX 3090 TI in mind and later on in the discussion you can see that the 4090 which is the product that Linus tested it with actually has a height difference which can affect temperatures drastically even though it's one millimeter if you guys have ever put memory pads on a GPU and they've been too stick even by one millimeter the GPU core temperatures will just get a lot hotter than they should and so what we had here was poor testing done by Linus Tech tips which came to a conclusion that basically this product was crap and no one should buy it even if it gets made into final release however in their own admittance on that video they then said that they dropped the CPU temperatures down after a little bit more testing and then after copying heavy criticism on even that video in the comments section they then said on the live stream that they couldn't be bothered to spend another 100 or 200 or 500 on employees time to test it out because the conclusion would have been the same regardless however the hypocrisy that we were talking about before really starts to unfold when we look at these responses and especially when we look at the put food on the table argument because this one for me hits really hard when someone says like Linus is saying well we're going to basically make errors they do happen but we have to put food on the table for our employees we have to provide when you've just thrown a company under the bus and not just one company we'll get onto the second company soon but they're throwing companies under the bus where those employees and those people at those companies also have to put food on the table so at the end of the day if you're making an unfair recommendation and telling people this product's bad because you haven't tested it properly you got the potential to really damage your products sales as well as the brand and this is where we're now going to lead into the second example which really concerned me and this was on their short circuit unboxing Channel where they got in a mouse from a company called pwnage and they left the plastic seals on the feet of the mouse and then concluded that nobody should buy the mouse because the friction was terrible and so I do have to stop here and take this one in because the behavior here was that they didn't test the mouse properly but also there's numerous people working on projects at any given time at Linus Tech tips does someone not just take a close look at the mouse and say hey the plastic feed is still on here or when you saw this news why didn't you just take down the video all together and just apologize and say hey guys we actually made a big mistake here we're taking this video down we're not going to leave it up because the video is still up to this date much like the Xeon video and much like all the other videos that have all the mistakes in them they're still up on their Channel though it still gets worse and Linus on this particular issue responded on their live stream saying that no there was no problem but then later on they've now officially admitted in the video that the feat were covered in plastic and so the whole video is null and void yet the video is still up on the channel and so what concerns me here is that how do you get in a mouse and rush through it so quickly with multiple employees that one person doesn't take the time to just say hey guys there's still the seals on the feet of the mouse maybe we should take those off and rerun the video or redo the testing before we release this video and not why one person had the oversight to do that on not just the mouse video but also the Billet Labs video where Linus himself was in that video so there's no more excuses on saying hey it was the employees they made some mistakes and we came up with a wrong recommendation but the video is still up on the channel take the pwnage Mouse video down apologize to the company directly take the Billet Labs video down apologize to the company directly here but we're going to get back onto the Billet Labs video because it starts to unfold even more the situation where then LTT is a company someone decided to auction off this prototype monoblock at the LTX convention so they sold off something that they had only had for a month and it was a prototype and so there's just no excuse for this I feel really sorry for Billet Labs that they had to go through this kind of uh ordeal when it comes to their product and since then though I think they've had a lot of good exposure and I think a lot of people have seen what's actually going on here and been sympathetic towards Billet Labs however there is still more to this situation and that is this time around we can see that during the video itself Linus is noticing that there's already issues water cooling fittings aren't tight enough and it looks like he's a bit confused himself but it's time to keep going on with the video and so that is where I think if there's any feedback from me personally to Linus Tech tips would be there's nothing wrong with making mistakes and correcting them as you go along for instance if I was making that video and even if I was strapped for sponsors and I had a busy schedule which I kind of am now I'm behind on my schedule so I put a sponsor spot in this video I would just cut that video short and I would say sorry guys we've got to do more testing on this it looks like we don't have the proper setup we have to uh install the fittings more I have to educate some of these new guys on water cooling customers especially custom water cooling a little bit more testing procedures Etc and we're going to go back and do a part two on this Billet Labs water block that would have been completely acceptable I don't think anyone would have had a problem I think it actually would have been positive for Linus Tech tips to show humility everybody in this world makes mistakes and in this case that would be a good way to show people hey if you haven't done the testing properly don't release the recommendation but instead they had to get the product finished through Billet Labs under the bus and then they went and doubled down on all these excuses past that video and then made an apology video after game as Nexus called them out and said that they were stopping making content for seven days yet what concerns me is that initially in the apology video it seems like the mistakes that were previously made in these videos where I'm more so concerned about doesn't someone just watch this back after the whole video is complete and says that's bad that shouldn't be in there or guys maybe we should do this differently the fact that there's that kind of oversight lacking at Linus Tech tips really concerns me because in that video there's an employee called Nick and they just start Shilling lttstore.com and they sort of shrug it off and laugh off the whole situation and that right there is the problem is not just the employee making these comments but also isn't someone watching these videos back and saying that's just terrible take that out cut it out it just it not only looks bad it is bad and so after seeing that and then watching through that apology video which started off with the CEO just reading from a script it really didn't resonate with me at all however the only person in that video that I really uh thought was sincere was Luke and this is going to go back to my personal experiences with Linus Tech tips we will conclude this video with um what I've had in terms of professional experiences with Linus Tech tips and so now here is where we're going to go with the Casual interactions I've had with Linus Tech tips over the years and they've been good or bad depending on who I've spoke with for instance I have run into Linus two times now and the first was in 2016 at an event called Pax in America in Seattle and my experience there was really bad where Linus just wouldn't talk to anyone and unless and this is what I was told he wouldn't talk to anyone unless you had one million subscribers or more and that left me scratching my head but then I saw him at computex in 2018. he was at a Corsair party and me and also a few other people from media Outlets various media Outlets we went up to Linus Tech tips and we just said hey man like how are you I mean maybe you just had a bad day at the Pax event and um loved to have a quick chat I mean chatting with other people at this event and he just brushed all of this off he just said like who am I talking to who are these guys extremely arrogant but then we went back to the uh Table and there was the newcomerin at this meteor Outlet there was a newcomer who came in and he just said oh is that Linus Tech tips this was coming in after we had all went up to Linus and we just said yeah dude that's that's him like go say hello as a joke we just said go say hello to him and here's where the newcomer went up and just said hey liners I'm your biggest fan and we watched him get just shut down instantly and we're like wow is that how you treat your fans when you're off camera or you're not in the public eye like I just thought it was really disgusting if you don't have time just say hey sorry I don't have time at the moment I'm extremely busy instead all that we got people with under a million Subs at the event was who are these people why are they here and it's like well dude it's a Corsair party where All Tech media Outlets been invited to mingle and so you guys have asked me in the past why I don't go to LTX and why I wasn't going this year and the reason for that is if someone if I meet them in person and they just what I would consider lacking basic mannerisms it it's sort of it it's just doesn't sit well with me I wasn't raised that way at all and I wouldn't treat someone like that in person at all it's I think it's it's bizarre however on the other hand when it comes to Luke I've had the opposite experience and has been extremely nice to not just me but everyone else at events everyone I talked to says yeah Luke's amazing I'm like well this relates to the experience I had with Luke as well uh one time I bumped into him on a train and we were just chatting about World of Warcraft some of the old school PC games and life in general and it was just really cool to know that people that you watch on a YouTube channel are really just down to earth people in real life so anyhow with all that out of the way looking at all these errors and problems I would say they are much deeper than a professional we made an era we're sorry we made a mistake there's a lot lot of other things going on at Linus Tech tips that I would have no idea about because I'm in Japan and before that in Australia they're in Canada but there is an ex-employee recently who came out on Twitter and made a very scathing review of their time at LTT and reading some of these accusations just it made me sort of really I was blown back in my chair uh thinking what is going on here because I actually always wondered what happened to Madison Linus Tech tips it was very weird how she was on the videos and then she just gone just vanished and so there's the explanation it came out now on Twitter when I guess all this other information is coming to light and I'm in ways it's good that people know the truth about everything that's happening with this company and this brand before they wish to watch the videos and ultimately support the channel so I think if you're supporting someone especially in tough economic conditions you're doing so knowing that hey they're doing their best because I know a lot of people out there at the moment that actually Linus are struggling to put food on the table and they're not making errors or mistakes in their jobs so that's the issue here I think it boils down to is this company is conducting themselves in a way that's very blase and the excuses that they're running out uh pretty much going back to that argument of fool me once shame on you for me twice shame on me and so people aren't being fooled anymore by the whole put the food on the table argument which Linus is just casually putting out Foods on the tables and so people are not being fooled by these excuses this time around the same excuses that were used when lioness made mistakes in the past anyhow guys I hope you I'm not going to say I hope you guys enjoyed this video but it's not really a topic that you would enjoy I guess I hope you guys have found this video enlightening or easy to break down and easy to digest if you did then be sure to hit that like button for us and also let us know in the comment section below what you think about this whole situation have you had any personal experiences as a fan of Linus attack tips and would love to read those in the comment section below too and with that aside we've got the question of the day he here which comes from all dad gamer and they say yo Brian how you been where you've been we missed the videos champ hope you're all good and back in a Scrappy and so this one might be a little bit embarrassing but I'm just gonna say it man like there's no point there's no beating around the bush because I've pushed back sponsors and I've really um just pushed back a lot to play Baldur's Gate three and for me it was a game so I've been in a Hiatus just because I started playing Baldur's Gate 3 they had the Paladin class and they larion Studios had just done such a good job on this game it reminded me of Baldur's Gate 2 and the whole experience I had in Baldur's Gate 2 where it just set the neural network on fire and it's just pinging in all different directions figuring out what the best multi-class is what's going to be the best damage and uh figuring out certain effects and combos for winning battles this thing has it all in terms of game mechanics in terms of planning out battles and it's not only that they've added in like from when I played Baldur's Gate 2 you've just got more Dynamics with things like jumping and flying and other mechanics that really make it its way into the game that makes it so thoroughly enjoyable I've actually played through it twice now on Paladin where I've eventually come up with a paladin level 7 oath breaker and a level 5 warlock I think that's probably the most powerful combination in the game I don't know but that's sort of my conclusion after just playing and messing around with different items and things like that but really enjoyed this game it's so enjoyable the story I think's the icing on the cake as opposed to the well planned out game mechanics the battles themselves the character placement the surprise situations the character customization and all that good jazz I really enjoyed it it took me away from life it sucked me in a vacuum in a black hole where I just had to get that final answer of what was the best combo what was the best items all together where it was just so much fun I haven't enjoyed PC gaming like that in a over a decade which games like Baldur's Gate 2 were the games that got me into PC gaming and all this YouTube channel and everything you see was because of games like Baldur's Gate 2. so in ways I'm paying my homage to the original formula but in ways I'm also just enjoying myself with PC gaming I mean enjoyed myself because I don't know when the next game that's like Baldur's Gate 3 is going to come out but until then I'm going to dedicate myself to getting out awesome Tech videos for you guys and uh I guess sometimes I need to take a Hiatus when a game like bg3 comes out and that's just I think that's the truth it's just it's such a good game it was such a good game it fired my neural networks in ways that I had forgot and so and just before that Diablo 4 came out but that didn't take me out as much as Boulder's Gate 3 did so there's actually two excellent releases back to back but ultimately I feel like bg3 did top D4 and it actually has topped games in the last decade for me personally and I think in ways you've got to enjoy turn-based games they're not for everyone but this one delivers and then some so if you've got experiences with bg3 do let us know in the comments section below but uh yeah enjoyed that one a lot however it wasn't just that too there is summer holidays in Japan and there's a thing called Matsuri which is Summer Festival and I had to help out family and friends with that quite a bit too anyhow guys I'll catch you in another tech video very soon and if you stayed this far and you want to keep watching the content be sure to hit that sub button ring that Bell I'll see you in the next one peace out for now bye thank you\n"