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I used to like LTT up until their "Linux Challenge" videos which were just a pain to watch. Shit like this coming from the biggest tech channel on youtube just drives me up the wall.

The original video is clearly a review and he clearly criticizes the product for being hard to install even though he is of course installing it incorrectly and not using the materials the company provided. He states unequivocally it's a bad product here: "It's a bad product. It's bad because it makes absolutely no sense and nobody should buy it".

So let me get this straight.

1. Linus screwed over a small two-person startup with his own incompetence by using the product in an unintended way and not using the GPU and instructions which were provided for him.
2. Stole their prototype which they needed to develop their product further, even going so far as to sell it at auction.
3. Goes on record to say "yes, we screwed up but it would cost $100-$500 to fix it so I'm not going to and no, I'm not apologizing for that". (That amount of money is chump change to him.)
4. Lies about offering to recompense the company. They didn't do that until after getting called out.
5. When he gets criticized for screwing over this company for his own mistakes, rather than owning up he tries to gaslight everybody into think he is somehow the victim?? "Today was so hard bros" oh poor wittle multi-millionaire Linus... I'll be sure to pray for you while I struggle to pay my rent.

What a fucking piece of shit, fuck him. I hate people like this that simply can't own up to mistakes and have to deflect all criticism.

The video it was featured in wasn’t even a review, the premise was someone who has zero experience in water cooling trying to install it

So sick of this shit. Reviewing something and then hiding behind "it's not a review bro!" You know damn well the criticisms extended beyond just that. Linus straight up just said it was a bad product outright. THAT'S A REVIEW.

Sporting events are hosted in oppressive countries all the time. Olympics and World Cup have been hosted by both CCP and Russia in recent memory.

It doesn't. You link your Steam account and it's 100% through Steam after that. No offense but why don't you just spend the 20 seconds to Google it rather than spreading false info...

It's nice to see the physics engine at work and take some cool screenshots, but yeah what a total pain it would be to have to rebuild after a flood or something. Maybe some people like that though.

For games I believe American companies cannot directly sell their product in China, they need to go through a Chinese company. Blizzard went through Netease, Valve goes through Perfect World, and Riot is 100% owned by Tencent anyway.

Definitely a backlash against FFXVI https://www.gamesradar.com/final-fantasy-visionary-yoshi-p-really-doesnt-like-the-term-jrpg/

Yoshi P, game directory for FFXIV and FFXVI, famously decried the term. Which is probably why FFXVI has basically no RPG elements.

I would too. But charging upfront for a multiplayer game is pretty much a recipe for disaster these days. Subscription model I can't imagine would be popular either. It's better to eliminate barriers to entry in a game that relies on a big player pool, game pass helps a bit but not much.

Yeah that's exactly my point. There wasn't much monetization to begin with and what little there was got criticized to death. Nobody wants to buy cosmetics in a game surrounded by that much negativity because they can lose it if the game dies. It's an impossible environment to make money in.

What's wrong with it? Literally every single gameplay-related item in both Dota and CSGO are free. 100%, no strings attached. You can experience the entire game and what it has to offer without spending a dime. At some point you have to charge for something. These companies aren't making these game out of charity, they are in fact businesses. You can criticize the methods they use to push them (lootboxes, BP, etc) but I don't see a problem with the concept.

--skip-launcher in the launch options for that

So many people don't get this. Case in point: the latest Gundam game. The game is completely free, only a couple characters and some pointless cosmetics cost money. The characters you could get for $20 and the cosmetics were not expensive either, not even 1/10th as bad as something like Dota or Valorant. And yet people still complained about the monetization like crazy. It's almost like the people making the game aren't working for free and actually need to make money at some point...

I played 1 a few months ago (100%ed the Pixel Remaster) and was surprised how good it was. It's obviously rudimentary but that's not a really a problem because it's a short game.

Of course the comments are deflecting with whataboutism. Can't talk about China's systematically racist institution of forced labor, basically a modern day Holocaust. Nope, nuh-uh. Let's focus on America's private prison issue instead.

like they couldn’t imagine the possibility of a life without Reddit

That's exactly what they are saying with that comment and that's sad as fuck

Even Square Enix is questioning whether they should still have numbered titles anymore. Media execs just hate the concept these days, I have no idea why. You would think at the very least they would try and avoid naming two games the same name, but nope... We got to have fan-names like Doom (2016) and God of War (2018) now because studios can't keep their names straight.

Can't log in to it, maybe its Japanese only? Shame, having bought a PS5 literally just for this game and really disliking it I... have many thoughts. One thought - maybe make an RPG next time? And don't give me any of that /r/games "um every FF is different sweetie". Are they? Literally ever single mainline game has been an RPG. FF12 onward have been pretty experimental but they are still RPGs. Even some the most radically different FF spinoffs still have RPG elements. Even Dissidia (fighting game) and Theatrythm (rhthm game) have them! It's a really stupid false equivalency if you've actually played the series.

I wouldn't mind as much if the gameplay was good, but it's nowhere near as good as the action games it's desperately trying to be. I would take DMC or Bayonetta any day of the week.