BlinkAndItsGone

@BlinkAndItsGone@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC's Arizona plant is delayed over poor management, not a shortage of US skilled labor, workers building it say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Good article, lots of specifics as to what the accusations against TSMC are. Also, it appears there is a paper trail to back them up:

  Earlier this month, after multiple health and safety complaints were sent to the state over the past year, TSMC and the state of Arizona signed a workplace-safety agreement. Both sides agreed to subject the company to higher safety standards than required at the federal level, including closer oversight and increased training and safety visits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Channel Linus Tech Tips’ Inaccuracies And Sexual Harassment Allegations, Explained⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Every once in a while Steve gets visibly upset about corporate misbehavior, but I’ve been watching GN for a few years, and the news segment where he was replying to Linus’s dismissive forum post is the angriest I’ve ever seen him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 17-08-2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Returnal (PC) - Still playing the Tower of Sisyphus even though I beat the game. This is the most impressed I’ve been with a Playstation exclusive since the PS2, it’s so good. I bet a lot of people give up on it pretty quick because of the difficulty, but I find it’s less difficult than a Souls game once you get a handle on it.

  Horizon Zero Dawn (PC) - I kinda want to get to the part where they explain the robot animals (Dr. Eggman?), but the half-assed combat and boring open world are making me not want to bother.

  20XX - It’s fun, but it’s also giving me a new appreciation for how well-designed the Mega Man games were. You’re not supposed to be hitting your head on the bottoms of platforms in games like this, lmao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HW News - Linus Tech Tips' Terrible Response, ESMC, & Starfield x AMD GPUs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree it’s generally good practice to ask the subject for comment, and Steve seems to know that because he explains at length why he didn’t here. I personally thought his explanation in this new video for why he didn’t contact Linus first is pretty good; I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted here, but if you are a former reporter I’d be interested in hearing specifics on why you disagree with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers nexus on LTT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The one real point that I thought Linus had here was that Steve didn’t talk to him first. That part is getting a lot of ridicule, because it sounds petulant, but it’s valid–it is accepted journalistic practice to give the subject of a story a chance to comment before publishing.

  Since we can now see what that comment likely would have been, it doesn’t seem to change the conclusion much. From experience I can guess at Steve’s likely response–he would have tentatively given LMG credit for compensating Billet for the loss, pending verification and comment from Billet, and ripped all the rest of Linus’s excuses a new one. But that still doesn’t change the fact that Steve didn’t quite live up to the journalistic standards that he touts here.

  That failure gives things a bit more of a “drama” flavor (It’s hard not to suspect that this is primarily a response motivated by that clip of Linus’s lab tech attacking GN’s and HUB’s testing methods), but of course it doesn’t absolve LMG and its vaunted lab of milking the Youtube algorithm first and being a source of real information second–which was argued pretty convincingly by GN and which a lot of us started to notice long before this video came out.