TechPowerUp, Reddit, Irresponsible Reporting, & Hilariously Bad Conspiracy Theories
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Date: 2020-05-06
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Hugin
hey steve, a question: if you say this video is brought to you by blahblahblah or sponsored by yaddiyaddiyadda, is that a product placement or ad? personally, i don't care about what's in the shelf or somewhere else in the background and i don't believe you are testing specific chips against others because you are paid to do so. as long as the charts are correct, the chips are reasonable to compare against, like same price class, watts consumed, performance in relation to the flagships. because that's what i want as a consumer of your videos. information that i need to be able to make decisions for buying. and that you need to get money from somewhere to be able to do this is logical. who would spend working 40 hours in a job and spend further 40 hours for testing hardware and then invest even more time to make scripts, videos and whatnotelse? i think there is one aspect not visible to most consumers and conspiracy theorists: companies give hardware away to get tested not because they want to buy the testers, but because it's advertisement for them, the more videos there are with their product, the more famous it gets and the more likely it is that consumers forget about the rest. and companies like nvidia, asus, msi, corsair, coolermaster etc are sponsoring their products because they KNOW they have good quality and bad reviews are very unlikely. or has anyone ever seen a company with bad quality products being a sponsor?
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hey steve, a question: if you say this video is brought to you by blahblahblah or sponsored by yaddiyaddiyadda, is that a product placement or ad? personally, i don't care about what's in the shelf or somewhere else in the background and i don't believe you are testing specific chips against others because you are paid to do so. as long as the charts are correct, the chips are reasonable to compare against, like same price class, watts consumed, performance in relation to the flagships. because that's what i want as a consumer of your videos. information that i need to be able to make decisions for buying. and that you need to get money from somewhere to be able to do this is logical. who would spend working 40 hours in a job and spend further 40 hours for testing hardware and then invest even more time to make scripts, videos and whatnotelse? i think there is one aspect not visible to most consumers and conspiracy theorists: companies give hardware away to get tested not because they want to buy the testers, but because it's advertisement for them, the more videos there are with their product, the more famous it gets and the more likely it is that consumers forget about the rest. and companies like nvidia, asus, msi, corsair, coolermaster etc are sponsoring their products because they KNOW they have good quality and bad reviews are very unlikely. or has anyone ever seen a company with bad quality products being a sponsor?
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Michael
Like any & all cardboard, it's no match for a knife! I slice cardboard to ribbons effortlessly on a daily with any of my Benchmade Knives, and I do it with glee. You should already have one in your pocket at all times anyway, but if you don't already have one, then A) What the hell is wrong with you? B) Get yourself right & go to BladeHQ. com or KnifeWorks. com & buy a damn quality knife! You can't go wrong with either A Benchmade 590 Boost or the ubiquitous 551 Griptilian in S30V. Spyderco is another popular manufacturer, as well as Steel Will. Kershaw offers good value knives, provided you don't mind having okay edge retention, meaning you'll soon have to learn another skill: sharpening. Of course you can always check out what they have on sale if you're on a budget, but stay away from anything cheap (under 50 will get you a decent knife, above that is where you SHOULD be looking, generally. Look for something with 154CM or S30V for a blade with great edge retention. Generally, as S V numbers increase, quality increases, meaning that the price does as well. So S90V, S110V and likewise steels are going to cost more, but I've found the price is usually worth it, especially if the aesthetics are there. But that's a whole other rabbit hole.
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Like any & all cardboard, it's no match for a knife! I slice cardboard to ribbons effortlessly on a daily with any of my Benchmade Knives, and I do it with glee. You should already have one in your pocket at all times anyway, but if you don't already have one, then A) What the hell is wrong with you? B) Get yourself right & go to BladeHQ. com or KnifeWorks. com & buy a damn quality knife! You can't go wrong with either A Benchmade 590 Boost or the ubiquitous 551 Griptilian in S30V. Spyderco is another popular manufacturer, as well as Steel Will. Kershaw offers good value knives, provided you don't mind having okay edge retention, meaning you'll soon have to learn another skill: sharpening. Of course you can always check out what they have on sale if you're on a budget, but stay away from anything cheap (under 50 will get you a decent knife, above that is where you SHOULD be looking, generally. Look for something with 154CM or S30V for a blade with great edge retention. Generally, as S V numbers increase, quality increases, meaning that the price does as well. So S90V, S110V and likewise steels are going to cost more, but I've found the price is usually worth it, especially if the aesthetics are there. But that's a whole other rabbit hole.
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Dustin
The issue is that you have a lot of gamers in your audience. Gamers don't understand why, but their industry is hot garbage and filled with corrupt media sites. It is, of course, gamers own fault. When a game publisher demands a bad review is taken down or a writer is fired, the instructions are followed and gamers don't waver. They line up and order the collectors edition of whatever new AAA junk the publisher is promoting. Gamers make it a successful strategy. If Ubisoft saw the first Assassin's Creed sales hurt by permanently banning 1Up. com from all media stuff, or EA saw lower sales due to their manipulations, etc, they'd see change. But, gamers are spineless weasels and you can reliably count on them being utterly incapable of buying the next new AAA title no matter what happens. That serves to ruin their whole industry and promotes everything they go online and claim to hate, yet it is very literally exactly what they pay for. They think it's normal. They think that fans of other industries, like books, movies, etc, all put up with the same things. They're that deluded.
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The issue is that you have a lot of gamers in your audience. Gamers don't understand why, but their industry is hot garbage and filled with corrupt media sites. It is, of course, gamers own fault. When a game publisher demands a bad review is taken down or a writer is fired, the instructions are followed and gamers don't waver. They line up and order the collectors edition of whatever new AAA junk the publisher is promoting. Gamers make it a successful strategy. If Ubisoft saw the first Assassin's Creed sales hurt by permanently banning 1Up. com from all media stuff, or EA saw lower sales due to their manipulations, etc, they'd see change. But, gamers are spineless weasels and you can reliably count on them being utterly incapable of buying the next new AAA title no matter what happens. That serves to ruin their whole industry and promotes everything they go online and claim to hate, yet it is very literally exactly what they pay for. They think it's normal. They think that fans of other industries, like books, movies, etc, all put up with the same things. They're that deluded.
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Viper101
I know I'm a bit late to this video buuuuuuuut. As a journalism student one of the things that will always stick with me is one of the lectures on reporting breaking news. Both the professor (who has worked in many respected publications like the LA Times, Oregonian, and the Hartford Courant) and the textbook we use told us to ask ourselves does this story make any sense? If not, there's a good chance there isn't a story. If there's a little bit of sense, it might (MIGHT) be worth looking closer. In this case. there was never any semblance of sense to the claims made. IE: No story. People are. Well scary sometimes. (Also not sure how I've managed to watch as many of your videos as I have without subbing, so it's time to fix that)
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I know I'm a bit late to this video buuuuuuuut. As a journalism student one of the things that will always stick with me is one of the lectures on reporting breaking news. Both the professor (who has worked in many respected publications like the LA Times, Oregonian, and the Hartford Courant) and the textbook we use told us to ask ourselves does this story make any sense? If not, there's a good chance there isn't a story. If there's a little bit of sense, it might (MIGHT) be worth looking closer. In this case. there was never any semblance of sense to the claims made. IE: No story. People are. Well scary sometimes. (Also not sure how I've managed to watch as many of your videos as I have without subbing, so it's time to fix that)
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Guest
I like your content. I am an old techie that spent most of my time avoiding the bleeding edge of 'I got to have the fastest machine. ' These guys wrote the article probably because they jumped to a conclusion about video (YouTube) and movies. Movies are well know for product placement ads. That is why you can always read the product name on the soda can or cigarette cartons (old movies. ET the movie was known for trying to get M&Ms to pay for the product placement and refused. Reese's pieces said yes and the rest is history. But no one should assume product placement without doing due diligence. Always check your facts or we end up with a society that believes the Earth is flat because some goober put it on YouTube.
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I like your content. I am an old techie that spent most of my time avoiding the bleeding edge of 'I got to have the fastest machine. ' These guys wrote the article probably because they jumped to a conclusion about video (YouTube) and movies. Movies are well know for product placement ads. That is why you can always read the product name on the soda can or cigarette cartons (old movies. ET the movie was known for trying to get M&Ms to pay for the product placement and refused. Reese's pieces said yes and the rest is history. But no one should assume product placement without doing due diligence. Always check your facts or we end up with a society that believes the Earth is flat because some goober put it on YouTube.
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Chris
hey stever your a cool guy and you don't have to lower yourself by feeding into some jealous clown on reddit. I can tell and probably most anyone else that watches your videos knows you give unbiased reviews and true results of products you test and i definitely appreciate what you do cause I'm not as knowledgeable and you help me with best choice purchasing. these products aren't cheap and I don't like to buy something that isn't worth the price and if it wasnt for you or some of the others you know I would over pay or get ripped off by purchasing something thats total trash. keep up the good work. I also like your merchandise, you offer some of the best things especially those big mouse pads and tool set.
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hey stever your a cool guy and you don't have to lower yourself by feeding into some jealous clown on reddit. I can tell and probably most anyone else that watches your videos knows you give unbiased reviews and true results of products you test and i definitely appreciate what you do cause I'm not as knowledgeable and you help me with best choice purchasing. these products aren't cheap and I don't like to buy something that isn't worth the price and if it wasnt for you or some of the others you know I would over pay or get ripped off by purchasing something thats total trash. keep up the good work. I also like your merchandise, you offer some of the best things especially those big mouse pads and tool set.
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Mirage-
First I heard about it, I found it perfectly believable that nvidia was paying for product placement (apparently they don't, but many companies do. I had not read the actual article though. That illuminati photo was hilarious. I mean seriously, they're telling us they bought you to place a bunch of nvidia boxes in the background. among a bunch of other random boxes and tech, turned sideways so no actual GPU can be seen, just some green, not even in a lighted portion of the shelf. in a way that I wouldn't even have ever noticed them it if wasn't for the conspiracy red arrows. WOW! Such effective marketing, they must be genius of subliminal messages at Nvidia lol.
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First I heard about it, I found it perfectly believable that nvidia was paying for product placement (apparently they don't, but many companies do. I had not read the actual article though. That illuminati photo was hilarious. I mean seriously, they're telling us they bought you to place a bunch of nvidia boxes in the background. among a bunch of other random boxes and tech, turned sideways so no actual GPU can be seen, just some green, not even in a lighted portion of the shelf. in a way that I wouldn't even have ever noticed them it if wasn't for the conspiracy red arrows. WOW! Such effective marketing, they must be genius of subliminal messages at Nvidia lol.
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Brandon
Yep, no one puts boxes up. But boy they sure as shit did for quite a while with some sites had 20 or 30 of the damm things. Though at the time all sites were doing the benchmark dance with nothing but Nvidia and Intel though at the time AMD was on their first Zen 1 cpus with not much if the video card race to show. But it always made me think of the favorite buzz word (mind share) and how it is easy to steer this concept if all anyone see's is Nvidia plastered all over the place. You tell me, does advertising work or not because it was pretty damm pathetic when this was a common site on a lot of the vids on YouTube.
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Yep, no one puts boxes up. But boy they sure as shit did for quite a while with some sites had 20 or 30 of the damm things. Though at the time all sites were doing the benchmark dance with nothing but Nvidia and Intel though at the time AMD was on their first Zen 1 cpus with not much if the video card race to show. But it always made me think of the favorite buzz word (mind share) and how it is easy to steer this concept if all anyone see's is Nvidia plastered all over the place. You tell me, does advertising work or not because it was pretty damm pathetic when this was a common site on a lot of the vids on YouTube.
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The
It's a smokescreen put out to take the heat or discredit the real story of nvidia locking in agreements with youtube makers to post Pro videos of nvidia or not put AMD in a good light in return for cards and early driver access for day one release YouTube videos. Alot of the honest video makers like Steve fell for it. To get to the truth a lawsuit against Nvidia and those youtubers (Digital foundry) who go into this shady contractual agreement without full youtube declaration should be taken up as it is undisclosed advertising and anticompetative behaviour
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It's a smokescreen put out to take the heat or discredit the real story of nvidia locking in agreements with youtube makers to post Pro videos of nvidia or not put AMD in a good light in return for cards and early driver access for day one release YouTube videos. Alot of the honest video makers like Steve fell for it. To get to the truth a lawsuit against Nvidia and those youtubers (Digital foundry) who go into this shady contractual agreement without full youtube declaration should be taken up as it is undisclosed advertising and anticompetative behaviour
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Tony
It is sad that all types of media, even past long trusted sources, are either rushing and not checking sources so they can be first to print. Or even worse, as Steve and may others have pointed out, don't even care enough to check sources, they just want the attention. Sad, very sad. It should get to the point where news people should actually require a license to publish articles, and risk losing that license if they print crap. I don't mean the little guy, I mean the larger corporations and professional news companies.
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It is sad that all types of media, even past long trusted sources, are either rushing and not checking sources so they can be first to print. Or even worse, as Steve and may others have pointed out, don't even care enough to check sources, they just want the attention. Sad, very sad. It should get to the point where news people should actually require a license to publish articles, and risk losing that license if they print crap. I don't mean the little guy, I mean the larger corporations and professional news companies.
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