I thought this place was for confusing topics that require context to understand, not cut and dry news stories like this. “Why are people freaking out about Microsoft buying Blizzard?” would be a great post for someone without tech/business knowledge.
This, though, is asking for a summary of a recent event. There is no deeper context needed to understand. It’s like standing next to a dictionary and saying you’re out of the loop on the definition of a word…just take 2 minutes and read it.
While I haven’t look into articles of this event. I do know a lot of American news sites slams the door in the face of any European trying to read them. Making it an absolute pain in the ass trying to read some articles, so asking an American to explain it for you, is definitely the easier option.
The top reply is literally a link to the story which, unsurprisingly, cleared the whole thing up for OP.
r/outoftheloop started strong with niche explanations from people in the know before it devolved into every top post being “What happened with [event]?” karma farm garbage. It seems we’re starting out that way here…
It is simply unfair to call GN’s video drama. It’s not. They raise valid concerns, cite their sources for all the points they’re making, and those concerns are only validated further by the response from Linus and LMG.
“Standard journalistic procedures” my arse. Cite ‘em from someone that isn’t fuckin’ Linus Sebastian. I strongly recommend watching the first video from GN, reading Linus’ response directly on their forums, and then watching GN’s follow-up video. If this was “just a cash grab”, why wasn’t it monetised? Why was there no sponsor segment? More importantly, how would GN reaching out have been relevant here? And why did Linus’ official response address precisely none of the concerns raised, while also misrepresenting the situation with Billet again?
Your post is nothing but a regurgitation of Linus’ whining that his corporation isn’t getting special treatment. You barely even bothered to digest it first. And, as others have said, LMG didn’t reach out to GN before trashing their testing methodology on their own, much larger channel. They don’t reach out to the manufacturers of the things they try in their AliExpress/Wish.com/Walmart videos. Back channels were not the appropriate place for these criticisms, so GN made an unmonetised video to highlight the problem for viewers who blindly trust Linus and LMG’s content, when it’s frequently inaccurate and sometimes extremely inaccurate.
If you want to criticise Gamer’s Nexus or their team, address the substance of the points in their video. If it was “just a cash grab” as you want to make it out to be, then there would not be anything to address. But all their points are sourced and cited, and verifiable for anyone who wants to bother expending the effort.
As it stands, I have noticed all the points Steve makes in that video for myself to varying degrees. This is not the first instance of this behaviour from Linus and LMG, and the response from them has indeed been disappointing.
Edit: I also want to point out I’ve been watching LMG content far longer than I have GN content, I have spent hundreds of dollars on LMG merch from lttstore.com and have been very happy with all those purchases. I am a fan of LMG, and I think quite highly of Linus himself, but I am capable of looking at this objectively, and I am personally disappointed in Linus and his responses so far. I think he’s better than his actions, in this instance, and I really wish he’d take the criticism on board.
I think ‘shitting on’ is a bit of an exaggeration, it was a passing comment from a technical guy during a tour that didn’t mention GN and was in response to a question about why they’re building this setup and how it will be different.
I think they were likely thinking of GN, but I didn’t read it as quite so ‘aggressive’.
Linus tend to shoot his mouth. Luckily, he has Luke and Yvonne to kick him down a peg. I believe that Luke made Linus back down during the Trust Me Bro controversy and Luke will do the same here. Knowing Linus, he will probably even make a new video on this matter that will rake in 2 million views and profit from it.
Came to say the exact same thing. Both benefit form it because here we are talking about it, so there’s no down side for either of them. And you’re right he’ll make a video, get 2 million views and bank.
Report concluded that there might have been illegal activity, but he doesn’t have authority to do anything about it, so he referred his findings and those that had power to do anything about it didn’t.
His boys were essentially found “too dumb to crime” because of a weird requirement of knowing that it was illegal to ask for it, also, they didn’t assign monetary value to the potential info, so it wasn’t a crime…
And one of the main people who put an end to it was then-Attorney General William Barr. He basically said “Mueller says Trump didn’t obstruct” when Mueller’s actual report basically said he can’t say for certain either way (obstruct or not) and provided a mountain of evidence that could be seen as obstruction. Most legal professionals see Mueller’s report as “we can’t say he’s guilty without charging and convicting, so we’re just going to say the door’s open and hand over the evidence.” Barr’s interpretation was complete bullshit.
The other giant elephant in the room is charging a sitting president with a crime. It’s never been tested in the US whether it can actually happen or not, but there are a lot of strong arguments against. The damage that can do to a country is extreme… I see it as a matter of absolute last resort. One that’s more likely to come after impeachment and removal unless absolutely necessary. And that’s one ugly situation that’s basically showing complete dysfunction to the world.
To be fair, complete dysfunction isn't new. Absolutely nobody in the world would be surprised, the whole US government has shut down at times because of squabbling about the budget.
I think the gist is Mueller investigated Trump and the shady Russia stuff and had enough to charge him with obstruction but did not due to DOJ policy (to not charge a sitting president). He laid out a plan for congress to do something about it, congress impeached but the GOP controlled Senate blocked it.
So I guess some of that could be dug up? But there are bigger fish to fry now, considering the current indictments.
You’re right that the DOJ didn’t charge him (as sitting president) from Mueller’s report, but he was not impeached for that matter. The impeachments were for 1) soliciting foreign interference, and obstruction and 2) incitement of insurrection.
Congress did not impeach based on the mueller report.
Congress impeached because of the IG report based on the NSC whistleblower report of the Zelenskyy call, where Trump attempted to blackmail the president of Ukraine to do him a favor in exchange for him approving the sale of a shipment of javelin missiles.
And then again because he led an insurrection against the government he was leading to prevent peaceful transition of power on January 6.
Pretty much because all these indictments are also bringing up stuff that happened a few years ago. It’s clear that it just takes that long to do the whole process, and maybe they had to wait until after he was president anyway. So I started thinking about all the other shit he did, and this one stood out as one of the worst.
It was Trump Jr and Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign manager.
Robert Mueller investigated the incident for the Justice dept. He concluded Jr. was to dumb to know what he was doing. This isn’t plausible because he had Manafort advising him.
They called someone during the meeting, probably Donnie Sr, but it hasn’t been proved.
Manafort was convicted on charges but I don’t think they were related to this incident.
Mueller obviously intended to never prosecute anyone in the Trump family.
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