So everyone should have just ignored it? Nobody here wishes them them grief.
Once again, we'd ask for you to name those people.
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[The Verge] How we built a $2000 custom gaming PC (Horribly)
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Once again, we'd ask for you to name those people.
Racist comments? Targeted harassment campaign?
I feel like a number of people in here openly enabled this, too. Do better?
That's a really serious accusation. I read thru 10 pages of comments and didn't see any.
Please quote the people who "openly enabled this".
Their earlier tutorial, though dated, covers everything the novice PC builder needs to know:
After watching this Imma try what I'm gonna call the Snake method of applying paste whenever I build a new PC.
"Minor factual errors" and then deflecting to whatever assholes came out and away from the fact that they put up a video that looked like satire but wasn't and if people followed it could've potentially ruined their newly bought components.
When did the Verge become so shitty?
The dude seems super unapologetic
Yea he is under the thumb of verge so their fault too but damn
And shite son it don't matter if u did that shit offscreen the shitty tutorial video is still there
Glad the video was pulled
Yea he is under the thumb of verge so their fault too but damn
And shite son it don't matter if u did that shit offscreen the shitty tutorial video is still there
Glad the video was pulled
What's your issue with PC gamers specifically and how does the video or this thread relate to it?
You should probably read the thread, and the room. These drive-by shitposts make the person who posts them look worse than the boogeyman they're trying to take down and the people they generalize.
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Why? cause they pointed out how wrong this build video is on so many levels?
I like it. It's some kind of alien hellscape
Pretty ghastly honestly.
The cable management makes me wanna die inside. How is that thing not on fire.
Pretty ghastly honestly.
It is even funnier when you consider that the case they're using doesn't lack space for routing cables.
So the guy that hosted the video says they didn't let him reshoot it, and basically admits that what's shown in the video is wrong (RAM in the wrong slot, PSU backwards, etc.), but that AFTER the video was shot, he corrected the mistakes and the PC works fine. Not once did he stop and think showing these things wrong in the final edit defeated the entire purpose of the video itself.
I watched the Science Studio video on this yesterday and laughed along like everybody else, but all these other tech youtubers jumping on the bandwagon leaves a rather bad taste in my mouth.
But I suppose anything that gets clicks.
But I suppose anything that gets clicks.
Was Greg even the first to do a reaction video for this, though?
I don't know whether he was the first to notice, but his video was indeed published before Kyle's.
I just did a search for "Verge PC build reactions" on Youtube, and got back a deluge of identikit videos from guys I mostly haven't heard of (but a few I have like Brian from YesTECHcity).
After all of this, I am just surprised Patel was still with the verge. I thought he had left a while back. Maybe I'm thinking of someone else.
To me, the most serious and most informative video was this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvLSpjHay38
No laughing, not just reacting, but simply telling why something is wrong and telling people the right way to do it.
His video is ten times more informative than that of the Verge, and the Verge should really just stop pretending they're knowledgable in any way about this stuff.
This whole thing was a shit show. Glad the video has been pulled, at least, since it was bad info.
Yeah, reaction videos like that make my blood boil especially when they insert like four ads within a 10 minute video.
Right that's it. From memory he left for wall st journal then started his podcast.
His new project is The Outline, plus he writes some article for it, for example – https://theoutline.com/post/2623/be...reamcast-video-game-art-wipeout-final-fantasy
I felt the same honestly... but Bitwit's video had me in stitches... easily the best reaction vid lmao :D
When I seated my first CPU I bent a lot of pins. >:)
Did some 30 minutes of work with a credit card + mechanical pencil and it eventually slotted in just fine.
LOL it's enraged bracelet guy!
http://gawker.com/adult-website-editor-throws-twitter-tantrum-over-his-br-1697459743
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Not sure if serious but I'll respond anyway. While it's ugly to look at the amount of cables pictured are relatively minor, certainly not enough to impede airflow and generate enough latent heat to start a fire.
"Minor factual errors" Why is it so hard for people to own up to their mistakes these days? And sparing two sentences and then backstepping into some victim statement just makes the whole thing stink more than it should.
"It's a better computer than probably what most of them have, and that might be elitist, but it's the truth"
Yikes.
"Very angry nerds."
"It's still fucking works."
"Better than what most of them have. It might be elitist but it's the truth."
Tell me again how people criticizing his shit video are the toxic ones.
When you try and call others nerds, while you yourself look like a nerd.
"Grownup Website Editor Throws Twitter Tantrum Over His Bracelet" is an A++ headline.
I knew I recognized him from somewhere! The fact that he is still not able to take criticism after all this time is mindblowing.
Not saying the video doesn't need to be criticized, but after youtubers made their reaction videos, it did open up the flood games for harassment for him, even saw racist responses and that was just checking the responses for like 5 minutes.
It'd get to me too if I were in his shoes.
Holy crap! This dude. "some nerds"... I'm pretty much speachless.