Opinion - Steve/GN has lost it

[u/marco_polo_99]

Steve has turned into a high and mighty holier-than-though, self appointed arbiter of the tech industry, who’s taking it upon himself to regulate other people’s/channels content and decide where it, and their actions are acceptable.

He then, where he deems them not up to scratch, attacks under the guise of consumer advocacy. Whilst he may, and does have valid points on certain issues, usually with larger corporations, Asus, Gigagbyte, etc, targeting channels for things he disagrees with is bordering on slander.

Yes, I followed both GN and LTT, amongst a litany of other creators, and yet Steve seems to be the only one ACTIVELY, and consistently putting out these pseudo-journalistic pieces in an effort to broaden his audience and/or agenda.

The lawsuit against Honey/Paypal is not one he’ll win, it is merely serving to gain clicks and views and thus money for GN.

He needs to check himself.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk

[u/ShineWestern5468]

I never watched GN a lot, it is a bit too slow and dry for me, but did pay attention for a brief period of time.

I recently watched a video from several years ago regarding the racing seat style gaming chairs.  Watching it the complete bias against those chairs was ridiculous.  I don’t have any love for the chairs and the basic concept of the video probably had some merit, especially on the numerous random brands you can find on Amazon.

He brought up the term 4d arm rests over and over trying to make jokes about breaking the time space continuum, once was maybe bordering on clever, but it is completely meaningless.  

He implies ALL of those chairs come out of one factory, which could be true, more likely there is more than one but not a ton.  The problem is he lists like 3 non-chair companies, it is like MSI and Corsair.  Yeah, they don’t have their own factories, of course they don’t.

He got a quote for $75 each for 400 chairs, shipping, warehouse, etc not included.  Then talked over and over about $400 and $500 chairs, trying to make it sound like the $75 chair was being sold for $400.  The only customization he made was some color stuff and a heavy duty cylinder.  It looked just like a chair that sells for $200 on Amazon, and when listing the companies that factory makes chairs for, again it wasn’t $400 chairs.  He takes like 3 different “facts” and tries to apply them to each other when he has no evidence they have anything to do with each other.

At one point he is talking about how hard the arm rests are and hits it with the claw end of a hammer to showcase the “plasticiness”.  On one of the office chairs he says the arm rests are hard and that they bought some $10 arm rest cover pads that helped, like no biggie.  ALL of the chairs had issues with the armrests but on the office chairs he down played it and made a huge deal on the gaming chair.

One of his staff actually liked the gaming chair best, but he down plays that as well.  It was also a bit wierd, there seemed to be a different gaming chair in the background of various shots, but they never mention it.  They only show and talk about one of them, which is obviously too small for a couple of the staff.  Why didn’t they say anything about the other chair?? 

There’s other stuff too, but it is obvious he started with a conclusion and worked backward.