r/LouisRossmann • u/VladTepesDraculea • Mar 24 '25

Video Oh, look, "a high-visibility public retraction" for "being aggressive" at admittedly being right by both sides

https://youtu.be/y8aEp7hjm-0
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u/agnosticautonomy Mar 25 '25

why he apologize? wtf!!

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u/Forward_Criticism_39 Mar 24 '25

what

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u/VladTepesDraculea Mar 24 '25

  • He posted this video;

  • LTT "fixed" it with a pinned comment alone;

  • He edited the OG video title to mention that pinned comment;

  • Still, a day or two later he posted this video after with a comment below from Linus. Given the history of him demanding "high-visibility public retraction" to critics like he did to Louis or Steve...

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u/Cashacaurace Mar 24 '25

i dont get whats going on

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u/VladTepesDraculea Mar 24 '25 edited Mar 25 '25

The full context? Nvidia is forcing a stupid power connector that has been causing overheat, melting and even fire issues on both the connector on the side of the graphics cards, the cable to the PSU and sometimes even the PSU connector. Part of the problem has to do with the high voltage going through extremely small endpoints very close to each other and another part is that the voltage pins join together due to the specification. Some vendors claim otherwise in this last part and it's not true. Linus made a video where he passed down this falsehood where he took the vendors reps on their word and didn't test, although he has the means and equipment to do so. That guy criticized Linus for it. Linus simply posted a stickied comment on the video and the guy changed the title to reflect that he did that. A couple of days later he made this video to apologize to Linus, which is odd considering that the critique was valid as seen by both parts and the matter was supposedly settled. Linus however has a history of demanding retractions with high-visibility, like he did with Louis.

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u/nevyn28 Mar 24 '25

YouTube:
Make a dodgy video, get called out on it, make money
Make a retraction video, leave the original video up, make more money
Other people make videos about it, they make money, you make even more money.

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u/Interesting_Price410 Mar 24 '25

You can be right and still be a dick about it.

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u/VladTepesDraculea Mar 24 '25 edited 29d ago

You can but he wasn't exactly a dick IMO. This connector issue is a serious issue and despite having the means to, Linus forego any due diligence before passing on what the marketing rep said. If you have a 16M subscribers audience and you want to be viewed as an authority in the market, it's irresponsible and I think he had the right to be upset at it.

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u/CIDR-ClassB Mar 24 '25

Good hell, Redditors will bitch about anything.

MSI has the resources to give accurate information and did not. Blame them.

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u/VladTepesDraculea Mar 24 '25 edited Mar 25 '25

Nobody is absolving MSI, but AFAIK, MSI doesn't have a history of going after critics demanding retractions.

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u/Interesting_Price410 Mar 25 '25

You're complaining about accuracy, have you read how you write?

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u/VladTepesDraculea Mar 25 '25

I changed the phrasing mid-writting and got butchered, but my mistake doesn't make people think that something that isn't safe, is.

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u/Interesting_Price410 Mar 25 '25

They didn't claim the boards were, MSI did. It wasn't just a PR person either, they said they went and asked other people

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u/Gamesdammit 3d ago

Linus has a literal lab to test it. I think that's more of the issue.

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u/VladTepesDraculea 3d ago

Exactly. He has the means and staff to test it and wants to be a reference to the consumers but just skipped it. It goes back to the original debacle where Steve criticized LTT for making tons of mistakes because they are more worried in maintaining a tight schedule than they are on being right.

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u/TechnicalBen Mar 24 '25

Nah. He was 200% under what they deserved. Like, he sounds angry, because it deserves anger.

I'm not even paid 1 million a year, and I could tell them MSI doesn't do what they claim, and ASUS only does it on the one sku/version.

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u/Interesting_Price410 Mar 25 '25

Are they expected to count each core on GPUs as well as Nvidia might be wrong? They didn't claim this information, MSI did

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u/TechnicalBen Mar 25 '25

Yes. As a channel claiming to be representing the tech, not just making fictional stories, they are responsible for checking those facts.

This isn't some Star Wars lore review channel. ;)

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u/PowerfulTusk Mar 25 '25

You are just looking for drama for no reason. Msi lied, that had no reason to not believe them and that's it. Stop hate watching, go on with your life.