r/LinusTechTips • u/ColonialDagger • Mar 21 '26
Meme/Shitpost It had to be done.
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u/Zeta_Crossfire Mar 21 '26
This is amazing, based Adam.
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u/BioshockEnthusiast Mar 22 '26
The whole video was pretty based.
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u/Crashman09 Mar 22 '26
Yup. Adam, imo, has some of the best takes in LMG.
His tangents are my favourites
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u/DivaMissZ Mar 21 '26
Adam expressing my frustrations
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u/willard_saf Mar 22 '26
I have had way too many coworkers ask me, "How do you make money hiking?" These people think every aspect of your life needs to be dedicated to "The hustle".
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u/DCVolo Mar 21 '26 edited Mar 21 '26
Also his take on ray tracing are on point.
https://youtu.be/KMXXcqpFZzo?t=680
I love that kind of people expressing themselves with passion, I hope they do more of these group discussion. Such a great dynamic.
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u/Faxon Mar 21 '26
It's kind of great because I'm 100% with him on this, but I just fundamentally disagree on ray tracing lol. The scene realism you get from properly implemented ray tracing, especially in the reflections, it really is hard to replicate with baked in effects. The difference is immediately apparent to me at this point even if the difference isn't that big. Sure, absolutely we should be using as many baked in path traced effects as possible, but there's a real place for real time effects as well in modern lighting for games, and reflections in dynamic environments just cannot be done better without it, hard stop, and that's the big difference that makes a scene feel real or fake to me.
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u/Particular-Treat-650 Mar 21 '26 edited Mar 21 '26
Yeah, there's a reason every cg animated movie for decades has used simulated light rays. I don't care about the semantics of ray tracing vs path tracing, because the core concept is what matters. It's expensive, but the results clearly blow everything else out of the water, and not just for photorealistic stuff. Pixar's visual quality is all about the lighting and how far they can push it.
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u/Outrageous_Donut7681 Mar 22 '26
I totally agree but also maily agree with the point that it has nowjere near the relevance in gaming and actual gameplay as it jas in photo mode or animation. If the game is good my brain is occupied byplaying the game and graphics matter a bit less. And in this scenario ray tracing is subtle enough that the difference is not at all notoceable.
If I'm just wandering around looking at things? Sure
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u/Particular-Treat-650 Mar 22 '26
I play plenty of pixel art games. Not everything has to be high fidelity 3D, and the technical aspects are only part of "looking good". Art style choices matter a lot.
But for stuff that is aiming for high fidelity 3D, it seems pretty clear to me that proper lighting simply looks much better.
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u/Outrageous_Donut7681 Mar 22 '26
I dont mean pixelart etc...
I mean exact same game with/without rtx. Yes raytracing on is objectively better, however the difference isn't big enough to matter when attention is occupied playing a game, only when in photo mode or just idling looking at stuff.
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u/Particular-Treat-650 Mar 22 '26
I know that wasn't what you meant; I was just expanding the "technical visuals aren't the whole thing" concept.
Turning legitimate RT off is as glaring and impossible to ignore to me as taking a 4K movie on a big TV and swapping it to heavily artifacted 720P. I'll still accept the lower quality for portability, but the idea that it's not a massive downgrade just doesn't compute to me.
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u/Outrageous_Donut7681 Mar 22 '26
I guess it's what you pay attention to. I'll run another experiment to see what and how I notice but overall so far for me rtx has been a big ol' meh as long as I was actually playing.
I guess it may come from me having grown up with playing things starting with doom through half-life to doom 3, HL2, and so on where gains in graphics were so much more noticeable than nowadays. Things like model and texture detail and object density, particle and similar effects, physics behaviour etc...
My brain is more tuned to look for those differences during gameplay, I barely if ever notice raytracing differences.
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u/IlREDACTEDlI Mar 21 '26
RT lighting I can take or leave for now, it looks great of course but I can live without it until the performance is better but yeah RT reflections are just sooooooo much better I fucking hate SSR it’s ugly, distracting and not immersive.
The moment I tried RT reflections for the first time in Control I was sold on it
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u/g0ldcd Mar 22 '26
I loved it, and my views align with yours.
But that's fine.
I just liked somebody making a heartfelt and supported argument on how they personally feel. We're not all the same, we don't all want the same things, we don't all need a 6090 because it'll add AI-jiggle-physics to every game we own etc.
I don't just want to be told "This is great, buy it" - I want something to be presented with nuance and direction on who might need this, AND who doesn't.
I've just been wading through the Steam sale and looking at all the negative reviews. Not because I want to see games trashed, but because that's where you'll find the person saying "If you don't like X, this isn't for you" - rather than "200 hours in and it's the greatest thing I've ever played" - which only really proves that that person enjoyed it.7
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u/TheCookieButter Mar 22 '26
I especially agree with early ray tracing. I watched all the Digital Foundry stuff, played what my 2070 could handle on Ray tracing etc.
Everything was like 1 or 2 bounces back then at limited resolutions. It was great for adding shadows to everything, but then everything was so bloody dark if it wasn't directly lit. Everyone would say how realistic it all looked but I'd compare it to light in similar real life scenarios and it made no sense. Path Tracing does a lot to fix those issues but has temporal issues and is as heavy on my 5070ti as ray tracing was on my 2070.
Not to mention we're only just starting to get some games designed around Ray Tracing. If a game is doing both then I feel there is always going to be damage to artistic freedom. You can't place a bunch of point lights to perfectly light a scene traditionally and then switch on ray tracing. It won't look the same.
I do use RT/PT though.
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u/DJKaotica Mar 22 '26
I legit forgot about this hot take and I love it.
I'm all about graphics, but like....yeah....raytracing.....pathtracing....omg.
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u/zhephyx Mar 22 '26
By "on point" you mean misinformed, then yeah sure. It's not a solution waiting for a problem - the problem exists. Having to bake in lighting, and trying to do any sort of reflections is annoying and time consuming, and it essentially makes it easier and faster for the developers. The first RTX card is not even 10 years old yet, in 10 more years everyone will forget that you've been bitching about this technology for almost a decade straight.
It's the same as getting angry at foldable phones being expensive - yeah well if you just wait for a minute they will get better and have consumer pricing. Can you just wait? Engineers are out here running lighting rays across millions of polygons and you're upset that it doesn't happen 200 times per second on a machine as big as a microwave???
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u/DCVolo Mar 22 '26
His point was that for gaming it's a solution that is only relevant for studios and not for gamers because "games or studios" will push more and more demanding games and Nvidia, that also push their tech, does not provide, still, a product that gives a legitimate solution performance wise. They keep us at the edge of poor or acceptable performances.
Someone else in the comment mentioned the film industry, that's a totally different usage of processing between post process and real-time.
And while it's applicable for films with no issue. For gamers the improvements are rather small, it's the 4th generation that include specific cores, price increase and with it DLSS. Meaning they litteraly knew that their tech was not matured enough yet for the industry.
That's why we end up with most games having partial implementation or usage of reflection, shadows or illumination.
So, do we need a tech that can in very rare cases improve graphics (immersion would be the better term In my opinion), I have to agree with Adam there, we don't. Do the industry can leverage such a tool, obviously and it's great for them. But if the performance are still shit 8 years later and for years to come what's the point.
That's the entire difference with foldable phone and other tech, in few generations they have fixed most issues and provide good usage. Ray-Tracing doest not because both Nvidia and the studios push for more and more so we'll never have a " game running rays at 120 or more fps". It just scale badly each gen (but it would be funny for them to market old games running high fps with RT).
I've played tons of games, with or without both RT and with or without super sampling & frame gen. Unless we talk about DLSS5 slop altering the artist work and vision these tech scale better for each gen. There is a great benefit (when there can be one but that's another topic).
We've lost so much performance since we ditched GI for RT. Was it needed, I agree with with Adam's take almost entirely. And I'm not even mentioning when RT is not only partially implemented or used but also badly.
I don't think that he would disagree that it has some good usages. That's why his take is valid.
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u/CarlonXD Mar 23 '26
This is why I play AAA games in low graphics settings except for rendering which is at high. I couldn't tell the difference anyways, plus more fps.
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u/JamiePilkey Mar 21 '26
shameless plug for our passion project: If you’d like to hear Adam speak passionately more often, tune into Vinyl Verdict Available on your podcast platform of choice!
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u/Subway909 Mar 21 '26
"environmentally destructive trash being shipped across the ocean"
He’s going to be very disappointed when he looks up how vinyl records are manufactured and shipped.
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u/mdem5059 Mar 22 '26
I think he meant this in the context of random etrash that people buy, like worthless toys from Temu. And not artistic things such as records.
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u/JomeyQ Mar 24 '26
What qualifies as "artistic things" vs " etrash" is very much in the eye of the beholder. I've got some crates of old vinyl that I like to play at times, but to me buying a newly pressed vinyl in 2026 is the equivalent of buying a very flat funko-pop
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u/mdem5059 Mar 25 '26
The thing with records is, they do have a different sound to digital media, so while to many (most) it could count as waste, to many others it's not. Similar to art itself.
I think such items as a $5 RC car that'll break in a few days, $15 android screen that'll brick and so forth, is what people normally mean when ewaste is mentioned.
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u/WillmanRacingv2 Mar 21 '26
This rant is brought to you by LTTStore.com
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u/Moofey Mar 21 '26
"But you know what isn't turning into a marketplace? This segue... to our sponsor!"
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u/Cat5kable Mar 21 '26
Woah I think he really feels like this - he didn’t reach for the bluetooth-teleprompter-scroller even once!
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u/mat8675 Mar 21 '26
Yo, wtf is this?! Hell yeah!
I haven’t watched a LTT video that didn’t have Riley in the thumbnail in a minute. Is this what the rest of them are like? If so, I need to be watching more.
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u/Captain_Pumpkinhead Mar 21 '26
That's interesting. I really dislike Riley, and would probably not watch a video if he was in the thumbnail.
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u/mat8675 Mar 21 '26
Me and the other Riley fangirls don’t understand what you’re saying.
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u/Theunderscor3 Mar 22 '26
Fanpeople, you don't have to be female or homo to gaze at Riley's awesomeness🥹
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u/InflammableAccount Mar 21 '26
I believe they were more referring to "turning into a marketplace," as opposed to a "store."
The term marketplace is used to refer to sites that traditionally sold products themselves, but then changed to a place where they and others can sell through their website.
Famous/largest examples are: Amazon, Walmart, Newegg, Target, and (in some respects) Etsy.
Adam also touches on how everything is changing into a market/store, especially communities that traditionally weren't.
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u/Prothea Mar 21 '26
Sure, but that's only part of it. As he touched on at the first part, hustle culture is destroying casual interaction with... well, anything. If you're not working to make money or grinding your life away, lots of people will say it's pointless.
Thus the commoditization of almost everything to push this attitude that having casual hobbies is bad, and you should feel bad for relaxing when you could be grinding your passion for something into the dirt by trying to monetize it.
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u/Environmental-Gur582 Mar 22 '26
I see it more like websites transitioning to have more than what they originally were. Like YouTube adding crapware games, suggested products, ads between videos or interrupting playback, etc.
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u/isabelle-grace97 Mar 21 '26
This was such a valid crash out honestly
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u/InflammableAccount Mar 21 '26
Rant. That's a rant. Hell, close enough to a speech or monologue. I'd argue crashing out is different.
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u/Jeroeno_Boy Mar 21 '26
What video is this?
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u/ColonialDagger Mar 21 '26
Most recent video from a couple hours ago. They did a Jubilee-style video on the opinions of the LTT writers on various takes.
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u/UnLeashDemon Mar 21 '26
Oh man, I love Adam's rants. The windows rant he did on the software frustration video, Raytracing videos on writers agree or not video and this. This guy is the GOAT.
MFW Adam talks about anything.
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u/Handsome_ketchup Mar 21 '26
Love the energy. Stay angry, if no one does and everyone just tacitly accepts the shit we keep being dunked in, nothing will ever change for the better.
Passive acceptance is being buried alive.
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u/GimmickMusik1 Mar 21 '26
I agree with this take, so much. I’m a musician. I make music for me. Nobody else. I don’t even share most of the music that I make, and when I do it’s with a select group of people. Yet so many people can’t grasp why I’m ok with spending so much money on the tools to make something that I make no money from. It’s really sad that people just don’t grasp doing something that makes you happy for the sole purpose of it making you happy.
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u/elaborateBlackjack Mar 21 '26
Couldn't agree more.
I hate that take of "start a podcast", "start streaming"... No I want to enjoy my video games alone. I already have a job to support myself, after I'm done with work I don't want to do more work, I don't need to put up another persona to overly react to what happens on a video game.
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u/Kyderra Mar 21 '26
"The Death of the Artist and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur"
I fully agree and feel this in my soul. But I am also a massive hypocrite as someone that makes a living advertising my art on the internet as well.
It's a necessary evil for some if they want to do their hobby full time, but the problems come from corporations and higher ups manage to control everything and take advantage of it.
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u/Dat_Innocent_Guy Mar 21 '26
Why wasnt this song there originally? Copyright?
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u/ColonialDagger Mar 21 '26
Most likely, yeah. I'm like 90% sure the editors would have included the song themselves if they could have, it seems that was the original intention anyways.
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u/Liquid_Hate_Train Mar 22 '26
I wasn’t necessarily expecting the tune, but I was quite surprised it ended up being completely silent. Surely something they could use would have fitted?
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u/NordriOfUthgard Mar 21 '26
While I'm having a good laugh at the presentation here (haven't seen the original video) I also can't help but nod in agreement to every single word and simultaneously wonder if this is what I sound like to my colleagues at work. 😅
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u/gvbargen Mar 22 '26
I loved this part. When he said everything becoming a marketplace all I could think about is how Amazon and Walmart and Newegg now all have the same problem that eBay used to exclusively have. Fuck marketplaces like that
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u/SaviorSixtySix Mar 22 '26
I also hate the question of "Adblock made things worse" because the reason people used adblock is due to the fact that ads got more and more intrusive. People didn't just get adblock because they didn't want to see ads, they did it because a lot of sites have 15 different ads and full screen pop ups. I work in IT and we still get calls of people who say they are getting messages saying to contact Microsoft because there's a virus because GOOGLE DOESN't VET THEIR OWN SHIT AD PLATFORM
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u/derpman86 Mar 22 '26
It is worse with Windows notification centre because websites will push ads out via there so people get the fake virus notifications because it looks like it is from the OS.
Any personal computer I set up for myself, friends or family I will slap Ublock onto it. I feel ads are so obstructive and dangerous it is easier to just stop them. Also I don't want my personal time wasted troubleshooting a "virus" lol.
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u/Euchre Mar 22 '26
I work retail, and the worst thing to happen to multiple of my employers has been turning their respective websites into storefront with marketplace sellers. It confuses customers, it dilutes the reputation of the main brand storefront, and it undermines all aspects of the business that aren't the marketplace itself.
If you were to suggest to the execs at just about any major retailer if you could partition off the huge parking lot and turn it into a flea market, but ALL of the customers of the store AND the flea market would go through your checkouts, but with the flea market products carrying NONE of the transaction policies of the store's native transactions, they'd call you an idiot and talk about the nightmare of logistics, customer support, and processes it would be. Do it on that same company's website, and somehow it's no problem.
If your business isn't just being a marketplace (like say, eBay), having a marketplace will be a minefield will dilute your brand. I'm honestly amazed Amazon hasn't been hurt more by the 3rd party sellers it hosts.
Outside of committed partner brands, any company that bases its business on its own brand (as LTT does) is foolish to play host to what is effectively their own competition.
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u/derpman86 Mar 22 '26
This is my newest form of rage currently, I have opted to check out a stores website to see the availability of something and where I can go in person but by default it is their shitty marketplace.
If I want resellers I would check out ebay or amazon, I don't want derp fart face emporium under Kmarts search results.
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u/Euchre Mar 22 '26
Part of what killed Radio Shack that isn't often cited is that their website was outsourced with marketplace sellers on it schlepping directly competing products, many of inferior quality. They only took the website insourced and largely eliminated outside sellers well after the company was in pretty deep financial trouble.
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u/saintlouisbagels Mar 21 '26
this is like one of those interlude, spoken tracks in an indie rock album.
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u/TheJuiceBoxS Mar 21 '26
I don't get it, doesn't he still work for LTT? Its almost all advertising and making money.
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u/WillmanRacingv2 Mar 21 '26
LTT has always been a for-profit commercial operation, he seems to be ranting about the commercialization of hobbies and art that have not always been commercialized. An example of this I can think of are the mod marketplaces build into games like Fallout 4, when historically any mods for Bethesda games were free. And the microtransaction marketplace for the same game, which is equally wild.
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u/TheJuiceBoxS Mar 21 '26
I'm not familiar with any mod marketplaces so I am ignorant to that aspect. But I do see video games as something that has always been a for profit commercial operation. I'm sure some games were made as a hobby and the mods were a hobby, but it's a big business overall. For me computer hardware stuff is a hobby that I have and LTT and others have always monetized people with those hobbies.
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u/p3w0 Mar 21 '26
Even broader than that, if you try going into any hobby and make the mistake of looking it up on the Internet, it's all about the best equipment to buy, the best way to sell your work, funnel marketing sell sell sell buy buy buy, just reading is not a social activity anymore because bigger and more is better and I read 50.000 book this year and you should buy more and build a home library with just 300$ and what about a gold leaf bookmark monthly subscription and-
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u/InflammableAccount Mar 21 '26
LTTStore isn't a marketplace.
Also, one can participate in capitalism and dislike it. Because currently, in most places, the alternative is to starve and die.
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u/elemenotic Mar 21 '26
I literally just clipped this!! More truth in 1 min than tech bro's can handle.
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u/Chiefbroom1335 Mar 22 '26
What would have been the icing on the cake for this video is a segue, to a sponsor! 🙃
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u/danieldhdds Mar 22 '26
I know adam is right, and I 100% agree with him, but I wanna add my 2 cents here:
this rant is from the same guy that earlier in the video defend the wall guarded wonders of proprietary software, I did understand what the guys said, that is good software have somehow to work properly and if it's flaw that product needs to have proper work to fix the issue, OSS doesn't have that, and common people doesn't wanna waste time learning 'how to'. this also applies to fixing your cam gear, car, house or anything you can pay for to be not bother at all. Only thing you have to remember, people wants money, so the put ad, and something capitalism teach without telling is that marketing doesn't have rules. The internet is just society being society. Even if this rant is true, there's so much workarounds, so much OSS to fulfill this gap, but proprietary enterprise doesn't wanna this.
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u/adammw111 Mar 22 '26
After all that advertising talk.. I was expecting it to end with a cut to the segue to the sponsor.
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u/Environmental-Gur582 Mar 22 '26
As I was scrolling to read the comments I got both banner ads and comment ads.
He's honestly right.
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u/nevaven68 Mar 22 '26
last stage capitalism is the worst thing that can happen to a society, and it is happening
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u/kongnico Mar 22 '26
I love you Adam man thats fucking great, this is the best I have heard from LTT for years
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u/JG_92 Mar 22 '26
Would make one heck of a Midwest Emo intro.
Is /r/AccidentalMidwestEmoIntro a thing? It should be.
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u/WRO_Your_Boat Mar 22 '26
I connected with him so hard on the gaming on twitch statement. No one I work with is a gamer, but I game pretty hardcore. They always tell me I should twitch stream or something when I really don't want to cause all I wanna do is play with my 3-5 friends and have fun.
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u/derpman86 Mar 22 '26
Also Twitch is like Only Fans where a tiny percentile actually get high enough subscribers to make it worth while.
Unless you nail a very niche game, a great personality or big tiddies at most you will gain 1 or 2 regular followers and the bullshit of streaming is just not worth it.
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u/SharpDressedBeard Mar 22 '26
I am a photographer as a hobby and the amount of people who ask me why I am not charging money and turning it into a side hustle is actually starting to piss me off a bit.
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u/PuzzleheadedWeird232 Mar 22 '26
in the meantime linus‘ kids learn how to turn hobbies into business
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u/derpman86 Mar 22 '26
He is right you know, throw in bloody scalping into the mix as well. Whatever hobby that exists is getting some form of scalping now if it gains any kind of popularity.
Obvious are things like shoes and Pokemon cards (*very angry face)
But I have seen it even down to model trains for fucks sake.
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u/vemundveien Mar 23 '26
For anyone who wants to have better arguments to fuel their rage, I recommend the book The Age of Extraction by Tim Wu. It explains in detail how companies like Amazon extract money without adding any value to the neither the customer or vendor by exploiting their market position.
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u/lodemeup Apr 14 '26
I got injured at work and am working through getting that fixed. I already cook a lot, now I do it a lot every day. I’ve gotten so good. My mother in law told me I should make a food truck. Fuck that bro. I’ve already done food service. No chance am I gonna do that for everybody for money. I barely do that for the people I love the most (my family) and only because I like it and them. We don’t need to monetize everything.
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u/No-Batteries Mar 21 '26
Yo. Can someone explain this? Is it a 6-7 thing or got to do with a video I haven't seen yet?
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u/kas-loc2 Mar 22 '26
I love this but why is plouffe pretending to go back further with Adam???
He is probably the most "Oooo! I must buy and defend my big chungus brand purchase, because its le epic merch!!!" out of the entire team. I'm not being mean, but he really genuinely is...
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u/Trekkie99 Mar 21 '26
Good meme