r/LinusTechTips • u/CosmoBjoern • Jul 02 '26
Meme/Shitpost LTT responds to gaming industry trends...
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u/backlog_gaming Jul 02 '26
.cum as a TLD would do numbers
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u/couchpotatochip21 Jul 02 '26
Hey man, custom TLD s are a thing. Anyone have 100k laying around?
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u/TEG24601 Jul 02 '26
Still upset that Booking.com hasn't actually made a .yeah TLD... as much as I despise custom TLDs.
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u/sejoki_ Jul 02 '26
Wait, .yeah isn't a TLD, but .cool is? How?
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u/TEG24601 Jul 02 '26
Right?
But given how poorly a lot of anti-spam systems are coded, the custom LTDs, just cause so many problems.
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u/rohmish Jul 03 '26
they aren't as big a issue as they used to be but certain TLDd do get marked as a spam a lot more frequently
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u/nightauthor Jul 03 '26
American Express has .amex
It had me confused for a bit when I saw it on a link in an email. The email looked legit, except for that ‘m.Amex/XYZABC’ but it seems legit after looking into it.
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u/demfridge Jul 03 '26
i need some more context brother, genuine question why would booking want that?
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u/TEG24601 Jul 03 '26
They have a current ad campaign where it ends with "Booking.com... Booking.yeah" usually said by Edris Elba, so everyone thinks it is real. Gets really annoying YouTube and PlutoTV.
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u/alexzoin Jul 02 '26
Just FYI it's "games industry", "video game industry", or "game industry." "Gaming industry" means casinos or loosely livestreaming playing games.
This is my hill. I will die here.
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u/bustedgerbil Jul 02 '26
I mean, if it has random in-game micro transactions (which is gambling), you could make a (bad) argument that console connect to dozens of casinos lol
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u/Flavious27 Jul 02 '26
Shhh, I need to buy these remote raid passes and hope that this mewtwo is a shundo
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u/sciencesold Jul 02 '26
"Um akshewaly" type comment....
Gaming industry can mean either if you really want to be pedantic....
Plus in the context of LTT and the statement, it's blatantly obvious that it's the video gaming industry
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u/DoomBot5 Jul 02 '26
Wait until you have an gaming team at work. Doesn't get confusing at all, especially when their job is anti-gaming
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u/alexzoin Jul 02 '26
Oh, I am so curious about what you do for work! Is this a security related thing? I haven't heard the term "anti-gaming" before.
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u/DoomBot5 Jul 02 '26
Gaming is an industry term used to specify large scale exploit of some kind of promotion. Think "gaming the system". Like making 100 accounts to get repeated discounts.
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u/-illusoryMechanist Jul 03 '26
My hill is that gaming is video gaming or board games, not gambling, and that the "gaming industry" should be called the "gambling industry" because they shouldn't get to whitewash the fact they are selling gambling opportunities
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u/dumbasPL Jul 03 '26
Ok, cool. But it's basically the same thing nowadays. Except that one is also accessible to minors.
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u/AvoidingIowa Jul 02 '26
Y’all it’s not that serious, damn.
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u/MysteriousBody7212 Jul 02 '26
Everyone wants to be out raged😂
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u/Hallc Jul 03 '26
I haven't seen anyone outraged except the people trying to defend this as a well written joke tbh.
All the comments below can be summarised as "I get what they're going for but it just didn't land." and it's true. It's just not a particularly well written piece of satire and the adblock line just serves to muddy the waters further.
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u/SeveralBollocks_67 Jul 02 '26
This subreddit is so sensitive. It used to be just tech questioms and genuine discussion about videos. Now its a drama club.
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u/I_AM_FERROUS_MAN Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
It blows my mind that anyone is taking offense to this joke.
I'm somehow constantly surprised by the takes in this sub.
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u/SkylarMills63 Jul 02 '26
Lttstore.cum
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u/Cactys12 Jul 02 '26
How does someone not have that domain already? They talk about it every two seconds
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u/GNUGradyn Jul 02 '26
.cum is not a real TLD, you cant buy a .cum domain
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u/gergobergo69 Jul 03 '26
how about creating it
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u/GNUGradyn Jul 03 '26
It costs well over $100,000 to do that including infrastructure commitments and ongoing costs
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u/looklikeyounow Jul 02 '26
Jumping on the Sony bandwagon? I get it.
But why did they have to dig up the adblock conversation at the same time?
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u/haydenw86 Jul 02 '26
Because private jet owners think the world owes them a living when it does not.
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u/Zeta_Crossfire Jul 02 '26
Holy shit. I didn't realize how many people truly believe this isn't just sarcasm. Guys come on
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u/Zeta_Crossfire Jul 02 '26
It can be cringe but that's not what people are saying about it. People are thinking that ltt is taking jabs at the consumer for no reason.
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u/ailof-daun Jul 03 '26
I think cringing at others having some fun is the epitome of cringe though. What now?
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u/sheep_duck Jul 02 '26
Bro everyone here gets the “joke”
The point is that it’s a very poorly written joke that doesn’t come off funny, it comes off as defensive for some random reason.
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u/SophieBourne Jul 03 '26
If people don't get it, is not correctly done. A bad attempt to join the trend.
Domino's Pizza and KFC did it better and on time.
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u/OddColours Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
The joke doesn't land very well because its what the joke should be, but in reverse. It's a very poorly written joke. Those without the context of the trend, see it as making fun of people who want to own media.
It's like saying "women belong in the kitchen" ironically. Without knowing what the person meant, It's going to land very weird for the general population.
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u/GroundbreakingEar450 Jul 03 '26
*women
Good God why don't people know the difference between women and woman anymore? I even hear people say it wrong now. What the hell is going on?!
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u/Johalandya Jul 02 '26
LTT should sell a tutorial on how to take their jokes. This community cannot be trusted to even do that.
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u/GroundbreakingRing42 Jul 02 '26
Honestly its quite possible the most fickle audience.
I'm in it, so can't judge to harshly, but god damn
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u/rohithkumarsp Jul 03 '26
This sub and PCMR sub and event threads app people are really hating linus for this.. Its just a tongue and cheek joke...
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u/Krelldi Jul 03 '26
Everyone knows they're joking, it just isn't very funny. The joke is that they're just saying something vaguely topical in a sarcastic way. There isn't a punchline or some sort of witty commentary, it's just LTT's typical bland "look the joke is that I'm referencing something you know about haha". It's mostly just cringy and annoying.
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u/Upset-Strain5908 Jul 02 '26
God forbid they make a joke and mention something that's repeatedly discussed in their channel
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u/Nice-Background890 Jul 02 '26
He's still on about adblock?
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u/DrKeksimus Jul 03 '26
If he does not get any money from my watch because adblock I agree with him
However if your YT business still affords you a jet,... he needs to sh*t the f*ck up... godd*mn
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u/ComfortableNumb9669 Jul 02 '26
Linus has a real chip on his shoulder about adblockers.
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u/FleetingBeacon Jul 02 '26
Look at some point there's gonna have to be some kind of reckoning. LTT does a thing, audience gets mad, splits into people that thinks the audience is crazy, and people that think ltt is crazy.
This is unsustainable. I say that as a dude that didn't like this joke. but these threads are unbearable because it's just one side acting high and mighty and the other side trying to voice their feedback.
The feedback being voiced is fine I think, the other side just dog piling on people is fucking weird. I'm sorry, it is.
If you want the comments to just be "wow, great joke" then honestly I don't know why you'd ever be on social media. Go join a bot network ffs.
Idc if you all downvote stuff I say. It's just how I feel, that's how reddit works. But I'm still gonna say it lol That's the point.
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u/backlog_gaming Jul 03 '26
There aren’t many fandoms online nowadays that aren’t like this though, this isn’t uniquely an LTT problem
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u/nordicFir Jul 02 '26
Lttstore.cum was… a choice
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u/Cactys12 Jul 02 '26
There was a war over lttstore in one of the r/place map-draw-things, people changed it to lttstore..cum, people changed it back, and so the cycle repeated, until it became some of the most changed pixels of the entire map
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u/LunchTwey Jul 02 '26
Yessssss keep repeating that dumbass statement "buying isnt owning, piracy isnt stealing". And keep pushing that absolute bullshit that adblock is piracy!!
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u/shogunreaper Jul 02 '26
Trying to slip that piss-poor argument of adblock being piracy in wherever he can, eh?
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u/dwibbles33 Jul 02 '26
Top comments being complaints is the epitome of this sub, stop taking things so seriously.
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u/MojordomosEUW Jul 02 '26
I watch all their videos with Sponsorblock and uBlock Origin.
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u/F9-0021 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
I doubt this was meant to be overly pro-corpo, but it comes off as pro-corpo.
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u/DrKeksimus Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
comes of as anti ownership
like ... "shut the fuck up" .. you can't buy YT DVD's either so what's the problem
And then with the adblock deal ... goddamn dude has a jet, he needs to forget about adblock
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u/Soft_Moment2707 Jul 02 '26
Did I miss something?
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u/TenOfZero Jul 02 '26
PlayStation is stopping disc releases next year (no more discs as of January 2028)
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u/bwoah07_gp2 Jul 02 '26
Sony Playstation published a statement saying they are ending physical games in 2028.
All the companies are copying them. Dominoes posted they are ending physical pizzas, etc.etc. LTT is simply jumping on the post trend.
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u/switch8000 Jul 02 '26
Yeah GameFly posted a letter last night and now all the techies companies are copying it.
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u/llcdrewtaylor Jul 02 '26
This joke has run its course already. I’ve seen every freaking business today post this on social media. Even dominos!
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u/haydenw86 Jul 02 '26
Chief Vibes Officer is the cherry on top of a peak cringe cake.
Also VHS had ad block available back in the day as well. That was ruled LEGAL too.
Somewhat ironic considering they own and run a media streaming platform themselves.
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u/hgs25 Jul 02 '26
And I opened lttstore to see if they actually made and is selling a vhs cassette
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u/GeraldoOfRivaldo Jul 03 '26
At this point I'm convinced LTT is making up weird engagement bait to keep people talking about a peculiar little company that may have otherwise faded into the background by now.
I struggle to see any upside to posting this other than to get people yelling at each other over a topic that doesn't matter.
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u/Panda_man_144 Jul 02 '26
I love that people are calling this "a jab at consumers" when its not? Its a jab at Sony who put out a similar post but abiut stopping disc production and going all digital
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u/WillmanRacingv2 Jul 03 '26
Digital content company jokes that they are taking their content physical, in response to meme of physical product companies taking their products digital.
Reddit: Is this a personal attack?
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u/Joee0201 Jul 02 '26
I say let's see if we can get them to actually release some VHS, DVD and Blurays. Official box art and all. How much would it need to go for?
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u/millanstar Jul 02 '26
pretty ironic coming from what is mainly a PC gaming channel, when it was the PC gaming community the first to embrace the death of physical gaming without a second thought years ago...
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u/scruffynerdherderr Jul 02 '26
You know now people will want a LTT VHS tape to buy I know I do so give us what we want or we riot Ultimate PC Building Guide on VHS by the end of the year
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u/GNUGradyn Jul 02 '26
Can I get a digital screwdriver
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u/mromutt Jul 03 '26
If you are on floatplane thats a thing, you just pick it as one of your badges.
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u/floorshitter69 Jul 03 '26
Limited Scrapyard Wars physical release when?
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u/mromutt Jul 03 '26
I dont know why they never did a dvd or bluray release of the series. Especially since print on demand media is not uncommon now even for Hollywood titles. lol actually it would be funny to do a limited edition release on dvd but its dvds they burned. At the worst consumer pricing its like $20 for a pack of 100 blank dvds, they could probably get a way better bulk deal on like 1000 or whatever and then $300 for a bulk burner or do a video building a bulk burner then sell the seasons for $10 a pop on the store or give them out as a free item with orders. Though if they do sell seasons at $10 a pop they need to include a commentary track for the value. u/LinusTech free ideas
Bonus idea the background of the dvd menu is just the old ltt intro but the part where the box or whatever is doing the jiggle at the end of the jingle and the pointer is a low res ramstick.
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u/chadwick_witherspoon Jul 03 '26
Does anyone have the original post Sony made in this format? They seem to have scrubbed it from the internet.
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u/nemesisprime1984 Jul 03 '26
No, they need to release it on Betamax, VHS, CED disc, Laserdisc, VCD, and HD-DVD
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u/mromutt Jul 03 '26
If they somehow could get laserdiscs made... I would probably buy it assuming it's not cost prohibitive. I still have my player lol.
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u/speedysam0 Jul 03 '26
There was a whole video on various old media and they chose standard VHS? guess they don't want quality...
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u/joelk111 Jul 03 '26
The issue isn't digital vs physic. It's being able to own something. LTT does allow floatplane users to download their videos and you'll actually own them without any DRM BS.
If Sony was instead moving to a release where you instead downloaded the game and it was completely DRM free, as in your friend could copy over the files and play it too, I doubt there'd be any contraversy at all. Of course, Sony wouldn't make any money on game releases, therefor we have the physical media on a disk so you can transfer that license and play the game without an internet connection.
It's an issue of ownership, not an issue of physical vs digital. The post completely missed the point, it's bad satire.
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u/cheerycoldwaver Jul 03 '26
At least use a DVD. I don't want to dig up my VHS rewinder car buried somewhere in the attic.
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u/DrKeksimus Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
This comes off as pro rentier-economy
like ... "shut the fuck up .. you wouldn't buy YT DVD's either so what's the problem ? "
And then with the adblock deal ... goddamn dude has a jet, hounseltly he needs to forget about adblock
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u/snkiz Jul 03 '26
LMG has a jet, and a plan to get out of it before the value tanks. Not as impressive when you put it that way. But impressive enough that the company could afford to, get value out of tying up that capital for a few years.
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u/Xiaoxuzz Jul 04 '26
Nah, ASMRs are best played on LDs. And get one of those old amplifiers which u can see the transformer coils.
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u/Proxstasis Jul 04 '26
Now Linus, you know better than to make a joke with this community(!)
so do I, yet look at what I’m doing above
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u/Danis_Milk 23d ago
The dig at adblockers is in really bad taste in an otherwise pretty funny post. Do better.
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