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[thhrang]

Similar vibe

 

[agility_]

And soon enough:

What an intellectual titan, he should probably be a vtuber next.

 

[Thomas Talus]

Asians and Latinos are White when it is convenient to the media

I believe the term you are looking for is "fancy white".

 

[God's Strongest Wardog]

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What an intellectual titan, he should probably be a vtuber next.

Ironmouse is commissioning a model for him right as we shitpost.

 

[Brosnan Pierce Brosnan]

And soon enough:

After being forced to listen to black radio and their hip hop artists being all sorts of not even closeted I can fully believe that this article exists

 

[Sky Shouter]

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HEY DID YOU KNOW

In America whenever you apply for a job and they need to ask what race you are for their equal opportunity quotas you get asked it in a series of TWO questions.

• are you Latino?
• what race are you?

Because, according to the US government Latinos are

white

It's also why even mainstream media gets to get away with calling George Zimmerman white any time they need to complain about that incident.

That's absolutely true. I qualified for several Hispanic scholarships in college despite being about as exotic as Martin Sheen. I remember walking into Latino events and some obviously mestizo-looking people straight up asking "what's this gringo doing here?"

Well indio, according to the gubberment I'm a (white) Hispanic! And if I committed a heinous crime you can bet your ass the media would just call me white, and they'd actually be totally right for once. These arbitrary racial classification things are basically just ways for racial grifters to claim that African Americans somehow aren't peak Tom Brady-tier MVPs in crime and poverty statistics.

 

[I Wanna Die]

Nope, they just say they are White.

This dude was apparently totally White:
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I find it very funny that all a brown man with the last name Zimmerman has to do to become white is shoot a black kid

 

[RestlessRain]

"Learn how to write sentences so your hate speech makes sense."- Kirsche Verstahl

 

[agility_]

If ben shapiro has taught me anything, is that you can be the most ignorant, uninformed luddite on Earth, but if you say it fast and eloquently enough, people will listen.

 

[El Rrata]

This week is like a second Christmas for retard drama. Linus just had another juicy melty over GamersNexus


Linus Email:

On WAN Show today, I’ll be doing a segment outlining some of the ethical and journalistic issues with your content that I have observed personally, and that I have seen raised by the community. I will be especially focused on how they have impacted your coverage of me and my company, because I am most familiar with the relevant facts, but these issues appear to run deeper, and I believe they could be impacting your ability to be objective overall - something I know the community values greatly.

There will be a particular focus on your stance around ‘right of reply’ since it affects accuracy so much, and there will also be some discussion around misquoting (as in the recent Honey video) and your inability to address your clear conflicts of interest when it comes to covering an entity that you have chosen to view as a direct competitor, rather than a collaborator or peer, as you did in the past.

If you have some comments and evidence on what break-downs caused your inaccurate coverage of us in the past, why you seem to personally find it so challenging to cover us objectively, and what steps you plan to make to rectify these issues in the future, I would be happy to include your thoughts in the segment.

The segment will also include the following letter that is addressed to you:

Steve,

We do our best around here to do what we believe is right, and to stand up for the consumer. That leads to us doing journalist-ey things sometimes.. and I understand basic journalistic principles, but I’m not a journalist and I have never claimed to be. The reason I am sending this to you, then, is not because I am some journalist reaching out for comment, but out of respect, and because I was once a collaborator and supporter, and I hope to be again someday.

For that to happen, though, I do have some requests. Everyone is human, and we all make mistakes, but I believe that for you to become the journalist you aspire to be, there are some errors in both your approach and in your coverage that are large enough to merit correction. Obviously, not everything needs to be pulled. Methods aside, it’s clear you were right about a lot of things in August ‘23.. But it’s also clear that between the conjecture, editorialization, and what I hope are simply errors rather than lies, a number of retractions are in order - both on that piece, and your other coverage. This isn’t just for me, but also for your community, who looks to you to do the right thing.

As for the personal side of things, I can’t ask you to like me. You clearly disagree, on a personal, MORAL basis, with some things I do. Which ones are real, and which ones are performative, I’m not sure anymore, but it doesn't really matter. That’s your personal compass, and you gotta follow it.

What DOES matter, is treating others in the industry with respect, and being prepared to be held accountable the same way you hold others accountable. Traditional journalism, while a competitive battlefield, has no absolute authority, and is quite often a brotherhood with shared goals that hold each other to mutually-agreed-upon standards, not a brutal free-for-all. So, as part of being a contributing member of the tech brotherhood, I expect you to be open to critique in the same way that you expect others to be open to critique.

I also expect that if you cover us publicly in the future, you do so with honesty, impartiality, and proper disclosure of your numerous conflicts of interest. With that said, regardless of your motives in ‘23, your actions DID served as a wake-up call for us to supercharge the changes we were slow-rolling. For that, I’m thankful. Now it’s time for your wake up call, should you choose to accept it.

If you CAN’T put your biases aside, simply recusing yourself IS an option, but it might require some further retractions, since you’ve claimed in the past that covering us is very important because of our business’ relevance to the tech industry. If that’s no longer the case, then any snipes that relied on that for justification probably need to go, too.

I understand that you may not WANT to rebuild this bridge, but I still want you to know that while Gamers Nexus LLC is every bit as much of a for-profit business as Linus Media Group Incorporated, I, Linus Sebastian the individual, still see you, Stephen Burke the individual, as a colleague and potential future collaborator. Cuz the reality is, personal feelings aside, we both fight for the same team - the consumers and our community - a community that is stronger if we just cut the tribalism and work together.

I have always said that a rising tide lifts all ships, and we ALL benefit from more interest in our hobby and more contributors to our community. I have always encouraged our viewers to follow multiple outlets and get multiple perspectives - including yours. You used to tell me you agree with those things. I hope you can again, because this is going to be especially important as we all navigate the weirdness around benchmarking ML-assisted cards like the upcoming 50-series..

So in summary, I welcome valid, constructive, TWO-WAY feedback, but when I told you a year ago I had no interest in public sniping matches, that was the truth.. Our community in tech used to stand out as one that embraced collaboration and rejected ‘beef’. I want that again.

I chose to make my statement as a segment on the WAN Show and a Clip on our clips channel rather than a dedicated video in hopes of finding a balance between sharing my side and igniting drama for views.

Can we forget the past now and move forward?

See you at Computex,
Linus

GN:

GamersNexus' Email Reply:

Linus:

Find our comment below. We have shared this same comment publicly along with the full email for reference. As a courtesy, we have embargoed our post until the scheduled start time of the WAN show.

I think sharing our views openly is excellent. I know there is more that you’ve wanted to say about the initial 2023 video we posted, so now is a great time for you to speak openly.

We also have had a lot we have wanted to be open about, but have struggled to do so because of the perceptions of drama, friendship, and expectations of media protecting “their own.” That's something that I feel having full disclosure and open sharing of facts and opinions would greatly help with.

As for an initial written comment on this message, we feel it is a mischaracterization with leading statements and loaded questions.

We will await the WAN show appearance where your views are presented, and we will, after that time, respond by sharing the things we’ve been hesitant to talk fully openly about as well. Feel free to share this entire email with your audience, as it is fully encompassing of our statement.

Regards,

 

[TKN_Lurker]

This week is like a second Christmas for retard drama. Linus just had another juicy melty over GamersNexus


Linus Email:


GN:

The replies filled with Linus simps that have botted likes just makes it even more funnier. They can't handle their soy Reddit Tech daddy getting criticised for being a whiny little bitch.

 

[GOD'S STRONGEST BUILDERBEAR]

Our pet retard will eat some fists tonight
hope he gets buried in his own puke

 

[Brosnan Pierce Brosnan]

Dropping this here, because as much as I like Radiohead it's incredibly funny that Radiohead doesn't like Radiohead. Can't wait to read an article about Just being too Pixies esque or Fake Plastic Trees being too Eagles esque or the whole Hail to the Thief Album being too Pearl Jam esque. Come on Thom, search your heart I do not lie with these comparisons

“It was too Rod Stewart”: the huge Radiohead song that the band have distanced themselves from… and no, it’s not Creep

Thom Yorke first performed the band’s much-loved 1995 single with his previous group Headless Chickens, and there’s video evidence

www.loudersound.com

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Dropping this here, because as much as I like Radiohead it's incredibly funny that Radiohead doesn't like Radiohead. Can't wait to read an article about Just being too Pixies esque or Fake Plastic Trees being too Eagles esque or the whole Hail to the Thief Album being too Pearl Jam esque. Come on Thom, search your heart I do not lie with these comparisons

“It was too Rod Stewart”: the huge Radiohead song that the band have distanced themselves from… and no, it’s not Creep

Thom Yorke first performed the band’s much-loved 1995 single with his previous group Headless Chickens, and there’s video evidence

www.loudersound.com

add it to the long list of great artists hating their work with no tangible reason beyond "it's smug aura mocks me"

the big one to me is Shiny Happy People but there's also smells like teen spirit as a close second.

 

[Topo Chico]

Bottom texto, big mike shredded sheeeeeeesh

 

[Koronesuki]

add it to the long list of great artists hating their work with no tangible reason beyond "it's smug aura mocks me"

the big one to me is Shiny Happy People

This one I can kind of understand due to how overplayed it was at the time.

but there's also smells like teen spirit as a close second.

Kurt Cobain was mentally ill and couldn't deal with suddenly being famous. Of course he would hate the song that specifically rocketed him to a stardom that he didn't want.

 

[Piava]

Kurt Cobain was mentally ill

He would 100% be one of the most annoying and pathetic people on Xitter if he'd still be alive.
Edit: Nirvana still slaps tho, don't care how much of a liberal fag Kurt was.

 

[Sky Shouter]

He would 100% be one of the most annoying and pathetic people on Xitter if he'd still be alive.
Edit: Nirvana still slaps tho, don't care how much of a liberal fag Kurt was.

Kurt Cobain was an outspoken male feminist in the 1990s.

Had he survived to the modern day, he'd be Mark Hamill but somehow even more insufferable. Also, Nirvana would not have become the quintessential grunge band in the public consciousness, but rather Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains, which would be far more deserving imo.

 

[Piava]

Kurt Cobain was an outspoken male feminist in the 1990s.

Had he survived to the modern day, he'd be Mark Hamill but somehow even more insufferable. Also, Nirvana would not have become the quintessential grunge band in the public consciousness, but rather Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains, which would be far more deserving imo.

Care to give a few Album recommendations? I love to discover new music. Never really got into Grundge except for Nirvana. I mostly listened to classic Rock/Metal like Black Sabbath, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen etc.
I could go on and on but that's beside the point. I don't want to start a whole discussion about music here.

 

[Sky Shouter]

Care to give a few Album recommendations? I love to discover new music. Never really got into Grundge except for Nirvana. I mostly listened to classic Rock/Metal like Black Sabbath, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen etc.
I could go on and on but that's beside the point. I don't want to start a whole discussion about music here.

I personally love Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, because they're as much metal bands as they are rock bands.

Best way to describe them is Soundgarden is like a 90s alternative take on Led Zeppelin, whereas Alice in Chains is like a 90s alternative take on Ozzie-era Black Sabbath. Hell, Chris Cornell from SG even sang like Robert Plant, and their songs have the macho swagger that Led Zeppelin was known for. AiC's songs are slow and moody with sick guitar riffs and bass lines, plus Layne Staley was a charismatic singer who does these great vocal harmonies with the lead guitarist Jerry Cantrell during choruses.

If you want to start checking them out, listen to "Outshined" and "Superunknown" by Soundgarden and "Man in the Box" and "Rain When I Die" by Alice in Chains. If you're looking for albums start with Superunknown and Dirt, those are probably their most well-known works.

I'm not as big into Pearl Jam because their stuff just sounds like a slightly punky take on 70s arena rock like Chicago or Journey to me, but if you prefer that then I would check out "Even Flow" from their debut album Ten.