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in reply to @plumpan's post:
I dunno, as far as I'm concerned, that was pretty good advice for most of the shortage
Especially if you hadn't upgraded to a 4K monitor -- my GTX970 was punching above its weight until the end of last year, honestly, but even a used one was still going for 400 bucks..
They were not telling people to not buy anything. They were continuing to review horribly overpriced cards pretty much as normal, with a small "well yeah prices suck but new card go brrr!" disclaimer. I don't think they should have been publishing numbers at all, the cards didn't deserve the attention given the situation.
They would have gained a hell of a lot of respect had they been willing to do that, but no one (including nexus jesus game stever) was willing to go that far.
Fair enough. I feel like Ars Technica, which is my main source on reviews, fell into "look, we're publishing these in case your card died, but these are just Not Worth It" pretty early on in the shortage
Ars' content got super mixed many years ago and I cut them out, felt like they were leaning into too much off topic stuff for sake of traffic. And I wasn't suuuuper confident in how they were doing reviews, from what I recall. This was well before the pandemic, no idea how things have done since then.
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Iirc theres been iffy stuff regarding LTT for a few years, I don't remember exactly what but I just have something in the back of my head why I should avoid their stuff.
they've been sus and/or shitty for some time but the past few days have shown just how bad it's gotten.
I found myself unable to make it through episodes from the non-news channels because of just like this insistence on being quirky when they were a big company and like. just own you are a bigger company now and accept the responsibility it comes with. I personally don’t mind that they got more business oriented but it’s started to grate on me, especially since the backpack warranty thing, that LTT tried to come off as “the lil guy just doing our thing”. like if you are business oriented, admit it and hold yourself to a higher standard commensurate with being larger.