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NVIDIA APOLOGIZED (sort of) - WAN Show December 18, 2020

The WAN Show

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🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Timestamps (Courtesy of Pizza Thyme Pizza FanClub)

1:25 intro

2:02 More on Hardware Unboxed getting denied cards.

 2:40 Nvidia apologies sort of for hardware unboxed ceasing getting cards

 4:43 Luke is unsure if Nvidia is apologizing to save face or is sincere

 6:00 Summary of the "scandal" between hardware unboxed and Nvidia

 8:55 Luke thinks that Nvidia is doing this bc they are saving face.

 12:40 Linus is trying to get someone from Nvidia to talk to him.

 14:30 Linus burning bridges with Nvidia and meme-ing on them.

 16:45 This PR does not make very much sense for Nvidia.

19:00 Cyberpunk 2077 review

 20:22 Cyberpunk pulled from Sony play store

  21:35 CD Project Red reputation has been messed up

        22:42 Sony pulling Cyberpunk from play store

 23:15 Cyberpunk unplayable on last gen consoles

26:40 Devotion Pulled from Good Old Games with pressure from the CCP

 26:52 Contained unflattering references to [Winnie the Pooh] relating to the Taiwan situation

 28:09 GOG/Steam caved to CCP

 29:20 Twitter might not be representative sample of gamers' thoughts

 30:24 Different Mentality in China versus USA

 36:09 A poll of live viewers' opinions finds that opinions have worsened about CD Project RED

37:54 Microsoft might start to make ARM designs?

 38:45 Microsoft may become Microhard if they get into hardware

39:57 Sponsor spots 

 40:11 jumpcloud dot com

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 41:45 Seasonic has good PSUs

42:45 Antitrust lawsuits

 42:55 Allegedly Google Has a monopoly over ads 

 43:25 Allegedly Facebook has been buying competitors and has a monopoly

 44:01 America Has not exercised the laws in a long time

 45:37 Google and Facebook account for 54% of advertising

 46:35 Linus does not like the privacy violations done by Google et al. and prefers his form of ads

47:12 LTTSTOREDOTCOM

48:10  Linus talking about parenting and children's literacy 

51:10 Superchats

       51:18 Airpods review question

       51:26 Paying for refunded shirts

       51:39 Dual shock "low latency"

52:35 The Mandela Effect

52:55 Outro

53:18 Dell insider follow up

Transcript

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0:00.0

And welcome to the WAN show ladies and gentlemen. We've got a fantastic show for you lined up today.

0:16.0

NVIDIA apologized to some people for the whole shenanigans that went on last week. We'll talk about that a little bit.

0:25.6

In other news, devotion has been pulled from good old games in

0:31.2

yet more positive PR for CD Project Red.

0:34.6

Remember when CD Project Red was like the The

0:37.6

Darlings?

0:38.6

And now they're like...

0:39.6

Everyone.

0:40.6

Yeah.

0:41.6

Over the course of like a three week period just

0:44.3

bhoo. Yeah a little a little uncomfortable little uncomfortable. What else we got

0:51.5

this week? Google is getting sued in antitrust in a case that should probably go along with a finally.

1:00.0

And then also there was a massive hack of the CDC Time Warner Cable, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Department of Defense,

1:10.0

U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Secret Service, Visa, USA. All of those are maybe a little sketchy because

1:17.3

SolarWinds Orion software was hacked. Oopsy daisies. Hooray. Intro time. This is great. Lost Wanderer says I feel bad for CD Project Red.

1:47.7

Do you though do you really did they not make their own bed here? Like I, uh, I don't know.

1:56.1

I don't know if they're the victim.

1:58.6

Why don't we jump right into our first topic of the week,

2:01.4

which is is of course

2:02.8

NVIDIA apologizing sort of.

2:07.0

Now when I say sort of I don't mean that they sort of

2:10.8

of apologized to hardware unboxed.

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