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I also used to watch this guy very regularly but stopped when I found out he's a political gun nut who open carries his AR-15 specifically to anger people and make them uncomfortable.
There's a video of him inside a store with a rifle ranting about some poor politician and their effort to prevent gun violence. Easy to find if you search for it.
This is his most current views on the subject if you care to watch. https://youtu.be/lGtSRb1q99o
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Thanks for posting.
I'm glad he's thought through a lot of his more inflammatory positions and seems to have evolved a more nuanced take on things.
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I stopped watching when he got that one rare IBM workstation and sloppily dremeled in all the the screws to open it because he was too lazy to go to the store to buy a screwdriver. That was before I even heard about this and the stupid gun stuff. I know it's like a minor thing and he only damaged screws and sheet metal parts that could in theory be replaced with a medium amount of difficulty, but I just can't imagine intentionally damaging something very uncommon because you're too lazy to buy a screwdriver
Casually shorts the two IEC colour coded wires for AC live + neutral.
You won't believe what happened next.
I forgot about that part, that whole "repair" was such a mess
I think it was a security torx screw if I remember correctly so it makes sense he wouldn't necessarily have an appropriate bit, but it would have been so little effort to just order one or go to a store
You could also jam a flathead into one at certain angles if it isn't too tight between the peg, I've done that before
Videos like that I'm always amazed the creator even bothers uploading. I'd be so fucking embarassed it would never see the light of day.
But I guess its sunk cost fallacy. Gotta get that content out there I spent a week working on. I guess I can appreciate that. Theres also something to be said about being honest about your fuckups. I was so embarassed for him I noped out of that video so I dont really know how it ended, but I dont recall there being much humility about it?
In the comments he kept responding to everyone being critical and being like "well it's my computer so I can do anything I want to it"
I get the same vibe, i still watch him, but not as intently as before. He has a tendency to do exactly that, and he generally fails to respectfully address any concerns he has. He just sorta acts annoyed and goes on tangents. His content in good, but his personality isn't
I've been finding his content hasn't been as good for the last couple years, maybe just from the random rants he tosses in for no reason. Then he went on a little rant recently about how he isn't making as much money from YouTube anymore and I unsubscribed.
Though, in fairness, several YouTubers were making the same kinda video around the end of last year. All complaining they weren't making as much money because of YouTube's algorithm favoring shorts.
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
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Devils advocate:
If you're known as a guy that loves Pokémon cards and people keep gifting you Weedle's (one of the lowest powered and most common cards in the game), then after a while you're going to be like "thanks guys, I know you want to gift me and to not just throw the card away, but these are worth literally nothing to me because I already have much nicer examples and I don't need/want/have room for them, I'd just be throwing them away myself".