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

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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

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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