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don't care how much contempt the soyface expresses for me or my time, I'm gonna click it anyway and I'm confused as to why everyone on earth doesn't also.
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They showed inside his bedroom and it was full of animal plushies
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Linus tech tips is an interesting watch for about 1 video if youre completely tech illiterate.
If you however, have even a rudimentary knowledge of computers, it's probably some of the least informative uninteresting garbage that can be pumped out in the tech industry.
The general content does almost nothing besides regurgitate marketing releases and perform rudimentary performance tests most of which could be done by a high schooler and have probably already been performed and released by people much more qualified.
If all you're interested is hearing someone read numbers of a spec sheet and pretend that they understand what that means please go ahead but otherwise it's designed for "nerds" that memorize CPU model numbers and talk about Moores law all day but can't even tell you how a binary adder works.
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Im being generous but what do you think about the rest of my rant
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It's all correct except I'd make one minor edit
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Transform your Marseys!
www.pastebin.com/Jj9URfVi
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I hate pseudonerds with a passion
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Yea but I'm waiting for the video where he comes out as gay.
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yo dawg I heard you like tech advertisements, so I put some more advertisements in your advertisement - LTT
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Bamboozled by a YouTube title
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I like the thread where someone had to explain how invoices work to r-slurs. They still don't seem to understand by the end; I don't know how these idiots don't understand it's pretty simple.
Maybe it's bait?
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Snapshots:
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