February 2021 Patreon Exclusive Video Oddcast
Here’s a new Patreon Exclusive video update.
There are a few distinct sections so I’ve added chapters to enable easier navigation. Some bits are a bit long winded so if you get bored I’d recommend jumping to the next section... where it gets even worse.
You’ll find sections about adding subtitles, cameras and camera reviews, odd interactions as well as assorted nonsense, waffle and musings.
An audio version is available in a separate post.
Comments (94)
What I love about these videos is that there's usually one point in them that's a totally unexpected laugh-out-loud moment. For me, it was the quick rant about talking about dreams at 49:08. So true! I've had to hold my tongue so many times! Keep up the informative and entertaining work. :)
Did the idea about the cap come to you in a dream?
I always like these videos. It's strange though. I'm a non-native English speaker (Dutch) and I have had no problems understanding you at all in any of the videos.. It really is interesting how far Google is ahead of the competition then! Perhaps though their Google Assistant? Anyway, these rambles keep me on Patreon really, even though I can hardly afford much these days (thanks Covid!)... Did you notice by the way, that those tsone weirdos almost consistently misspelled Thomann?
I did see that - they don't seem to be the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Grate video, Mat. Didn’t great at all. I must say that I laughed when you said you weren’t going to do a jet ski video. Then when you were talking about people saying what they weren’t going to buy, the whole concept seemed funnier. Perhaps you should start your videos with a statement about what you’re not doing today. “I’m not taking flying lessons today, but...” Of “Hello! This video is not about me jumping off my roof into a dumpster.” I don’t know, it just makes me smile picturing you saying something like that. I’m hanging in there. Thanks for asking.
Big fan of these rambles - and finally taking the time to reply to one instead of just being a weird parasocial clinger! Per your comments about wearable tech hats, I think a big reason there's not really any development in that space is because hats are kinda niche compared to something like glasses. Lot more people wear glasses than hats, and it's easier to convince someone to wear a certain neutral frame style than it is a certain style of cap (I would never be caught dead in a baseball cap!). And it's not too complicated to adapt wearable glasses-style technology to prescription lenses. AFAIK, all the current technologies (Google Glass, Focals by North, etc) all have the screen portion entirely separate from the lens portion, either sticking it the corner in a little prism or projecting it on - lit. 'just stick some crap on a regular pair of glasses'. Even VR headsets, vision correction is handled just with regular old lenses stuck in front of the screens. So you could totally keep your fancy lenses with whatever new wearable glasses tech comes out, long as there's appropriate lens blanks available for the frames.
Just thought you'd want to know that I'm also not going to buy a dishwasher. Seriously though thank you for all the quality content.
Wow you’re a real trooper with the subtitles Mat that looks terrible to do!
Your camera rant is something I've wondered about myself. Not just cameras, but the whole 'astroturfing' on Youtube. These people who call themselves influencers who don't give honest reviews of products for the reasons you call out here - such as not wanting to be cut off by the manufacturer. MKBHD for example - anything Apple releases is 'amazing' - whereas someone like Linus at LTT is quite honest and sometimes gets the ire of manufacturers - but in most cases they go away and make a change based on his advice. But nonetheless take care, thanks for keeping us updated, look after yourself!
One thing that irked me in the past was when I was the only reviewer who bought a little toy robot thingy (I forget the name) and due to some quirk it arrived three days before the official release. Therefore I was able to make my video and have it live on the same day as all the influencers. Then the complaints came in - ‘Why are you the only person with a negative review’ ‘Everyone else likes it’ etc etc. Every other video stated that they were sponsored, but the vast vast majority of the general public either don’t notice or didn’t pay heed. They believed that the sponsored videos were reviews - just like mine. The company behind it even got in touch while mine was on order and asked to sponsor a video with me - I declined. So they’d gone all out to sponsor every single tech channel that could feature this product - to ensure the only videos on release date were adverts. I was the only non-sponsored video for a week or so. As a result I was wrong and the other adverts that didn’t point out any deficiency at all were better because they were 100% enthusiastic about the product. It just showed me that the public can’t spot the difference between an advert and a review and the manufacturers know this and exploit it.
Mat, great way to open the talk “how are you holding up?” Seriously man, won’t bother you with details, but even if it’s on a podcast, sure is nice to have someone ask that... been a rough couple of weeks here, and working from home is getting old, as generally the only people I talk to are complaining so, Those were some nice words to hear. Cheers Mat, and keep on keeping on.
I think a lot of us are in the same boat - some holding up better than others. Some days are definitely better than others - but these winter months have taken their toll. At least in the summer I could sit in the garden while I ate my Cup Noodles for lunch. Fingers crossed things start to see a noticeable and consistent upswing soon.
I get the intent for the all in one camera, I was and still am in love with my Sony hx400 but it was broken (by the same person who broke my heart)... I upgraded to an alpha 6000 and a kamlan 50mm f1.1 mk2 for great portrait/close-ups (cheap for the quality)(no autofocus)
Thanks Matt. Keep doing you. We're all here with you. I rather enjoy these long updates.
Day late to the party. I save these for my Wednesday glass of wine! Little things to look forward to! I've actually watched everything on the BBC's Computer Literacy Project these last few months (bugger all else to do!), and sort of "microblogged" about it on Facebook, no doubt sending my friends bonkers. Anyway, it was me who pointed out the demonstration of the Highway Star game on one edition of Micro Live, interestingly they don't mention VHD at all, but it's clearly one of those Disc Lord machines. Actually one of the most fascinating clips I've seen is from the 1972 Christmas Lectures, where a LaserDisc is shown "on loan from Phillips laboratory". Has the standard vinyl LP sized hole, interestingly. Anyway, that's on the Royal Institution's site if you want a gander!
If I get the chance I'll take a look at that. It's always fascinating how far some of these technologies go back before we got to buy them (or not).
The chat on live streams - it's a virtual form of applause isn't it! Nobody can hear your specific hand claps...
I never considered it as that - but if so...well it’s a funny old world.
Thank you for this talk. I started to watch the video waiting for a neighbour to come home, since he asked me yesterday to help him setting up some computer equipment. So when he arrived, I paused the video and got his equipment set up - including a better microphone for his home office, being tired of bad sound. So I helped him set up this microphone together with the other equipment. After finished helping him, I went back home to watch the rest of the video. The weird thing is that when you go back into full picture after pointing out those ... off topic ... comments, I had to see once more - hey that microphone that appears in your video (about 48 minutes 45 seconds) looks very familiar! It appears to be the same brand an model. The one he bought was called "Blue Microphones YetiCaster"... I know that your sound quality is excellent, so I still do not understand why those programs that are supposed to do speech-to-text are unable to handle your voice properly. How will they then handle that muffled sound you hear from cheaper things? Anyhow - thank you for another great video.
Yes I spent hundreds on XLR mics and audio equipment like compressors and equalisers and in the end came back to the Yeti and it sounds way better. It’s a bit prone to popping even with a pop shield, but that’s my only slight gripe.
Another winner Mat! Can't wait for the next one. Take care mate.
I feel you. I have been pretty down.
We'll get there in the end - it's just a waiting game. Time to catch up on those DVD box sets that have been in their shrink wrap since 2004.
As always, I really enjoyed it. Thanks, Matt.
Always enjoy these chats. Thanks Mat
As a french guy, I'm glad to let you know I do understand you loud and clear. I turn on subtitles only to get some words I do miss here and there, so all the efforts you put into providing decent ones are truly appreciated. That's it for the moment, thanks for reading my comment!
With cameras, I moved to Micro 4/3 and there’s a really good price/quality ratio there - I have some of the best lenses available and they are tiny and well under £1000. There’s some really good video focussed cameras in that market too. I know you’re going to do your own research and have your own needs and desires so I’m not going to tell you which ones to look at, just that it might be worth looking at that segment.
The Panasonic camera I have is a Micro 4/3. I've looked closely at all the cameras on the market for the last two years or so. Each time a new one comes out thinking that this might be the one. Unfortunately no one has it yet. One worrying trend though is price. Since all the companies are struggling, each new camera that they put out is more expensive than the last. Hoping to catch that premium market which remains the most profitable. So that leaves me out in the cold.
Re the subtitles, I suppose if you copy the text from the Google system it loses all the timestamps so the synchronisation would be lost? If not and it would sync up again when pasted back in, can I suggest pasting it into Word and letting Grammarly have a go at it first. It would at least sort out all the capitalisations for you. Just a thought, Mat. S.
It's an idea. Maybe something I should try one day.
I thoroughly enjoyed the news programme style where you kept introducing yourself from the past :) I genuinely hope this made it easier for you to produce and reduced some of the stress!
It was slightly easier and I'm more than aware that it needs breaking up a bit - which is hard to do when it's all shot in the same place.
Oh, and: I usually wear a hat when I podcast because my maximum tolerance for earbuds is wayyy less than the duration of a show. ANd my Sony headphones are super-comfy but they make my hair look super-doofy. My inner Jeeves is pained to see me as another middle-aged dude in a baseball cap but hey, at least I'm wearing it with the bill facing forward. More than a +5 or -5 degree deviation gives off a "Greetings, fellow kids!" vibe that nobody wants to see.
Perhaps that's one of the benefits of having little to no hair - it can never look good. I'm still struggling to get over the AirPod aesthetic. As someone who has had something which looked remarkably similar ooze out of his ears on more than one occasion - it's not a look I can fully get on board with just yet. I do feel like I've unwittingly become the stern and stuffy adult who in 1980 would tut loudly as a troublesome youth roller skated backwards while listening to their giant belt worn walkman through orange earmuffed headphones. (Yes this sentence is too long - but I'm using the Google sentence algorithm which allows infinite sentence length).
I'm very bothered by the modern transactional relationship between tech companies and the people who talk about tech. The moment someone with an audience decides to do things that are useful to the company's PR plan, they're kind of done. Agreeing to a review embargo isn't necessarily a problem, but making sure that your review drops on the day when the company is hoping to coordinate lots of coverage...potentially a problem. When Microsoft or Intel or somesuch sends a YouTuber a wacky, one-off contraption for a special unboxing...whoah, definitely a problem. There are plenty of YouTubers I respect who work closely with companies that way; I accept that this is the nature of the YouTube monetization beast, _and_ that maybe today this kind of relationship isn't the absolute third rail that it was through most of my career. (I also remind myself that I've no right to judge others.) (And yet, some of these people _are_ utter bozos and I take _aerobic_ pleasure in (privately) judging them. Well, I am an imperfect vessel for the Universe's perfection.) But, yeah. I made a major pivot a few years back and one of the main movers for that was to avoid putting myself into that kind of corner. "He was so very useful to so many billion-dollar corporations" isn't something I want as my epitaph.
Brother, I know man....ebbs and flows, it's a bad time for a lot of us!
I wish I'd never watched this video [grumble grumble]! Now I've nothing decent to watch later ... ! Sorry, that was my attempt at a nasty, critical YouTube comment. I guess I blew it :)
Hey Mat, I saw you earlier comment regarding not liking to rely on others, but I'd like to offer anyways. I'm in the process of learning to stenotype with the goal of being able to do live captioning in realtime. I'm not at this point yet, but in a few months I'll be looking for opportunity to practice, and had planned on typing out transcripts of the YouTube videos I watch since that let's me get two with one. I watch all of your videos and was probably going to transcribe them anyways, so if you'd like, I'd be happy to drop you a line when I feel fast enough enough to be able to reliably live caption them. If not, I completely understand, just felt like I should offer since I'd be doing it anyways :)
It's very kind of you to offer and that's one heck of a skill to work towards, I'm impressed anyone could do it. However I really like to keep all the video stuff in-house (literally), just a preference, no judgement on anything.
I love your oddcast. Keep it up.
BTW, regarding the dishwasher and it does from time to time freeze up... You forgot to mention its probably a pre-production Firmware ;)
I'm definitely not going to buy a dishwasher! Because it uses cassettes! Did i mention that i run a company that imports them for a snip at £2000 pounds and we never run out of stock! Yes i'm just being silly! Sometimes in social media though for some reason we say things that we not would say in person. I'm not sure why. Just keep doing what you do though!
Great Video Mat, I love your waffling.. I Look forward to to Monthly TechMOAN 🤣 Top Marks for dropping Bellend in there. That'll confuse some! I think there Camera you are referring to with Lens Built in are called Bridge Camera. Well they used to be once. When you put the Cap on mate. For a second I thought you where doing an Impression of Lew from Unbox Therapy. 😅 Anyways. I just thought I'd let you know... im NOT going to go outside the house tomorrow, and I'm NOT going to Next week. 🙄🙄 People are MAD ain't they... Specialty in the current climate. But generally people are just well.... Box of Frogs... But then there is the Loonies and conspiracy nuts... Cuckoo... Then there is the new Legue of Social Media Socialites and Numb Nuts... I think the future is going to be really Dumb the way things are going. MADNESS Thanks another Update Video & All your Amazing Main Videos. Keep it up, your going a great job. Hope your are okay mate. Love to you and the family. Take Care & Stay Safe Sean Yem (Wallasey) M7SYW
I've been reluctant to call them bridge cameras as it seems to give the impression that they are merely a stop on the route to a proper camera rather than a destination of their own. 'Oh, it's just a bridge camera, one day he'll have a real camera like me'. Then again I'm not happy with any of them, so perhaps it's a valid term.
Thanks for another great video. Re: subtitles, just use Google un-edited. Good enough and tell those people to shut the futtock up ;)
I'm recognising a few names from Big Clive's live streams in these comments.
Maybe long, but certainly not burning!!! Love these updates, Mat!!! Love the videos and the updates, and all are PERFECT!!!! :) Keep on rockin’!!!!
Always enjoy these videos. You said you use iMovie - just wondering if you’ve tried more expensive tools? Great that youre able to get such decent quality with a free tool! Ever done a video about your production setup? Thanks for all the great content.
I have tried and paid for other software with zero success. If I ever change it’ll be to Final Cut (which I bought but don’t use). I did make a video about the production process here: https://youtu.be/WihHOwczW2A - It’s mostly still the same today.
I'm loving the crazy comments bit. Fantastic.
Thanks for the update very interesting. Ive been looking at amazon echo frames (in the usa) but dont think they would work if i imported them. I wear vari focals to. Think i got scammed on facebook today hoping paypal protection will kick in. Great video please keep up the great work and dont let the negative comments get to you, you bring pleasure to so many people, how many willingly support you on pateron, we love your videos
For me they’re just topics to talk around and about. Without odd things to share there’s nothing really worth sharing, the rest of it is a bloke sat at a computer editing video.
I use rev.com for subtitles, done by humans, and you build up your own glossary for unusual terms
Due to making last minute changes frequently it’s not something that would work well for me but thanks for the suggestion.
Have you considered LBRY as an alternative or addition to YouTube? You earn cryptocurrency in lieu of cash.
I haven’t, no. It’s something I’ve never looked into.
Great video, thanks. It's weird timing for me, as I've just finished a huge transcription job; part of my work. I tried DeScript just a couple of weeks ago, feeding it raw audio, in the hope it might save me some time. Utter garbage. I use what is, apparently, the best transcription software (Nuance Dragon), but even that has to be manually dictated, by me, from source (audio in one ear, microphone headset in the other), to work. Even then, its output has to be gone over line by line, as mistakes are commonplace.
This trick might help with subtitles. Get the text YouTube produces and copy it into the clipboard. Then add a new subtitle entry (e.g. "English UK"). It will ask how you want to submit your subtitles, so select "Auto-Sync" and paste the subtitles you've just copied from YouTube. It *should* auto sync the text so you don't have to break it up (it takes 10 minutes or so to process, and you have to refresh the browser to see if it's updated). I haven't tried this, but I regularly upload scripts and sync them this way. It's pretty good at getting the timestamps, but the editor sucks. It should be faster than what you're doing though. I think the Patreon updates have turned in to the "moan" part of TechMoan. BTW, it works well. I can relate!
Thanks for the subtitles advice Big Car.
0:20 - Haha, I like this excuse not to go on holiday as well. My wife always wants to go to all these exotic places that are basically set up for you to find things to spend money on. Most of the time, if I'm going to take off work, I'd rather spend the time on all my hobbies I have at home that I never get to do!
Your weird interactions section reminded me of the time when my wife and I had a community radio show on all things Polish - basically a bit of easy Polish music, news and chat. An easy listening Sunday evening radio show. For some reason we, and particularly my wife, managed to somehow annoy some people so much that they dedicated an entire section of a local forum to how terrible we were and how bad my wife was at this radio show. It was a very harsh introduction to the world of media and we were just amateurs doing this for "fun". In the end we took the line "Don't let the bastards grind you down" to heart and eventually they got bored and went away, and we had 7 years on radio before real life took us away from it.
I just share this stuff for the exact same reasons you shared this - it’s an interesting story and perhaps an insight for some into a world that they might not have experienced themselves. Just like an aircraft pilot telling you about the time a wing set on fire or a builder tells you about the time he nail gunned his hand to the wall - the exceptions and oddities make for interesting tales, far more than the mundane day to day stuff that happens to everyone.
Am I the only one that enjoys Mat's monthly Patreon streams of consciousness just a little bit more than his regular videos? This is coming from someone who *really* enjoys the regular videos, mind you...
Thanks for the candid nature of these episodes. There is no need to apologize for rambling, we love to hear your thoughts!
Thanks for the video Mat. Some of your videos have been really helpful - like when I needed a new cartridge for my Technics LS-Q33 turntable. Your video on the dishwasher made me think how much water ours uses. We hadn't used ours in ages because the other half said it uses too much water. So I got the manual out. Ours uses 16 liters. As an experiment I measured how much water is wasted before it gets hot and added what the sink used. So we are using it again. And we can use it on night price electricity. Thinking about comments - I turned my channel comments off to keep the idiots out. I am due a retinopathy scan some time this year they have been put off because of the COVID. Best wishes to you and Mrs. Techmoan.
I’d also never thought about a dishwasher using less water - I assumed they used a bathtub full. It’s only from using this one that I now know that they’re really quite efficient. As for the retinopathy stuff it seems like the routine appointments are coming back around again. I’ve got to have a blood test for my annual review again on Thursday. It’s been a couple of years. The review is over the phone, but of course I’ve got to go and get the blood test done in person.
Amateur Photographer magazine do good reviews and they’re always well worth a look. They always take their time with publishing reviews and simply can’t publish a review on the day the camera is released.
People will want to tell you what they won’t buy or won’t do, because you are a role-model for them and they want to imitate you. So, when they don’t, they will tell you why - as some way of apology for not following you. Maybe you underestimate your role as an influencer.
I always enjoy the monthly insight into what's going on in your mind, good luck with the search for a better camera and when you find it I might want to get one too. In January I bit the bullet bought a Braun Atelier system (A1/C1/P1/T2/CD3) from Germany, great to finally have some nice vintage equipment I can trust. I think it looks great but the design seems to be quite divisive.
I do like the look of some of the Braun stuff, the SK61 in particular.
It's a shame people don't respect your channel, in our house we love it. It's tough to stay positive when people don't respect you. As 8-bit guy says just delete the random ones it's best not to worry about them, however we find these videos interesting so keep on rambling its great 👍🏻
"Why do people tell me that they're not buying something because they didn't watch my video all the way? Why should I care?" Followed by: "By the way I have a new studio light, let me play with it for a few minutes" That was the funniest thing ever LOL
Your "weird interaction" section certainly sounds like the type of crap I deal with on a day to day basis. It hits home for me very much. I've determined it's just math. If there are a certain percentage of nutters out there, let's say even a small percentage like 1 out of 1,000 people, but when you have over a million subscribers, that means you have at least 1,000 nutters following your channel. I get some of the strangest and most annoying emails. After talking with some other youtubers I've started simply deleting a lot of them and moving on. It never seems to be worth the trouble to reply. If you delete it and move on, you'll probably never hear from them again. If you reply, you'll be hearing from them forever.
It can wear you down to the point where it becomes too much of a gamble to respond to people just to avoid it all going south again. It’s a shame for the normal people, but the nutters ruin it for everyone else. Having a public email inbox is a bit like having a 24hr kebab shop - you can’t choose who comes through the door at 2am.
Big fan of the "Weird Interactions" section
Thanks Mat for another enjoyable Oddcast. Your talk about how people insist on telling your what they are NOT going to buy and how that was like people talking of dreams reminded me of the list of 7 things one should never bring up in conversation (per the This American Life podcast): 1-how you slept; 2-your period; 3-your health; 4-your dreams; 5-money; 6-your diet; 7-This is a topic called, "Route Talk" or chatting about what roads you took to arrive at a destination, etc. All things nobody really cares about, but please don't take this comment as any kind of disparagement of the things you talk about--you've already shown that you know what makes for a good ramble here. As for eyeglasses, I get mine from Zenni, which cost only about $45.00 for the cheapest frames (and varifocal lenses) and I imagine there are other online shops for glasses that are similar.
Mat, as to the people with odd and spiteful comments in America we say "You can't fix stupid". I have not seen any of that type of crap here (thankfully) and of the things I support each month, yours is the one I look forward to most. And as a bonus I get to learn English slang. Always good to brighten a conversation.
I edited the English and Dutch subtitles for the DCC documentary in the YouTube subtitle editor and it was a total PITA. It works totally backwards, where you have little blocks of text to edit and move on a timeline. What you want when you write subtitles is a way to enter the text like you would normally type it, as one block of text (possibly with paragraph markers and stuff like that, which will not end up in the subtitles of course). Then you want to just put markers with the mouse where you want to separate the subtitles from each other. Then you want to simply watch the video and use the keyboard to record where the next subtitle should begin. And there should be at least one or two frames of nothing between subtitles, so you eyes catch that the subtitle has changed. That way it would only take two or three (not 40 or 50) times the length of the video (not including the transcribing) to get all the timings right. I'm sure there's software somewhere that can do a lot better than YouTube or Describe or whatever you used.
I really thought the Descript app would have made it easier, and while it does in some ways...it’s no use when it gets at least a couple of words wrong each sentence. The Google one is very close to doing what I need, so hopefully they’ll keep improving it until it’s good enough.
Just a quick note to say unlike the guy who's hiding from Sony thanks for the dishwasher review! I'd been looking for one off and on for while but had all but given up until your video appeared in my sub box. Like you really happy with it and particularly pleased that Daan Tech refunded the import VAT within 48 hours.
That’s very kind of them. I’d recommend ordering your next batch of detergent ASAP though.
It's crazy how much I'm always entertained by these videos. Looking forward to watch it.
I think this patreon subscription is the best one quid a month I could spend ever in my life. In these days without socialising and such it's so good to have channel like yours. These patreon updates feel very human,unlike much stuff on YouTube these days.
On the topic of YTers giving positive reviews of cameras in order to get more cameras- I personally really enjoy your "off the grid" style of review. Not only the integrity of the content but the style as well. Too many channels are focused on making the viewer fall in love with the host, and in most cases I find that host to be a bothersome person. As far as recommendations for tech, have you ever had any interest in the Arcade1Ups? I work on the real machines quite a bit so those are somewhat interesting to me.
I bought one - Asteroids as it’s one of my favourite games. Unfortunately when it arrived I very quickly realised that there was absolutely nowhere to put it once I’d assembled it. So I left it in the box (which was still massive) and stuck it in my locker. I’m keeping it for a day in the long distant future where someone randomly walks up to me in the street and gives me a house with a games room. It’s the most realistic scenario that would enable me to use it.
Matt, have you ever tried asking one of your Patreons to do the transcribing for you? Like releasing the video early, and getting back a PDF of the transcripted text? It will most likely take away some of the workload off of your end, like various other YouTubers are now doing.
I don’t like to put on or rely on anyone else to get things finished. I also keep making changes right up to the end. So it wouldn’t really work.
Sony vz1? Lol bellend haha
ZV1 - missing a lot of the things I need. Headphone, 4K60 etc. Hoping for a ZV2 with more features and a wider angle lens.
Thanks for the update. Don't worry, with Techmoan around I cannot have a reason to moan.
Fantastic life advice; can't call your boss a bellend. Thanks for the great update. Stay safe and take care.
Help me, I live in the USA, what is a "bellend"?
History? Gadgets? Coming across something that's amazing to me? Hey, what a serendipitous coincidence; I came across this just yesterday, and while I expect it would bore most people to tears, I found it absolutely fascinating. An in-depth, complete, step-by-basic-step explanation of how electromechanical telephone line finder switches worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O669rW3nzxo
Hey Mat. What you mentioned during the camera segment is both correct and has also been done for decades. A really interesting case of this was the infamous TEAM17 vs Amiga Power drama in the 90s. Amiga Power were infamously seen as "harsh" on games and with Team17's games they were no different. To the point that Team17 thought they had a personal vendetta. They cut them off from all prerelease demos for review so every magazine was reviewing Team17's games at least a month before Amiga Power was. Amiga Power were not scared because they were a well respected and some would say feared magazine. But this sent a message to the other mags that said "you badmouth our games you get cut off.". Now I'm not saying thats what Team17 MEANT to do, but its definitely what a lot (if not most triple AAA game developers) now do. If the game is shit, give it a 7/10. This is why I only watch vintage tech but its all in the past, you can look at a product for what it did well. Modern tech channels have to please the dragon or get burnt. I also remember when a youtuber was on Nintendos preferential "user" list. Meaning he was sent free games early for review. One day Nintendo decided to end that with him but not with anything else. He has no idea what he said or did but he can only assume he said something negative that they didn't like. One thing I will say, is props to the camera company Lomography. They either dont check their sponsored reviews or don't care. Because they have released some crap cameras and the videos say "this is shit". But that youtuber is still sent review cameras. But maybe thats because Lomography is more of an art thing. Sony and Canon aren't art, they are a business. Youtubers are the new magazine reviews giving 7/10 for something that is actually 3/10.