I used to enjoy his vids too but I stopped watching years ago when I learned about his 'open carry' gun thing.

David can upload anything he wants provided it complies with YouTubes rules. He isn't beholden to your specific interests.

He is very much an amateur making videos that interests himself. That is absolutely ok.

I certainly wouldn't consider him a hardware expert, I remember the paperclip incident.

badmojo wrote on Today, 21:04:

I used to enjoy his vids too but I stopped watching years ago when I learned about his 'open carry' gun thing.

Same.

badmojo wrote on Today, 21:04:

I used to enjoy his vids too but I stopped watching years ago when I learned about his 'open carry' gun thing.

That never bothered me to be honest. It's quite common in the (south) of the USA. The dremel/paperclip repair video bother me more, I remember I was just screaming at my screen: Send that thing to Adrian Black if you don't know what to do with it....

daanmsvl wrote on Today, 21:14:

badmojo wrote on Today, 21:04:

I used to enjoy his vids too but I stopped watching years ago when I learned about his 'open carry' gun thing.

That never bothered me to be honest. It's quite common in the (south) of the USA.

It has always been common in the Northern US as well, at least in rural areas.

Ah, it didn't take long for Operation Paperclip to get mentioned. Speaking of deleted videos, he could really cash-in on the zeitgeist and create that AI he said was within his programming ability.

Joking aside, I feel like I've seen the same thing happen to every channel I've ever seen go professional. It starts as a means to share their beloved hobby and then it turns into a job and you get to watch their passion die on screen over the course of a decade. I enjoyed nearly everything he put out when the going was good.

I have never remotely cared that he's a gun nut. Clearly he isn't some Southern stereotype. I mean, he didn't try to shoot that rare PS/2 open.

I don't care about his new "ai" content. I stopped watching his videos years ago, since he became too "green".

I have stopped watching him around the time he posted way too many videos about his game Petscii Robots. It was just too boring to see just another video about "that game". Hearing that he uses AI now certainly won't make me come back - for the same reason I am largely inactive on vogons now - almost every new project here is just someone being a meat proxy and putting their prompts into Fable/Claude/ChatGPT etc. It's boring slop. There is no one to congratulate or admire for their work.

Big Pink wrote on 42 minutes ago:

Joking aside, I feel like I've seen the same thing happen to every channel I've ever seen go professional. It starts as a means to share their beloved hobby and then it turns into a job and you get to watch their passion die on screen over the course of a decade. I enjoyed nearly everything he put out when the going was good.

I guess LGR is the exception to that rule? But yeah you're right - I guess I'm just sad because he produced, in my opinion, some really fantastic videos. I would love to see more of those.

daanmsvl wrote on 23 minutes ago:

I guess LGR is the exception to that rule?

I imagine LGR has done better financially than most retro YouTubers so he probably has more freedom to do what he wants at this point.

Especially if his recent building of his own warehouse is any indication.

daanmsvl wrote on 23 minutes ago:

Big Pink wrote on 42 minutes ago:

Joking aside, I feel like I've seen the same thing happen to every channel I've ever seen go professional. It starts as a means to share their beloved hobby and then it turns into a job and you get to watch their passion die on screen over the course of a decade. I enjoyed nearly everything he put out when the going was good.

I guess LGR is the exception to that rule?

Oh, I actually had LGR in mind when I wrote that. Maybe he's not dead inside, but certainly burnout is real. And his combover never fooled me (I'm allowed to say that, we receded in parallel).