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by spike021 1792 days ago
The Verge really fell off a cliff after the first year they launched.

I guess that's too tangential for this post, though.

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In fairness their attempt at building a PC was at least entertaining.
Rarely have I ever seen a serious tutorial or guide be so wrong on so many levels. I was flabbergasted, entertained and felt pity at the same time. Truly a train wreck of a video, would strongly recommend watching.
My favorite part was using a swiss army knife for assembly, hoping for an Allen key there which never got used anyway.
Link? This sounds funny. Like a "The Verge" branded pc?
No, just one of their people making a video showing "how to build a custom gaming PC" and ... not doing a particularly good job of it. After a few days of mocking they took the video down, and then a while later made sure everyone remembered again by copyright-striking some Youtubers that had made reaction videos using material from the original video. "the verge PC build" on youtube should find stuff.
Haha I saw it last night. So funny when he calls zip ties “tweezers” - maybe it was meant as a joke.