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Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) apology

    Last video I did something pretty stupid. You might've already seen it, but maybe not so I'll address it here. There was a clip with the action cam of me test driving a car and going way to fast. Absolutely inexcusable and dangerous.
    
    I've since cut it out of the video with YouTube's editor tool. I also understand that this looks like covering it up, but I think it's the right thing to do.
    
    There's no reason to leave that clip in (there was no reason to include it in the first place) and I would never want to make it seem ok by leaving it in the video. I'm well aware of the Streisand effect, and I know everything on the internet lives forever, but I think that's the best decision right now.
    
    All I can do apologize and promise never to do anything close to that stupid again. That's a terrible example to set and I'm sorry for it.
    

    C++ is a horrible language.

      Linus Torvalds rant on C++

      Its actually a rant on C++ by Linus Torvalds himself, the creator of Linux back in 2007. The site had since shut down but an archive version with Linus reply can still be found on the Wayback Machine.

      C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot 
      of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much 
      easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if 
      the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, 
      that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
      
      In other words: the choice of C is the only sane choice. I know Miles 
      Bader jokingly said "to piss you off", but it's actually true. I've come 
      to the conclusion that any programmer that would prefer the project to be 
      in C++ over C is likely a programmer that I really *would* prefer to piss 
      off, so that he doesn't come and screw up any project I'm involved with.
      
      C++ leads to really really bad design choices. You invariably start using 
      the "nice" library features of the language like STL and Boost and other 
      total and utter crap, that may "help" you program, but causes:
      
       - infinite amounts of pain when they don't work (and anybody who tells me 
         that STL and especially Boost are stable and portable is just so full 
         of BS that it's not even funny)
      
       - inefficient abstracted programming models where two years down the road 
         you notice that some abstraction wasn't very efficient, but now all 
         your code depends on all the nice object models around it, and you 
         cannot fix it without rewriting your app.
      
      In other words, the only way to do good, efficient, and system-level and 
      portable C++ ends up to limit yourself to all the things that are 
      basically available in C. And limiting your project to C means that people 
      don't screw that up, and also means that you get a lot of programmers that 
      do actually understand low-level issues and don't screw things up with any 
      idiotic "object model" crap.
      
      So I'm sorry, but for something like git, where efficiency was a primary 
      objective, the "advantages" of C++ is just a huge mistake. The fact that 
      we also piss off people who cannot see that is just a big additional 
      advantage.
      
      If you want a VCS that is written in C++, go play with Monotone. Really. 
      They use a "real database". They use "nice object-oriented libraries". 
      They use "nice C++ abstractions". And quite frankly, as a result of all 
      these design decisions that sound so appealing to some CS people, the end 
      result is a horrible and unmaintainable mess.
      
      But I'm sure you'd like it more than git.

      Original thread with Linus full reply

      On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:
      > 
      > When I first looked at Git source code two things struck me as odd:
      > 1. Pure C as opposed to C++. No idea why. Please don't talk about portability,
      > it's BS.
      
      *YOU* are full of bullshit.
      
      C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot 
      of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much 
      easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if 
      the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, 
      that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
      
      In other words: the choice of C is the only sane choice. I know Miles 
      Bader jokingly said "to piss you off", but it's actually true. I've come 
      to the conclusion that any programmer that would prefer the project to be 
      in C++ over C is likely a programmer that I really *would* prefer to piss 
      off, so that he doesn't come and screw up any project I'm involved with.
      
      C++ leads to really really bad design choices. You invariably start using 
      the "nice" library features of the language like STL and Boost and other 
      total and utter crap, that may "help" you program, but causes:
      
       - infinite amounts of pain when they don't work (and anybody who tells me 
         that STL and especially Boost are stable and portable is just so full 
         of BS that it's not even funny)
      
       - inefficient abstracted programming models where two years down the road 
         you notice that some abstraction wasn't very efficient, but now all 
         your code depends on all the nice object models around it, and you 
         cannot fix it without rewriting your app.
      
      In other words, the only way to do good, efficient, and system-level and 
      portable C++ ends up to limit yourself to all the things that are 
      basically available in C. And limiting your project to C means that people 
      don't screw that up, and also means that you get a lot of programmers that 
      do actually understand low-level issues and don't screw things up with any 
      idiotic "object model" crap.
      
      So I'm sorry, but for something like git, where efficiency was a primary 
      objective, the "advantages" of C++ is just a huge mistake. The fact that 
      we also piss off people who cannot see that is just a big additional 
      advantage.
      
      If you want a VCS that is written in C++, go play with Monotone. Really. 
      They use a "real database". They use "nice object-oriented libraries". 
      They use "nice C++ abstractions". And quite frankly, as a result of all 
      these design decisions that sound so appealing to some CS people, the end 
      result is a horrible and unmaintainable mess.
      
      But I'm sure you'd like it more than git.
      
      			Linus

      You think that just because I masturbate to furry porn I’m a furry?

        Furry porn copypasta

        Started as joke from r/copypasta circa 2016, the pasta is usually copy pasted onto Steam profile as a way to troll user.

        You think that just because I masturbate to furry porn I'm a furry? Think again, maggot. The furry fandom is a breeding ground for the most advanced autism this planet has ever seen. Every day, thousands are consumed by a tidal wave of OwO and cancerous roleplaying, and the foundations of our society slowly weaken under the constant onslaught of weapons-grade cringe. Our founding fathers recoil in disgust as people dress up as animals and buy giant dildos on the Internet, fucking each other in sweaty drunken homosexual orgies and traumatizing children in droves. Every second we draw closer to Furry Armageddon, and you sit there saying stupid shit on the Internet. To compare someone to a furry is the most heinous insult imaginable. When your door gets broken down by a rainbow wolf/deer hybrid and you get yiffed into oblivion, then we'll see who's laughing. This is a real threat and it must be treated with extreme solemnity. 

        He just needs to improve his driving, speed, training, awareness, accuracy, handling, reactions…

          Lando Norris copypasta

          Originally started as a tweet on ENCE (pro CSGO team), the copypasta can sometimes appear outside of esports such as F1.

          Lando Norris is WDC Material. He just needs to improve his driving, speed, training, awareness, accuracy, handling, reactions, adaption to different conditions, track walks, communication, learning, public reputation, likeliness, calmness, media duties, responses, luck, talent, etc. 

          Bro, be careful. I was flying from denmark to spain, had some çoço up my booty.

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            inDrugs
            Bro, be careful. I was flying from denmark to spain, had some çoço up my booty. As soon as i stepped out of the plane, the airport security approached me and told me to step aside into their room. There they told me to empty my pockets, and then to undress and to do squats naked. I had a golf ball of good stuf up my arse so I told them that shiit hell nah I aint doin squats thats gay. But it was either that or waiting 24h in the „shit grab” room so I did those squats with my brown eye holding to its dear life. But I did not pop it and then they did let me go 

            Dark Souls ruined my life.

              Dark Souls copypasta
              Dark Souls ruined my life. There were some thugs who tried to rob me the other day. I immediately roared and tried to replicate Manus' five hit combo. They laughed and kicked the shit out of me. When I was shopping, I found a cool greatcoat and tried to look its item description. It was a bit heavy, "I wish I had Havel's Ring." I said to myself. I asked the shop assistant how much souls is it. She yelled at me, I didnt understand why for a second. My mom says she is worried about me, I replied her how cool it is to use ultra greatswords. She doesnt get me. I started to roll when I saw a dog in the park, thinking it was Sif. I also feel discomfort about there are not enough blacksmiths in my area to forge my armor. Dark Souls ruined my life.