Forced to play Devil's Advocate

Which one is Keanu Reeves? Dan?


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[Escher]

I think the "devil's advocate" should be wearing devil horns or something so people can't clip things out of context. Maybe a banner to put on screen and a timer as Dan said. Definitely worth keeping the segment around.

[Alias_Anybody]

That's one heck of a concept, ruining decades of friendship between Luke and LInus within half an hour.

[TBelen]

Evidently needs some refinement so that everyone can get their points out, but I enjoyed this new segment. The banter between Luke and Linus is a big part of why I keep watching the WAN show, so I'm all for adding in some new fun bits interspersed between tech news and merch messages.

[DavidJohnsonFromSeattle]

Luke tried his best to legitimately argue it and did a better job. Meanwhile, Linus became the embodiment of Samsung with all of their awful arguments. It was scary

[bentaphid]

They need a chess clock to prevent them bulldozing the other person and going on too long

[guihamelYT]

I'd take a whole show of just playing devil's advocate. That was some funny stuff!

[willwunsche]

The _/10 ratings should be based off of how mad you make the other participants and how much you play into the evil characters. And you need a "Defend the Indefensible" sign that hangs during the segment or pops up digitally 😂

[CedarAce]

Love this segment! IMHO you should make the devil's advocate wear devil horns to make things more visually clear / dissuade people from taking clips out of context :)

[uponeric]

I love evil corporate Linus, he really does sound like a company when he's playing devils advocate

[namAehT]

Playing devil's advocate is super fun because your "defense" usually makes the company/argument look terrible. You should 100% keep this segment, it gives us a window into a universe where Luke and Linus are capitalist sociopaths.




We had to argue for our opposing political ideology in a debate class so I ran with it and focused on "anchor babies" the entire time (it was the latest conservative insanity at the time). The conservative professor was _not_ amused, but I got an A lol

[the_Duckyster]

I dont have the attention span to watch the full WAN show, but i do enjoy watching segments here on LMG Clips very much. And this one was very entertaining to watch, i really hope we will see this again.

[DeSinc]

I like this a lot. I'm always playing devil's advocate because it's just part of critical thinking in general. 'What are the reason I could be wrong?' Nobody ever seems to want to do that or even listen to the other side

[caseydavidphillips]

I believe one of Twitters argument, and a big one, was that of monetization and ad revenue. Those APIs can display twitter content but not the Ads and therefore Twitter was not making money. This is pulling all those third-party eyeballs back to Twitter so that they can monetize them. Not how I would have done it, but I think that's the biggest reason.

[agustinbatalla]

23:57
-Would ypu let me finish?
-No
That exchange of words on that tone was the single most based thing i have ever seen. Long live Luke

[msrdo]

the way Linus attacked Luke about twitter was as if Luke owned twitter and Linus was the only user of twitter and the changes would ruin his life

[Rathe]

This segment is great. No matter how black and white some of these items seem (or are), I think attempting to hit both sides of an issue is important.

[DasGanon]

It's wild listening to this *in* Wyoming and just hearing your state out of context in a soft Canadian accent.

That said it would basically just boil down to "Oh no! I guess I have to buy my cars in Colorado now!" which to be fair is also how a good chunk of people do here anyways because we have sales tax.

[Drrobverjones]

Luke's defense of Twitter isn't as bad as Linus made it sound. He is right that Twitter is changing and so keeping 3rd party apps down isn't bad for now. Linus did end up misrepresenting Luke's argument a bit too.

[JBinu]

Please do more of this.
Not only is this VERY entertaining, but it might bring more discussions by arguing non-popular sides of an issue.

[GrueTurtle]

Please make this a recurring thing. It's interesting to hear the arguments and also kind of amusing to watch The Strain on your friendship