mycodesucks

mycodesucks , vor 20 Tagen

This is less of a brag and more a question for the philosoraptor.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/57cf3da6-7f98-476a-b2c6-0f06a424cddc.jpeg

Edit: Apologies... didn't even notice that loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works beat me to this observation.

mycodesucks , vor 24 Tagen

Untrue. I grew up on the Super Mario Brothers Super Show.

mycodesucks OP , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

Absolutely. You usually don't need a whole step-by-step 40 minute walkthrough anyway. You need help with a SPECIFIC step and it's MUCH easier to scroll through a page or CTRL+F the part you need than try to scroll around a freaking youtube video that you can't search unless you run it through a text transcriber. Not to mention the bandwidth and storage waste, the annoying, unclear voices, the sponsor ads...

I swear people learning most things from youtube videos either have COMPLETELY different brain wiring, or are just straight up insane.

Well, I guess that's not fair... they might ALSO be lying about learning. That's the hustle culture, I guess. Learning things is less important than the APPEARANCE of learning things.

mycodesucks OP , vor einem Monat

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9d104eee-aa8d-494c-ade3-a84dc42e0d65.gif

mycodesucks OP , vor einem Monat

I can see the point in theory, but when this would've been really helpful, my experience is 80% of the time the video maker's hand is obscuring the important stuff, and the video is often out of focus or frame anyway, and a red circle on a photo as an alternative will usually do just fine. The nice thing about still photos is, the photographer REALLY has to think about each shot, and if it is showing the important thing they want to reveal in that shot. If it isn't, they're forced to either retake it or take extra photos to get the point across.

With a video, the videographer is distracted by talking and doing a thing at the same time, and they just think "Yeah, it's video. I got it." and they often don't even rewatch the footage.

mycodesucks , vor einem Monat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhbvnIEMxSA

mycodesucks , vor einem Monat

It's easy to say that when you're an outside party who doesn't understand or care about the underlying issues. Not to minimize the issue with the metaphor, but have you ever fought with a sibling or someone else at school and your disinterested parent our authority figure told you to both to stop without addressing any of either of your underlying problems? How well did it work?

Pretending that "just stop it" deals with the realities of a complex history of real grievances and legitimate causes for anger and retribution on both sides is the most magical of magical thinking, and it doesn't help that third party negotiators usually start their peace proceedings by learning NOTHING about the history of distrust and anger building up over decades, picking a side to ride or die with, and then declaring the issue fixed as soon as someone signs an agreement.