I just can’t with video tutorials. It’s text or nothing for me. I don’t have the patience (or stamina) to sit through 100 crappy/useless videos to finally find one that’s relevant to my problem.
Text + images is the best combination, though sometimes videos allow you to see that one very specific thing that written tutorials don’t mention because it should be self evident.
So true. For some reason I prefer text, probably because I can search through it quicker but when there’s no images its harder.
Like a recent example, I was missing a bunch of collectibles in a game and couldn’t figure out what location was where from the wiki and it was without images, so even trickier. I then had to find a video walkthrough which luckily had the YouTube timestamps meaning I could quickly flick through once I knew I had each one.
Came here for this. Maybe I’m just old, but I miss being able to read a walkthrough.
or even when I do find a good tutorial with relevant content that I want to listen to … I’ll zoom right through it scrolling through to only the parts I want to listen to and then listen to it at 2x speed … I don’t have time to listen to your personal stories of what this problem means to you … I’m only here to try to solve a problem your solution can fix in 30 seconds
There’s a video out there for modding Doom II and the kid that made it is just completely fed up with everyone else’s tutorials. He starts off with something like “it does not take 20 fucking minutes to explain how to add a goddamn DOOR!” and his video is just five minutes, explains it all, and bitches the entire time about how easy it is.
It’s great.
I think I found it, it was actually just a little over a minute long https://youtu.be/syIDpalKzeQ
I can’t find it, wish I could. I have no idea who it was and I stumbled on it while going down a rabbit hole learning how to map months ago.
Is this it? https://youtu.be/syIDpalKzeQ
Like dislike ratio… Hard to find these days.
Bonus: speaks English with foreign accent and your topic is any of electrical or software engineering? +++
Return YouTube Dislike still works pretty damn well using crowd sourced data.
Yeah, YouTube vanced still has a working dislike button, that’s what I use.
why not? there’s no reason not to do that, it’s so much better than youtube
My favorite tutorials are on like the 5th page of Google after all the ads and clickbait videos where I can find a short, to the point, written guide.
I miss GameFAQs. I know it’s still around but it’s not really updated for new games.
The tired voice is the most important part 100%
