• WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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    1 year ago

    My “favorite” is when they start every video with “in this video, I’m gonna talk about”. It’s like: no shit, why I clicked on it.

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    1 year ago

    Like dislike ratio… Hard to find these days.

    Bonus: speaks English with foreign accent and your topic is any of electrical or software engineering? +++

  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    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.