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deputychairman replied to your post “Jesus Christ of fucking course there aren’t any tutorials on how to…”
HATING VIDEOS SOLIDARITY FISTBUMP like who has the splendid isolation required to learn stuff from videos that require SOUND? losers, that’s who.
splendid isolation– that’s it precisely. i basically never have splendid isolation. if i do, i’m spending that precious shit on SLEEP.
The other problem is that in writing, you can kind of read ahead and see how it’s going to go and make sure they’re really talking about the specific thing you want. If it’s a video, you can’t. You have to sit there and be captive to however fast they talk. And so the first TWO I watched BOTH showed the WRONG THING first, and then the person was like “so that didn’t work so I did this instead” OH MY GOD. Both times. I’m trying to follow along but I haven’t watched the whole thing first because who has that kind of time, and BOTH TIMES– ugh I had to quit the program without saving changes, and reopen it, because their abortive false starts had been so confusing I couldn’t even undo what I’d let them fool me into doing.
TWO DIFFERENT VIDEOS. I would punch both of these people if I could. This is a SIMPLE THING that I want to do. WHY, if you’re making a video on how to do this simple thing, would you INCLUDE YOUR FUCK-UP? Ughhh. If they’d written it down they’d have either been sensible enough not to include the false starts, or would have said “first I tried this thing, which didn’t work, but I’m telling you so that you can know why I’m not doing it this way”, which was the justification in-video AFTERWARD. [Both these videos were made by men. HMMMM.]
(If there’d been captions I could have at least scrubbed forward through the video to see how it ended. Without captions there’s never any guarantee you’ll know what’s going on if you do that; usually I can’t understand anything if I skip forward so it’s a useless exercise. Not to mention that I could have actually heard what they were saying if there were captions…)
Also I don’t always understand spoken language well and don’t retain things said to me nearly as well as things written down but who cares about that!
And I forgot my headphones at home, ugh.
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deputychairman replied to your post “Jesus Christ of fucking course there aren’t any tutorials on how to…”
HATING VIDEOS SOLIDARITY FISTBUMP like who has the splendid isolation required to learn stuff from videos that require SOUND? losers, that’s who.
splendid isolation– that’s it precisely. i basically never have splendid isolation. if i do, i’m spending that precious shit on SLEEP.
The other problem is that in writing, you can kind of read ahead and see how it’s going to go and make sure they’re really talking about the specific thing you want. If it’s a video, you can’t. You have to sit there and be captive to however fast they talk. And so the first TWO I watched BOTH showed the WRONG THING first, and then the person was like “so that didn’t work so I did this instead” OH MY GOD. Both times. I’m trying to follow along but I haven’t watched the whole thing first because who has that kind of time, and BOTH TIMES– ugh I had to quit the program without saving changes, and reopen it, because their abortive false starts had been so confusing I couldn’t even undo what I’d let them fool me into doing.
TWO DIFFERENT VIDEOS. I would punch both of these people if I could. This is a SIMPLE THING that I want to do. WHY, if you’re making a video on how to do this simple thing, would you INCLUDE YOUR FUCK-UP? Ughhh. If they’d written it down they’d have either been sensible enough not to include the false starts, or would have said “first I tried this thing, which didn’t work, but I’m telling you so that you can know why I’m not doing it this way”, which was the justification in-video AFTERWARD. [Both these videos were made by men. HMMMM.]
(If there’d been captions I could have at least scrubbed forward through the video to see how it ended. Without captions there’s never any guarantee you’ll know what’s going on if you do that; usually I can’t understand anything if I skip forward so it’s a useless exercise. Not to mention that I could have actually heard what they were saying if there were captions…)
Also I don’t always understand spoken language well and don’t retain things said to me nearly as well as things written down but who cares about that!
And I forgot my headphones at home, ugh.
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