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.
Better yet, being able to search a walkthrough. Usually you know parts of the solution and don't have to read everything.
it's similar for me. Moreover, I do not use as many video tutorials since there is no dislike count. I ALWAYS checked the like/dislike ratio before watching a tutorial. Good times...
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.
Link? Would love to see that.
I think I found it, it was actually just a little over a minute long https://youtu.be/syIDpalKzeQ
Don't forget to to set the "lower unpegged" flag for your door frames :)
Like dislike ratio... Hard to find these days.
Bonus: speaks English with foreign accent and your topic is any of electrical or software engineering? +++
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.
GameFAQs! I still remember the text-based logos.
The tired voice is the most important part 100%
If there isn't a sigh in the first 10 seconds I know it's time to move on.
"Unregistered HyperCam2" in a corner of the screen
You suck at photoshop was a hoot.
I feel like a garbage collector sorting recyclables because some idiot put glass in the plastic bin again every time I try to look up a solution to a problem.
It's either: A. 1,000 word essay on how someone's grandma died and loved making muffins before teaching you how to make some goddamn muffins. B. 1 hour video explaining the entire history of muffins before actually showing you how to make muffins with an extremely bad webcam microphone.
Try being vegan looking for recipes online, not only do you get the rambling texts with 30 massive images before they actually get to the recipe like every recipe blog these days. The vegan ones also seem to make it a point to get as many weird/rare ingredients as possible into the recipe, (like god damn I just wanted to make a simple chocolate cake, how could you possibly stretch that to 20 ingredients, 9 of which i've never even heard about?)
The best solutions are almost always the boring ones.
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.
That YouTube tutorial on how to apply Nair to your butthole ticks most of these. The guy is pretty upbeat though.
