There are people who want to teach, and people who want the ad revenue. Those who actually want to teach have excellent videos, but they are hard to come by. Another issue is that beginners sort of don't want to start small, they want to make, like, the next Call of Duty, or something.

This makes hour-long tuts on RPGs popular IMO.

I suspect that effective teaching is only a part of the equation. It's more important to get people interested in the subject. If you're interested, you will learn one way or another. If a video can do that, it doesn't have to be a particularly efficient teacher.

@cybereality said:
I've noticed the the length of an argument on the internet is inversely proportional to the validity. If you know what you are talking about, you can say it succinctly in one or two sentences. This is why I think those 1 hour videos are mostly bogus, which could be explained simply in 15 minutes.

I believe this is true 99.999% of the time… but 0.001% of those requiring detailed answers exist.

@duane said:
I suspect that effective teaching is only a part of the equation. It's more important to get people interested in the subject. If you're interested, you will learn one way or another. If a video can do that, it doesn't have to be a particularly efficient teacher.

Children need to be interested in learning. If an adult wants to learn something, he is already interested in learning. This is the difference between teaching adults and teaching children.

@Tomcat said: There are three things you can watch endlessly: how fire burns, how water flows, and how another person works. YouTube videos belong to the third point. The simple question is, how do the number of views of tutorials on YouTube correlate with actual work projects that come out? Personally, I get the impression that very few people actually learn.

@duane said:

Yeah... AIs don't worry me much.

Well, people need to breathe all the time and eat sometimes… somehow these problems are solved… maybe something will be invented with computer power as well.

Robots have one weakness that could still be exploited:

@Nerdzmasterz said: There are people who want to teach, and people who want the ad revenue. Those who actually want to teach have excellent videos, but they are hard to come by. Another issue is that beginners sort of don't want to start small, they want to make, like, the next Call of Duty, or something.

Speaking of COD, I'd like if one of you could signal boost this video into the stratosphere.

Edit: I won't be buying the next COD game anytime soon or even ever but, I do care about the industry. It's why I keep up on the news surrounding games I won't buy.

Yeah, it's looking good. I liked Vanilla, but this seems way better.

And messages about new posts on pages you follow are shown as emails!, instead of practically having to stay logged on!

Now, if only I knew how to use the emojis.

You can add emoji by starting to type “:” and then the emoji you want. For example “:heart_eyes” will be 😍

    Thanks for the instructions on how to use emojis. 😉 We've got more expressions than before. 🥳

    So far, I only notice one little issue. When you switch to dark mode, it's nearly impossible to see the words at the top of the screen. It shouldn't be a difficult fix, hopefully.

      I like being able to use my system font on here. Is that going to be permanent?

      Crud, I lost my icon. I can't find it anywhere.