tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post4801753553272701413..comments2024-03-28T11:58:42.109-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: Random Annoyances, And Why I Need More Chainsaw Bar OilAesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-35181940887716985422018-12-18T12:09:15.847-08:002018-12-18T12:09:15.847-08:00Two of my pet peeves re: 99.99999% of youtube vids...Two of my pet peeves re: 99.99999% of youtube vids 1. sucky intro music blasting at decibel levels that split eardrums 2. vid hosts that blah blah blahbedy blah blah on for minutes without GETTING TO THE FUCKING POINT. You summed them up well and informed the ignorant how to do it better. Of course, 99.9999% of youtube producers will never get the message, but thanks for trying.<br /><br />NemoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-44921237698765128022018-12-18T11:00:02.237-08:002018-12-18T11:00:02.237-08:00I recently got a GoPro Hero 5 Black - well, before...I recently got a GoPro Hero 5 Black - well, before they came out with the 6, and now they just came out with the 7. The main reason I got it was to make videos of the trails I drive my 4x4 on. <br /><br />So far, I haven't uploaded anything to Youtube - editing is a stone cold bitch. I have a new respect for a lot of those Youtube people who produce quality work. <br /><br />I did upload a dashcam video (from my Cobra dashcam) to Youtube of my trip down Black Bear Road a couple years ago. I cut a 2 hour video down to 1 hour, and it is still too long - most people don't watch it all the way through.Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17791610798116970807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-28927211904040455492018-12-18T09:18:55.297-08:002018-12-18T09:18:55.297-08:00FTR, if you find anything written by or starring J...FTR, if you find anything written by or starring James Burke, you should get it.<br />You will be brighter and better-informed at the end of any of it.<br /><i>The Day The Universe Changed</i>, book and videos, coupled with lectures and lab, should be the entire freshman year of college.<br /><br />The bibliography of that book alone would suffice for all of college itself, and stand you in good stead.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-9302494521270625222018-12-18T08:03:00.240-08:002018-12-18T08:03:00.240-08:00Never thought about this much, never noticed that ...Never thought about this much, never noticed that I was going to the next video because of this. Now I will never see video's the same. J.J. my friends father was one of the first to serve on that vessel. He was a great man even before I learned that. Had the plaque in his house and I asked my friend and that is how I learned that tidbit.Bear Claw Chris Lapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01190524236686025884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-24516348009915982452018-12-18T07:58:34.145-08:002018-12-18T07:58:34.145-08:00The Forgotten Weapons guy on YouTube simply sits t...The Forgotten Weapons guy on YouTube simply sits there with a firearm and talks about it and field strips it, and I can watch those videos for hours. I have. I think it's because he does the script and audio things well, or at least good enough to help me focus on the subject.Monty Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10345955059346475121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-1913922331637200902018-12-18T07:31:44.787-08:002018-12-18T07:31:44.787-08:00James Burke was a key component of our homeschooli...James Burke was a key component of our homeschooling our kids. Burke's videos and books, Legos, model rockets, "fun math" (figure out the volume of this cake, estimate the actual size of EPCOT Center from this map). So wish I'd been homeschooled, but it did them well. By the time they got to community college, they crushed it.<br /><br />Spousal Unit and I are astounded homeschooling is even a legal thing in this environment. We never wasted time in gender studies, social studies. They understood the Renaissance occurred because white Christian men were searching for the answers to the universe and actually found some of them.<br /><br />Thanks Aesop. Looking forward to inflicting Burke and other real educational tools on the grandchildren . . .<br /><br />Bill CthulhuAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-10479800071154747192018-12-18T05:31:16.578-08:002018-12-18T05:31:16.578-08:00I’ve missed watching a lot of you tube videos I th...I’ve missed watching a lot of you tube videos I thought would have good info because I simply couldn’t get through the horrible and useless intro music. <br /><br />On the other hand, I’ve watched plenty of 3-5 minute videos that simply showed what the subject was about in a clear and concise way, without fancy graphics and pounding intro music. <br /><br />Despite your warning I watched the video, sort of, if less than a minute counts. If he wants to see a real history changing steam turbine driven ship there’s one in Groton, CT called USS Nautilus. http://ussnautilus.org/nautilus/index.shtml<br />June Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06327786101441126271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-65636968282474356602018-12-17T23:24:21.709-08:002018-12-17T23:24:21.709-08:00James Burke. Genius. Great explanatory power, gr...James Burke. Genius. Great explanatory power, great predictive power. I saw him in 1990, talking about how the future didn't consist of knowing things, it consisted of pulling the things together - everyone would know facts.<br /><br />Bought the book. Thanks.John Wilderhttp://wilderwealthywise.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-44309149886693366482018-12-17T21:28:34.152-08:002018-12-17T21:28:34.152-08:00I'm more than willing to do that using an actu...I'm more than willing to do that using an actual drill.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-60708307517188012762018-12-17T21:24:07.293-08:002018-12-17T21:24:07.293-08:00I watched a video on YouTube today of a man gluing...I watched a video on YouTube today of a man gluing himself to a large piece of plywood. No, I know, it was on the sidebar of a better video of an engineer creating a glitter bomb to deal with porch pirates (hugely entertaining, even though the engineer is full of himself and obviously doesn't have access to a machinist), and even the man gluing himself to plywood was filmed better than some guy standing in front of a ship and yammering. <br /><br />I understand the ship was important in some way because of steam, but just gave up. If you're going to stand and jabber, do a TED talk or something. You did warn me not to watch, and my eyes have stopped glazing over, but yes, that was awful. Videos are to SHOW people, not yammer on incessantly. I've seen mediocre chess players on Twitch who are more interesting, and I'm serious. <br /><br />My son and I are planning on a spoof movie to spoof some horror movie tropes, and yes, there are storyboards, a plot, a professional photographer/cameraman (my son-in-law - luckily, he'll work for food!), and that's just for a fun 6 minute YouTube video. Hey, "Lights Out" started as YouTube video as well, done by a couple (in fact the short is better). Modern horror tropes are ripe for the plucking. <br /><br />Anyhow, yes, everything you said. 100 times. Drilled into people's heads. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-17731462710453002632018-12-17T18:07:48.897-08:002018-12-17T18:07:48.897-08:00I used to watch some AR-15 assembly videos on you ...I used to watch some AR-15 assembly videos on you tube until I realized they all had the crows foot extending beyond the end of the torque wrench, and then I gave up on you tube. Untrained, uninformed idiots.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-68378675492186745982018-12-17T17:12:54.261-08:002018-12-17T17:12:54.261-08:00May I recommend the Tom Sharpe books
https://www.a...May I recommend the Tom Sharpe books<br />https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_5_10?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=tom+sharpe+books&sprefix=Tom+Sharpe%2Caps%2C213&crid=D0SDMAJG871V<br /><br />A distinct challenge and nay I say excellent source for your future wit?<br /><br />Ned2Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-90919234421941677422018-12-17T16:12:44.110-08:002018-12-17T16:12:44.110-08:00This is why I can't understand why anyone woul...This is why I can't understand why anyone would ever pay money to watch anything on YouTube. There is the random odd show that might actually be worth a bare handful of dollars (Vsauce is the only thing I can think of) and everything else is trash.<br /><br />I actually do watch/listen to Lindybeige's videos while I'm going other things at work, and occasionally when I am looking for some piece of historical analysis on spears and shields (rare, believe me). But I fully recognize that his videos suck. The production quality sucks. The video content sucks. The editing sucks. His sound sucks. His voice sucks. But the ideas and even some of the content can be decent.<br /><br />The problem with YouTube is that Most People Are Idiots. Being idiots, they are incapable of producing good anything and almost never have any training in understanding how to do a job right. Also being idiots, they have no taste, and can generally not recognize differences in quality -- see the Dunning-Kruger Effect.<br /><br />The other problem with YouTube is that content isn't king. Volume is. It literally doesn't matter what you're doing, or how well you are doing it, until you get in the neighborhood of 50k subscribers. Up to that point, you're not going to make a dime. The only way to get those subscribers is to be dumping content constantly. The more, the better. You're just hoping for some spaghetti to stick to the damn wall and someone to see it and link it to someone else.<br /><br />It drives production quality down. It drives effort down. It turns out that catering to the lowest common denominator results in some really, really catastrophically bad crap. Because MPAI.Ceterahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05043066262438636003noreply@blogger.com