THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: BisMarckie on July 13, 2020, 09:42:33 PM
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Everyone knows this, you just want to google a simple problem. Like: How do I install a certain mod for a game or how do I pair a remote with a device.
Instead of finding a short forum post or something, the first results are always youtube videos.
And these videos are always way too long, always have some horrific way too loud EDM in the background and only explain the most basic shit that could have been said within 10 seconds.
We as a society should cancel this culture. :maf :maf :maf
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I tried to google a video explaining why internet queries are now all videos and it doesn't exist. This disproves your hypothesis. Bis owned.
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More ad revenue in a video than an article.
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like and subscribe for more hot tips
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This is annoying and true
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and all the things that aren't videos feel suspiciously auto-generated somehow or otherwise padded by a bored and desperate writer making 50 cents for the article
https://game8.co/games/Xenoblade-Chronicles-Definitive-Edition/archives/290470
this fucking site now comes up right away in every casual google search for help on a game
https://micky.com.au/farm-gold-efficiently-in-xenoblade-chronicles-definitive-edition/?amp
ah yes my favorite gaming website, micky.com.au, where they erroneously mistake the game the article is about for its sequel
(https://i.imgur.com/CBMlWf0.png)
godspeed, sad amish jonas sunico
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And these videos are always way too long, always have some horrific way too loud EDM in the background and only explain the most basic shit that could have been said within 10 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjL5ighW1tY
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and all the things that aren't videos feel suspiciously auto-generated somehow or otherwise padded by a bored and desperate writer making 50 cents for the article
https://game8.co/games/Xenoblade-Chronicles-Definitive-Edition/archives/290470
this fucking site now comes up right away in every casual google search for help on a game
https://micky.com.au/farm-gold-efficiently-in-xenoblade-chronicles-definitive-edition/?amp
ah yes my favorite gaming website, micky.com.au, where they erroneously mistake the game the article is about for its sequel
(https://i.imgur.com/CBMlWf0.png)
godspeed, sad amish jonas sunico
If you have any problems with Windows, the site windowsreport is always among the first results. All of their "articles" read like they've been written by a bot. :rage
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and all the things that aren't videos feel suspiciously auto-generated somehow or otherwise padded by a bored and desperate writer making 50 cents for the article
https://game8.co/games/Xenoblade-Chronicles-Definitive-Edition/archives/290470
this fucking site now comes up right away in every casual google search for help on a game
https://micky.com.au/farm-gold-efficiently-in-xenoblade-chronicles-definitive-edition/?amp
ah yes my favorite gaming website, micky.com.au, where they erroneously mistake the game the article is about for its sequel
(https://i.imgur.com/CBMlWf0.png)
godspeed, sad amish jonas sunico
If you have any problems with Windows, the site windowsreport is always among the first results. All of their "articles" read like they've been written by a bot. :rage
https://windowsreport.com/error-printing-message-windows-10/
While the world tries to go paper-free, the printer is still very useful and common in the office as well as at home.
:ohhh
Printer errors usually show exactly when we are in a hurry and we need the documents as soon as possible. Clear the Print Spool folder and run the troubleshooting to resume your printing activity.
:hmm
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my favorite ones are "MAKE THIS GAME WORK ON WINDOWS 10" and the dude takes ten minutes to use the compatibility mode wizard
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God and nearly all of His Holy Devops Team have moved on to focus on the hot new universe, our legacy universe is being kept alive on a shoestring budget for a little while longer to technically barely satisfy the letter of contract obligations to a handful of remaining clients before the final shutdown, no surprise things are running ragged.
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You're right
Make GameFAQs great again. Semi serious
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You're right
Make GameFAQs great again. Semi serious
The guides are sometimes so badly written you want a video anyway (or a screenshot), but ctrl+f is so much better than having to scrub through a video.
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Everything is cake now, apparently, so this is fixed.
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You're right
Make GameFAQs great again. Semi serious
The guides are sometimes so badly written you want a video anyway (or a screenshot), but ctrl+f is so much better than having to scrub through a video.
I think the last time I pulled up a gamefaq from GameFAQs was probably near the end of the 2000s, and not to say some are crummy, but if you kinda skim em and see how the person has organized it, you can tell if it's worth your time or not.
Though I guess yeah for videogame things that have gotten me stuck in the last 5 years I probably looked up a youtube let's/longplay where half of the comments are "oh my god, that's how you do it bla bla L.O.L. ...".
Actually, now that I think about for my two FEZ playthroughs I used some written/screenshot guides, but it was not GameFAQs. I'm not sure what the site was. I've never bumped into it for any other game when doing a quick google search to help me with other games. Maybe it was something like a stackxchange for games or something. Like for the fox jumped over the lazy dog thingy. Which A. Fuck you to all non-English speakers lol. B. I never learned that and I spent most of my grade school in well funded American public schools.
edit: hmm looking at Google I can't find the website that kept popping up for me back in my FEZ days. Eh whatever. It was cool though as you could tell that the community at that time was trying to solve the problems along with the picture explanations there. Like the super obtuse ones that demand you are some loser computer nerd.
edit2: eh, maybe it was this site: https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/63197/3-heart-cube-pieces-what-next . Layouts and shit change after 8 years after all and my memory can be misremembering stuff too.
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Though I guess yeah for videogame things that have gotten me stuck in the last 5 years I probably looked up a youtube let's/longplay where half of the comments are "oh my god, that's how you do it bla bla L.O.L. ...".
The kings and queens who add a timestamp. :preach
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zPJ4fkCwZo
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Video killed the radio star! :biden
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Imagine if Pornhub was all erotic fanfics.
Is this the future you're yearning for? :trash