• popcar2@piefed.ca
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    2 days ago

    Love how detailed Gamer’s Nexus is, but 3.5 hours is waaaaay too much. What’s the TLDR?

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      1 day ago

      He repeats information constantly. Any time I watched one of his videos I couldn’t stop thinking how it could be cut to a third of the length without losing anything important. For my attention span it’s unwatchable.

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        The problem with that, is if he did that. Then you would see endless people claiming hes bullshit, lying and cherry picking sources endlessly.

        You have to make a point, make it again, show proof, make the point again, show different proof of the same thing, make the point a last time, followed by more proof of the same thing with extra sources. ONLY THEN. Does the avg idiot actually believe you instead of just screaming at the top of their lungs that your an idiot.

        When you have to compete with misinformation and propaganda, you have to be so overly verbose that it borders on the absurd. Seriously iv watched people argue up and down that Steve lies and makes shit up in every single one of his videos because it doesn’t agree with the dude bro crypto cult manosphere twitch streamer they watch.

        So while your entirely right he could cut a third of his run time of his longer videos ALL of his videos really. You would just end up with the screaming idiots coming back like they use to on older gamer nexus videos before he started getting really long winded.

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          14 hours ago

          This guy is right. I’ve learned something from posting on the 'net, it’s that:

          A) The average user is really, really stupid

          B) People will never admit they’re wrong. They’d rather argue longer and pointlessly than concede a point

          C) If they are ever in the complete wrong, there’s crickets.

          So I’ve made it a habit to break the habit and agree with people / say they’re right when they are

          Thanks, Holytimes 😎👍

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            11 hours ago

            You are entirely right. Just agree and nod and move on.

            Very few people have to actually deal with arguing with idiots. And for them it’s typically just a downside of their job. They can’t just ignore it. So they have to deal with it.

            For the rest of us. Just nod, agree, and move on with your life! You will be happier and have a better mental well-being.

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          1 day ago

          If that were true we wouldn’t have anti-vaxxers, flat earth, or religion.

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            1 day ago

            It is true you just have a horrible and woefully lacking view of how truely fucking stupid people are.

            Its true and it’s the only reason we don’t have MORE of those fucking idiots.

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              No they are right. That was exactly what we learned during the pandemic. You can lay out the most researched fact check argument you want and they still wont believe you.

              People are going to still say he is making shit up. No amount of facts are going to help.

              Personally, I prefer the method used by a lot of podcasts I listen to. They put a link to all their citation and research instead of cramming it all into the presentation. Often with some discussion items and additional information if I want to check sources.

              Video is an exercise in patience, because it is a horrible way to convey information, and really long ones are not helping.

              • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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                11 hours ago

                Laying everything out and hammering it home and showing all the work. Is the only reason we don’t have more idiots running around. You will never convert the truely hopeless loss causes. But you can convert the fence sitters and reduce the amount of idiots by a good chunk.

                If you just leave them to their own devices those fence sitters will just join the idiots.

                Literally you will just have more idiots if you don’t try. Covid made that extremely clear. It takes twice the effort to get though to most people and the idiots are too far gone.

                Being nice, polite and to the point rarely actually helps the cause when your trying to talk to stupid people.

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                13 hours ago
                • You can’t reason somebody out of a position they didn’t reason themselves in to.
                • If someone has internalised a position as a part of themselves then an attack on that position is now a personal attack and will be treated as such. ( this is one reason why you see such visceral responses to what would normally be minor disagreements )
                • Not everybody is looking for (or will even consider) a differing viewpoint, they will just ignore anything outside of their bubble because they don’t care about factual accuracy as much as they care about validation.
                • Bad faith isn’t always intentional trolling, some people are just natural arseholes ( like babies aren’t trying to make your ears bleed with their crying, it’s just one of the only means of communication available to them )
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        1 day ago

        It’s a compilation of a handful of previous videos all out under one broad topic. If there’s one you care about there’s a more dedicated specific video about tariffs, AI, memory, factories, etc.

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      2 days ago

      I’m only half way through but the TLDW so far is that the consumer DIY market is in collapse. Component suppliers are in bad financial shape, and many will probably not survive the down-turn.

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      2 days ago

      Usually, there’s a mouse over on the time bar of his vids. You can find the bit you want and skip the rest. But if this is 3.5hrs, it’s likely it’s a playlist of all related vids smashed into one vid.