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FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I’m not even that old and I still prefer reading because you can take screenshots of directions, flip to the correct spot, easily reference stuff, and copy/paste text. You can’t do any of that with video. I will never understand why people prefer video for this stuff.

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Brutticus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You can also control +F text

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- FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yes, exactly.
  
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Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
When search engines started putting lists of videos in response to every query, I fumed. Trying to find a solution to the game issue you’re having? Here, scan through this 10 minute video and hope you come across the part that discusses your specific issue! Oh, it didn’t actually talk about the thing you need? Lol well at least you watched some ads.

I think next time I have a game issue, I’ll be asking about it here on Lemmy. Yeah, the audience isn’t as big as on Reddit, but we’ll never know the depth of the knowledge fellow Lemmings have to offer if we never ask.

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- FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yes I completely agree. The best source for game issues I’ve found is technical discord servers and asking people there. However this is not ideal either because:
  
  Discord is entshitifying and will probably be dogshit in a few years (they recently announced they wanted to go IPO and we all know what that means.)
  
  Discord is not searchable on search engines
  
  Search within discord is dogshit
  
  You have to ask people and wait for an answer which is not guaranteed.
  
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vane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You mean walktroughs ? I don’t watch walktroughs to know how to beat the game. I beat the game myself. I watch walktroughs to listen to music and feel the atmosphere. You can’t feel the game without audio inside the game.

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- FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  No i didn’t mean walkthroughs.
  
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