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Unfortunately the YouTube recommendations know me to a T and when it's late at night and I'm clicking through recommendations on the home page I am guaranteed to enter: The Guy Fieri zone.
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I hope all of you are watching Townsends history channel and all of the Joe Pera collaborations they’ve been doing over the past like 2 years https://youtu.be/-D9Yx3H7Mp4?si=OrSfCetEprGRQRek
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Oct 19, 2023 04:10
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The youtube homepage has been recommending a lot of smaller channels to me lately of people repairing VCR's and old hifi systems, and honestly, I'm down for it. They fuckin know my kinks.
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Oct 19, 2023 04:25
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MarcusSA posted:I love the YouTube recommendations because how else am I going to find another warhammer 40k lore channel? David Attenborough has a WH40K channel?
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Oct 19, 2023 04:31
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~Coxy posted:David Attenborough has a WH40K channel? Only in the other timeline. The good timeline.
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~Coxy posted:David Attenborough has a WH40K channel? Well he did have one that had like 200k subscribers but it looks like it got nuked. It was essentially this https://youtu.be/dB6uWwL565s?si=RXUIE50pcIRwygFy It loving ruled.
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Oct 19, 2023 05:28
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I recently found out one of the most prolific voice actors in Britain is both an old school Bullfrog fan and an absolute pinball fiend so I can totally believe Richard Attenborough is a Warhammer guy.
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Oct 19, 2023 05:49
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Ok Comboomer posted:XQC does that now Well... I... I'm gonna ignore that what Pewdiepie did is apparently a business model to wealth that others are exploiting to the detriment of humanity. I mostly just watch a few Speed Gaming channels on Youtube these days but here's one that I wish would post more because they seem to be Good People: https://www.youtube.com/@CaptainDisillusion And this one is just the most beautiful early/mid 90's nostalgia that could ever be: Capt. Disillusion meets Beakman Oh hey I just got Youtube's threatening notice about ad blockers when pulling that last one up. Neat.
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Oct 19, 2023 05:59
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A while back I watched a YouTube clip of an old DC cartoon and it took months to stop having 20% of my recommendations be 3-5 minute clips from animated TV shows. And like others said I watch YT on my Chromecast Google TV where there is no way to avoid it. At this point I'm in the habit of deleting stuff from my watch history and using "don't recommend channel" a couple times a week. As far as what I'm watching. I've gotten really into a channel where a guy buys retro server equipment from the 90s to mid 00s and gets it working again. https://youtube.com/@clabretro Playlist with his series on Sun servers: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjeznAUfx0OfCseO3gKOvEjw3oHgHLRlK&si=fe5td64VS-xpJcW1
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Oct 19, 2023 06:06
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I think of the general game review type YouTube channels out there the only one I actively watch (and throw a couple bucks a month at via patreon) is Civvie11, because he's a genuinely good dude who likes chatting with his audience, his background gimmick is funny and well-executed, and he routinely suffers through the jankiest DOS trash known to god and man. Also his affection for the Postal series landed him as being a character in Postal 4, because the devs enjoyed his whole-hearted appreciation of Postal 2 and its expansions.
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Oct 19, 2023 07:06
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waffle iron posted:A while back I watched a YouTube clip of an old DC cartoon and it took months to stop having 20% of my recommendations be 3-5 minute clips from animated TV shows. This is why removing a video from your watch history is at least as important as subscribing and "don't recommend channel".
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Oct 19, 2023 09:00
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Ok Comboomer posted:I hope all of you are watching Townsends history channel and all of the Joe Pera collaborations they’ve been doing over the past like 2 years i am now
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Oct 19, 2023 09:18
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Combat Pretzel posted:You're interpreting too much into this. What did you think the nazi SS stood for?
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Since we're on the topic of tech-adjacent Youtubers, rather that tech idiots, with Tom Scott semi-retiring/going on hiatus at the end of this year, anybody have recommendations along the same lines?
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Oct 19, 2023 14:09
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NtotheTC posted:What did you think the nazi SS stood for? 
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I really want to switch to AMD for my next build. The performance is great, you can use Gen5 drives without cutting your PCIE lanes in half like on Intel, but the huge dealbreaker for me is that current gen AMD chipsets seem to have an issue with memory training. It seems random, but there are loads of reports that current gen AMD PC's are retraining memory on every boot, and not even a quick retrain. People are waiting 3+ minutes to get into the OS. fwiw my 5950x died a few weeks ago and I didn't have time to gently caress around so I replaced it with a 7950x setup The shipping bios on the board was absolute trash and was a complete pain in the rear end to even get it booted to the point I was about 5 minutes away from boxing the stuff up and taking it back, but once I had I slapped the latest bios on it it took the memory settings perfectly fine and it's been rock solid and fast booting for the last month.
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Oct 19, 2023 22:29
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NtotheTC posted:What did you think the nazi SS stood for? Getting flashbacks to a gun youtuber with multiple 88s in his username saying "nah man I'm not a nazi I just really really like dale earnhardt jr"
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Oct 19, 2023 22:34
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DoombatINC posted:Yesterday I got a G Fuel Pewdiepie energy drink at the dollar store because that's where all that kind of poo poo goes to get purged; it tasted like a shot of Robitussin dropped into a glass of Red Bull but not as good as I'm making it sound yeah that's just what lingonberry tastes like. slidebite posted:The algorithm is totally how I found Smarter everyday and some of the other sciencey stuff like PBS spacetime and Fermilab and retro-computing which are totally my jam. Yeah I've found a few more niche channels through the youtube algo, so it's bad, but it's not all bad.
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Oct 19, 2023 23:54
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Kazinsal posted:Getting flashbacks to a gun youtuber with multiple 88s in his username saying "nah man I'm not a nazi I just really really like dale earnhardt jr" You can't judge a book by it's cover. You act like that guy is out there saying the J6 dipshits are patriots or something. Oh, that's literally what he said? Ah jeez. Ok I guess sometimes you can judge a book by its cover and sometimes the author makes the entire plot synopsis the title of the book to make it easier to find for the people that are totally into what the book is about.
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Oct 20, 2023 00:06
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I think if you're someone who doesn't regularly engage with their front page feed, it'll probably be a grab bag of random poo poo if you go look at it now. I mostly use YouTube through that feed and have done for years, so I imagine there's some reinforcement learning going on in that it's figured out what to show me that I will click on with fairly high probability, whereas if it's just working mostly with whatever videos you've happened to watch through clicking on random embedded YouTube videos, search results, and subscriptions, there's less data to go on to correlate with "this user will probably intentionally watch this video given the chance" vs "the user has viewed a video like this for some reason".
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Oct 20, 2023 00:19
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Weirdly, for the first time ever, YouTube recommended me a SSSNiperwolf video. I couldn’t hit “not interested” fast enough
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Oct 20, 2023 00:28
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Weirdly, for the first time ever, YouTube recommended me a SSSNiperwolf video. I’m glad I’m not the only one!
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Oct 20, 2023 06:33
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I got the meatcanyon vid calling sssniperwolf a psychopath lol
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priznat posted:I got the meatcanyon vid calling sssniperwolf a psychopath lol If Meatcanyon is calling you a psychopath you are seriously hosed up lmfao.
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Oct 20, 2023 07:42
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i'm so glad that i have no clue who either of these people are
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:i'm so glad that i have no clue who either of these people are MeatCanyon is a cartoonist who makes some really hosed up but also outstanding videos. He's a pro-follow.
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Oct 20, 2023 09:00
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I've been wondering this for a little while, but when we hear that whole bit about how "hundreds of hours of content are uploaded every minute", doesn't that mean that nowadays, statistically speaking, the majority of content is lost media by the time it's published?
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Oct 20, 2023 10:40
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No, lost media specifically means its not available anywhere. Not just that no-one's seen it.
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Oct 20, 2023 13:40
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It would be interesting to see the watch statistics of the entire youtube catalog and be able to compare them. My guess is that 90% of youtube content is basically unwatched, maybe 95% I have no hard data to back this up, but the amount of big creators on the platform vs account holders who have uploaded video has to be skewed hugely towards the latter.
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Oct 20, 2023 13:43
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so much of what big youtubers make is also not worth watching at all a week later, it's basically the video equivalent of influencers who wear clothes once only to toss it (leave aside whether the videos are even worth watching the first time)
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Oct 20, 2023 14:17
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Beve Stuscemi posted:It would be interesting to see the watch statistics of the entire youtube catalog and be able to compare them. And you can see that basically unwatched content here http://astronaut.io/
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Oct 20, 2023 16:57
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My algorithm at this point is just videos with titles like "Reviewing EVERY Namco PS1 game" that are 4 hours long. I've done this to myself and have few regrets.
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Oct 20, 2023 20:30
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:I've been wondering this for a little while, but when we hear that whole bit about how "hundreds of hours of content are uploaded every minute", doesn't that mean that nowadays, statistically speaking, the majority of content is lost media by the time it's published? There’s even a lot of raw twitch streams from popular creators that are basically unwatched. You can just automate that and YouTube will just host it so why not?
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Oct 20, 2023 20:47
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The algorithm reminds me of an old Jim Jefferies joke about how the pace of society is dictated by its slowest runner, which is the only explanation I can find for my YouTube recommending me a bunch of videos over the last few days about a salad sandwich. Yes, of course that would taste good you loving moron, why does every cooking channel feel the need to recreate this basic sandwich and confirm that cured meat, salad and fresh bread is indeed good?
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Oct 20, 2023 21:02
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Substandard posted:My algorithm at this point is just videos with titles like "Reviewing EVERY Namco PS1 game" that are 4 hours long. I've done this to myself and have few regrets. If that’s the Sean Seanson video it’s a great video by the way, his videos on Squaresoft and Psygnosis are also great and he’s working on a Capcom one.
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njsykora posted:If that’s the Sean Seanson video it’s a great video by the way, his videos on Squaresoft and Psygnosis are also great and he’s working on a Capcom one. Oh drat a psygnosis vid? I must watch that. Big amiga dork growing up.
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njsykora posted:If that’s the Sean Seanson video it’s a great video by the way, his videos on Squaresoft and Psygnosis are also great and he’s working on a Capcom one. Agreed, he's lovely
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Substandard posted:My algorithm at this point is just videos with titles like "Reviewing EVERY Namco PS1 game" that are 4 hours long. I've done this to myself and have few regrets. Long form videos are extremely my poo poo to the point where I went through a 7 hour deep dive into Death Stranding only to be recommended total series retrospective of Final Fantasy and scoffed at it being only 4 hours.
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Oct 20, 2023 22:48
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lol if you aren’t watching all the Tim Rogers stuff
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One super loving annoying thing is when a video gets delisted or removed or whatever it completely nukes the entry from your watch history. It should IMO at least leave the title there because it legit drives me nuts trying to go back through my history trying to find a video I know I watched only for it to be completely gone.
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