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Well, that was a great clickbait headline and intro, but ultimately I spent 30 minutes watching this guy installing ten beta builds of Windows to come up with b

Well, that was a great clickbait headline and intro, but ultimately I spent 30 minutes watching this guy installing ten beta builds of Windows to come up with basically nothing. Tl;dw: they did manage to port Pinball, so the MS blog isn't telling the full story. However, they cut it anyways. Why? He doesn't know, so the answer to the question posed by the clickbait headline is 'I don't know', but he speculates that the shift to higher resolution screens would have meant the VGA graphics of Pinball needed to be redone.

imglorp 5y ago
My other tl;dw was there are many finely granular versions of Windows that were (are still?) very sensitive to finely granular processor versions.
- propter_hoc 5y ago
  Yeah, I was actually pretty surprised to see that it was possible to get access to all these obscure builds.
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jchw 5y ago
Wouldn’t call it clickbait; the question goes without getting a fully satisfying, final answer, but it’s still the best exploration of the topic I’ve seen. Far from what I would call “clickbait.”
- LaundroMat 5y ago
  Almost every headline that starts with Why is clickbait in my book. I want the headline to summarize the article/video (i.e. the answer), and if I'm interested in learning more details I'll read the article or watch the video.
  - jchw 5y ago
    That is an extremely wide net to cast as “clickbait”; the term was coined to describe Buzzfeed-style content wherein the subject matter itself is obscured but the headline is made to be attention grabbing, like “Doctors don’t want you to know this one weird trick…” or perhaps worse, an article where the headline suggests one thing but the actual story is essentially the opposite. In fact, I’d even go as far as to say this video isn’t burying the lede, either, because it is an exploratory video that goes through a progression to the conclusion. Therefore it is not burying the lede anymore than it would be “burying the lede” for a documentary to progress chronologically. And on top of that, while there’s nothing wrong with putting the key information in the title, an important component of being a successful content creator in any genre is in fact, coming up with engaging titles. “Why Pinball was removed” is a superior title to “Pinball was probably removed from Vista when they revamped the Windows Games” even though the latter is more information-dense. In my opinion the worst legitimate criticism that you can level is that the answer is not as definitive as one would hope. But I don’t think what you are leveling is all that fair; it feels like criticism against the genre of video more than the actual content itself. It wouldn’t be hurt by a tl;dw, but I’d rather follow the author to the conclusion myself, because I find the subject interesting, found the exploration interesting, and then I could understand the reasoning for the answer. If you didn’t enjoy the process that the video went through, I can only say that I would assert that you’re likely not in the target audience for that particular subset of video content and therefore it wouldn’t make sense to optimize it for you.
dsego 5y ago
Dave Plummer explains it in his video https://youtu.be/ThxdvEajK8g https://youtu.be/ThxdvEajK8g
- marcan_42 5y ago
  He's wrong about Pinball never being fixed for 64-bit and only working as a 32-bit app though. The OP video demonstrated that 64-bit versions exist and work fine.
throwthere 5y ago
Thanks I read the description it said Pretty much the same thing. The description ended with a little teaser that made me think thered be more information in the video. I think it’s really weird that there actually wasn’t more information. You saved me half an hour.

imglorp 5y ago

My other tl;dw was there are many finely granular versions of Windows that were (are still?) very sensitive to finely granular processor versions.

propter_hoc 5y ago
Yeah, I was actually pretty surprised to see that it was possible to get access to all these obscure builds.

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jchw 5y ago

Wouldn’t call it clickbait; the question goes without getting a fully satisfying, final answer, but it’s still the best exploration of the topic I’ve seen. Far from what I would call “clickbait.”

LaundroMat 5y ago
Almost every headline that starts with Why is clickbait in my book. I want the headline to summarize the article/video (i.e. the answer), and if I'm interested in learning more details I'll read the article or watch the video.
- jchw 5y ago
  That is an extremely wide net to cast as “clickbait”; the term was coined to describe Buzzfeed-style content wherein the subject matter itself is obscured but the headline is made to be attention grabbing, like “Doctors don’t want you to know this one weird trick…” or perhaps worse, an article where the headline suggests one thing but the actual story is essentially the opposite. In fact, I’d even go as far as to say this video isn’t burying the lede, either, because it is an exploratory video that goes through a progression to the conclusion. Therefore it is not burying the lede anymore than it would be “burying the lede” for a documentary to progress chronologically. And on top of that, while there’s nothing wrong with putting the key information in the title, an important component of being a successful content creator in any genre is in fact, coming up with engaging titles. “Why Pinball was removed” is a superior title to “Pinball was probably removed from Vista when they revamped the Windows Games” even though the latter is more information-dense. In my opinion the worst legitimate criticism that you can level is that the answer is not as definitive as one would hope. But I don’t think what you are leveling is all that fair; it feels like criticism against the genre of video more than the actual content itself. It wouldn’t be hurt by a tl;dw, but I’d rather follow the author to the conclusion myself, because I find the subject interesting, found the exploration interesting, and then I could understand the reasoning for the answer. If you didn’t enjoy the process that the video went through, I can only say that I would assert that you’re likely not in the target audience for that particular subset of video content and therefore it wouldn’t make sense to optimize it for you.

dsego 5y ago

Dave Plummer explains it in his video https://youtu.be/ThxdvEajK8g https://youtu.be/ThxdvEajK8g

marcan_42 5y ago
He's wrong about Pinball never being fixed for 64-bit and only working as a 32-bit app though. The OP video demonstrated that 64-bit versions exist and work fine.

throwthere 5y ago

Thanks I read the description it said Pretty much the same thing. The description ended with a little teaser that made me think thered be more information in the video. I think it’s really weird that there actually wasn’t more information. You saved me half an hour.