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Gamers Nexus on YouTube appears to be carrying the torch of obsessively in-depth coverage. Ian Cutress has been doing his thing as well, but erred mostly on the

Gamers Nexus on YouTube appears to be carrying the torch of obsessively in-depth coverage. Ian Cutress has been doing his thing as well, but erred mostly on the side of being a philosopher rather than an investigator. Interested to see where all the people end up. Clearly the demand for good info hasn't vanished.

Thaxll 2y ago
Gamers Nexus is not very technical though, they probably don't understand how a CPU works.
- rstat1 2y ago
  Guess you've never watched one of their failure analysis videos then, or really any of them if that's your comment.
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diggan 2y ago
> Gamers Nexus on YouTube appears to be carrying the torch of obsessively in-depth coverage. Although via videos rather than articles, sadly. It's sad how much information is moving to a much slower and data-intensive medium. The same is happening in lots of other areas as well, like game development. Articles always been easier for me to consume, but more and more valuable information is moving into videos these days that it's hard to avoid even though I prefer other mediums...
- vmladenov 2y ago
  They do post their video scripts as articles with the relevant screenshots. It’s not quite the same as a text-first article, but I prefer reading.
- RDaneel0livaw 2y ago
  Completely agree. I am listening to some chill music and wanting to catch up on some hardware reviews, so I want to read a nice article. If I accidentally click on something that takes me to a god awful yt video, it completely disrupts my focus and irritates the hell out me. I instantly close the tab and never go back to whatever source pointed me there. I absolutely loathe yt video content of stuff that should obviously be text but isn't. Gaming content has gone this way a lot sadly.
- jsheard 2y ago
  > Although via videos rather than articles, sadly. I recall them talking about how they prefer writing articles, especially given how info-dumpy their content tends to be, but videos are what actually pays the bills.
  - MostlyStable 2y ago
    I wonder if there will come a point when AI transcription/summarization gets good enough that, for any channel that cares, they can continue making their videos to pay the bills and also, for a trivial cost, publish associated articles for the people who prefer it. Given the assumption that not enough people will read articles to pay the bills, this shouldn't detract from their view count/income too much, and will provide a dramatically better experience for those who care. And if the channels themselves won't do it, I wonder when it will be possible for the user to do it. It seems like this is probably something that is already possible in a "good enough usually, even if not perfect" sense. I can imagine not too far in the future that a version of this could even embed clips/screenshots from the video for any portions where seeing how it is done is a useful addition to the text.
- walthamstow 2y ago
  Nobody pays for words, but YouTube pays for videos. Sad but true.
- shantara 2y ago
  http://gamersnexus.net/ http://gamersnexus.net/
- kevstev 2y ago
  This reminds me of how shocked I was when memes using image macros started becoming a thing around 2008 or so. I still remembered the bad old days of dial up and waiting tens of seconds for images to load and thought it was so horridly inefficient to convey a message that way. Now we have HD videos pushing the same (and arguably worse) content taking tens if not hundreds of MBs and conveying the same information that is much harder to parse than a text file could do in a few kilobytes. I feel like I am having my old man yells at cloud moment here, but its a hugely inferior medium.
Numerlor 2y ago
I feel like the "Cable TV-ification" applies to them, some of the videos are very much sensationalism. The host also comes off as a bit too full of themselves
- hengheng 2y ago
  That's what I thought as well, but then I saw their competition. Their ratio of bragging vs doing their homework is actually top notch.
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Thaxll 2y ago

Gamers Nexus is not very technical though, they probably don't understand how a CPU works.

rstat1 2y ago
Guess you've never watched one of their failure analysis videos then, or really any of them if that's your comment.
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diggan 2y ago

> Gamers Nexus on YouTube appears to be carrying the torch of obsessively in-depth coverage. Although via videos rather than articles, sadly. It's sad how much information is moving to a much slower and data-intensive medium. The same is happening in lots of other areas as well, like game development. Articles always been easier for me to consume, but more and more valuable information is moving into videos these days that it's hard to avoid even though I prefer other mediums...

vmladenov 2y ago
They do post their video scripts as articles with the relevant screenshots. It’s not quite the same as a text-first article, but I prefer reading.
RDaneel0livaw 2y ago
Completely agree. I am listening to some chill music and wanting to catch up on some hardware reviews, so I want to read a nice article. If I accidentally click on something that takes me to a god awful yt video, it completely disrupts my focus and irritates the hell out me. I instantly close the tab and never go back to whatever source pointed me there. I absolutely loathe yt video content of stuff that should obviously be text but isn't. Gaming content has gone this way a lot sadly.
jsheard 2y ago
> Although via videos rather than articles, sadly. I recall them talking about how they prefer writing articles, especially given how info-dumpy their content tends to be, but videos are what actually pays the bills.
- MostlyStable 2y ago
  I wonder if there will come a point when AI transcription/summarization gets good enough that, for any channel that cares, they can continue making their videos to pay the bills and also, for a trivial cost, publish associated articles for the people who prefer it. Given the assumption that not enough people will read articles to pay the bills, this shouldn't detract from their view count/income too much, and will provide a dramatically better experience for those who care. And if the channels themselves won't do it, I wonder when it will be possible for the user to do it. It seems like this is probably something that is already possible in a "good enough usually, even if not perfect" sense. I can imagine not too far in the future that a version of this could even embed clips/screenshots from the video for any portions where seeing how it is done is a useful addition to the text.
walthamstow 2y ago
Nobody pays for words, but YouTube pays for videos. Sad but true.
shantara 2y ago
http://gamersnexus.net/ http://gamersnexus.net/
kevstev 2y ago
This reminds me of how shocked I was when memes using image macros started becoming a thing around 2008 or so. I still remembered the bad old days of dial up and waiting tens of seconds for images to load and thought it was so horridly inefficient to convey a message that way. Now we have HD videos pushing the same (and arguably worse) content taking tens if not hundreds of MBs and conveying the same information that is much harder to parse than a text file could do in a few kilobytes. I feel like I am having my old man yells at cloud moment here, but its a hugely inferior medium.

Numerlor 2y ago

I feel like the "Cable TV-ification" applies to them, some of the videos are very much sensationalism. The host also comes off as a bit too full of themselves

hengheng 2y ago
That's what I thought as well, but then I saw their competition. Their ratio of bragging vs doing their homework is actually top notch.

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