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Don't watch youtube? Want educational content? Read a book or a technical blog post or documentation. Want entertainment? Read a book or watch a movie or TV s

by imgabe 1y ago

Don't watch youtube? Want educational content? Read a book or a technical blog post or documentation. Want entertainment? Read a book or watch a movie or TV show. I've never found anything that great about YouTube.

aloha2436 1y ago
Those are alternatives for youtube _consumers_ but none of those are replacements for _producers_ on youtube.
djtango 1y ago
30 years of playing the piano and listening to all kinds of music and harmony never really clicked with me even after studying music theory. But watching YouTube videos made an instant impact. YouTube is a distracting mess full of doom scroll bait but if you have never found anything useful on YouTube, you haven't been looking very hard.
- dotancohen 1y ago
  Would you mind sharing the videos that helped music click? Thank you!
  - djtango 1y ago
    Open Studio (OpenStudioJazz) and Nahre Sol I like. Charles Cornell gets an honourable mention. Watching Nahre Sol break down Chopin's E flat Nocturne (Op9#2) gave me a penny drop moment. I have often had trouble memorizing the left hand for that piece even after writing out the harmonies but seeing her play out the progression as flat chords led me to realise I can change the pattern and then play the left hand as a very quick broken chord to hear the harmonic progression while also cementing in the muscle memory a lot more effectively.
ainiriand 1y ago
I am not sure why this is actually downvoted. I was a YouTube premium subscriber, but then they started with their shenanigans and I decided to shift my attention to other things. It is not like I cannot go there once in a while to check on a particular video, but it is not for entertainment anymore.
Asraelite 1y ago
I want edutainment. Nowhere has anywhere close to the level of content as YouTube when it comes to that.
lynx97 1y ago
> a movie or TV show Any movie or TV show recommendations from the past 10 years that is actually enjoyable? I am pretty much done with movies. I don't even remember the last one I really enjoyed. Sunshine, Interstellar, Hateful Eight, Once Upon a time in Hollywood... Nothing notable in the past 5 years though. TV shows? Most require a subscription, which I am not willing to do for just a show or two.
- zem 1y ago
  just over the 10 year mark, but i enjoyed "east side sushi". nice feel-good movie.
- imgabe 1y ago
  I've enjoyed quite a few movies from the past 5 years, but I don't know what you like, so who knows. Baby Assassins - japanese movie about two teenage girls who are assassins. Very weird and funny movie and the fight choreography I found fascinating. I can only describe as "floppy". Tetris - this was on Apple TV. A fictionalized retelling of the story of getting Tetris out of the USSR and licensed to distribute in the US. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story - A music biopic of Weird Al Yankovic, in true Weird Al style Nobody - action / revenge flick with Bob Odenkirk I could go on. No need to limit yourself to the past 5 years though. Surely you haven't seen every movie from before 2020? Lots of great shows too, and you don't need any subscriptions on the high seas...
  - einsteinx2 1y ago
    Baby Assassins sounds interesting, I see there’s a few movies with that name from the past few years, maybe some are sequels I’m not sure. Is the one you’re talking about from 2021 with director Yugo Sakamoto?
    - imgabe 1y ago
      That’s the one https://m.imdb.com/title/tt15028452/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk https://m.imdb.com/title/tt15028452/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk There is a sequel, but I haven’t watched it yet

by imgabe 1y ago

aloha2436 1y ago

Those are alternatives for youtube _consumers_ but none of those are replacements for _producers_ on youtube.

djtango 1y ago

30 years of playing the piano and listening to all kinds of music and harmony never really clicked with me even after studying music theory. But watching YouTube videos made an instant impact. YouTube is a distracting mess full of doom scroll bait but if you have never found anything useful on YouTube, you haven't been looking very hard.

dotancohen 1y ago
Would you mind sharing the videos that helped music click? Thank you!
- djtango 1y ago
  Open Studio (OpenStudioJazz) and Nahre Sol I like. Charles Cornell gets an honourable mention. Watching Nahre Sol break down Chopin's E flat Nocturne (Op9#2) gave me a penny drop moment. I have often had trouble memorizing the left hand for that piece even after writing out the harmonies but seeing her play out the progression as flat chords led me to realise I can change the pattern and then play the left hand as a very quick broken chord to hear the harmonic progression while also cementing in the muscle memory a lot more effectively.

ainiriand 1y ago

I am not sure why this is actually downvoted. I was a YouTube premium subscriber, but then they started with their shenanigans and I decided to shift my attention to other things. It is not like I cannot go there once in a while to check on a particular video, but it is not for entertainment anymore.

Asraelite 1y ago

I want edutainment. Nowhere has anywhere close to the level of content as YouTube when it comes to that.

lynx97 1y ago

> a movie or TV show Any movie or TV show recommendations from the past 10 years that is actually enjoyable? I am pretty much done with movies. I don't even remember the last one I really enjoyed. Sunshine, Interstellar, Hateful Eight, Once Upon a time in Hollywood... Nothing notable in the past 5 years though. TV shows? Most require a subscription, which I am not willing to do for just a show or two.

zem 1y ago
just over the 10 year mark, but i enjoyed "east side sushi". nice feel-good movie.
imgabe 1y ago
I've enjoyed quite a few movies from the past 5 years, but I don't know what you like, so who knows. Baby Assassins - japanese movie about two teenage girls who are assassins. Very weird and funny movie and the fight choreography I found fascinating. I can only describe as "floppy". Tetris - this was on Apple TV. A fictionalized retelling of the story of getting Tetris out of the USSR and licensed to distribute in the US. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story - A music biopic of Weird Al Yankovic, in true Weird Al style Nobody - action / revenge flick with Bob Odenkirk I could go on. No need to limit yourself to the past 5 years though. Surely you haven't seen every movie from before 2020? Lots of great shows too, and you don't need any subscriptions on the high seas...
- einsteinx2 1y ago
  Baby Assassins sounds interesting, I see there’s a few movies with that name from the past few years, maybe some are sequels I’m not sure. Is the one you’re talking about from 2021 with director Yugo Sakamoto?
  - imgabe 1y ago
    That’s the one https://m.imdb.com/title/tt15028452/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk https://m.imdb.com/title/tt15028452/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk There is a sequel, but I haven’t watched it yet