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Is this the perfect youtube video? Amazing Mario soundtrack in the background and gameplay visuals. Home made charts that VISUALLY show what's going on. AUDIO voice commentary explaining what you see. References to other youtube videos and commenters. Detailed, insanely knowledgeable, not selling me anything, created for love not for viewers. IDK this is peak youtube for me.

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>eferences to other youtube videos and commenters. Detailed, insanely knowledgeable, not selling me anything, created for love not for viewers

I feel the same about HealthyGamerGG's videos: detailed, insanely knowledgeable, references across neurochemistry/biochemistry, psychology, gaming, human behavior, culture and religion (and how they've changed over time), etc.

That's peak YT for me

I feel like HealthyGamerGG is trying to make it sound like every mental health issue is somehow trivial to solve if you just do his one silly trick; he doesn't say it like that explicitly, but after watching a pile of his videos the pattern started becoming evident. I also feel like his definitions of key terms don't really align all that well with other people who do video content on mental health, which made me quite skeptical.

Interesting. Have some examples of those key terms? Are those other YouTubers also medical doctors?

"Starting the level while holding the A button and not pressing the A button again" could be easier to understand

It's a term of art from the community, that also draws in the intellectually curious with a "wtf is half an A press?" - it's an excellent title.

"the intellectually curious"

God I wish, but our discord keeps getting kids, who can't possibly help or contribute to TASing, keep asking us questions answered in the video they just watched before joining...

We sometimes get smart af people joining and even making accomplishments though. College students or otherwise.

Pannen's a really patient guy for tolerating his fans all the time

Sucking at something is the first step to being amazing at something, and it's a step everyone goes through, no exceptions. Being kind and tolerant of others sucking (missing what seem like obvious bits of core knowledge, not knowing what details are important, taking way too long on tasks) is absolutely essential to the health and growth of any size or kind of creative community.

> Sucking at something is the first step to being amazing at something, and it's a step everyone goes through, no exceptions.

The thing that gets me about OP's remark is that pannenkoek2012 himself made a YouTube comment in 2013 asking how to make Mario kick in the air without pressing the A button to jump. [0]

Everyone has to start somewhere.

[0] https://youtu.be/xlQ0psr7Th4?t=808

Being able to find answers to commonly asked questions instead of making demands on people's time by asking is a huge part of maturity. It's very common for Discord servers to have a self-serve faq/resources channel. It's rude to ask questions that can be answered there.

In this situation I find the best thing to do is to link to the resource that answers the question. A 'teach how to fish' approach. If a question is often asked that isn't answered in documentation then I enhance the documentation.

Sure, but 1) they're kids. Of course they're immature (and of course there will be kids. It's a community built around video games). 2) asking questions is just kind of how Discord works. Knowledge isn't stored and organized like on old-school forums or Reddit. Discord is a tool where people are expected to be available for almost real-time discussion. I personally struggle with that format, and tend to only use Discord as a messaging app for small groups of friends. I've tried joining Discord servers organized around a topic with larger groups of people, and it just doesn't seem to work for my brain, so I leave.

well, be thankful you're not hypersensitive to background music. i can't deal with it

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