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A video goes a long way.

As long as there is a text with pictures for weird video adverse engineers like me.

I actively avoid videos.




I don't think you're weird. Instructional or informational videos force their pacing on you. Text and images allow you to learn at your own pace, be it faster or slower than a video.

Few things are more frustrating than having to skip back 15 seconds multiple times in a video because I didn't quite get something, or trying to hunt around ahead in the timeline because the current stuff being presented is trivial introductory fluff.


I am the same. Give me text! I skip around all over the place, and can (occasionally) read (short) paragraphs in a glance. Videos and their enforced pacing :/


Seems I'm not alone. 25 upvotes at the moment :-|

Now I'm not against videos, I just want good text (not just transcripts) to be available for people like me.




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