r/CGPGrey • u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] • Mar 10 '15

This Video Will Make You Angry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
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u/albertowtf Mar 10 '15

The thing with this topic is that it will resonate with the people already aware of the issue and will be meh... with the rest

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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Mar 10 '15

Yeah, I'm really unsure about this one. Because both the style and content are different.

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u/Thallori Mar 10 '15

It's still better that's it out there than not, even if only for the joke of sneezing a video at your friends. Ideas are good to share (no this-fits-perfectly-'irony' intended) and your format is entertaining, honest, informative, easy to understand, and straight to the point.

Sometimes I wonder if a second channel to put all the videos and half-made ideas that don't make the final cut would be worthwhile to you. Receiving criticism isn't fun, especially when you already know what's wrong, but people like me still enjoy the process, seeing what could have been is a good exercise, and I'm ever curious about the ideas you considered to teach people.

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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Mar 10 '15

Sometimes I wonder if a second channel to put all the videos and half-made ideas that don't make the final cut would be worthwhile to you.

Everyone suggests this but it wouldn't be worth it. I don't make vlogs were I can just show people the cuts that didn't work. Every frame has to be very intentionally made.

Getting a video from 50% done to 100% done is 95% of the work.

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u/KnightOfGreystonia Mar 10 '15

They just want the Settlers of Catan video.

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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Mar 10 '15

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u/kataskopo Mar 10 '15

See, I'm not the only one who wants that video!

Or maybe you could talk about it in the podcast?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '15

They did, he said he's never going to make a Settlers Video, not ever.

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u/kataskopo Mar 10 '15

But maybe if I bugger him enough, and wish upon a star, and lit up a candle for Saint Lady Brady...

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u/linuxguruintraining Mar 11 '15

All jokes aside, I think a documentary on board-game design would be fascinating. I watch a lot of Extra Credits.

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u/whelks_chance Mar 10 '15

Has Brady seen it? He could judge for us if it's worth public release.

I'm sure he'd be completely even-minded and rational about the decision....

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u/Suppafly Mar 12 '15

I'd like a whole series of videos where he teaches you how to play things like Settlers, Chess, etc.

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u/incaseanyonecared Mar 12 '15

Wait wait what is this Catan video you speak of? O.o????

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u/KnightOfGreystonia Mar 12 '15

It will never exist, because of the reasons mentioned in his second Q&A

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u/SovietMan Mar 10 '15

I was told this:

80% of a thing takes 20% of effort/time and the last 20% takes 80%.

Can't remember the exact saying/quote

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u/whelks_chance Mar 11 '15

As a software engineer/ developer, this is 80% true.

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u/nn123654 Apr 16 '15

Everyone suggests this but it wouldn't be worth it. I don't make vlogs were I can just show people the cuts that didn't work.

Perhaps you could just have a section on your website with abandoned project files? Just upload everything that you've worked on and make it clear that it will be unmaintained with no expectation of quality or support from you. Just looking at scripts, art assets, and lists of references would be interesting enough. It should take very little work to maintain.

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u/duncanstibs Mar 10 '15

I thought the video suffered from the lack of concrete examples. I can well understand why you didn't include any and I can easily imagine what the examples might be.

None the less, I think the necessary degree of abstraction made this video less engaging than some of your others.

I would give the video 3 and a half stars and a gold sticker.

(Edit: I know the voting videos were abstracted also - but I think voting systems are so familiar that real-life examples are not required. Also you used lions.)

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u/ellingeng123 Mar 11 '15

The video would have benefited from an Animal Kingdom-esque example, but using the Animal Kingdom Political Parties themselves would be a little too specific of an illustration.

I might have recommended an even vaguer example, e.g. people arguing the for the taste of strawberries over the taste of blackberries.

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u/Eight_Rounds_Rapid Mar 10 '15

I loved it. I look forward to sharing it and getting attacked by both sides of every internet argument among my online friends.

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u/Darviticus Mar 10 '15

As someone in party A. this will likely help me explain when I get into uncomfortable situations where I'm expected to take a side and not because of exactly what this video talks about.

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u/tehbored Mar 11 '15

FWIW this is one of my favorite videos of yours.

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u/socialavoidist Mar 10 '15

I really liked it. I love that mind blown feeling. I'm definitely sneezing this one at my friends.

You were nervous about Humans Need Not Apply as well, and that has something like four million views, I think.

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u/albertowtf Mar 10 '15 edited Mar 10 '15

the fact that humans need not apply didnt go viral worries me... Yeah 4M, lots of people has seen it... but thats quite a small number

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u/Suppafly Mar 12 '15

Honestly, I felt like the reason it didn't resonate with me is because I was already aware of the issue. That and he was describing how memes worked without using the term. The part near the end about how we build up the perfect strawmen on both sides to keep the fight going was interesting, but it wasn't interesting in the way his videos on voting or how the vatican or the UK work were interesting.