Comment by psychphysic
3 years ago
What an interesting tale. But I feel like an anime character described it to me.
I'm totally fine with it (I'm grateful the story is being told at all), but it is surreal tone for technical writing.
3 years ago
What an interesting tale. But I feel like an anime character described it to me.
I'm totally fine with it (I'm grateful the story is being told at all), but it is surreal tone for technical writing.
I'm actually very happy about the rise of VTubers/live avatars. I imagine that there are a lot of people that would love to interactively share their knowledge/skills on youtube/twitch but avoid doing so because they're not conventionally attractive or just too shy.
But what about people that hate the "twitchification" of media? I don't like when youtubers I enjoy watching switch to streaming and then all their content is identical "poggers" chat and donation begging garbage. Streamers all feel the same, regardless of the content. I don't feel there's any value to a hundred instances of a stupid emoji streaming by in a """chat""" window, and everything just feels like attention whoring "pick me" nonsense.
Vinesauce has been streaming since well before twitch, and their content got significantly more "Twitch"-y after they embraced the current system. It's obvious why, because if you play into the chat begging, the surface level """interaction""", then you get more money from the parasocial twelve year olds with mom's credit card.
But I don't want my content full of ten second interruptions as a robot voice reads off the same tired joke somebody paid ten dollars to get read off.
> But what about people that hate the "twitchification" of media?
Well, when those people put months of their lives into reverse-engineering a reliable stack of code for an undocumented platform, and want to do presentations and write-ups of their work, those people can decide to present however they want.
In the meantime maybe people who are contributing precisely nothing can STFU about the people who are.
that's all a choice of the streamer. some streamers choose to have TTS (text to speech) but a lot don't. Twitch is bad about TTS in particular but it's far less common on the youtube side of streaming.
Doubly so the twitch chat is going to mirror the streamer. So if the streamer is being a goon and playing up the twitch culture, you'll get twitch chat. But you can also have a very different chat experience if you establish from the get go that chat is to behave a specific way.
Donations and twitch emerged as funding mechanisms because Youtube ads are not providing enough revenue for the vast majority of content creators out there.
> I imagine that there are a lot of people that would love to interactively share their knowledge/skills on youtube/twitch but avoid doing so because they're not conventionally attractive or just too shy.
Couldn't they just not show themselves on camera at all?
True but this is likely less engaging for the audience, which has been my experience.
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The quantity of exclamation points lol. I assume I'm just too old to get it...I'm okay with that, and I'm damn impressed with the results, so more power to Lina, whatever works for her.
Yeah, it's just... sorry, but there is nothing in the world so exciting that 149 exclamation points (thanks to another poster for counting) is warranted.
When every statement is exciting and special, then none of them are.
shrugs I'm getting old these days, but to me those exclamation points helped convey the tone the writer was chasing. I read the article, then watched one of the VODs of their streaming, and what do you know: the inner tone I heard while reading the article matched how they talk!
But perhaps I'm biased: I write how I talk too, and use and abuse punctuation to attempt to mimic my own voice.
I'm pretty sure that M1 Linux GPU drivers are indeed that exciting. Being able to ditch the ever-increasing burden of keeping macOS from telling the Cupertino mothership every single little thing I do on my Mac for a proper Linux desktop on the best laptop ever made (I have a maxed out 64gb/8tb M1 max rMBP) is... exciting, to put it mildly.
There are 149 exclamation points on that page (!)
Usually I get annoyed by that, but in this case I read the whole thing and didn't even notice. It helps that they didn't come in "packages" bigger than 1.
I was just getting ready to say the same thing and was wishing for a plugin that would replace all exclamation points with a period. That would make reading much easier
Would that not mean general excitement on the part of the author?
I find it hard to analyze these things by numbers alone. It's context that really matters and if there truly is a baseline excitement, there really should be a high number of exclamations.
It can in moderation, but there's a phenomenon that people (often women) in communications overuse exclamation points, trying to come across as friendly and not assertive [1][2]. It's something I've noticed in my professional career, and not me trying to make a stereotype. You start to tip that usage too far, like 149 of them in a technical document, and it detracts from your content.
>A bunch of shader cores, which process triangles (vertex data) and pixels (fragment data) by running user-defined programs. These use different custom instruction sets for every GPU!
Why are different instruction sets exciting to the author? What does exclaiming that fact really mean for me as the reader? What I got out of it was the author was so surprised by this basic fact, that it was so out of this world unbelievable, that we also must be surprised by it. I'd rather read technical explanations with leadership/competence.
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/women-exclamation-points-emil...
[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1083-6101...
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I suspect a certain Elaine Benes may have been the editor on this post!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSKn8RlD7Is
Not as surreal as an actual presentation by an anime character. WTF is going on here?
https://youtu.be/SDJCzJ1ETsM?t=1179
How can people watch this?
I just tried watching this with a Pitch Shifter Chrome extension. The voice goes from grating to just ... bad audio, at the lowest possible setting - which is far more tolerable than the original. I may need to go and edit the extension to turn down the pitch even more.
pretty much the appeal(?) of asahi lina. it's been a weird ride to follow for sure.
Have to say as much as I want to watch their streams, I can't get passed the annoying voice.
I had a quick look and the streams it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck.
Not in a good way. The write up wasn't so bad but the entire package is too much for me.
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This shouldn't be controversial to say, but it's blatantly obvious that it's a voice changer.
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Yeah... I was hoping to passively watch it, maybe gleam something but yeah.
The other thing too, watching other people code is kind of not fun like George or Rene. More fun to see some screeching video with no actual info just the end result of a robot pissing in a cup.
Also goes to show how much work goes into writing code/having some end result. Maybe it will get more exposure since there is a growing trend for vtuber stuff.
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Bah I've watched some of Jon Blow's vidéos on Jay, even though he's much more pleasant to watch on video, it's still annoying: a normal blog would be so much more 'efficient'.
Fair enough. I cannot get past your typo.
I've said the same but I got flagged on hacker news for saying it. I'm not quite sure why it's an objectionable thing to say.
> But I feel like an anime character described it to me.
Mario Brothers would make more sense though. Whoever created this is a plumber par excellence.