alsgeeklab wrote on 2024-12-31, 01:10:
To give you an example of how long it takes to make a video, a simple 'sit in front of a PC and shoot something like me playing a game for an hour or two', will be edited down into ~10-30 mins and will take me 2-4 days to edit. If it's a proper scripted documentary thing like Back to The BBS or the Gary Kildall /DRM video, they take many months of research, scripting, recording, video, audio and editing. It's a huge undertaking which many people don't understand because they just watch something in 30 mins and think it takes 30 mins to record!
Many times unfortunately, even if you think you've made a masterpiece, unfortunately it may get like 1000 views and that's it. The sad reality of YouTube!
Anyway... I still enjoy it!
there are some that really do only take 30 mins over a 30 min video.... and you can tell watching it! (and they get 112 views, 67 of them self views from checking portions and refreshing page)
anyway, its always interested me - the youtube channel "iceberg", there are a relatively small number of "big" channels for a given topic and then many times that number is small-but-viable channels and then below that a vast unknowable set of channels that never take off. sometimes i find one, with videos that have less than 100, sometimes less than 10, views after 10 years online. others clearly started out, lots of uploads in the early days - a "100 sub special", a "this channel's future" video or two, before inevitably slowing down and being abandoned. often, on the last upload there isn't even a recent "what happened? hope your ok" type comment.
all that effort, all that intention behind all those 1000's upon 1000's of channels that never got many subs, never had many views. it's a kinda fascinating. such videos can be hard to find, youtube is always pushing new and popular, it takes some real searching and sometimes a bit of page-downing to find them.
one thing about some of the viable smaller channels i like is that the creator answers comments and there are "regulars" that watch and comment, feels like a small community of sorts
appiah4 wrote on 2025-01-02, 12:02:
A lot of these games are not DOS games for me.. I palyed almost the entirety of the list on an Amiga. It feels weird when someone speaks of these games as DOS games 😀
i know what you mean, the system you first encounter the game on is the system you forever associate the game with. i guess the objective measure is the release date.
