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Are we becoming old, cranky scrooges in these forums.
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KL27x:

--- Quote ---I 100% agree on YouTube. Almost any technical video is a waste of time
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Talking is just not a good medium for conveying some things. I used to get infuriated by some of the responses I would get to questions on the Microchip PIC forums. The two top active users answering my questions, they invariably responded pretty much verbatim what I already read (and was not quite understanding) in the manual. I actually honestly suspected that these guys didn't fully understand everything they were saying, so they would look things up and copy it right from the datasheet.

Fast forward years later, when I understand a lot of PIC architecture and assembly, I realize there's quite often a very limited way to state something without being wrong or misleading in some other way. And when you understand this complex thing, it's hard to understand where the missing connection is in someone else's head. Thus, the technical parlay. This nuanced and exacting technical parlay is bad enough in text. To watch a video would be horrible. 
Bud:

--- Quote from: eti on May 26, 2020, 12:07:22 am ---If I am out for a walk and get caught short, and need a sh## and you don't bat an eyelid when I knock on your door and ask to use your WC, *THEN* I know you're a real friend.

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 :o   :wtf:
eti:

--- Quote from: KL27x on May 26, 2020, 12:59:00 am ---
--- Quote ---So, yeah, I am not sure about the "becoming" part - I've always known of this forum as a place where arrogant, know-it-all, miserable saddos with no life hang out (and where they make it VERY CLEAR, very quickly that they have no life outside the "community" they kid themselves they're "part of".)
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In my mind, you're describing me. Except I have no illusion I'm a part of a community, other than this is a place where some people are compelled to occasionally read and respond to what I post.

Personally, I have never felt a part of a community what you describe, and I'm not sure I want that. My friends are few. Most of the "friends" I've had in life were more liability than asset.

Humans are self-interested, egocentric, and have ulterior motives and agendas. That's why we're above animals. That's why we suck. Half my posts on this forum, I am not there for that. I'm just there to tell you that you're wrong. In case you were curious how things really work. :)

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*Keyword "personally" - maybe they thought the same of you, but were too forgiving or kind to say? Never mind. Your OWN, 1-in-~7BN people life experience doesn't mean one having friends is always "a liability" - that's you seeing your past through the lens of YOUR experience, nowt else.
magic:
You guys grew up sheltered in radicalized liberal safe space echo chambers and gotta be new to the Internet in general ::) :=\


--- Quote from: eti on May 26, 2020, 12:07:22 am ---I had to step back, think for a moment, and wonder if you serious when you say "becoming" - BECOMING? HAH! DOUBLE-HAH!! TRIPLE-HAH!!! EEVblog forum members seem to be grumpy, miserable, nit-picking old gits BY DEFAULT - if ever I've seen grumpy, EEVblog magnifies this a billion fold to another level.
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You have to be reading some garbage threads, most technical discussions are high quality here. Yes, people post occasional nitpicks and irrelevant tangents, but your mouse has that wheel thingy on it, learn to use it :P


--- Quote from: eti on May 26, 2020, 12:07:22 am ---It's almost as if you're "expected" to put up with it

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Yeah, maybe :-DD
Elasia:
The world has become awash with all the noisy few percent that make a ruckus linking up and finding each other.  I saw a good article on this somewhere awhile ago but more or less comes down to that mass media information used to be funneled and filtered due to being like a newspaper and now with the internet, everyone is interlinked directly.  Now the unruly are linking up and finding each other to promote their low value information to each other.

For a long time now I've thought that the series Firefly / movie Serenity actually nailed it pretty close that we will merge into a hybrid system of Euroamerican / Chinese meeting in the middle.  The main issue being out of control anything usually isnt a good thing and this particular topic directly a result of freedom to publish garbage.

The real question is where do you find the balance to advance society?

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Now as far as technical discussions, there are plenty here i find to be high quality.  Also youtube has a lot of good content if you know where to look and able to consume it in that format but you have to wade through the 98% garbage to find it which is its main problem
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