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Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by lupusreal »

cgriswald wrote: post #34
4ad wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's exactly backwards, YouTube favours short videos and frequent uploads. People doing long videos do it purely out of passion. The claim that most videos nowadays are hitting the one hour mark is trivially false.

I simply can't believe there isn't some incentive for longer videos. It may be that YouTube only cares about total watch time and doesn't care if a creator pushes lots of short ones or a few long ones, as long as viewers keep viewing. I see so many videos like this: Tie Shoes Like a Pro "If you're watching this video you probably want to know the secrets to good shoe tying. We'll show you how in this video. It's surp…

The "youtube meta" has changed overtime and not all creators have stayed current with it, so you can find old videos which were once optimized for youtube but no longer are, or new videos being created in an outdated style. With some channels though, I think they've decided to make suboptimal videos from the youtube algorithm perspective because they're getting most of their revenue from a loyal fanbase donating to them on patron/etc, so they cater to the preferences of that specific crowd.

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by TheFreim »

LPisGood wrote: post #14
mindcrime wrote: post #12

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Fortunately people still make short videos Interesting. I don't see anything fortunate about that myself. I guess it's a "different strokes for different folks" thing. Personally, I rarely watch any video that's less than 20 minutes long. I think of short videos as being too small to contain enough useful info to be worth my time (although that's obviously not literally true for all short videos). And generally speak…

The problem with everyone making long videos is that it leads to a situation where, intentional or not, it seems like everyone is trying to waste your time. Some things just aren’t worth talking about for that long.

The SponsorBlock extension has a useful feature where users can contribute a highlight point, which then adds a "skip to highlight" button. Many long form videos will pad the beginning with excessive background information to pad the length, skipping to highlight has saved me many hours. Because the data is crowdsourced the highlight qualities vary, but I've found them to be generally useful.

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by fragmede »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #26
praptak wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Don't ask questions, post some blatantly wrong answers on the internet. You'll have angry PhDs running to explain how you are wrong!"

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/nerd_sniping.png

356!

https://xkcd.com/356/

if you link to the image directly, then you'll never learn the numbers. 356 is nerd sniping, 927 is standards, lucky 10,000 is 1053, load bearing is 2347, bobby tables is 327, research team is 1425...

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by nomius10 »

chowells wrote: post #35
nomius10 wrote: post #3

I remember a time when crossing the 10 minute mark was really stretching it on YouTube. Nowadays most videos hit the 1 hour mark... I'm not sure if this is what the market demands, or this is just Google nudging creators in this direction. Fortunately people still make short videos, like this (relevant) one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0WWbpBxLCI

You should try watching the video instead of complaining about it's length. It turns out that it actually takes a bit of time to cover the history of Russia and Germany sufficiently well to explain the situation. Yes, those turn out to be relevant to answering the question.

I gave it a go, not to the video in the OP, but another one that caught my eye - the one about gatcha and korean gender wars. I got through the end and found out that it was actually a part 1, the second part being almost 2 hours. I'm low-key upset about this situation.

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by bredren »

jamesy0ung wrote: post #20
bdndndndbve wrote: post #6

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Pretty sure the answer is ads. "Long-form" content has more opportunities to insert ads or sponsored content. There's not a lot of money to be made being quick and to the point. People's viewing habits have also changed in response, rather than having the algorithm bounce them around they'd rather half-pay-attention to a 3 hour video. But I think the trend of ever-growing video lengths was spawned by a desire for mor…

I quite like to grab the transcript from youtube and ask chatgpt to give me the key points.

What is your workflow for this?

I recently described a manual workflow that includes extracting comments and combining them with the transcript using a system prompt.

I’m curious how others are approaching this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42901077

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by Tiberium »

wnevets wrote: post #43
brenainn wrote: post #4

I'll provide some background for people that aren't familiar with the game. It's an online vehicular combat game where you pilot tanks, planes, helicopters and warships. The vehicles range from pre-WW2 to modern. The game aims for realistic vehicle specifications, like armour thickness, penetration values etc. For older, actually real vehicles, that information is more easily available. For modern, classified vehicle…

> The game aims for realistic vehicle specifications, like armour thickness, penetration values etc. Yet the gameplay is very arcadey and not very realistic.

Are you playing arcade or realistic battles? There's a huge difference between the two. And there are also simulator battles.

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by Gigachad »

RockRobotRock wrote: post #39
phreack wrote: post #36

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They used to pay by the view, now they pay by the minute. I think it's that simple.

People also use YouTube in different ways than they used to. Leaving it on in the background while they do something else. I’m sure YouTube’s algorithm is good at detecting which videos perform well even when you’re only listening to it.

People are largely watching YouTube on their TV now instead of on a laptop/desktop. And mobile users are on tiktok.

Personally I find it annoying to watch 15 minute videos on the tv since you’re always having to go back to the remote and find something new.

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by Gigachad »

lupusreal wrote: post #51
cgriswald wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I simply can't believe there isn't some incentive for longer videos. It may be that YouTube only cares about total watch time and doesn't care if a creator pushes lots of short ones or a few long ones, as long as viewers keep viewing. I see so many videos like this: Tie Shoes Like a Pro "If you're watching this video you probably want to know the secrets to good shoe tying. We'll show you how in this video. It's surp…

The "youtube meta" has changed overtime and not all creators have stayed current with it, so you can find old videos which were once optimized for youtube but no longer are, or new videos being created in an outdated style. With some channels though, I think they've decided to make suboptimal videos from the youtube algorithm perspective because they're getting most of their revenue from a loyal fanbase donating to t…

There could be multiple valid strategies too. I’ve seen some creators will put out a video once every few months, but that video will be shown on everyone’s feed and will get millions of views. While mass content posters like gaming channels probably get less exposure or their videos spend less time on the top.

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by sandworm101 »

itronitron wrote: post #9
brenainn wrote: post #4

I'll provide some background for people that aren't familiar with the game. It's an online vehicular combat game where you pilot tanks, planes, helicopters and warships. The vehicles range from pre-WW2 to modern. The game aims for realistic vehicle specifications, like armour thickness, penetration values etc. For older, actually real vehicles, that information is more easily available. For modern, classified vehicle…

Sounds like this could inspire a simple test as to whether someone should have access to classified information, which would also positively indicate their more mature than a twelve year old.

There are also lots of people creating fake classified documents, and people in posession of "classified" stuff that has long ago been declassified. Those two groups, imho, outnumber all the people who leak actual info by 10x.

(Remember too that having a clearance and having access are different things. Only a rare few have unfettered access to download/print/email to/from classified systems. Lots of gamers work at/for the NSA. That doesnt mean they can all browse the f35 flight manual over lunch.)

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by [deleted] »

fragmede wrote: post #53
unsupp0rted wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/nerd_sniping.png

356! https://xkcd.com/356/ if you link to the image directly, then you'll never learn the numbers. 356 is nerd sniping, 927 is standards, lucky 10,000 is 1053, load bearing is 2347, bobby tables is 327, research team is 1425...

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