[nerdponx]

I hate these text-on-picture-with-music videos. Even the robot-voice videos are better. I know it's using the Super Mario music, but still. It's like a blog post where you can't copy or paste anything, can't scroll back and forth, can't be cached or indexed, etc.

[katastic]

Guy did it for free man. Give him a little slack. He's not even a programmer. He does Mario speed runs. He didn't post his video here, someone else did.

And I absolutely disagree with the "Robot voice would be better." That's horrific.

[chillingeffect]

i don't think he's picking on the authors themselves but on the broader problem:

How to make decent auto-play presentations on the web.

most of us hate it when scrolling gets broken. many of us like to simply watch a lecture go by with interaction, e.g. for deeper contemplation. many of us would like to hear the lecture.

stuffing it into a video is tradeoff.

this is just a typical problem of a highly-mediated era: we have the core information that can be rendered or published across numerous formats: book, blog post, tweets, video, google slide presentation, etc., etc. How to deliver the information to all formats, to be everything to everyone?

[okdana]

He has some videos that are commentated by voice, but for some reason he finds doing the recordings very stressful, so most of his content is unfortunately on his 'uncommentated' channel. I agree it would be nice to have the voice-overs

[nerdponx]

He could be writing blog posts and making videos to supplement. His writing isn't bad.

[digi_owl]

I guess he finds it much easier to just dump it all onto Youtube for hosting and ads, rather than deal with setting up his own blog hosting for it.