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by rdl 4903 days ago
Interesting idea.

The explainer video is painful, and does most of the things I find painful in videos like that. Slow paced, oddly accented English, very wordy in places, and essentially monotone. No clear promise about what it's going to show you early on -- the first 15 seconds or so made me disinterested. It got better, but normally I'd just skip to something else by then.

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minor pedantic note: I believe you meant that the first 15 seconds made you "uninterested", not "disinterested". "disinterested" means "impartial and objective" while "uninterested" means "not interested".

sorry but I try to correct this mistake when i see it ;)

thanks! (I was sort of aware of the distinction, but it was really late)

my favorite similar pedantry is nauseous vs. nauseated :)

I actually found the voice of the speaker, especially her accent, quite fascinating :)