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medicinemane · 16 days ago

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So one day I'm searching how to do something redstone related in minecraft. I probably typed something like "1x2 redstone hipster door" or "wireless redstone" or something like that. I don't know

What I do know is part way down I got something with this as the thumbnail:

I save the thumbnail cause it was funny how much it had messed up to me, but I didn't click the video cause funny enough when I was trying to figure out how to make a project work I wanted that info, not softcore minecraft smut

Anyway, reblogged this twice, once without this story so people who just want the very good points here can have it without this, but... I don't know... I just had to share my experience with this

Pisses me off to no end though how useless youtube searches are

Amendment I thought of while writing the tags: I've noticed if you scroll down far enough it'll start showing you videos it's already shown you during that search... it just gives up and puts the same thing in front of your face again like you didn't skip it for a reason

Second piece of info I remembered while doing tags, I one time looked at the various categories at the top it thinks I'll like, and one of them was just "wood"... yep youtube, you caught me... show me "wood" videos, just a log and I'll be happy

it's crazy that you used to be able to look up specific clips from a tv show on youtube. now regardless of your search terms you get 6 unrelated promo reels from the show's official account, 6 unrelated clips of literally anything else youtube thinks you might click on, 6 unrelated promo reels from the network's official account, 6 more completely arbitrary recommendations, 6 show trailers and publicity videos of the actors by content mills called 'pop glutton' and 'comedy chunk' and finally raw gameplay footage of a mobile freemium slots game and a video essay called Liberals Can't Belive It: 10 Times Hitler Was Shockingly Woke

#because when you're researching some weird little redstone concept or circuit #like uh... 1x2 redstone hipster door flush tilable is something I've wanted to find in the past #or a ceiling version of a 1x2 hipster door which it turns out is way more complex #(hipster doors are doors that extend and retract in a way where you can't see the redstone and where you don't need pistons to the side)#(so like... if you've got a long unbroken wall you can put one in the middle of it and it'll just pull that section down)#(without effecting the rest of the wall... I really like that effect; that's why so many searches are finding variations to suit my needs)#but anyway; I search 1x2 hipster door with x feature... nothing but the same 1x2 hipster doors I've seen a million times #like when you're looking for this really niche stuff you just see the same thing over and over... and here's where I made that amendment #it'll actually literally show you the same thing a second time in the same search if you go deep enough #but you're looking for like... 'compact abccba circuit'; no; get bent; minecraft short for you #when you finally do manage to find it between youtube and a search engine as another way to find youtube videos #it... it feels more like just dumb luck; you didn't really do anything different or enter a special term that worked this time #it just... decided to put the right 3 year old video in front of you for a second #anyway... I honestly have a lot of thoughts on this on the grounds that one of the things I do the most research into #basically... only exists in the form of youtube videos; that's where minecraft redstone knowledge is stored #you find someone doing a version of the thing you want to do; or you get bent #and yeah... in theory I can just reinvent some of this myself... but that's a pain; and some stuff like wireless I can't do myself #a lot of the time I'll need like... 3 circuits I can hot glue together into the thing I want to make #but I have to track those 3 circuits down myself #there was a time I needed a triple piston extender; but it couldn't go up too high or it would push the floor #all; and I mean all; the standard designs are this one very clever one that goes too high #it took... maybe literal hours; at least 15 minutes of searching and searching before I finally found the one that worked #I left a comment thanking them; saying the video was old but they gave me exactly what I needed #youtube is basically the only info on this hobby... I hate their search engine more than a lot of people because of that #did you know it just fully ignores if you put quotes around things?#real search engines that means 'exact phrase'; on youtube it means 'I'm ignoring that; here's what I was gonna give you anyway'#...it actually pisses me off; I'm realizing that I have so much to say because it actually makes me really angry #anyway... this is why I reblogged just the base version; so you can just... reblog that and not my rambling about this stuff #loved that time though where it's like 'redstone builds? did you mean sexy russian blocky minecraft softcore videos?'#nah; in fact I did not

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