Segway…

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Monday, July 01, 2013, 22:10 (4174 days ago) @ Cody Miller

… right off a cliff perhaps, but here it goes.

Am I the only person who likes text articles better than videos, podcasts, or whatever else? Not that I don't listen to / watch almost everything that comes across the front page, but there's something about a few good pages of text that I enjoy. Maybe it's that text rarely has annoying blaring music, a long intro, or (as Cody pointed out) irrelevant ads. Also it seems like audio or video… video especially… is something you have to pay much more attention to. Or maybe it's the way it is much more "natural" and easy to stop reading and return to where you left off, where anything else requires you find the pause button and then find the play button again. Also text doesn't buffer (read stall on my lame connection) or have to download (much, no nitpicking!) it's just there waiting for you. And if you accidentally close the window good luck getting your audio or video back to the same point, with text you can quickly reload and scroll back to where you were.

So yeah, from now on I request, nay demand, transcripts of every non-text based thing that come across the front page. Thanks. :p