In my personal opinion, I would be more inclined to click on the video if the thumbnail at least looked like a still image from the video. But to be honest, I probably still wouldn’t click on the video for a few reasons:

• It doesn’t sound like there are any surprises and sounds like a generic premise, which in part is because you gave away what I’m assuming to be the ending in the thumbnail. Even if that’s untrue and there’s more to it, I would still scroll past it based on the assumptions I’ve made from your title and thumbnail alone.
• Even if you made the title, “Will this 20 year GPU still work?”, I still wouldn’t click it, because nerds like me (and are your target audience for this video) know the answer: yes, they typically do.

I’m also going to guess you’ve been using LLMs for advice on your videos, to which I say: don’t bother, regardless of your feelings on them, because they offer advice for a very generic audience, and you’re making videos that grandma is never going to click on, even if the algorithm shows it to her.

My most successful thumbnails either came straight from the video (but truthfully, that was mostly luck), or I spent a decent amount of time making something that I thought looked cool. That also has led to some “failures”, though.

Good luck!

Look,

I know everybody online says to make thumbnails like these, but at least here on Lemmy, thumbnails like these are a great way to push away a potential audience.

Because it’s Microsoft and whether anybody likes it or not, they’ll do whatever they want and at best, lose a few pennies.

^^^ This. Tragically, locally run LLMs don’t even hold a candle to “good” cloud-based LLMs like Claude Code.

I don’t teach kids, so I don’t know the answer to this, but I imagine what you’d do is add guidelines to the assignment that cause them to either lose significant points or fail if they don’t specifically mention things discussed in assignments and the classroom.

I’d also like to point out that, yes, we know when kids and adults lazily insert a prompt and lazily paste its response, but anybody with half a brain knows they only need to spend an extra 15 minutes re-prompting and editing it to make it nearly unnoticeable.

The answer is probably to test them in person with no computer of any kind in front of them.

And MATLAB

Looks like you were playing on Construct. You’re right, it’s a great map.

I hate the trackpads on the original Steam controller, but love them on the Steam Deck. I want to be able to have a dedicated controller with them for when I hook up my Steam Deck to my TV, or for a handful of games that are better designed for controllers.

I was fortunately able to buy mine a minute before you were supposed to be able to order them. 🤷

”Microsoft 365 Visual Studio Labs Designer Copilot (New)”

343 Industries Halo Studios Microsoft always manages to ruin everything Halo-related, so I don’t have my hopes up.

I’m not even mad [people] take issue with my work. Good, fine. Who cares?

The classic words of somebody who deeply cares.

I know things have changed since I last did an RGH setup, which is probably where the confusion comes from; things are changing even though the scene was most active 10+ years ago.

I imagine you don’t need a NAND flasher now that ABadAvatar exists, but I could be mistaken. The process used to be, at a really high level: solder the NAND flasher/dumper, dump the original NAND, solder the RGH timer, then flash a NAND with a good timing profile for that console.

If you want a mod that persists, you’d need to do a hardware modification called the RGH exploit. It’s doable on an Xbox 360 S, but you need decent re-soldering skills to pull it off. I haven’t done it in years, but it sounds like ABadAvatar could make the process a lot easier than it used to be.

I agree that you need to point out that the algorithm isn’t to blame, but saying, “Your videos aren’t getting algorithm’d because your videos suck” isn’t constructive and is far more likely to piss people off. If you don’t care about pissing people off then 🤷

Good is subjective, and I personally don’t think entertaining always has to equal good.

I get where you’re coming from. There’s a lot of bitching about the algorithm and it’s tempting to just say, “Maybe your videos just suck, man”, but it’s not always true, and, as a a bonus, not very constructive feedback.

That’s not quite how I would phrase it. It’s not that the video was necessarily shit, but your audience was bored by it, and it doesn’t take a rocket-scientist-algorithm to figure out if people are bored by your video or not.

YouTube is still mostly a platform for entertainment, even when a video is supposed to educational. “Good” videos won’t get algorithm’d if people are bored by the video and/or your thumbnail + title don’t draw people in. Make an entertaining video that draws people in and it won’t matter how long your video is (granted, a 4 hour long entertaining video is a lot harder to make than a 2 minute video.)

Source: videos I’ve made that have and haven’t been algorithm’d.

Halo 3 ODST also has cross-platform campaign, so if your friend who was missing it gets it, it should work for everyone.

Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/halo-master-chief-collection-adds-pc-and-xbox-crossplay-to-halo-3-and-odst

Edit: Added source for verification.

I know the Skyrim part, but somebody fill me in: where is the animation of the people from?

That’s a first for Nintendo consoles. Not a good first, but still a first.

I was introduced to it around 2010 and I thought it looked mid. I then finally tried it in 2012 and it played exactly how I expected it to, which, in my opinion was not very well at all. I like Morrowind and Skyrim, though.