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monoauon ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator

That's not true. Science communicators in the past have successfully taught complex theories to a wider audience without compromising in integrity and accuracy.

The issue here is that many youtubers have sold factual correctness for a view count.

monoauon ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator

I can only say that after watching the respective video, I found MVG's explanation to misinterpret fundamental concepts of computing graphics, as the linked comment explains. Granted, everyone can make mistakes - but it's the fact that he doesn't correct them that I find disrespectful, it only spreads wrong information!

monoauon ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator

I feel bad for the people blindly defending him, many of his videos are wrong [1] and his viewers end up incorrectly learning a lot technical stuff, especially when there're actual knowledgeable youtubers out there.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41309281

monoauon ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator

Many mistakes that are never corrected, still misinforming people:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26222361

https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/fnl0o1/why_playstati...

monoauon Wii

MVG gets a lot of info wrong though https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26222361