Load Screens and Progress Bars - Things That Are Harder

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Why are progress bars so inaccurate?
Why even use a progress bar on your load screen?
Why not a movie, or a minigame?

Ironic that the Segmented Progress bar is made inaccurate by how long I spent ON Segmented Progress bars...

I guessed 15 minutes for the smooth bar (which was pretty close...). The PowerPoint merge animated it weirdly (Ease in and out maybe...)

Chapters:
0:00 It's a Race
0:22 Why Progress Bars Exist
1:45 Load Screens
2:24 Segmented Progress
3:40 Segmented Inaccuracy
5:59 Good For Simple Loads
7:35 Smooth Updates
9:26 Improvements
10:19 Non-progress Bar Options
12:34 Minigames Over Loads
13:28 NO LOADS
14:14 The Smooth Bar is at 99%!

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