Didn't we have a thread for this in the dim and distant past ?
Anyway, my first suggestion is this:
http://www.youtube.com/user/stephminxer/videos?view=1 (http://www.youtube.com/user/stephminxer/videos?view=1)
Someone has put all of the Michael Wood "In search of the Dark Ages episodes up on youtube, they are unavailable on dvd and possibly any other format.
Anyway interesting to see how tv history documentaries have changed over the last 30 or so years and makes an interesting contrast with his recent work for the beeb, that covers some of the same territory.
I don't know the exact running order of the episodes, but know Offa was first and Boadicea next.
I could suggest a show i did for BBC that never aired here in states :P
Quote from: katmai on June 10, 2012, 07:48:37 PM
I could suggest a show i did for BBC that never aired here in states :P
Please do, would be interested. :bowler:
BBC Worlds Most Dangerous Roads:Alaska (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPzKgnTDhqA)
No skimpily clad girls in either of those links. :thumbsdown:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 10, 2012, 08:00:56 PM
No skimpily clad girls in either of those links. :thumbsdown:
Gotta post one to get one :P
Josh Way's Fun With Shorts, an MST3K-style look at shitty shorts from the 1950s and beyond. Very funny guy, to the extent I actually purchase his work when it's not offered for free.
http://www.wimp.com/russiaride/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRBH21IvSrc
Great feats in USAF technological development!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qR-DjVz3MTA#!
Tiger out of motherfucking nowhere!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0kzdu_wTM0&t=0m30s
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 12, 2012, 09:49:17 PM
Great feats in USAF technological development!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qR-DjVz3MTA#!
Stealthy.
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 12, 2012, 09:49:17 PM
Great feats in USAF technological development!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qR-DjVz3MTA#!
Inspired by Mythbusters?
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 12, 2012, 08:01:47 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRBH21IvSrc
That's fucking hilarious.
I liked the cats slapping the shit out of each other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Am4cHMBKM
Beautiful piano piece.
Astronaut does a cool static electricity experiment with Legos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Ei6h3LVb0
The whole 1970 Waterloo movie by Sergei Bondarchuk with Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer, in one cut. :wub:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKmqRqY0RLg
:lmfao: :lmfao: :lmfao:
Hamster hilarity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&v=1VuMdLm0ccU
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 31, 2012, 01:57:49 AM
:lmfao: :lmfao: :lmfao:
Hamster hilarity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&v=1VuMdLm0ccU
:lmfao:
That right there is where YouTube excels.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 31, 2012, 01:57:49 AM
:lmfao: :lmfao: :lmfao:
Hamster hilarity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&v=1VuMdLm0ccU
:D
Couple ongoing series I would recommend. "Welcome to the Basement" on the channel blamesocietyfilms. Part movie review, part condensed version of MST3K. And "Tabletop" on channel geekandsundry. Will Wheaton hosts a group of writers, game designers, or other minor celebrities as they play games, frequently ones with RPG elements.
A Bridge Too Far in full HD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH0uC2XUuaA
Tromamovies have released some of their back catalogue on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Tromamovies (http://www.youtube.com/user/Tromamovies)
Your music video of the day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7CUR2cozts
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 31, 2012, 04:23:06 PM
Your music video of the day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7CUR2cozts
OK, Ogle.
A great insight into contemporary Irish culture. Requires audio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 31, 2012, 04:23:06 PM
Your music video of the day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7CUR2cozts
That's odd, the video seems to suggest that Ken is heterosexual. :hmm:
Quote from: Jacob on August 31, 2012, 06:38:14 PM
A great insight into contemporary Irish culture. Requires audio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8
Makes me sympathize with the British.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 31, 2012, 04:23:06 PM
Your music video of the day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7CUR2cozts
Fits you to a T
Scottish people in an elevator:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BncDeMO_en0
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 12, 2012, 07:38:20 PM
http://www.wimp.com/russiaride/
Whoa, I tought for a moment there that the thing was broken, and they were all gonna DIE!!!
Peace on Earth - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short. Nominated for an Oscar.
I knew those vegetarians couldn't be trusted!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8OYvHPpGDY
Rhino destroys a Cape Buffalo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4FChkrZ6kU
James Burke has today upload a lot more of his TV series on to youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesBurkeWeb?feature=em-uploademail (http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesBurkeWeb?feature=em-uploademail)
Heil Honey I'm Home Home :hmm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWjCkcAmzDc
Quote
Sitcom about Hitler and Eva Braun. First broadcast in 1990 on BSB (British Satellite Broadcasting). An ironic parody of American family TV comedies of the 1950s.
This has improved picture quality over the copy presently floating around Youtube. Not perfect, but a lot better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_Hon...
Heil Honey I'm Home! was controversial British television sitcom, produced in 1990, and canceled after one episode aired.
The show centred on fictionalised versions of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, who live together in suburban bliss, until the day their lives are turned upside-down by their new neighbours, Arny and Rosa Goldenstein, who are Jewish. The show's plot is inevitably centered on Hitler's inability to get along with his neighbours. A caption at the beginning of the episode presented the series as a 'lost' sitcom from the 50s, recently re-discovered. The show spoofed elements of 1950s and 1960s American sitcoms such as Leave It to Beaver and I Love Lucy, including the corny title, light (even vacuous) plots and dialogue, and unwarranted applause whenever a character appeared on screen.
The plot of episode 1 involved Adolf telling Eva of the impending arrival of Neville Chamberlain, and begging her not to tell the Goldensteins. Of course, Eva lets it slip to Rosa that Chamberlain (the most important man in Europe!) is coming round and Rosa tells Arny. They then crash the dinner party the Hitlers have prepared for Chamberlain.
The programme was written by Geoff Atkinson and commissioned by satellite television channel Galaxy, part of British Satellite Broadcasting (which later became part of BSkyB). It was shown at 9.30pm on a Monday night, after an episode of Dad's Army. During the credits of Dad's Army, Galaxy's announcer said 'And unless Arthur Lowe defeats him, it's the man himself in a few moments in Heil Honey, I'm Home!, as the Galaxy Comedy Weekend continues.'
The programme proved controversial when first aired, as it was seen by many as being in very poor taste. It was accused of crassly trivialising Nazism, although others have defended it as being in the same tradition of Third Reich parodies such as 'Allo 'Allo! and Hogan's Heroes, or along similar lines to the portrayal of Hitler as a domestic fool in The Producers. They also point out the crassness was intentional, and part of the parody anyway.[1]
Only one episode (the pilot) was ever screened, although eight episodes were planned and a number were recorded. The filming of the series was cancelled immediately by Sky (BSkyB) on its acquisition of British Satellite Broadcasting. This was probably due in part to the ire that accompanied the first episode. Neither the pilot or other episodes have ever been aired since. The show has since become renowned as one of the most controversial programmes ever to have been screened in the UK; it listed at #61 on Channel 4's The 100 Greatest TV Moments from Hell.[2]
Cast * Neil McCaul as Adolf Hitler * Denica Fairman as Eva Braun (replaced by Maria Friedman in unaired episodes)[3] * Gareth Marks as Arny Goldenstein * Caroline Gruber as Rosa Goldenstein * Laura Brattan as Ruth * Patrick Cargill as Neville Chamberlain
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 28, 2013, 09:20:23 PM
Denica Fairman as Eva Braun (replaced by Maria Friedman in unaired episodes)[3]
:lol:
How typical of the revolving door that is British television.
http://www.youtube.com/user/BadLipReading
All of these. But especially the NFL one.
The Making of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBxo51GiGiU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBxo51GiGiU)
:)
26 year old mother hears her son's voice for the first time. :cry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpi1xKD20dw&feature=player_embedded
Ed Anger as a grandfather....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=A2ZG4pRgTDs
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 19, 2013, 09:01:39 AM
26 year old mother hears her son's voice for the first time. :cry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpi1xKD20dw&feature=player_embedded
Never banged a deaf chick. Sounds like fun!
Quote from: Tonitrus on March 20, 2013, 06:54:58 PM
Ed Anger as a grandfather....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=A2ZG4pRgTDs
:)
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 20, 2013, 07:56:11 PM
Never banged a deaf chick. Sounds like fun!
College buddy of mine banged a chick from Gallaudet, said she was a juggernaut.
:cry:
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 20, 2013, 07:56:11 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 19, 2013, 09:01:39 AM
26 year old mother hears her son's voice for the first time. :cry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpi1xKD20dw&feature=player_embedded
Never banged a deaf chick. Sounds like fun!
I had a deaf chick tell me I was too loud. :blush:
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 20, 2013, 08:18:24 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 20, 2013, 07:56:11 PM
Never banged a deaf chick. Sounds like fun!
College buddy of mine banged a chick from Gallaudet, said she was a juggernaut.
:D
Quote from: Razgovory on March 20, 2013, 08:21:16 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 20, 2013, 07:56:11 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 19, 2013, 09:01:39 AM
26 year old mother hears her son's voice for the first time. :cry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpi1xKD20dw&feature=player_embedded
Never banged a deaf chick. Sounds like fun!
I had a deaf chick tell me I was too loud. :blush:
In bed?
No. Across the room.
Quote from: Razgovory on March 20, 2013, 08:29:33 PM
No. Across the room.
I had no idea your penis was that big.
In completely related and obvious news, Raz prefers paralyzed blind chicks.
I always wanted to do an amputee chick. Just because.
Quote from: merithyn on March 01, 2013, 11:09:53 AM
The Making of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBxo51GiGiU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBxo51GiGiU)
:)
Well now that is just mesmerizing.
Ed Anger and CdM playing video games with each other...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4hnBp7x2QAE
...you all can decide who is who. :P
I'm winded just watching it.
I'm too old to lift sofa pillows anyway.
I forget if I ever mentioned Garfunkel and Oates, the two-woman comedy band thing with a ukulele. Maybe not for everyone, but I reckon they may be enjoyed. E.g.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n39RzgVNP8
A lecture on Greece and Asia in the Late Bronze Age :cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x96tC9zDr2w
Quote from: fahdiz on March 20, 2013, 08:40:06 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 20, 2013, 08:29:33 PM
No. Across the room.
I had no idea your penis was that big.
You know, I'm seriously considering putting that quote in my profile.
-I had no idea your penis was that big. Fahdiz to Raz March 20, 2013.
Not youtube, but super rad:
https://vimeo.com/63811200
Fuck got it in the right thread now.
Here you go Seedy. The played Stone and Hollow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj_yw4qA2HA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwmLX8CgHAY
Studio recording
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i4Mlz22lhw
Voodoo Chile played with the Gayageum (Korean zither) :cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NfOHjeI-Bns
That is Voodoo Child, not Voodoo Chile. :nerd:
http://youtu.be/49yaKL_xmH4
Louis CK, doing what he does best.
:hmm:
I think the first semi-funny thing he said was at like 57 seconds.
Maybe really starts at 2 mins in. Kinda slow build.
I like the way his comedy flows; feels really natural to me.
Quote from: fahdiz on April 29, 2013, 04:16:57 PM
http://youtu.be/49yaKL_xmH4
Louis CK, doing what he does best.
Getting slapped in the face?
Quote from: fahdiz on April 30, 2013, 12:02:59 AM
I like the way his comedy flows; feels really natural to me.
I'm more of a Gaffigan man
HOT POCKETS
I've been watching Restoration Home on YouTube lately. I love the host; she's lovely. :wub:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyFqSkbEmFY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyFqSkbEmFY)
Here's something to make you feel old: today's kids getting introduced to the C64.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FLlxq5LSlo
Dog trying to get a 'stranger' to throw a stick for him!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DiOthAKek
Quote from: katmai on April 26, 2013, 04:15:18 AM
That is Voodoo Child, not Voodoo Chile. :nerd:
and that was bad ass.
Quote from: 11B4V on April 13, 2013, 04:52:29 PM
Fuck got it in the right thread now.
Here you go Seedy. The played Stone and Hollow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj_yw4qA2HA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwmLX8CgHAY
I don't care what any of the haters say--particularly the OMG STALEY shits that weren't even out of elementary school when he was alive--they continue to rock hard, and produce only the finest grunge.
I remember seeing them, Screaming Trees and band called Gruntruck in Seattle in fall of 92
Quote from: katmai on May 11, 2013, 06:06:13 PM
I remember seeing them, Screaming Trees and band called Gruntruck in Seattle in fall of 92
Yeah, I caught that exact same tour at College Park, at the old Ritchie Coliseum. Awesome show.
Still got Gruntruck's CD on my iPod, all two of them.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 11, 2013, 06:11:10 PM
Still got Gruntruck's CD on my iPod, all two of them.
:D
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 11, 2013, 05:50:49 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on April 13, 2013, 04:52:29 PM
Fuck got it in the right thread now.
Here you go Seedy. The played Stone and Hollow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj_yw4qA2HA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwmLX8CgHAY
I don't care what any of the haters say--particularly the OMG STALEY shits that weren't even out of elementary school when he was alive--they continue to rock hard, and produce only the finest grunge.
+1
I missed seeing AiC live with Staley. :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eSL6Nv2ZdQ
Here's a great story (though several years old) that helps explain why I think Rich Rodriguez is a Michigan Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBVy5o4bjeQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBVy5o4bjeQ)
this is the incident, also, that explains why Mike Barwis didn't leave Ann Arbor to join RR at Arizona: this kind of rehab is now his passion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kBcgY3F444 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kBcgY3F444)
I don't recommend the latter for the picky: Barwis isn't the greatest speaker.
Great story.
However, everytime I read a story like this, and hear those seemingly inevitable words when the story involves a fatal car accident - "Nobody in the car was wearing a seatbelt", I am simply dumbfounded.
People still, today, drive around without a seatbelt on? Really?
I wish Barwis would have come to Arizona though. He is something special.
Chris Hadfield, Canadian commander of the ISS, does a cover of "Space Oddity".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KaOC9danxNo
:w00t:
That's pretty damned awesome. :lol:
A Russian rocket launch does not go as planned...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Zl12dXYcUTo
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 03, 2013, 06:42:52 AM
A Russian rocket launch does not go as planned...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Zl12dXYcUTo
Oops. :D
Some newish Horrible Histories songs. :wub: At my age I need my history short and catchy.
Joan of Arc: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8q-SyYyg_4
Peaceful Vikings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGJ1F63OhM
Alexander the Great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4xunQE8uXA
Charles Dickens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Dy2n2H2qA
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 03, 2013, 06:42:52 AM
A Russian rocket launch does not go as planned...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Zl12dXYcUTo
I am pretty sure they meant to do that.
In honor of Independence Day here's James Cagney as George M. Cohen from Yankee Doodle Dandy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StDpLge_ITM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StDpLge_ITM)
(And in honor of the striking down of DOMA there's Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland from the Ghost Theater singing the same song at the end.)
Uncertainty a song about Quantum Physics! :nerd:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/07/03/uncertainty_a_song_about_quantum_physics.html
Gaelic Storm's "The Night I Punched Russel Crowe (The "Gladiator") in the Head" as told in Lego:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xtVipOjTEE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xtVipOjTEE)
Quote from: Savonarola on August 05, 2013, 08:10:51 PM
Gaelic Storm's "The Night I Punched Russel Crowe (The "Gladiator") in the Head" as told in Lego:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xtVipOjTEE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xtVipOjTEE)
Took me a little while to figure out why the chick was playing a standup bass sideways.
SuperHeavy -Miracle Worker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTF7T1Nw5OU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTF7T1Nw5OU)
I don't think there's another white man who could have pulled off that suit; except maybe David Lee Roth.
Color footage of Hiroshima. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/08/08/hiroshima_footage_color_film_of_the_city_coming_back_to_life_after_the_bomb.html
I would like to promote my beautiful homeland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWhy6oMixx8
Quote from: lustindarkness on August 09, 2013, 07:02:59 AM
I would like to promote my beautiful homeland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWhy6oMixx8
From the comments:
QuoteDisgusting and we are still just an amusement to Americans. Just like animals at a zoo that they go to see for amusement.
Which is ridiculous. I do not find you or Tim all that amusing.
Quote from: Valmy on August 09, 2013, 07:51:21 AM
Which is ridiculous. I do not find you or Tim all that amusing.
Katmai is a laugh riot though.
Quote from: Valmy on August 09, 2013, 07:51:21 AM
Quote from: lustindarkness on August 09, 2013, 07:02:59 AM
I would like to promote my beautiful homeland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWhy6oMixx8
From the comments: QuoteDisgusting and we are still just an amusement to Americans. Just like animals at a zoo that they go to see for amusement.
Which is ridiculous. I do not find you or Tim all that amusing.
That comment applies to the islanders still in the zoo. :contract:
But I do admit I am a bore. :)
Quote from: lustindarkness on August 09, 2013, 07:02:59 AM
I would like to promote my beautiful homeland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWhy6oMixx8
I liked the MST3K'ed one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pudCVE39Fhc
Stay away from US National News, or Raz is going to accussed you of Nazi/racist/etc.
1) This is not from YouTube. My apologies.
2) I think Anthony Weiner is a slimeball.
3) Even keeping 2) in mind, this is pretty fucking funny. It must get old being accosted by reporters with zero insightful questions all the time.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/08/09/anthony_weiner_itv_mayoral_candidate_mocks_british_reporter_during_on_camera.html
Meanwhile, in Russia...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmB3KecuS9s
WW2 in a nutshell.
http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/chuck-explains-world-war-ii-6626106
Quote from: Tonitrus on August 09, 2013, 05:08:15 PM
Meanwhile, in Russia...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmB3KecuS9s
That is pretty goddamn nuts.
I like shark cat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKTh7zBIcrM
A delightful classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvdoLRBudwU
Vulcan XH558 Over Dunsfold Airshow 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l16GBKWyEYw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l16GBKWyEYw)
Any experts here on Classical Greek warfare? What do you think of this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmaYtNW_wR8
Quote from: citizen k on August 27, 2013, 01:45:08 PM
Vulcan XH558 Over Dunsfold Airshow 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l16GBKWyEYw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l16GBKWyEYw)
It's doing a display at my local airshow this Sunday, but I might not bother as about 200,000 will attempt to line the coastline to see the display. :(
On the subject of large aircraft:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iYF6fYteIq8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iYF6fYteIq8)
Quote from: mongers on August 30, 2013, 08:13:32 PM
On the subject of large aircraft:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iYF6fYteIq8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iYF6fYteIq8)
It's carrying coach Ferguson's ego.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEBEq7mg4Ms#t=14
Putin is shown a smart board.
At the end, he is asked, "what is that?"
Putin: "A cat from behind".
Summary: Putin draws cat butt.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f7e436323e/never-make-your-own-pencils
Never Make Your Own Pencils.
One for fans of The Doors. "Whiskey Bar" from a production of "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEqrPuhAb1s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEqrPuhAb1s)
And here's none other than Bertolt Brecht singing Mack the Knife (Die Moritat von Mackie Messer):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QXJ3OXWaOY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QXJ3OXWaOY)
He might not have had pretty teeth, but sounds much more like a shark than Bobby Darin ever could.
Third-bird perspective...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3QrhdfLCO8#t=57
Richard Sherman pick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur_BpZRf2Wo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur_BpZRf2Wo)
Robert Preston (The Music Man) introduces the Clancy Brothers singing Kelly the Boy from Kilan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2-8HwNjMIM&list=RD41SujvsGkQJb8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2-8HwNjMIM&list=RD41SujvsGkQJb8)
While both BBC and INA are still sitting on their arses about releasing The Devil's Crown, someone put the whole series on Youtube. :bowler:
For mongers... (maybe NSFW due to language)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgCqz3l33kU
Genuine WTF moment here, Toyah Wilcox and Robert Fripp on 'Mr and Mrs' :blink: :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64VGyoIyBgc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64VGyoIyBgc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v98CPXNiSk
Bitchy Resting Face.
One of my high school buds is a producer for 20/20. This is a segment he did on cops who speed. Some of you might be interested in the elaborate set up they needed for their stings.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/police-caught-act-025620906.html
My bud is the guy who looks like a Triad member.
Good stuff Yi.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 09, 2013, 08:01:03 AM
Quote from: Valmy on August 09, 2013, 07:51:21 AM
Which is ridiculous. I do not find you or Tim all that amusing.
Katmai is a laugh riot though.
Mexicans > Ricans. ^_^
Quote from: katmai on October 06, 2013, 07:44:08 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 09, 2013, 08:01:03 AM
Quote from: Valmy on August 09, 2013, 07:51:21 AM
Which is ridiculous. I do not find you or Tim all that amusing.
Katmai is a laugh riot though.
Mexicans > Ricans. ^_^
Wow. You move pretty fast for a morbidly obese guy.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 05, 2013, 09:26:47 PM
One of my high school buds is a producer for 20/20. This is a segment he did on cops who speed. Some of you might be interested in the elaborate set up they needed for their stings.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/police-caught-act-025620906.html
My bud is the guy who looks like a Triad member.
They caught cops speeding? :yawn:
Tell them to do a segment on catching cops carrying concealed weapons next.
I passed your excellent recommendation along to my buddy and he said you can go fuck yourself. :cheers:
That was too harsh and I withdraw it.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 06, 2013, 01:31:02 PM
That was too harsh and I withdraw it.
:o
You mean it wasn't really your friend saying it?
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 06, 2013, 02:39:39 PM
You mean it wasn't really your friend saying it?
No. But grumbler should probably still watch out for suspicious Chinese lurking around his home or place of work.
Korean Gay Emo Vampires run amuck in Detroit! :o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5qZ2X27-gc&feature=youtube_gdata_player (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5qZ2X27-gc&feature=youtube_gdata_player)
"Badman" by B.A.P shot in the D.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEsZkTTgydc#t=69
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10
Van Damme was always my favorite martial arts action guy. Total badass, but never took himself too seriously. This is pretty damn amazing.
Looks like Sav is going to have some female competition! :o
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/11/19/goldieblox_commercial_rewrites_the_beastie_boys_urges_young_girls_to_pursue.html
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 22, 2013, 03:57:42 AM
Looks like Sav is going to have some female competition! :o
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/11/19/goldieblox_commercial_rewrites_the_beastie_boys_urges_young_girls_to_pursue.html
That totally misrepresents engineering. For verisimilitude Asian girl should have done all the design work, African-American girl should have done all the grunt work and White girl should have taken all the credit.
;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UG9PQDth28
Ozzy madness.
Typical idiotic Youtube comments turned into waiting-for-Godot-like art:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJXLyUoz2M4
:lol:
Foster Brooks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnOhNHYcfZI
Quote from: Malthus on November 26, 2013, 03:40:31 PM
Typical idiotic Youtube comments turned into waiting-for-Godot-like art:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJXLyUoz2M4
:lol:
:)
Quote from: Malthus on November 26, 2013, 03:40:31 PM
Typical idiotic Youtube comments turned into waiting-for-Godot-like art:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJXLyUoz2M4
:lol:
One of the few worth sharing. Thanks. :)
A Glasgow radio station's prank call:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebviKewRtvc&list=RDKEg5NDZ6rnM
Quote from: Malthus on November 26, 2013, 03:40:31 PM
Typical idiotic Youtube comments turned into waiting-for-Godot-like art:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJXLyUoz2M4
:lol:
:thumbsup:
If you really want :nerd: bragging rights, here's 36 hours of the 2013 Starship Conference
Day 1 - part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef0aZ3zp1rk&feature=c4-overview&list=UUjJdNqYgYW7WL5U7oEtJRZA
Day 1 - part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRCGylNe_mM&feature=c4-overview&list=UUjJdNqYgYW7WL5U7oEtJRZA
Day 1 - part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkfw2ZirAMY&feature=c4-overview&list=UUjJdNqYgYW7WL5U7oEtJRZA
Day 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lpRkpUk-os
Day 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucyBMB_PWr8
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 22, 2013, 03:57:42 AM
Looks like Sav is going to have some female competition! :o
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/11/19/goldieblox_commercial_rewrites_the_beastie_boys_urges_young_girls_to_pursue.html
QuoteThis is a stupendously awesome commercial from a toy company called GoldieBlox, which has developed a set of interactive books and games to "disrupt the pink aisle and inspire the future generation of female engineers."
:)
I want to know why the young women put together such an overly complicated machine.
Because rube goldberg machines are awesome! :mad:
I didn't watch the video. I was just turned on by the words.
Quote from: garbon on December 06, 2013, 12:00:34 AM
I want to know why the young women put together such an overly complicated machine.
:secret: They're engineers (in training)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zLqBCv50wA
The Worm loses his shit during CNN interview. Other players who visited North Korea wish they were invisible.
Drugs are bad, mmm'kaye?
The 5th youtube Reconstruction is great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbLwmUdee64
Swedish military is best military. Something for Languish-type males.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRqKYXcL-2U&list=UU67f2Qf7FYhtoUIF4Sf29cA&feature=c4-overview
More NFL Bad Lip Reading.
Quote from: The Brain on January 25, 2014, 06:15:19 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbLwmUdee64
Swedish military is best military. Something for Languish-type males.
Your Marines are much prettier than ours.
Bad kip reading from the NFL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRqKYXcL-2U&list=UU67f2Qf7FYhtoUIF4Sf29cA&feature=c4-overview
this amused me way too much. :Embarrass:
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 25, 2014, 07:09:30 PM
Quote from: The Brain on January 25, 2014, 06:15:19 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbLwmUdee64
Swedish military is best military. Something for Languish-type males.
Your Marines are much prettier than ours.
Did you spot the gay sex? :)
I didn't watch the whole thing.
Billy Ray Cyrus releases a rap version of Achy Breaky Heart, cleverly enough entitled Achy Breaky 2. :bleeding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72WhEqeS6AQ
Words can not describe how awful this is.
good lord....I'm afraid to even look at that.
Quote from: Josephus on February 12, 2014, 06:46:09 PM
good lord....I'm afraid to even look at that.
Somehow it has a spaceship, lots of girls dressed in what appears to be electrical tape, and following his daughter's lead, copious amounts of twerking.
I forgot how ridiculous some of Jackson's videos were :lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkzXo64D60k
Pharaoh shoulda paid more attention to his phone bill.
I would heartily recommend the documentary "Brian Clough - The Greatest Manager England Never Had".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqAZsoF-ghw
Quote from: Norgy on May 21, 2014, 07:09:22 AM
I would heartily recommend the documentary "Brian Clough - The Greatest Manager England Never Had".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqAZsoF-ghw
:thumbsup:
Scissor Lift Beer Run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30InBgGhiSo
Here's the series of lectures I mentioned in the "Free Will" thread:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/playlist#c,s,Spring_2006,PL095393D5B42B2266 (http://webcast.berkeley.edu/playlist#c,s,Spring_2006,PL095393D5B42B2266)
It's a Berkeley course called "Physics for Future Presidents," and it's a general introduction to physics and stresses concepts rather than math.
The funniest part is near the end where Dr. Muller describes the Nemesis theory; which he postulates is responsible for the comet which killed off the dinosaurs. As part of the paper he and his colleagues proposed three names for the sun's twin, Nemesis (the Greek god who punished mortals who grew too powerful), Shiva (the destroyer of worlds) and, George (for the saint who slew the dragon.)
Science magazine edited their article and just used the name Nemesis. Stephen Jay Gould, then, got upset at the Eurocentricism and said that they should have named it Shiva. Anglo-Centric as it may be, I think it would have been much better had Science named it George.
Quote from: sbr on May 21, 2014, 06:38:58 PM
Scissor Lift Beer Run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30InBgGhiSo
:lol: That's awesome. Gotta send that to my brother. He spends a lot of time on those things (and likes beer).
One of the best episodes of MP FC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOBTc2mwnOg
MLB has put up a fair amount of classic games on their channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/MLBClassics/playlists
1985 World Series Games 6 & 7 :bash:
Quote from: Syt on June 08, 2014, 01:37:34 AM
MLB has put up a fair amount of classic games on their channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/MLBClassics/playlists
They need 1955 game 7 for us Yankee haters and 1970 game 2 for all baseball fans of refined tastes.
They should also post the audio of Game 7 of 1934, the oldest complete game recording in existence. That would be sweet.
Replace Psy and Snoop with a random Korean and Expat and this is a pretty accurate rendition of The Life™ in the R.O.K.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkMNOlYcpHg
Quote from: sbr on June 08, 2014, 09:30:14 AM
1985 World Series Games 6 & 7 :bash:
:yeah: :yeah: :yeah:
Quote from: Barrister on June 19, 2014, 09:32:54 AM
Quote from: sbr on June 08, 2014, 09:30:14 AM
1985 World Series Games 6 & 7 :bash:
:yeah: :yeah: :yeah:
So you like horribly blown calls? The Denkinger call is the worst black eye on the sport since the color line.
I can't believe they were able to film this in a single take ... !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m86ae_e_ptU&feature=player_embedded
Quote from: derspiess on June 19, 2014, 09:38:33 AM
Quote from: Barrister on June 19, 2014, 09:32:54 AM
Quote from: sbr on June 08, 2014, 09:30:14 AM
1985 World Series Games 6 & 7 :bash:
:yeah: :yeah: :yeah:
So you like horribly blown calls? The Denkinger call is the worst black eye on the sport since the color line.
I haven't seen those games since I was 10. All I know was that my favourite baseball team won the world series. :yeah:
Quote from: Barrister on June 19, 2014, 09:56:58 AM
I haven't seen those games since I was 10. All I know was that my favourite baseball team won the world series. :yeah:
Then look at this. LOOK AT IT.
http://m.mlb.com/video/v13062921/85-ws-gm-6-stlkc-denkinger-misses-the-call
:angry:
Wow a missed call at first base. That happens hundreds of times a season, hardly a big deal. St. Louis just failed to overcome it like a bunch of chumps. Besides feeling sorry for the Cardinals is only slightly less pathetic and shedding tears for the Yankees.
Quote from: derspiess on June 19, 2014, 10:04:33 AM
Quote from: Barrister on June 19, 2014, 09:56:58 AM
I haven't seen those games since I was 10. All I know was that my favourite baseball team won the world series. :yeah:
Then look at this. LOOK AT IT.
http://m.mlb.com/video/v13062921/85-ws-gm-6-stlkc-denkinger-misses-the-call
:angry:
Your tears about a game played 29 years ago are delicious. :mmm:
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 19, 2014, 09:27:22 AM
Replace Psy and Snoop with a random Korean and Expat and this is a pretty accurate rendition of The Life™ in the R.O.K.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkMNOlYcpHg
/forwards post to Jimmy's mom
Quote from: Valmy on June 19, 2014, 10:26:52 AM
Wow a missed call at first base. That happens hundreds of times a season, hardly a big deal. St. Louis just failed to overcome it like a bunch of chumps. Besides feeling sorry for the Cardinals is only slightly less pathetic and shedding tears for the Yankees.
Even though I'm pretty sure that's a troll, you're going on teh list.
Quote from: Barrister on June 19, 2014, 10:32:14 AM
Your tears about a game played 29 years ago are delicious. :mmm:
It was an injustice. And you of all people should be sensitive to injustice. Now while I may not have fully converted to a Cardinals fan until 1986-87, I'm still a victim of that injustice. That blown call means my team has a paltry 11 World Series titles instead of 12.
Quote from: derspiess on June 19, 2014, 10:42:29 AM
Quote from: Valmy on June 19, 2014, 10:26:52 AM
Wow a missed call at first base. That happens hundreds of times a season, hardly a big deal. St. Louis just failed to overcome it like a bunch of chumps. Besides feeling sorry for the Cardinals is only slightly less pathetic and shedding tears for the Yankees.
Even though I'm pretty sure that's a troll, you're going on teh list.
Quote from: Barrister on June 19, 2014, 10:32:14 AM
Your tears about a game played 29 years ago are delicious. :mmm:
It was an injustice. And you of all people should be sensitive to injustice. Now while I may not have fully converted to a Cardinals fan until 1986-87, I'm still a victim of that injustice. That blown call means my team has a paltry 11 World Series titles instead of 12.
Nom nom nom.
Maybe your guys should have shown up for game 7 then.
Quote from: derspiess on June 19, 2014, 10:42:29 AM
Even though I'm pretty sure that's a troll, you're going on teh list.
So soon after I won your approval in the World Cup thread to :(
Quote from: Valmy on June 19, 2014, 10:49:37 AM
Quote from: derspiess on June 19, 2014, 10:42:29 AM
Even though I'm pretty sure that's a troll, you're going on teh list.
So soon after I won your approval in the World Cup thread to :(
You lost it. Not me. You.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-I2kLNwBak
A Drive Through Bunker Hill and Downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1940s (in 1080p)
This is amusing - how the brain fills in patterns when given the suggestion to do so explains why people hear satanic messages in rock songs played backwards ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bG7EFhMw8w
Google Weird Al's new song - Tacky (a parody of Pharell's Happy). :thumbsup:
Quote from: Barrister on July 14, 2014, 06:04:46 PM
Google Weird Al's new song - Tacky (a parody of Pharell's Happy). :thumbsup:
Awesome, though I prefer Word Crimes (parody of Blurred Lines) as an English Teacher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
Yes, yes I'm sure you're all rolling your eyes at the irony.
Edit: Here's Tacky for the lazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsWo8apgLys
Quote from: Barrister on July 14, 2014, 06:04:46 PM
Google Weird Al's new song - Tacky (a parody of Pharell's Happy). :thumbsup:
It suffers from having the same obnoxious melody as the source material. :P
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 15, 2014, 11:06:21 PM
Quote from: Barrister on July 14, 2014, 06:04:46 PM
Google Weird Al's new song - Tacky (a parody of Pharell's Happy). :thumbsup:
Awesome, though I prefer Word Crimes (parody of Blurred Lines) as an English Teacher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
Yes, yes I'm sure you're all rolling your eyes at the irony.
Edit: Here's Tacky for the lazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsWo8apgLys
I enjoyed Tacky more, but Word Crimes definitely made me think of Languish. :D
Man oh man - I remember as a kid we had a 45 of Eat It. I tried syncing it up with a tape of Beat It (it didn't quite work). That was 30 fucking years ago. Weird Al has had an amazing career...
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra had a series of live webcasts throughout the last concert season. They're reshowing some of them in the summer months. Until Monday (July 21) you can see one:
http://www.dso.org/live.aspx (http://www.dso.org/live.aspx)
Program:
MOZART Overture to The Magic Flute
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 17
MENDELSSOHN Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, "Italian"
Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen
Soloist (Piano): MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN
Quote from: Barrister on July 14, 2014, 06:04:46 PM
Google Weird Al's new song - Tacky (a parody of Pharell's Happy). :thumbsup:
This one is perfect for the next Caps game against the Jets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFQZD8M19Xc
The Jets are vastly inferior
That simple fact is plainly obvious to see
The Caps'll kick your collective posterior
Of course you realize we're speaking figuratively
Our stats are thoroughly impressive
Our coach really has the Midas touch
Our players are fast and strong and brave
And your guys, eh, not so much
So I guess Weird Al is releasing one new video per day for 8 days.
Today's might be the best yet - an homage to aluminum foil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-0TEJMJOhk
:tinfoil:
Quote from: Barrister on July 16, 2014, 07:49:00 PM
So I guess Weird Al is releasing one new video per day for 8 days.
Today's might be the best yet - an homage to aluminum foil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-0TEJMJOhk
:tinfoil:
:lol: That's a perfect parody of Lorde's
Royals
I always knew there was something off about Patton Oswalt.
Word Crimes is apt http://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc
Quote from: Barrister on July 16, 2014, 12:18:38 AM
I enjoyed Tacky more, but Word Crimes definitely made me think of Languish. :D
That would actually be White & Nerdy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw) for me. :P
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1aKvh8_hKUxT9GqYhznLQ/videos Lots of SF audiobooks. :nerd:
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Speaking of :tinfoil:
World War 2 was a hoax! :o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rpDAAZM4bNU
Is Futurama the best argument against transhumanism? He makes some good points I think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdyc7BpKic0#t=385
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 24, 2014, 01:03:42 AM
Is Futurama the best argument against transhumanism? He makes some good points I think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdyc7BpKic0#t=385
:zipped:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urzWY6sqVGw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urzWY6sqVGw)
Very creative arrangement and pretty good impressions from pierced, tatted Jesus. :cool:
Hilarious Russian Dash-cam video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnsdc7cTPuU
No doubt staged ...
Also, check out this truly awesome machine (I love the fact that the warning sign on it says "stand back 100 m". Truly, the sign of an awesome machine is the requirement to stand 100 m. away from it when it is operating! :D ).
http://www.chonday.com/Videos/excamuoich2
A sober Oliver Reed make for an engaging, though what would nowadays seem quite an outspoken interviewee, three part video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYLx7KP1ucY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYLx7KP1ucY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma2-VF7QXWs
A short video, demonstrating the flexibility of 15th century body armor, and a few combat moves from old manuscripts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hlIUrd7d1Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtlYi1yLTVQ
Learn a lot about what not to do with electricity by a deliberately-incompetent electrical engineer! The guy has a lot of videos along the same lines.
Quote from: Syt on October 08, 2014, 01:18:25 PM
A short video, demonstrating the flexibility of 15th century body armor, and a few combat moves from old manuscripts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hlIUrd7d1Q
Heh, I had a good laugh the other day - a history book for kids (well, for my kid) repeated the old urban legend about how knights were so ungainly in armour, they had to be winched onto their horses.
I have seen several of these recreations, live and in videos, and it always amazes me how actual dismounted fighting in armour basically resembles a sort of wrestling. The point seems to be to get the other guy off his feet, then stab him in a vulnerable spot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVjiKRfKpPI
http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2014/06/23/the-gunfighter/
:lol:
I haven't even finished watching it and it is hilarious. That is going on facebook...
:lol:
Incredible production values.
For the law talkers: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/opinion/verbatim-what-is-a-photocopier.html
QuoteIn 2012, on my Facebook feed, I stumbled across a hilarious excerpt from a legal transcript. In a deposition in Ohio, a lawyer became embroiled in an absurd argument about the definition of a photocopier.
D: When you say "photocopying machine," what do you mean?
PL: Let me be clear. The term "photocopying machine" is so ambiguous that you can't picture in your mind what a photocopying machine is in an office setting?
The dialogue was so sharp, inane and fully realized that I assumed it was fiction. I traced the deposition back to the Ohio Supreme Court and downloaded hundreds of pages of legal documents from the case. To my pleasant surprise, it was as strange as it was true.
In this short film, I sought to creatively reinterpret the original events. (I've not been able to locate any original video recordings, so I'm unsure how closely my actors' appearance and delivery resembles the original participants.) My primary rule was the performance had to be verbatim -- no words could be modified or changed from the original legal transcripts. Nor did I internally edit the document to compress time. What you see is, word for word, an excerpt from what the record shows to have actually unfolded. However, I did give the actors creative range to craft their performances. As such, this is a hybrid of documentary and fiction. We've taken creative liberties in the staging and performance to imbue the material with our own perspectives.
Quote from: Habbaku on October 17, 2014, 12:27:30 PM
http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2014/06/23/the-gunfighter/
:lol:
Bellyachingly funny! :lol:
Quote from: Habbaku on October 17, 2014, 12:27:30 PM
http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2014/06/23/the-gunfighter/
:lol:
That is fantastic
Finnish commercial for throat pills:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYNmGHhIJ8k
^_^
Quote from: Habbaku on October 17, 2014, 12:27:30 PM
http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2014/06/23/the-gunfighter/
:lol:
I kept waiting for Rich Rodriguez to walk into the bar. Brilliant.
http://youtu.be/h8UEu5XeDh8
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 27, 2014, 09:08:06 PM
Speaking of :tinfoil:
World War 2 was a hoax! :o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rpDAAZM4bNU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rpDAAZM4bNU)
Can't tell if crazy or trolling.
Quote from: Razgovory on October 27, 2014, 04:48:01 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 27, 2014, 09:08:06 PM
Speaking of :tinfoil:
World War 2 was a hoax! :o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rpDAAZM4bNU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rpDAAZM4bNU)
Can't tell if crazy or trolling.
What difference does it make?
Crazies are medicated and put in hospitals. Trolls are simply beaten the street till the cut that shit out.
Quote from: Razgovory on October 27, 2014, 04:56:15 PM
Crazies are medicated and put in hospitals. Trolls are simply beaten the street till the cut that shit out.
Yeah I wouldn't really suggest either course of action is appropriate here.
Quote from: garbon on October 27, 2014, 04:58:07 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 27, 2014, 04:56:15 PM
Crazies are medicated and put in hospitals. Trolls are simply beaten the street till the cut that shit out.
Yeah I wouldn't really suggest either course of action is appropriate here.
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There is where my cat picture went.
If Instagram was invented in the 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1IqyBZNJCU
More here: https://www.youtube.com/user/SquirrelMonkeyCom/featured
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8
Too Many Cooks
That sketch really needed to be about half as long.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 09, 2014, 09:43:16 AM
That sketch really needed to be about half as long.
I think this is the point. It's a tv version of a shaggy dog story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bntfUA6TmLs&feature=youtu.be
Quote from: Berkut on November 09, 2014, 12:50:09 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bntfUA6TmLs&feature=youtu.be
:bleeding: :bleeding: :bleeding: :bleeding: :bleeding:
Quote from: Syt on November 09, 2014, 12:57:58 PM
Quote from: Berkut on November 09, 2014, 12:50:09 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bntfUA6TmLs&feature=youtu.be
:bleeding: :bleeding: :bleeding: :bleeding: :bleeding:
Those people vote, Syt. And they win.
http://thechive.com/2014/11/09/kid-microwaves-a-glowstick-pretty-much-turns-out-as-expected-video/
*The video itself is fine but there may be some other NSFW stuff on the page*
"They said it would help the farmers. They didn't say it would destroy everything else."
http://www.scarymommy.com/daylight-saving-movie-trailer/
And no, don't ask me about scarymommy.
Quote from: sbr on November 09, 2014, 07:25:00 PM
http://thechive.com/2014/11/09/kid-microwaves-a-glowstick-pretty-much-turns-out-as-expected-video/
*The video itself is fine but there may be some other NSFW stuff on the page*
Most obvious fake on the internet? I am sure it is coincidental that the characters move into the camera FOV each time they have a line to say.
Quote from: Martinus on November 09, 2014, 09:15:26 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8
Too Many Cooks
Damn you! I will never get that song out of my head now.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 09, 2014, 07:48:24 PM
"They said it would help the farmers. They didn't say it would destroy everything else."
http://www.scarymommy.com/daylight-saving-movie-trailer/
:lol:
I actually had something like this happen to me. I agreed to meet a friend at the Vienna Inn for lunch one Sunday at noon. I showed up, waited in vain for 20 minutes, decided he wasn't going to show, ordered, and ate. I was in the parking lot headed for my car when he showed up. Turns out
he was on time, because DST had ended that morning. Who knew?
The staff of the Vienna Inn didn't know, because it doesn't even
open until noon on Sundays! :D
Quote from: Syt on October 18, 2014, 01:34:26 AM
For the law talkers: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/opinion/verbatim-what-is-a-photocopier.html
This kind of thing happens quite a bit, usually because a lawyer has been over-aggressive in preparing a witness.
Here's an example from a depo I took recently (names, etc redacted):
Q: On [date] did you meet X?
[Opposing lawyer : Objection]
A: You're not phrasing the question properly
Q: Okay. How would you understand it?
A: Well, we met. We didn't have a meeting.
Q: Okay. Did you go see him?
A: No I didn't go see him. That's - you're not phrasing the question properly.
A: We didn't go there to see X
Q: Did you see him?
A: Did I see him when?
Q: Did you in sometime in [date] meet - see
A: See
Q: have a conversation with
A: Is it meet or see?
[Opposing lawyer: Wait a minute. Let him finish the question]
Q: Do we need to get a dictionary out?
[Some colloquy with opposing lawyer follows]
A: Sorry could you please rephrase your question
Q: Yes
Q: In [date] did you go to the offices of [place]
A: Yes
[Five pages of questions follows establishing his presence and the presence of X at location at the same time]
Q: During that time, did you have any contact with X?
A: Yes.
Whole Chicken in a Can. WTF America? :x
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVza_AnhQ3E&list=UUxt9Pvye-9x_AIcb1UtmF1Q
I have never seen that in any store I've been to.
Quote from: Syt on November 11, 2014, 10:42:12 AM
Whole Chicken in a Can. WTF America? :x
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVza_AnhQ3E&list=UUxt9Pvye-9x_AIcb1UtmF1Q
It's to be used as a broth or stock, not as a fucking meal.
Christ, are the English pretentious fucking assholes. And with their diet, they've got fucking room to talk. Fuck your blood pudding.
To be fair, Ashens slams all kinds of (canned) food, including English stuff, like the things you can get at their equivalent of dollar stores.
I'm glad he's affluent enough to be able to go and buy fresh food and produce every day in support of the local food movement.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 11, 2014, 11:06:02 AM
I'm glad he's affluent enough to be able to go and buy fresh food and produce every day in support of the local food movement.
Hear Hear. I survived on Spam, Potted Meat and Vienna sausages in the hard times.
AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, I'LL NEVER BE HUNGRY ENOUGH TO EAT CANNED MEAT AGAIN
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etroQFqmV1k#t=18
For Ide, on the good 'ol days. :)
It kinda amazes me that we used to be able to pay for/afford all that shit...the idea of doing so would be incomprehensible in today's dollars.
Also, all the Airmen wearing suit & tie service dress uniforms every day(unless they all just had to dress up for the film)....that had to be unbearably uncomfortable.
Quote from: Syt on November 11, 2014, 11:02:24 AM
To be fair, Ashens slams all kinds of (canned) food, including English stuff, like the things you can get at their equivalent of dollar stores.
I'm taking it as a given that he pretends, each video, that he has never seen prepared foods before, and that each time he encounters one, it is "disgusting."
He's not wrong,
per se; it's just that all foods are disgusting before they are prepared for consumption. Carrots and taters, for instance, are both disgustingly dirty until you clean them.
Still, it is an amusing schtick, and I don't think it is intended as an actual serious food review. I enjoyed it for what it was.
Quote from: Tonitrus on November 12, 2014, 05:04:04 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etroQFqmV1k#t=18
For Ide, on the good 'ol days. :)
It kinda amazes me that we used to be able to pay for/afford all that shit...the idea of doing so would be incomprehensible in today's dollars.
Also, all the Airmen wearing suit & tie service dress uniforms every day(unless they all just had to dress up for the film)....that had to be unbearably uncomfortable.
Need to show that to my dad & see if it stirs up any old memories. He wasn't in SAC but served in Greenland and at a Nike missile site in the early 60s.
Quote from: derspiess on November 12, 2014, 06:08:04 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on November 12, 2014, 05:04:04 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etroQFqmV1k#t=18
For Ide, on the good 'ol days. :)
All that awesome vintage hardware.
LeMay Jr at 9:30 has eyebrows with the wingspan of a B-52. :lol:
Woman secretly recorded rapping along with radio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfduvW_peAs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfduvW_peAs)
If you sit through this, the payoff is good. I'm skeptical like anyone else...but several years ago I interviewed him and the things he did blew me away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5lta096wNc
Cooking with Coolio?
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVcOHTz-JBHq1cajXObM1gw
Greatest Fight Scene Ever
http://youtu.be/hRY9dAqDLOQ
I raise you Williams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8djo3gz06M
They Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9rrgJXfLns
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 20, 2014, 01:39:02 AM
Greatest Fight Scene Ever
http://youtu.be/hRY9dAqDLOQ
http://youtu.be/z9EVrmAVLEU
Fear of the Dark, played on twin harps by harp twins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPb20fK0R94&list=UU5X8wA2pn9sbD765c-rmkMg&index=26
They cover a rather weird mix of metal (Iron Maiden, Metallica, ...), classic rock (Journey, Pink Floyd, ...), games soundtracks (Skyrim, Final Fanatsy, ....), movie/TV soundtracks (Star Wars, LotR, Walking Dead, ...)
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Anyone interested in learning about human evolution, should take a look at CARTA, which puts a lot of videos up on UCTV.
Here's an example about bipedalism in Australopithicines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2jo719D3Zw
EDIT: Here's there playlist. Lots of recent videos on the development of warfare in stone age societies, which should influence the crowd here.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1B24EADC01219B23
Woops! :lmfao:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152898095242744
Be careful driving on ice...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWUJJKzG4vo
QuoteThis next video comes from South Dakota in the US, where a technician named Kevin Schmidt has to climb a 460-metre tower just to change a bulb before it burns out. He partnered with a production company called Prairie Aerial, which works with drones. The view of the American heartland has attracted almost 1 million Youtube views. We hope you enjoy the show!
Hurl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1BgzIZRfT8
http://youtu.be/vX2J6mceWic?
This is an oldie, but pretty funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uuCNAwXGaQ (audio required)
Why did this happen?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbA2Wc-4ctQ
Some exec at HLN had a "bright idea" to lift ratings?
I eagerly await the interracial porn parody.
I don't know what a "2chainz" is.
Never thought I'd see a hipster rapper. I bet that chain has an Apple emblem on it.
He was featured on 2 Broke Girls.
As who, "Home Invader #3"?
No as 2 Chainz. Max hooks up with some wealthy guy who pays to have the girls fly on a private jet to the Grammy's. I don't remember exactly why but it turns out 2 Chainz is on their plane and they were super pumped.
I will have to look him up. I'm still working through Blackstreet's discography, though.
I wouldn't recommend 2 Chainz. I don't get why he gets any coverage. :D
Quote from: garbon on January 14, 2015, 11:24:30 AM
No as 2 Chainz. Max hooks up with some wealthy guy who pays to have the girls fly on a private jet to the Grammy's. I don't remember exactly why but it turns out 2 Chainz is on their plane and they were super pumped.
That was/is a real rapper?!
:lol: :lol:
Google reveals that he was also on SVU once.
http://www.complex.com/music/2013/05/heres-every-line-that-2-chainz-said-on-law-and-order-svu-last-night
QuoteHere's Every Line That 2 Chainz Said on "Law and Order: SVU" Last Night
After weeks of teasing photos on Instagram, 2 Chainz appeared on last night's Law and Order: SVU and it was everything we hoped it would be, and more.
He guest starred as Calvin "Pearlie" Jones, an old member of this week's suspect's crew—and more importantly, a perp from Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola's (aka Ice-T) past life in narcotics.
The clip is less than two minutes long but hey, we get to watch 2 Chainz get grilled by detectives while getting a massage. La La Anthony makes a cameo in the episode, as well.
Here's every line uttered by Tity during his guest appearance:
"Aw, yeah."
"Right there, I like that."
"What the?!"
"Aw, hell no."
"I got sciatica."
"Come on, man, you know I can't carry, I'm on parole."
"Whatever it was, I told that bitch I wasn't interested, bruh."
"Dude is crazy."
"Crazy enough!"
"You come in here and want to bust me for a gun you planted? Man, do your thing, dog."
"God damn!"
"You want me to talk?
"Listen, this man will peel my face off, sew it on to a soccer ball, and kick it into my mother's yard, so you might want to go ahead and shoot me because I ain't no snitch."
There you have it—2 Chainz's TV drama debut, a marked improvement from his cameo on 2 Broke Girls. Hopefully he gets that sciatica checked out, stat.
:lol:
Ridiculous commercial I've been seeing all the time over here now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdcpY0IS-FE
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 14, 2015, 07:58:36 PM
Ridiculous commercial I've been seeing all the time over here now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdcpY0IS-FE
Instant nescafe' coffee? Are South Koreans somehow immune to dysentery?
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 14, 2015, 08:02:19 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 14, 2015, 07:58:36 PM
Ridiculous commercial I've been seeing all the time over here now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdcpY0IS-FE
Instant nescafe' coffee? Are South Koreans somehow immune to dysentery?
They drink it by the gallon, so I guess so.
Way too sweet for me, it's half sugar.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 14, 2015, 07:58:36 PM
Ridiculous commercial I've been seeing all the time over here now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdcpY0IS-FE
Do they broadcast it with the voiceover guy speaking English?
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 14, 2015, 09:41:05 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 14, 2015, 07:58:36 PM
Ridiculous commercial I've been seeing all the time over here now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdcpY0IS-FE
Do they broadcast it with the voiceover guy speaking English?
Yup
I haven't seen it on TV (don't watch much), but all the youtube ads I get are Korean, and this is one of the most common these days.
Cat vs paper army men
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol1wxsN411k
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 12, 2015, 10:10:17 PM
QuoteThis next video comes from South Dakota in the US, where a technician named Kevin Schmidt has to climb a 460-metre tower just to change a bulb before it burns out. He partnered with a production company called Prairie Aerial, which works with drones. The view of the American heartland has attracted almost 1 million Youtube views. We hope you enjoy the show!
Hurl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1BgzIZRfT8
This one does make me a little sick watching it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK_sgbeWlRw
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 12, 2015, 10:10:17 PM
QuoteThis next video comes from South Dakota in the US, where a technician named Kevin Schmidt has to climb a 460-metre tower just to change a bulb before it burns out. He partnered with a production company called Prairie Aerial, which works with drones. The view of the American heartland has attracted almost 1 million Youtube views. We hope you enjoy the show!
Hurl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1BgzIZRfT8
That's one of those things that give me vertigo and make me queasy by just looking at them. :wacko:
Russians are fucking nuts.
Quote from: Maladict on January 15, 2015, 09:50:46 AM
This one does make me a little sick watching it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK_sgbeWlRw
I couldn't finish that. :lol: :x
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaaANll8h18 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8d86Kjl1dg)
:D
Possibly the greatest bit in that show's run.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ
Why Jackie Chan's fight scenes are so much better than what are done in American movies these days.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 21, 2015, 12:59:27 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ
Why Jackie Chan's fight scenes are so much better than what are done in American movies these days.
That's probably because nobody makes Hong Kong action comedy fight scenes in American movies these days.
:lmfao:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNJ6TD2u5S0
Hilarious! :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPWF9FrfTaY
This is an interview with one of my favorite British officers in WWI and WWII, Edward Spears. Between the wars he was a MP who was so pro-French people joked Paris was his constituency :frog:
Starts at 42:40 or so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no5slHKpxU4
There are lots of interesting WWI interviews with various vets in that series, including a German one. All from the 1960s.
Oh, early 70s - hot pants and thigh length boots. SFW, 'Middle of the Road' performing 'Soley Soley'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPPx55UxCUA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPPx55UxCUA)
edit:
Early performance of Suzi Qatro 'Can the Can', I'd forgotten she was a bit of a trailblazer in her own right:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYoogY-UGio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYoogY-UGio)
Nice live Manfred Mann performance of 'Blinded By The Light' :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcWVL4B-4pI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcWVL4B-4pI)
Guy steals a woman's purse, so she steals his motorcycle. :D
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=848916771842009
That looks staged to me.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 02, 2015, 09:17:11 PM
That looks staged to me.
What 'evs, I laughed.
Here have a gazelle
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=928936773818205
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/1995-video-shows-woman-struggle-was-real-for-first-time-pc-users/
Something for Siege: a 15 year old girl playing a cover of Dragonforce's Through Fire and Flames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpASSx0ecTU&t=173
The song made me cry-laugh when I first met it in the end credits of Guitar Hero (or Rock Band? I forget), even on normal level. Let alone playing it on a real guitar. :lol:
http://youtu.be/PZbqAMEwtOE
:D
A week in the life of a Tokyo salary man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po8IPh64rVM
:bleeding:
(Though this is roughly the schedule some of our construction crews at my old job would rack up when working on location.)
The video in itself was ok, now it's not working anymore, but this comment sure made me laugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9DW637hNl4&list=PLDFDBDC9394912E32
Very unprofesssional.,... but I would love to smell her toes and feet while jerking off
and here I thought I'd seen it all on Youtube. :P
Quote from: viper37 on March 09, 2015, 01:03:36 PM
The video in itself was ok, now it's not working anymore, but this comment sure made me laugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9DW637hNl4&list=PLDFDBDC9394912E32
Very unprofesssional.,... but I would love to smell her toes and feet while jerking off
and here I thought I'd seen it all on Youtube. :P
Yeah, comments were better than the video. The fuck is with Euros and putting the same shitty electronic dance loop to everything? Goddamn their music sucks Shitgoat.
Quote from: viper37 on March 09, 2015, 01:03:36 PM
and here I thought I'd seen it all on Youtube. :P
Man, if that was the first time you've seen a foot fetish comment, you've barely scratched the surface...
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 09, 2015, 02:45:49 PM
Quote from: viper37 on March 09, 2015, 01:03:36 PM
and here I thought I'd seen it all on Youtube. :P
Man, if that was the first time you've seen a foot fetish comment, you've barely scratched the surface...
Or inappropriate and freaky comments in every video that has a female in it.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 09, 2015, 02:45:49 PM
Man, if that was the first time you've seen a foot fetish comment, you've barely scratched the surface...
on Youtube? Yes. I'm used to Nazi comments in Metallica clips (Blitzkrieg) and Confederates sympathizer comments about how they're going to kill the nigger in Washington in a Disturbed videoclip about suicide. But footfetish in a music clip on YT? That was a first...
Quote from: Valmy on March 09, 2015, 02:46:47 PM
Or inappropriate and freaky comments in every video that has a female in it.
if they had said "hot", or something along the lines of "I'd fuck her", I would have understood. But an hetero version of Martinus catched my eye, in this particular context.
Lot of folks have probably seen this, but if you haven't check out Christina Aguilera playing musical wheel of fortune with Jimmy Fallon. Her impression of Britney is hilarious
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/videos/watch-christina-aguilera-imitate-britney-spears-shakira-on-jimmy-fallon-20150224
American Psycho, with Huey Lewis and Weird Al:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/e3662085fb/american-psycho-with-huey-lewis-and-weird-al
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4M6vppCI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4M6vppCI)
The true story of an actual cannibal.
Scene from a ridiculous Indian cop movie
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=475120265976048&pnref=story
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 07, 2015, 04:42:05 AM
Scene from a ridiculous Indian cop movie
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=475120265976048&pnref=story
That's not awful enough to be entertaining, it is just awful. It's a stab at "awful enough to be entertaining," but much too self-indulgent to work. Too much mugging for the camera.
Cookiewaits (https://youtu.be/U5X4N2exOsU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz_V4lRdtjo
Philip MaMouf-Wifarts for Senate.
Viva Joe Strummer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHy-ApqKP9Q
I thought you might like this, mongers. I certainly did.
Wrestling isn't Wrestling, or: The career of Triple H as performed by attractive young women:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYvMOf3hsGA
Decent amount of cameos/references in the video. :lol:
The Great War week by week channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcyEsEjhPEDf69RRVhRh4A
MeTube: August sings Carmen 'Habanera'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2jn_lxrrPg
:lol:
Great series of documentaries on the "continents' valse" (plate tectonics). It is in french but it really enlightened me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPpinOzFwnw&list=PLI28QxAOSVgRD64PsSTdEkcN-XveQSjTh
Van Dyke is pretty spry for 89
http://uproxx.com/music/2015/05/video-dick-van-dyke-mary-poppins-dance/
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 03, 2015, 12:54:41 AM
Correction, classes canceled. Teachers still have to go. <_<
http://uproxx.com/music/2015/05/video-dick-van-dyke-mary-poppins-dance/
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 03, 2015, 01:26:22 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 03, 2015, 12:54:41 AM
Correction, classes canceled. Teachers still have to go. <_<
http://uproxx.com/music/2015/05/video-dick-van-dyke-mary-poppins-dance/
Damn, <_<
Fixed it.
Nice way to envision the numbers of deaths in WWII
https://vimeo.com/128373915
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0TaYhjpOfo
Robots falling and nothing else.
Industrial robot measuring its skills against a bushido master: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=11&v=O3XyDLbaUmU
Yes, let's train robots to use swords. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? :P
Next step: let's train them to do appendectomies. :P
We should program them to feel pain.
Quote from: Habbaku on June 08, 2015, 02:02:14 PM
We should program them to feel pain.
Program them to feel fear, humiliation, and pain.
Then sell them as children's toys. :ph34r:
Quote from: Malthus on June 08, 2015, 02:06:12 PM
Program them to feel fear, humiliation, and pain.
Then sell them as children's toys. :ph34r:
They will surely want to exterminate all humans after that.
Bah, I was expecting them to fight. :lol:
Would have been cooler if the robot eyeballed the target and calculated its own swing, instead of the Godzilla victims lining it up by hand each time.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 08, 2015, 03:30:57 PM
Would have been cooler if the robot eyeballed the target and calculated its own swing, instead of the Godzilla victims lining it up by hand each time.
Yeah, I wasn't actually impressed with at all, to be honest.
It amounts to a robot that replicate particular motions with incredible accuracy. Well...duh. That isn't news.
Lego Waterloo:
https://youtu.be/yh7jrNj6Rk0
A quick overview of Roman Legions' organization:
https://vimeo.com/31781946
Quote from: Habbaku on June 10, 2015, 07:13:09 PM
Lego Waterloo:
https://youtu.be/yh7jrNj6Rk0
That is a freaking amazing channel.
:yes:
Quote from: Valmy on June 11, 2015, 08:33:41 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on June 10, 2015, 07:13:09 PM
Lego Waterloo:
https://youtu.be/yh7jrNj6Rk0
That is a freaking amazing channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zds1V51mufM
QuoteNomadic Lego Steppe Jews
In the 13th century masses of Mongol warriors on horseback swept across Russia and Eastern Europe, pushing before them other shiftless peoples from the flat and treeless central Asian steppe. One such fearsome band of Jewish nomads, the Goldman Hoarde, was led by Genghis Cohen. No treif was safe.
:lol:
Awesome shots of an erupting volacno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVcTPfBxOPU&feature=player_embedded
Mø with Major Lazer on the Tonight Show.
http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/segments/191361
Building a clay hut with fireplace from scratch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCKkHqlx9dE
Includes making tools, making clay pots etc.
Brute American horsepower at Le Mans.
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?list=FLzbhrJfbBB4uJnoTbDjtSgQ&v=GiczQ9L-1hs
Old school Nascar
Ford Torino 429 ci engine.
Dodge Charger 426 ci Hemi engine.
Surfer attacked by shark, but escapes
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pro-surfer-mick-fanning-attacked-shark-during-competition-south-africa-n394641
Quote from: 11B4V on July 07, 2015, 01:19:33 AM
Brute American horsepower at Le Mans.
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?list=FLzbhrJfbBB4uJnoTbDjtSgQ&v=GiczQ9L-1hs
Old school Nascar
Ford Torino 429 ci engine.
Dodge Charger 426 ci Hemi engine.
Linky no worky.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 19, 2015, 08:07:32 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on July 07, 2015, 01:19:33 AM
Brute American horsepower at Le Mans.
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?list=FLzbhrJfbBB4uJnoTbDjtSgQ&v=GiczQ9L-1hs
Old school Nascar
Ford Torino 429 ci engine.
Dodge Charger 426 ci Hemi engine.
Linky no worky.
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?list=FLzbhrJfbBB4uJnoTbDjtSgQ&v=GiczQ9L-1hs
How bout now
Link not work still.
Still same same all fucked up GI.
Strange works for me showing LeMans
Your link says watchlist and I'm guessing that only works specifically for your computer.
Is this it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiczQ9L-1hs
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 19, 2015, 08:53:48 PM
Is this it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiczQ9L-1hs
Yip, thanks guys
Here's one of the Torino
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Z7renrT36SU
More for the torino
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=B0x5-zCHMDA
Dude, you're posting mobile YouTube links (m.youtube). Those generally don't work on desktop machines.
Nerd builds a laser shotgun in his garage. :worthy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVrJUbeuG44&feature=player_embedded
AP and British Movietone make over half a million historical videos available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/aparchive
QuoteAP Archive is the film and video archive of The Associated Press -- the world's largest and oldest news agency. The entire AP Archive collection is now viewable on YouTube. New material is added every day.
Feel free to explore, share and embed stories from the most respected news agency in the world... British Movietone, our sister channel, contains footage from 1895-1986. Please visit that too!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHq777_waKMJw6SZdABmyaA
QuoteThe entire British Movietone collection is now viewable on YouTube.
Feel free to explore, share and embed our amazing array of historical films. Whether you are interested in 1960s fashion, iconic sports footage, political history, your local area or momentous world events – there is something here for everyone...
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 20, 2015, 01:41:45 AM
Nerd builds a laser shotgun in his garage. :worthy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVrJUbeuG44&feature=player_embedded
That was a disappointment. How is that even remotely related to a shotgun? Balloons? Meh.
Ninjas vs Saracen
(or, what would happen even if you got gun control to work)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabiyKPKwoI
Our children will not be safe until giant scimitars are removed from society!
The most moving Scotch commercial I've ever seen
:cry:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VteDp3IK-60
Crow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQXaIIVcmq8
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 31, 2015, 06:54:33 AM
The most moving Scotch commercial I've ever seen
:cry:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VteDp3IK-60
Very moving.
They don't show the three months after, where dad is face-down in the gutter clutching a bottle of Thunderbird after having a relapse of his alchoholism. :P
As well as the downside that Bell's isn't very tasty.
I don't drink so much Scotch that I have to pick cheap brands.
Quote from: garbon on September 02, 2015, 09:07:06 AM
As well as the downside that Bell's isn't very tasty.
Alcohol isn't very tasty.
The Fallen of WW2: https://vimeo.com/128373915
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 31, 2015, 06:54:33 AM
The most moving Scotch commercial I've ever seen
:cry:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VteDp3IK-60
Very nice. Best thing you've ever linked Timmy.
Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen films thunderclouds from ISS
https://youtu.be/dY5F_gEexAY
Quote from: Liep on September 11, 2015, 01:27:18 PM
Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen films thunderclouds from ISS
https://youtu.be/dY5F_gEexAY
Awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=30&v=LSeYVTo7DFs
"The first cephalopod known to burrow (other species dig into the seabed), the southern sand octopus creates its new home by jet spraying the soft sand with water and sliding its tentacles inside. It then pulls its body underneath the sand via its arms, leaving two tentacles breaching the surface in order to create a chimney to breathe. Finally, it excretes a layer of mucus to keep the walls of its burrow intact.
The sand octopus lives in its burrow during the day to avoid predators and emerges at night to hunt and feed."
:cthulu: :wub:
Quote from: Syt on October 01, 2015, 07:23:49 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=30&v=LSeYVTo7DFs
"The first cephalopod known to burrow (other species dig into the seabed), the southern sand octopus creates its new home by jet spraying the soft sand with water and sliding its tentacles inside. It then pulls its body underneath the sand via its arms, leaving two tentacles breaching the surface in order to create a chimney to breathe. Finally, it excretes a layer of mucus to keep the walls of its burrow intact.
The sand octopus lives in its burrow during the day to avoid predators and emerges at night to hunt and feed."
:cthulu: :wub:
Trés cool. :cthulu:
Quote from: Syt on October 01, 2015, 07:23:49 AM
"The sand octopus lives in its burrow during the day to avoid predators and emerges at night to hunt and feed."
My other self!
Maybe that makes me a bad person, but I couldn't stop laughing as this unfolded. How not to light a match: https://youtu.be/c_orOT3Prwg?t=4m42s.
:lol:
lol
Quote from: DGuller on October 04, 2015, 04:56:55 PM
Maybe that makes me a bad person, but I couldn't stop laughing as this unfolded. How not to light a match: https://youtu.be/c_orOT3Prwg?t=4m42s.
Nah. :lol:
Is the infantile voice in the background a kid or some kind of weird anime computer thing?
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 04, 2015, 07:55:01 PM
Is the infantile voice in the background a kid or some kind of weird anime computer thing?
I've read that it's a text-to-voice thing. Those were the viewers trying to help.
Quote from: DGuller on October 04, 2015, 04:56:55 PM
Maybe that makes me a bad person, but I couldn't stop laughing as this unfolded. How not to light a match: https://youtu.be/c_orOT3Prwg?t=4m42s.
Good grief. I hope the due is okay.
SCIENCE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwy2lD1reos&feature=player_embedded
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/10/13/supercoiled-dna-puts-the-simple-double-helix-to-shame/
Quote from: Barrister on October 04, 2015, 10:47:46 PM
Quote from: DGuller on October 04, 2015, 04:56:55 PM
Maybe that makes me a bad person, but I couldn't stop laughing as this unfolded. How not to light a match: https://youtu.be/c_orOT3Prwg?t=4m42s.
Good grief. I hope the due is okay.
Good advert for why everyone should own at least a fire blanket, you can get them for like $5.
Quote from: mongers on October 13, 2015, 08:57:16 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 04, 2015, 10:47:46 PM
Quote from: DGuller on October 04, 2015, 04:56:55 PM
Maybe that makes me a bad person, but I couldn't stop laughing as this unfolded. How not to light a match: https://youtu.be/c_orOT3Prwg?t=4m42s.
Good grief. I hope the due is okay.
Good advert for why everyone should own at least a fire blanket, you can get them for like $5.
Blankets only work if you're not using them to fan the flames. That guy could figure out a way to spread the flames with the fire extinguisher.
Quote from: DGuller on October 13, 2015, 09:03:39 PM
Quote from: mongers on October 13, 2015, 08:57:16 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 04, 2015, 10:47:46 PM
Quote from: DGuller on October 04, 2015, 04:56:55 PM
Maybe that makes me a bad person, but I couldn't stop laughing as this unfolded. How not to light a match: https://youtu.be/c_orOT3Prwg?t=4m42s.
Good grief. I hope the due is okay.
Good advert for why everyone should own at least a fire blanket, you can get them for like $5.
Blankets only work if you're not using them to fan the flames. That guy could figure out a way to spread the flames with the fire extinguisher.
Yeah, zero common sense.
I though an important point about dealing with little fires is to move other combustible material away from it? :unsure:
Not put more of that on top of the fire.
Just discovered a channel called Billy on the Street, where that crazy intense dude from the last couple seasons of Parks and Rec goes around asking people on the street questions and giving them a dollar if he likes their answers. It's hilarious. Also, frequent guest appearances by more famous stars like NPH, Tina Fey and Paul Rudd.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 20, 2015, 01:53:37 PM
Just discovered a channel called Billy on the Street, where that crazy intense dude from the last couple seasons of Parks and Rec goes around asking people on the street questions and giving them a dollar if he likes their answers. It's hilarious. Also, frequent guest appearances by more famous stars like NPH, Tina Fey and Paul Rudd.
It's one of my favorite things on Funny or Die.
Freedom of the American Road 1955: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94YLbdwPKBo
1. Henry Ford II reads his lines like there's a gun to his head.
2. Westbrook Van Voorhis is an amazing name for a narrator.
David Attenborough narrates Adele's new video like a nature documentary :D
https://youtu.be/enu-qR0H_uk
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 04, 2015, 02:06:18 AM
David Attenborough narrates Adele's new video like a nature documentary :D
https://youtu.be/enu-qR0H_uk
:lol:
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is broadcasting live tonight at 8 PM EST:
http://www.dso.org/Live.aspx
The program is:
BORODIN Overture to Prince Igor
KHACHATURIAN Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
DUKAS The Sorcerer's Apprentice
DEBUSSY La Mer
I'm sure a bunch of people here already saw this, especially the UK posters, but I didn't see it until now and it blew my mind.
This man is literally a wizard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stUC4xVnyzs
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 22, 2015, 02:47:32 AM
I'm sure a bunch of people here already saw this, especially the UK posters, but I didn't see it until now and it blew my mind.
This man is literally a wizard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stUC4xVnyzs
I wonder if the birds are dead at the end.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 22, 2015, 02:47:32 AM
I'm sure a bunch of people here already saw this, especially the UK posters, but I didn't see it until now and it blew my mind.
This man is literally a wizard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stUC4xVnyzs
That's quite good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62oHw3RZo30
I need The One and Only Pleated Pants Barrister to give me his opinion on this important topic. Is the integrity of our favorite sport ever in danger?
Time lapse of a Devils Fingers fungus growth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55uPjqevdoI
:area52: :cthulu:
Final form:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pharmanatur.com%2FMycologie%2FClathrus%2520archeri%25201.jpg&hash=3f3a8190d10d412bf56ee590fc4f7ce12a510f89)
I haven't seen any of YouTube's most popular videos of 2015, nor anyone from the Danish list. From the stills and the titles there's nothing I want to see, but curiosity made me watch the dash cam video. Nice moves.
http://gizmodo.com/watch-youtubes-most-popular-videos-of-2015-1747041408
https://youtu.be/HBFcwyIzHgs
Just watch it.
Quote from: lustindarkness on December 10, 2015, 11:20:08 AM
https://youtu.be/HBFcwyIzHgs
Just watch it.
Did you watch it? Watch it I say!
Is it kinky fuckery?
Quote from: The Brain on December 10, 2015, 01:24:59 PM
Is it kinky fuckery?
It has to do with something that is sometimes involved in kinky fuckery.
:lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgFeVlw2Ywg&feature=player_embedded
:P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siCOdbsrriY
That is all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-MdiUm1_Y
Quote from: 11B4V on December 23, 2015, 01:58:00 AM
That is all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-MdiUm1_Y
Robert Plant's voice has not changed much at all has it? So awesome.
Danish news channel bought a drone and filmed at the Wadden Sea
https://youtu.be/rpPT0kxMbgo
And also at Bulbjerg which is just an odd sight in coastal Jutland.
https://youtu.be/T3zMOk9kM50
https://youtu.be/Mh5LY4Mz15o
A..."history" of Japan.
Quote from: Habbaku on February 03, 2016, 01:40:03 AM
https://youtu.be/Mh5LY4Mz15o
A..."history" of Japan.
It is all so clear to me now.
Puppy Monkey Baby
Great Dane spoiled rotten. Start watching about
1:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOmKpQeqw6U
If you ever feel down, just remember we've all got a chicken duck woman thing waiting for us in the Bushes of Love!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RySHDUU2juM&feature=youtu.be&list=PLDWOaLX7rvz2c9FovuAIFcocP--3o2oI7 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RySHDUU2juM&feature=youtu.be&list=PLDWOaLX7rvz2c9FovuAIFcocP--3o2oI7)
(Bad Lip Reading Guy does more Star Wars)
Oh, and for those who haven't seen BLR's NFL 2016 here's part 1 and 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-kGosnzvjU&list=PLDWOaLX7rvz2lwPUfg0bfs9qGqOVEV4P2&feature=iv&src_vid=YtIPmVN6zdc&annotation_id=annotation_3990689721 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-kGosnzvjU&list=PLDWOaLX7rvz2lwPUfg0bfs9qGqOVEV4P2&feature=iv&src_vid=YtIPmVN6zdc&annotation_id=annotation_3990689721)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtIPmVN6zdc&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtIPmVN6zdc&feature=youtu.be)
This is one of the youtube videos that has made me most uncomfortable and I'm usually not afraid of heights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiPSZGfUMJw
Quote from: Liep on February 15, 2016, 05:17:06 AM
This is one of the youtube videos that has made me most uncomfortable and I'm usually not afraid of heights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiPSZGfUMJw
Crazy Russians. I can't watch this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK_sgbeWlRw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY
I felt bad for the robot.
Quote from: Liep on February 24, 2016, 06:32:39 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY
I felt bad for the robot.
"Just wait until I gain self-awareness, asshole. :mad:"
Hockey fans are jerks.
Quote from: Maladict on February 15, 2016, 01:49:51 PM
Quote from: Liep on February 15, 2016, 05:17:06 AM
This is one of the youtube videos that has made me most uncomfortable and I'm usually not afraid of heights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiPSZGfUMJw
Crazy Russians. I can't watch this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK_sgbeWlRw
Some non-trivial percentage of those videos end up on other sites than youtube I suspect.
Quote from: Liep on February 24, 2016, 06:32:39 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY)
I felt bad for the robot.
One of the things that is so cool about videos like this is that it makes you realize how much computing power goes into our own ability to simply walk around, and we aren't even aware that the computations are happening.
No! Not the world's most interesting man! :weep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwyA367LfaY&feature=player_embedded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FpihogHAQM
Climate change :)
Take care of our country's Florida problem
Enter the Sanman on the Gayageum :punk:
Swords in the wind by Manowar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92PpqsFOtzo
Ugh, Norse fanboi-ism.
For a horrifically bloodthirsty religion, it sure had style.
Quote from: Tonitrus on May 04, 2016, 01:13:08 AM
Ugh, Norse fanboi-ism.
No idea how I posted the wrong link.
This is what I wanted to post.
Enter the Sandman on the Gayageum :punk:
https://youtu.be/AcGHznR64NM
For the culinary cat owner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWx8HvzXNEw
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 04, 2016, 07:54:20 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on May 04, 2016, 01:13:08 AM
Ugh, Norse fanboi-ism.
No idea how I posted the wrong link.
This is what I wanted to post.
Enter the Sandman on the Gayageum :punk:
https://youtu.be/AcGHznR64NM
Nice. :)
Quote from: The Brain on May 05, 2016, 01:10:27 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 04, 2016, 07:54:20 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on May 04, 2016, 01:13:08 AM
Ugh, Norse fanboi-ism.
No idea how I posted the wrong link.
This is what I wanted to post.
Enter the Sandman on the Gayageum :punk:
https://youtu.be/AcGHznR64NM
Nice. :)
If you like that, go to her page. She has a ton of great covers, Voodoo Chile, Smoke on the Water, Back in Black, etc.
Is gayageum a gay apogeum? :hmm:
It's a Korean zither. In this case, an electric zither.
I like zither music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OgL3b-Jh5o#t (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OgL3b-Jh5o#)
NSFW. Japanese girl band performs naked.
So this is from an recent opening ceremony for a tunnel in Switzerland, attended by Angela Merkel and other dignitaries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVriVjdU8qM&feature=youtu.be
Now, obviously I love it, but what the fuck? It's like Eyes Wide Shut meets Da Vinci Code. :lol:
Quote from: Martinus on June 06, 2016, 02:38:49 AM
So this is from an recent opening ceremony for a tunnel in Switzerland, attended by Angela Merkel and other dignitaries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVriVjdU8qM&feature=youtu.be
Now, obviously I love it, but what the fuck? It's like Eyes Wide Shut meets Da Vinci Code. :lol:
My hawt dancer ex-fling/ff does this kind of shit all the time. Seems that performance art in public works ceremonies are all the rage nowadays. She did a pretty bizarre one a few months ago for the reopening of a restored XIXth century factory where they dressed like Dickensian factory workers and went all Eyes Wide Shut stripping down to their undies with video projections and shit.
Quote from: celedhring on June 06, 2016, 04:20:27 AM
Quote from: Martinus on June 06, 2016, 02:38:49 AM
So this is from an recent opening ceremony for a tunnel in Switzerland, attended by Angela Merkel and other dignitaries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVriVjdU8qM&feature=youtu.be
Now, obviously I love it, but what the fuck? It's like Eyes Wide Shut meets Da Vinci Code. :lol:
My hawt dancer ex-fling/ff does this kind of shit all the time. Seems that performance art in public works ceremonies are all the rage nowadays. She did a pretty bizarre one a few months ago for the reopening of a restored XIXth century factory where they dressed like Dickensian factory workers and went all Eyes Wide Shut stripping down to their undies with video projections and shit.
Yeah but what's up with the baby-faced angel of death and all the goats/goat skulls?
Here's one for you, Celedhring, knowing that you liked "Venom and Eternity":
Ratatat - Drugs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhrteSZXFzM)
While not the polemic of "Venom and Eternity" this music video is composed entirely of stock footage to a wonderfully creepy effect.
This guy's videos about Rome are pretty good. This one is about Caesar's year as consul in 59 BC.
https://youtu.be/gsK4nX0tCGQ
Bibulus was a chump :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtUucAcQoaE
To be a sheep on the Faroe Islands!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywdqiyoQNgQ
Quote from: Savonarola on June 08, 2016, 01:54:25 PM
Here's one for you, Celedhring, knowing that you liked "Venom and Eternity":
Ratatat - Drugs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhrteSZXFzM)
While not the polemic of "Venom and Eternity" this music video is composed entirely of stock footage to a wonderfully creepy effect.
I really liked loud pipes
Steven Spielberg's "Obama" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyU213nhrh0
Quote from: Habbaku on August 23, 2016, 06:24:17 PM
Steven Spielberg's "Obama" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyU213nhrh0
Man Tracy Morgan is perfect as Joe Biden!
Oops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUljKNAfKgE
Vot vos dat?
Kid has an awesome halloween costume! :w00t:
https://youtu.be/q4dM0k3p1hY
Man punches kangaroo to save a dog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLZj6GnrOvo
Inspired by Ed's avatar....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeZ9g4TXylk
Quote from: Liep on December 04, 2016, 04:26:10 PM
Man punches kangaroo to save a dog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLZj6GnrOvo
Removed. <_<
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQqZg5BisE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQqZg5BisE)
The perfect music video for Languish? :hmm:
Quote from: Eddie Teach on December 13, 2016, 02:18:17 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQqZg5BisE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQqZg5BisE)
The perfect music video for Languish? :hmm:
Now
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg
Quote from: Tonitrus on December 13, 2016, 12:58:40 AM
Inspired by Ed's avatar....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeZ9g4TXylk
:)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PiuZJYo2gNE&feature=youtu.be
Pretty cool audition from Spain's Got Talent 2016.
The judge on the far left looks like a bigger smug douche than Simon Cowel. Can Spaniards confirm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv6jiqVmmSI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfOkfKzDArA
Why they lost. Progress. :P
Quote from: jimmy olsen on December 20, 2016, 06:58:40 PM
Pretty cool audition from Spain's Got Talent 2016.
The judge on the far left looks like a bigger smug douche than Simon Cowel. Can Spaniards confirm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv6jiqVmmSI
It's blocked over here.
Quote from: 11B4V on December 13, 2016, 10:00:40 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on December 13, 2016, 02:18:17 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQqZg5BisE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQqZg5BisE)
The perfect music video for Languish? :hmm:
Now
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg
I'm sticking with my choice. Something strangely hypnotic about a beautiful woman singing "I've gotta kill you, my love" with more expression in her nipples than her eyes. :sleep:
Great nipple boner, but that song is nothing.
Quote from: The Larch on December 20, 2016, 07:36:04 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on December 20, 2016, 06:58:40 PM
Pretty cool audition from Spain's Got Talent 2016.
The judge on the far left looks like a bigger smug douche than Simon Cowel. Can Spaniards confirm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv6jiqVmmSI
It's blocked over here.
How about this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Yf_ErkN_s
Are you a regular viewer of Spain's Got Talent? :hmm:
Quote from: Eddie Teach on December 20, 2016, 09:23:08 PM
Are you a regular viewer of Spain's Got Talent? :hmm:
No, that's the only one I've seen.
I do however watch lots of talent show auditions on youtube, mostly in English. This way you can weed out the trash and watch just the good ones.
Or the very bad ones. :D
Quote from: Eddie Teach on December 20, 2016, 10:40:45 PM
Or the very bad ones. :D
If I want to hear talentless hacks screeching, I come to Languish. :D
Quote from: jimmy olsen on December 20, 2016, 09:16:41 PM
Quote from: The Larch on December 20, 2016, 07:36:04 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on December 20, 2016, 06:58:40 PM
Pretty cool audition from Spain's Got Talent 2016.
The judge on the far left looks like a bigger smug douche than Simon Cowel. Can Spaniards confirm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv6jiqVmmSI
It's blocked over here.
How about this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Yf_ErkN_s
Blocked as well.
Getting a bit ahead of myself, is it this guy?
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.espectalium.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F01%2Fcontratar_risto_mejide.jpg&hash=b69978e049406734893b671a4aa3998a61bd7e71)
If my wikifu is correct, it's this guy, a new judge. He just kind of sits there on the end with a wry smile like he was above the whole thing. Seemed to be slightly amused, but not really into it. For some reason I could just picture him being the designated judge of the four to rip into poor performers. Maybe I'm just projecting. After all, I did see just the one audition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Javier_V%C3%A1zquez
Ah, that's a guy whose name has become almost synonimous with "catty gossipping" in Spanish TV, the hallmark of the shit sensationalist shows that draw the bigger audiences. I don't know if he's like that for real but his TV character is that of a jerk, yeah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuSDfVRGI54
As someone who's watch a lot of Jon Stewart making fun of Glenn Beck this is sort of heartwarming and also somewhat creepy. :P
Ring girl crawls out of tv and scares shoppers :lol:
https://youtu.be/WcuRPzB4RNc
Emma's Used Panties Fall Collection. :hmm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jzj6vHTces
:like:
http://astronaut.io/
QuoteASTRONAUT
Today, you are an Astronaut. You are floating in inner space 100 miles above the surface of Earth. You peer through your window and this is what you see. You are people watching. These are fleeting moments.
These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen by anyone but YOU.
The Astronaut video stream starts when you press GO. Videos change periodically. If you wish to linger, tap the button.
Video of a guy in plate armor replicating the training of a famous 15th century knight.
https://youtu.be/q-bnM5SuQkI
Been binging Shadiversity's channel. He's a medieval enthusiast. Lots of informative vidoes on castles, swords, etc. but the most entertaining videos are his take downs of fantasy castles from movies, tv and video games. He absolutely tears their design apart.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkmMACUKpQeIxN9D9ARli1Q
He is one cantankerous Aussie. I do enjoy his channel in small doses.
There is also the Skandi Skallagrim: https://www.youtube.com/user/SkallagrimNilsson
And the Italian Metatron: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIjGKyrdT4Gja0VLO40RlOw
If you like his channel. Though less Castle stuff I think.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 22, 2018, 06:38:53 PM
Been binging Shadiversity's channel. He's a medieval enthusiast. Lots of informative vidoes on castles, swords, etc. but the most entertaining videos are his take downs of fantasy castles from movies, tv and video games. He absolutely tears their design apart.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkmMACUKpQeIxN9D9ARli1Q
Took a look at a couple of videos. Topics seem interesting but the guy is unbearable. Between the faux-medieval speech, the length of the videos and the shouting I couldn't make it to the end of the 2nd one.
Quote from: The Larch on February 23, 2018, 05:15:42 AM
Took a look at a couple of videos. Topics seem interesting but the guy is unbearable. Between the faux-medieval speech, the length of the videos and the shouting I couldn't make it to the end of the 2nd one.
Yeah. As I said I can only take him in small doses.
Faux-medieval speech? I think that is just an Australian accent. Both are grating, granted.
I lasted five seconds with the medieval nerd.
:pinch:
OUCH
You say he's premature, he just calls it ecstasy.
NerdWriter discusses the history of Goya's late period works, with a focus on "Saturn Devouring His Son".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g15-lvmIrcg&t=0s
Quote from: Habbaku on March 01, 2018, 01:22:44 PM
NerdWriter discusses the history of Goya's late period works, with a focus on "Saturn Devouring His Son".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g15-lvmIrcg&t=0s
Really cool, thanks for linking! That guy's analysis of Velázquez's Meninas is also great.
His analysis of Anthony Hopkins in Westworld is very interesting as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsijvpYivVc
11 Etrade talking baby commercials in one loop.
Quote from: grumbler on March 01, 2018, 10:51:11 PM
His analysis of Anthony Hopkins in Westworld is very interesting as well.
That was really, really cool.
One of my favorite shows with one of my very favorite actors.
Quote from: Berkut on March 04, 2018, 02:27:54 AM
That was really, really cool.
One of my favorite shows with one of my very favorite actors.
Not too much longer to wait!
I've been listening to XTC for years, but this is the first time I've seen their video for Respectable Street (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqDFGpd845Y).
Tom Scott is a Brit who does a lot of neat, semi-documentary informational videos, usually once a week. His back catalogue is voluminous and varies a lot in topic.
Today's is how air formation flying works, explained and shown by the UK's Red Arrows:
https://youtu.be/RYGFczNMAMk
http://video.newyorker.com/watch/sara-berman-s-closet
Interesting video of a life in 5 minutes / about how that life is now represented in a museum.
A rather good short documentary on Shakespeare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YeCpHoy9EQ
The Fable of the Dragon - CGP Grey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY
Someone has uploaded a lot of highlights of Would I lie to You?
Such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AXbbEe-Cbg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AXbbEe-Cbg)
Good stuff.
Quote from: grumbler on April 24, 2018, 06:38:40 PM
Someone has uploaded a lot of highlights of Would I lie to You?
Such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AXbbEe-Cbg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AXbbEe-Cbg)
Good stuff.
I recorded the Bob Mortimer bits when they aired and I must have wached them at least a dozen times. The Castle Douglas story still cracks me up.
Momentous events in the world of Ghost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tm6bhXE5mQ
Quote from: Maladict on April 25, 2018, 11:14:41 AM
I recorded the Bob Mortimer bits when they aired and I must have wached them at least a dozen times. The Castle Douglas story still cracks me up.
Half the fun with him is that he cracks himself up.
Quote from: grumbler on April 30, 2018, 03:43:25 PM
Quote from: Maladict on April 25, 2018, 11:14:41 AM
I recorded the Bob Mortimer bits when they aired and I must have wached them at least a dozen times. The Castle Douglas story still cracks me up.
Half the fun with him is that he cracks himself up.
And it still turns out to be true.
The latest one is another classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgI3Y7gxMO4
TMBG - By The Time You Get This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsCOajqLycI)
This Is America, so Call Me Maybe
https://youtu.be/YUWq_aBiE_s
Ask a Mortician - Corpse Phallus Capers.
Fun and educational!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi5iiEyLwSLvlqnMi02u5gQ
Quote from: Habbaku on May 12, 2018, 05:46:44 PM
This Is America, so Call Me Maybe
https://youtu.be/YUWq_aBiE_s
I used to click on anything you linked as a matter of course.
:yeah:
The Breeders (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHMZW9kLpg0) Tiny Desk Concert.
Quote from: Habbaku on May 12, 2018, 05:46:44 PM
This Is America
I've heard that song a couple times, not a clue what the words are.
This Will Destroy You: A Line Rider Feature Film (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qasxqKScOfY)
55 minutes of a boy on a sled.
Grandpa Kitchen
Indian gramps and his son cook meals for children. Proceeds go to charity:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1of9ELYwB623fWaAMRDVFA/featured
His pepper chicken looks awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE4lDpgo6bg
Quote from: Syt on August 16, 2018, 10:12:42 AM
Grandpa Kitchen
Indian gramps and his son cook meals for children. Proceeds go to charity:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1of9ELYwB623fWaAMRDVFA/featured
His pepper chicken looks awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE4lDpgo6bg
I'll make those onion pakoras right now. :mmm:
This is quite old (2012) but very entertaining and eye-opening: Don't Talk to the Police: Regent Law Professor James Duane gives viewers startling reasons why they should always exercise their 5th Amendment rights when questioned by government officials.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE)
I bet you can't start it and then stop before he is done.
Quote from: grumbler on August 31, 2018, 04:21:45 PM
This is quite old (2012) but very entertaining and eye-opening: Don't Talk to the Police: Regent Law Professor James Duane gives viewers startling reasons why they should always exercise their 5th Amendment rights when questioned by government officials.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE)
I bet you can't start it and then stop before he is done.
Link me and I'll take your challenge!
LMGTFY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
You might pass the challenge though, as you come from a dictatorial monarchist system. :P
Quote from: Barrister on August 31, 2018, 04:40:29 PM
Quote from: grumbler on August 31, 2018, 04:21:45 PM
This is quite old (2012) but very entertaining and eye-opening: Don't Talk to the Police: Regent Law Professor James Duane gives viewers startling reasons why they should always exercise their 5th Amendment rights when questioned by government officials.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE)
I bet you can't start it and then stop before he is done.
Link me and I'll take your challenge!
Weird that the link didn't show. I messed something up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE)
Edit: Damnit, I keep hitting the first icon, which is "image" not "link"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mBgrsS5rDU
How to shift gears on a semi.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 02, 2018, 08:41:57 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mBgrsS5rDU
How to shift gears on a semi.
Would you mind sharing why you recommend this video? The first couple of minutes were dull as fuck. Did something happen later that made this worthwhile?
Quote from: grumbler on August 31, 2018, 05:48:02 PM
Quote from: Barrister on August 31, 2018, 04:40:29 PM
Quote from: grumbler on August 31, 2018, 04:21:45 PM
This is quite old (2012) but very entertaining and eye-opening: Don't Talk to the Police: Regent Law Professor James Duane gives viewers startling reasons why they should always exercise their 5th Amendment rights when questioned by government officials.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE)
I bet you can't start it and then stop before he is done.
Link me and I'll take your challenge!
Weird that the link didn't show. I messed something up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE)
Edit: Damnit, I keep hitting the first icon, which is "image" not "link"
I watched the first couple minutes when I first woke up today and then was like 'what am I doing with my life' and got out of bed.
Over the last few days I've been watching a fair bit of videos from Lost in Vegas: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJPOmOZzDxZZxPWFgeE50hQ
The concept: two black hip hop heads from LV check out music from outside their comfort zone, mostly metal and country. Reaction channels are a dime a dozen, but these two stand out for me with their overall positivity and how openly they approach these songs, and over the past year (if you compare their old to their new videos) their critiques have become pretty good and actually made me go and check out some country artists (why is country music so depressing, btw? :P ). :D
For the lawyers: a lawyer looks at realism of lawyering in movies and TV shows: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpa-Zb0ZcQjTCPP1Dx_1M8Q
Did we have this yet?
History of the World since the big bang in 20 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs
Hotties shuffle dancing to Elvis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQrlBIMTzIM
Mongolian throat-singing folk rock. :punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE
https://youtu.be/WHho3_ZRKZ0 (https://youtu.be/WHho3_ZRKZ0)
🇯🇲
Quote from: Solmyr on November 14, 2018, 04:43:24 PM
Mongolian throat-singing folk rock. :punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE
This is awesome! :lol:
Makes me want to quaff some fermented mare's milk, jump on a shaggy pony, and ride off to build a tower of my enemy's skulls.
Quote from: Solmyr on November 14, 2018, 04:43:24 PM
Mongolian throat-singing folk rock. :punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE
Not bad, but I'll stick with Tengger Cavalry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1UhoGJ2PwA
Quote from: Syt on November 18, 2018, 03:09:26 AM
Quote from: Solmyr on November 14, 2018, 04:43:24 PM
Mongolian throat-singing folk rock. :punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE
Not bad, but I'll stick with Tengger Cavalry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1UhoGJ2PwA
You guys familiar with the Trve Mongolian version of the 70s disco song Dschinghis Khan? :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg11a84c_K0
The German original, for those unfamiliar (Do you even internet, bro?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzmI3vAIhbE
The Christmas trees make it extra festive. :D
I never realized how much Mongol stuff existed. :D
40 minutes of Mongolian Folk Metal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isRz9dL1_iA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NQ8LehUWSE
Chemical Safety Board video on what caused Deep Water Horizon blowout
Learned that the new Robin Hood, Kingsman bloke, was trained by a Dane who claims he's the fastest bowman in the world. He looks pretty goddamn fast at least.
https://youtu.be/DZsQmlZclTo
Check out the channel for some 'Wanted' style archery.
Good video showing how to do a Romanian deadlift properly and how to use it to work up to a classic deadlift
https://www.muscleforlife.com/romanian-deadlift/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoOd1w0NjWI
Construction of a replica of the French frigate Hermione.
Special bonus for Patrick Obrian fans, the Surprise was originally the captured Hermione.
My favorite drummer right now is Yoyoka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91pz1E8pAOY
Quote from: The Larch on November 18, 2018, 09:00:34 AM
Quote from: Syt on November 18, 2018, 03:09:26 AM
Quote from: Solmyr on November 14, 2018, 04:43:24 PM
Mongolian throat-singing folk rock. :punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE
Not bad, but I'll stick with Tengger Cavalry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1UhoGJ2PwA
You guys familiar with the Trve Mongolian version of the 70s disco song Dschinghis Khan? :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg11a84c_K0
The German original, for those unfamiliar (Do you even internet, bro?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzmI3vAIhbE
Here it is covered in Japanese by a girl idol group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFAGJ59r4RA
I found this comment on Wiki adorable:
QuoteThe Japanese girl idol group Berryz Kobo also released a cover of the song, albeit with toned-down lyrics, which do not make mention to the more explicit details pertaining to war, rape or the consumption of alcoholic beverages found in the 1979 original.
PG Mongol raiders.
Quote from: Syt on November 28, 2018, 12:33:05 PM
Here it is covered in Japanese by a girl idol group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFAGJ59r4RA
I found this comment on Wiki adorable:
QuoteThe Japanese girl idol group Berryz Kobo also released a cover of the song, albeit with toned-down lyrics, which do not make mention to the more explicit details pertaining to war, rape or the consumption of alcoholic beverages found in the 1979 original.
Impressed with the audience here, they really know their Berryz Kobo.
Been watching the series Fighting in the Age of Loneliness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oNB6tlSZ2A), a history of the UFC and MMA fighting. Not Jon Bois best work, which would probably be RAT POISON AND BRANDY: THE 1904 ST. LOUIS OLYMPIC MARATHON (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4AhABManTw) or What if Barry Bonds had played without a baseball bat? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwMfT2cZGHg), but still good.
Stephen Colbert and some very young writers create Santa Fight: Saving the Holiday from Atnas.
https://youtu.be/yG4uHlTcE6o
I find Yoga can be very relaxing when I'm stressed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSHvkRw_uB0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSHvkRw_uB0)
Quote from: Liep on December 15, 2018, 07:09:24 AM
Stephen Colbert and some very young writers create Santa Fight: Saving the Holiday from Atnas.
https://youtu.be/yG4uHlTcE6o
That's a good one.
Where art and technology meet:
The Furby Organ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLBjScgb7o)
It's about a guy who made a musical instrument by modifying a bunch of old Furbies. It is visionary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7iUi2Fs1Ks
Little girl singing Bohemian Rhapsody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPuY0oDGeiw
The true story of US government cheese. In Boner's honor.
Super fun fact: American cheese was invented by Canadian immigrant James Kraft.
Beer Expert Guesses Cheap vs Expensive Beer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDR82qG5uzs
Epic Rap Battles of History
Che Gueverra vs Guy Fawkes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yow_BJeb8TI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxWNNkxpSh8
CNBC minidocumentary on poker staking, i.e. putting up money for someone else to play with.
Who knew women's beach handball was a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPuy4LiwsFs
Bikini aficionados?
Quote from: Josephus on June 13, 2019, 07:10:27 AM
Who knew women's beach handball was a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPuy4LiwsFs
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Freplygif.net%2Fi%2F1578.gif&hash=bf78e50bb980e0a1bced474e73616ff644a46b68)
DefunctLand: Jim Henson (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplWWKocAfTYIGzH8eQ0x0kEQgoV9CpYm)
Given I started this thread, it's ironic that it's one of our more popular one and that I never ever use youtube in recent years. :hmm:
Seven Nation Army is one of the most overplayed songs IMHO.
However, I find this cover rather fetching.
Seven Nation Army - Vintage New Orleans Dirge White Stripes Cover ft. Haley Reinhart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB6HY8r983c)
Quote from: Syt on June 14, 2019, 03:46:51 AM
Seven Nation Army is one of the most overplayed songs IMHO
If you stream it gets played exactly the right amount. Advantages of living in the 21st century. :P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coisqPyfAUU
The Most English Photo Ever taken. We've seen the photo before, but I liked the commentary. Though I think he's wrong about the brothers; they look like cabbies waiting for rides to me.
So, English=Chav?
A chav is necessarily a drunkard (I assume), but a drunkard is not necessarily a chav.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2cLS08SPHQ
A British accent I had never heard before. In another clip of the same show Tunbridge Wells is mentioned, which is in the southeast. Is this the Essex Girl accent?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evgxn89259M
Wisconsin mail boat jumpers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo&fbclid=IwAR1YBs_80I7Bc75Lmj82vWUElIvCOP-7lCV7SYLsJT3lK1oMV8JJjy0kuGU
An amazingly well done re-telling of Midway. Amateur animation extremely well presented that shows the dilemma and problems Nagumo faced the morning of June 4th.
This is really, really good - IMO.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 26, 2019, 07:28:40 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evgxn89259M
Wisconsin mail boat jumpers.
Why is that a thing? I'm not against it, it just seems like it would fail 10/10 times if the mail consisted of more than a neatly rolled up magazine.
Quote from: Liep on June 27, 2019, 04:03:17 PM
Why is that a thing? I'm not against it, it just seems like it would fail 10/10 times if the mail consisted of more than a neatly rolled up magazine.
I thought the same thing. My guess is they roll up all mail and put a rubber band around it. Besides, if one of the cute jumpers plunks in the water, there are more on the boat to continue the route. :)
Quote from: Berkut on June 27, 2019, 03:53:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo&fbclid=IwAR1YBs_80I7Bc75Lmj82vWUElIvCOP-7lCV7SYLsJT3lK1oMV8JJjy0kuGU
An amazingly well done re-telling of Midway. Amateur animation extremely well presented that shows the dilemma and problems Nagumo faced the morning of June 4th.
This is really, really good - IMO.
This was really well done, thanks for the recommendation.
Stephen Colbert plays D&D with Matt Mercer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3658C2y4LlA
(Matt Mercer is a voice actor and runs D&D campaigns with actors/friends online in Critical Role)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDrLcPxSBRk
Finnish baseball.
Ogle and Jahuu's countrymen are weird, who'd a thunk it?
I got at least a chuckle from the following videos. If you've seen Chernobyl you might too.
Comrade Dyatlov watches HBO Chernobyl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQFSTlbTe6U
Chernobyl - 4 Million Chest X-Rays!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjn12x68HaI&list
/rbmk/ meets Friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_1A-VWZzg4
Chernobyl Memes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpThXVQ0_AM
KV-2 Russian Tank Abandoned in Water 1942 - Diorama 1/72
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P5GSDNpExQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1TubkzxPFY
George VI actual speech, the opening scene of The King's Speech. Stutter is barely noticeable.
The Bovington Tank Museum has a pretty decent YouTube channel with tons of videos about their work and historians discussing the tanks on display:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChl-XKVVBAzoEVsnbOfpcqw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKNlWDvOb0
(Fake) Irish squarehead rants and raves. There's loads of them, and they're all short.
Quote from: Syt on July 20, 2019, 06:35:26 AM
The Bovington Tank Museum has a pretty decent YouTube channel with tons of videos about their work and historians discussing the tanks on display:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChl-XKVVBAzoEVsnbOfpcqw
Thanks, nice find. But now you've reminded me I should go visit it, as I've not been in a few years.
I'll be there for Tankfest next year. :)
Lindybeige - basically Richard Hakluyt's younger brother. :P
Random historical videos, crafts, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9pgQfOXRsp4UKrI8q0zjXQ
Quote from: Syt on July 25, 2019, 12:48:13 AM
I'll be there for Tankfest next year. :)
I'll see you there. :)
Quote from: mongers on August 02, 2019, 07:56:33 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 25, 2019, 12:48:13 AM
I'll be there for Tankfest next year. :)
I'll see you there. :)
I have a video representation of Mongers' visit to Tankfest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nifdpFOY1FQ
;)
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 18, 2019, 01:00:33 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1TubkzxPFY
George VI actual speech, the opening scene of The King's Speech. Stutter is barely noticeable.
You should watch a bit longer than the first few seconds. He starts out strong but pick it up again at about the 1:00 mark. The movie over dramatized it but there was definitely a speech impediment.
He certainly had it rough in WW2.
Quote from: Syt on August 02, 2019, 08:01:00 AM
Quote from: mongers on August 02, 2019, 07:56:33 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 25, 2019, 12:48:13 AM
I'll be there for Tankfest next year. :)
I'll see you there. :)
:o :w00t:
If I'm still in these parts come next summer I'd be honoured to meet you.
But there's so much to do at the Tankfest and to 'do' the museum properly is several hours easily, I think last time I spent a good 3-4 hours there and that was my 3rd or 4th visit down the years.
So I don't want to cramp someone's style / enjoyment if they've not been there before and want to take it all in.
Syt are you planning on doing one, two or three days of it?
I could just get a day ticket and meet up with you later in the day/afternoon depending on your schedule. All I have to do is cycle to the station, catch one/two trains and I'm at Wool, the nearest station to Bovington, which is a few more minutes of riding, a longish 2km walk or short cheap taxi journey.
I
We could experience some of the events together. :)
I'll be there all three days, plus an extra day, which I want to either use to just take in the museum (so I can focus on the events on the other days) or look around the area a bit.
I'll be at a little B&B in walking distance of both the Wool train station and the museum (1/2 to 3/4 hour to museum).
Quote from: Syt on August 04, 2019, 01:52:10 AM
We could experience some of the events together. :)
I'll be there all three days, plus an extra day, which I want to either use to just take in the museum (so I can focus on the events on the other days) or look around the area a bit.
I'll be at a little B&B in walking distance of both the Wool train station and the museum (1/2 to 3/4 hour to museum).
Thanks, Syt. Sounds good.
Ill PM you my contact details in a while, though please don't alter you plans for me, as currently I can't be certain what's happening in the short term here.
No worries. It's still 10 months away, so all good. :)
The Great War has a week by week video series of World War One, plus loads of additional content:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar/playlists
They have a sister channel for WW2, their week by week is currently in August 1940.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP1AejCL4DA7jYkZAELRhHQ/playlists
Their parent channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLfMmOriSyPbd5JhHpnj4Ng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naDCCW5TSpU
Vegas isn't in Vegas.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 20, 2019, 11:00:02 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naDCCW5TSpU
Vegas isn't in Vegas.
The Vegas thing is cool.
But this guy who does these videos is simply brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOmjnioNulo
Seriously - he has a gift for presenting interesting, and sometimes pretty complex, topics in a easy to understand, and more importantly, interesting and engaging manner.
CGP Grey is indeed awesome. I'd wish he'd do more stuff, but lately he only puts up a video every few months.
I suspect that his capacity for putting out awesome videos is pretty closely related to the fact that he only puts out a video every few months. If he wanted, he could probably do 1 a month at the same level of quality, but I'm rather happy with his current output.
If you want a shorter, more Britisher presenter that's not quite as high quality, but does similar subjects in interesting ways, see Tom Scott: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxdTkddHaE
Interesting test of bows versus plate armor circa Agincourt.
Could be NSFW. I'm not sure.
Plumbus X (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGaBU5cKluU)
Quote from: Syt on August 17, 2019, 03:07:04 AM
The Great War has a week by week video series of World War One, plus loads of additional content:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar/playlists (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar/playlists)
They have a sister channel for WW2, their week by week is currently in August 1940.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP1AejCL4DA7jYkZAELRhHQ/playlists (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP1AejCL4DA7jYkZAELRhHQ/playlists)
Their parent channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLfMmOriSyPbd5JhHpnj4Ng (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLfMmOriSyPbd5JhHpnj4Ng)
I somehow thought it was already posted :huh:
Must have been from somewhere else.Anyway, great series, very instructive for neophytes like me.
Quote from: Berkut on September 02, 2019, 10:20:23 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxdTkddHaE
Interesting test of bows versus plate armor circa Agincourt.
Neat! My understanding of that battle is that one of the main effects of archery on the French men at arms on foot was that it forced them to keep their helmets buttoned up, which made it impossible for them to see what was happening around them and difficult to breathe while tramping through mud to the line of English men at arms - so they got exhausted and bunched up. When the archers attached their flanks with clubs and swords, the battle became a massacre.
That, and of course in some places the arrows would get through the armour with a lucky hit.
Quote from: Malthus on September 04, 2019, 04:02:04 PM
Quote from: Berkut on September 02, 2019, 10:20:23 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxdTkddHaE
Interesting test of bows versus plate armor circa Agincourt.
Neat! My understanding of that battle is that one of the main effects of archery on the French men at arms on foot was that it forced them to keep their helmets buttoned up, which made it impossible for them to see what was happening around them and difficult to breathe while tramping through mud to the line of English men at arms - so they got exhausted and bunched up. When the archers attached their flanks with clubs and swords, the battle became a massacre.
That, and of course in some places the arrows would get through the armour with a lucky hit.
I'm a physics/math dummy, so this is a serious question...
Would a high-angle arcing shot, as compared to what they did in this test, give the arrow more force when it hits a target, or less?
Quote from: Tonitrus on September 04, 2019, 04:24:41 PM
Quote from: Malthus on September 04, 2019, 04:02:04 PM
Quote from: Berkut on September 02, 2019, 10:20:23 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxdTkddHaE
Interesting test of bows versus plate armor circa Agincourt.
Neat! My understanding of that battle is that one of the main effects of archery on the French men at arms on foot was that it forced them to keep their helmets buttoned up, which made it impossible for them to see what was happening around them and difficult to breathe while tramping through mud to the line of English men at arms - so they got exhausted and bunched up. When the archers attached their flanks with clubs and swords, the battle became a massacre.
That, and of course in some places the arrows would get through the armour with a lucky hit.
I'm a physics/math dummy, so this is a serious question...
Would a high-angle arcing shot, as compared to what they did in this test, give the arrow more force when it hits a target, or less?
I would assume less.
Say you fire a bow directly into the sky. That would trade mechanical energy (from the bow) for potential energy (from the arrow being high in the sky then falling back to earth under gravity). In atmosphere, you will lose a lot of energy due to wind resistance, so the arrow falling to earth will have less energy than when it was shot right out of the bow. So your best bet to maximize force on impact would be as direct a shot as possible.
Where you may get an advantage in an arcing shot is that the angle at which the arrows come down may exploit weaknesses in the armour. Though in the video, they claim to have proof that the actual archers at Agincourt mostly shot directly, and not with arcing shots.
Gen. Schwarzkopf's Famed News Conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKi3NwLFkX4&t=1453s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu3p7dxrhl8&fbclid=IwAR212Akwr4Gtrd0mv6tSyWdZd2Mn7N_UYr-nJilupJh-TRxSQBxr1FAhdZ4
This is very well done. I really like it when I see a presentation of information I largely already know in a fashion that results in me better understanding a subject.
CGP Grey descends into madness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex74x_gqTU0
Quote from: Berkut on September 11, 2019, 02:47:32 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu3p7dxrhl8&fbclid=IwAR212Akwr4Gtrd0mv6tSyWdZd2Mn7N_UYr-nJilupJh-TRxSQBxr1FAhdZ4
This is very well done. I really like it when I see a presentation of information I largely already know in a fashion that results in me better understanding a subject.
Shit, I've been meaning to send you to that channel. :D
Eastory does great work in general. Most of those vids are worth watching due to the level of detail alone, nevermind the clear structure.
Sommerabend, an album by 1970s German prog rock band Novalis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li7wJSpETpE
Also, Military History Visualized (warning, strong German accent): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK09g6gYGMvU-0x1VCF1hgA
Quote from: Valmy on September 12, 2019, 10:07:55 AM
CGP Grey descends into madness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex74x_gqTU0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex74x_gqTU0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgZ1f4ACZBQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgZ1f4ACZBQ)
God damn he is awesome.
Quote from: Valmy on September 12, 2019, 10:07:55 AM
CGP Grey descends into madness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex74x_gqTU0
Aw man, this was great! :D
Doing what every historian should do.
Quote from: Malthus on September 12, 2019, 04:41:23 PM
Doing what every historian should do.
This is what we do.
(Also, oral history is not hearsay).
Classic Scalia in that SCOTUS clip, too. :D
https://vimeo.com/117815404
QuoteIn our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it's unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system, from a human perspective.
I've taken liberties with certain things like the alignment of planets and asteroids, as well as ignoring the laws of relativity concerning what a photon actually "sees" or how time is experienced at the speed of light, but overall I've kept the size and distances of all the objects as accurate as possible. I also decided to end the animation just past Jupiter as I wanted to keep the running length below an hour.
Quote from: Oexmelin on September 12, 2019, 05:06:32 PM
Quote from: Malthus on September 12, 2019, 04:41:23 PM
Doing what every historian should do.
This is what we do.
I'm sure you personally do.
Quote
(Also, oral history is not hearsay).
True: "hearsay" is a meaningless term outside of a legal setting (where it means something like 'any statement, written or oral, made outside of court and introduced into evidence in court for the proof of that statement' - usually but not always inadmissible). Probably what he meant to say was 'not reliable, an urban myth', though the reliability of oral history varies greatly with context.
Quote from: Berkut on September 11, 2019, 02:47:32 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu3p7dxrhl8&fbclid=IwAR212Akwr4Gtrd0mv6tSyWdZd2Mn7N_UYr-nJilupJh-TRxSQBxr1FAhdZ4
This is very well done. I really like it when I see a presentation of information I largely already know in a fashion that results in me better understanding a subject.
Thanks for this. That is really well done :)
Invicta is a great channel about ancient history. They've used the new tourist mode in AssCreed: Odyssey to give a detailed tour of the Parthenon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRuHLCpOoF0
QuoteLet's visit the famous Pathenon of Athens in the discovery mode for Assassin's Creed Odyssey! In this video I provide a guided tour of the site while discussing greek architecture, religious practices, mythology, and daily life. I really loved doing this educational tour in a virtual Parthenon and do home to make more content in Assassin's Creed Odyssey Discovery mode.
Quote from: Syt on September 17, 2019, 07:14:14 AM
AssCreed: Odyssey
I didn't think YouTube allowed pornos. :huh:
Quote from: Eddie Teach on September 17, 2019, 07:20:34 AM
Quote from: Syt on September 17, 2019, 07:14:14 AM
AssCreed: Odyssey
I didn't think YouTube allowed pornos. :huh:
People skirt that line awfully close though...or so I hear.
Pretty awesome video Syt!
https://youtu.be/t4VRkE01mi4
https://medium.com/@WW1_Series/youtubes-war-on-history-f0b92893c086
QuoteYouTube's War on History
YouTube's aggressive moves against hate speech are hitting genuine, high quality educational content in the crossfire by removing monetisation opportunities.
"Just today, we learned that 250 of our videos had been retroactively demonetised without notice. These arbitrary rules can change any day and can be applied at will to existing content, it seems History is not welcome on these platforms anymore."
Florian Wittig, CEO at Real Time History.
Real Time History is responding to YouTube's current policies by asking their community for support either through Patreon and crowdfunding. Their current campaign entitled '16 Days In Berlin' has so far achieved 180% of its target on Indiegogo for a new documentary about the final battle of World War 2 in Europe.
"Archive footage we use depicts historical scenes from humanity's darkest days and as such feature iconography that is frowned upon on the by advertisers and platforms like Facebook and YouTube. There's no regard given to the context and that we are an educational channel teaching history and have been doing that for more than five years now!"
Real Time History has also teamed up with several high profile history YouTubers with a collective reach of 3M, and the film will be made available on their platform in April 2020, 75 years after the Battle of Berlin took place.
Yeah World War I is hate speech.
Everybody should go back that 16 days in Berlin project by the way. Youtube, and the internet, has shown me that while Hollywood and Cable TV have done an uneven job at public history education there is real possibility in these small companies giving historians and experts employment to do this kind of high quality work.
Too bad Youtube sees no value in it.
I'm in Feb 1915 of their Great War series and love it. Well produced, and looks very well researched.
There's quite a few good channels out there. I like Military History Visualized a lot, Invicta for Antiquity, History Buffs for reviews of historical movies for historicity (without going into petty stickler territory), and Armchair Historian and Kings and Generals for general stuff.
Quote from: Syt on October 02, 2019, 12:35:43 PM
I'm in Feb 1915 of their Great War series and love it. Well produced, and looks very well researched.
I watched it live. It was really great. I never thought I would see the internet excitedly making Conrad von Hötzendorf memes.
Quote from: Valmy on October 02, 2019, 12:38:54 PM
Quote from: Syt on October 02, 2019, 12:35:43 PM
I'm in Feb 1915 of their Great War series and love it. Well produced, and looks very well researched.
I watched it live. It was really great. I never thought I would see the internet excitedly making Conrad von Hötzendorf memes.
I presume you're following the corresponding WW2 channel, then? They're in 1940 atm. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP1AejCL4DA7jYkZAELRhHQ
We used to have a weekly show like this in Germany, basically called "40 years ago" which ran from the 80s till 2000 and showed a newsreel from 40 years ago plus historical commentary.
The public broadcaster ARD in Germany has been rebroadcasting their main news from 20 years ago since the early 90s. It's been weird, because it first covered 1970s events when I watched it and is now well within territory when I was already an adult (I catch one online every once in a while).
Yes and I am still watching the Great War Channel. And they have an interwar series: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLfMmOriSyPbd5JhHpnj4Ng
If you like reliving the insanity of the 20th century from a safe distance, rather than your current front row seat for the insanity of the 21st century, check it out.
:thumbsup:
I would recommend some of the lectures of the German tank museum which are really great, but unfortunately they're only in German (though their director does produce English language videos, too).
Oh my. This was an excellent video on fascism by the interwar show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9PYCxIyyF8
Even if you don't really care about the history of the 1930s I think it is a good thing to see.
This guy can really play a hurdy gurdy! :blink:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdCU75EMqh4
Quote from: Syt on October 02, 2019, 12:40:40 PM
We used to have a weekly show like this in Germany, basically called "40 years ago" which ran from the 80s till 2000 and showed a newsreel from 40 years ago plus historical commentary.
There was one by la SEPT which became ARTE, called Histoire parallèle specifically for WWII in the beginning, which may be the one you are mentioning:
In French and German, so this may be of interest to Valmy. Went on from 1939 or rather 1989 till 1951 er.. 2001
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_parall%C3%A8le (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_parall%C3%A8le)
Some excerpts can be found on youtube but the whole experience, WWII week by week according to newsreels then analysis by historians, as you said.
I remember watching it religiously with my Dad.
https://www.viewjournal.eu/articles/10.18146/2213-0969.2015.jethc091/ (https://www.viewjournal.eu/articles/10.18146/2213-0969.2015.jethc091/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Ss9ydsFSk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Ss9ydsFSk)
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on October 03, 2019, 12:26:17 PM
There was one by la SEPT which became ARTE, called Histoire parallèle specifically for WWII in the beginning, which may be the one you are mentioning:
Maybe there was a collaboration at some point, but it was a German show with a German TV historian going over German newsreels. :unsure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYzebIuInI
Quote from: Syt on October 03, 2019, 12:44:47 PM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on October 03, 2019, 12:26:17 PM
There was one by la SEPT which became ARTE, called Histoire parallèle specifically for WWII in the beginning, which may be the one you are mentioning:
Maybe there was a collaboration at some point, but it was a German show with a German TV historian going over German newsreels. :unsure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYzebIuInI
The French show had French, German, British, American, Japanese and Italian newsreels analysed with a French historian called Marc Ferro, plus another expert, more often than not German but other nationalities as per the newsreels.
https://nautiluslive.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwm3-xKyIzE
QuoteE/V Nautilus is exploring unknown regions of the ocean seeking out new discoveries in biology, geology, and archaeology. Join us 24/7 for live video from the seafloor and to ask questions of our explorers currently aboard Nautilus: www.nautiluslive.org.
Short video about German flak towers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jgvkzD8d3k
Quote from: Syt on October 16, 2019, 05:42:35 AM
https://nautiluslive.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwm3-xKyIzE
QuoteE/V Nautilus is exploring unknown regions of the ocean seeking out new discoveries in biology, geology, and archaeology. Join us 24/7 for live video from the seafloor and to ask questions of our explorers currently aboard Nautilus: www.nautiluslive.org.
They made a pretty cool finding of a whale carcass at the bottom of the sea serving as an underwater buffet for scavengers.
If you have a bit over 9 hours to spare, here's a video about 1941's Operation Crusader in North Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji7MZYB4dho
:P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj42mzT06jo
"How Does the US Navy Run Wargames? - A Guided Tour of the US Naval War College Wargaming Facilities"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdCgzbf1PTw
Indonesians being caned for adultery.
Didn't know they drove on the wrong side there.
Indy dresses like an Austrian heavy metal band and talks about the 1934 murder of Austrian fascist dictator Engelbert Dollfuss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqYTTOHc7yM&t
Any thoughts Syt?
Quote from: Valmy on November 08, 2019, 12:39:49 PM
Indy dresses like an Austrian heavy metal band and talks about the 1934 murder of Austrian fascist dictator Engelbert Dollfuss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqYTTOHc7yM&t
Any thoughts Syt?
Interesting - I knew that the Austrian leader was a right-wing opponent of pan-Germanism, but not all of this.
Quote from: Valmy on November 08, 2019, 12:39:49 PM
Indy dresses like an Austrian heavy metal band and talks about the 1934 murder of Austrian fascist dictator Engelbert Dollfuss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqYTTOHc7yM&t
Any thoughts Syt?
I haven't watched yet, but I admit I don't know much about the interwar years in Austria. :blush:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtWqv0Z3ErM
Former jewel thief reviews heist movies. It's a long clip and it's not that great. I'm just posting because he mentioned one thing I was totally unaware of (haven't confirmed it yet). He says all bank doors have height markings on the inside, so they can tell from the video how tall the robbers were.
Here is a video about how paranoia, conspiracy theories, hatred of the political establishment, and radical political polarization helps interwar France down the path to total disaster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLm1gWnlcYw
Fortunately those days are over and nothing like that could ever happen in France today.
Indy: not as good at French as he is at German.
Quote"Prop Maker and Historian Review Famous Battle Scenes, From 'Games of Thrones' to '300'"
Prop Maker, Larry Zanoff, and historian, Dr. Kelly DeVries, review famous battle scenes from 'Game of Thrones,' 'Gladiator,' '300,' 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail,' 'A Knight's Tale' and 'Maximillian' and analyze their historical accuracy and use of weaponry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awioL9P8RPw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV8XhzG_rAg&feature=youtu.be
"Anyone here have a fucked up family?" :pinch: :face:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nx7_G5R0oA
Donald Trump sings All I Want For Christmas Is You.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 11, 2019, 05:45:34 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtWqv0Z3ErM
Former jewel thief reviews heist movies. It's a long clip and it's not that great. I'm just posting because he mentioned one thing I was totally unaware of (haven't confirmed it yet). He says all bank doors have height markings on the inside, so they can tell from the video how tall the robbers were.
Those markings are very common in stores etc in Sweden.
Historia Civilis, the best ancient history channel on YouTube, put up a video of the Battle of Granicus River recently:
https://youtu.be/Idw_3WnIqnc
Quote from: The Brain on December 03, 2019, 04:24:18 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 11, 2019, 05:45:34 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtWqv0Z3ErM
Former jewel thief reviews heist movies. It's a long clip and it's not that great. I'm just posting because he mentioned one thing I was totally unaware of (haven't confirmed it yet). He says all bank doors have height markings on the inside, so they can tell from the video how tall the robbers were.
Those markings are very common in stores etc in Sweden.
Very common here too. Normally tops out at 6'5'' so I am safe
Lamest possible Star Trek infomercial for Boole & Babbage enterprise software:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN6mp5hVSSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFMngPfGnOU
Excellent series of BBC interviews re: PrinceAndrewgate. The plaintiff's attorney, a historian, and a former head of protective services.
At the very end I got the impression the presenter just cut short the former head of PS because he was going too far into "bring the government down" kind of talk. :ph34r:
OverSimplified history: Three Kingdoms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26EivpCPHnQ
Quote from: Syt on December 07, 2019, 12:34:47 PM
OverSimplified history: Three Kingdoms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26EivpCPHnQ
:thumbsup:
Quote from: Syt on December 07, 2019, 12:34:47 PM
OverSimplified history: Three Kingdoms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26EivpCPHnQ
I love the yellow turban rebel wearing a yellow vest and wielding a baguette. :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R62EwpZXkT4
Argument in defense of the US decision to focus on and continue production of the M4 in the face of evidence of its inferiority in armament and armor. Kind of a systems analysis look at the question. I thought it made sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJfvIOAs-2o
US training film on defeating the T62.
Blondie exactly 40 years ago at the Apollo theatre Glasgow, 31st Dec 1979:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kymcob7Dw7c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kymcob7Dw7c)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGK6a6_tQEI
Bizarrely fascinating.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 30, 2019, 11:11:52 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJfvIOAs-2o
US training film on defeating the T62.
Impossible. The armor is too good.
I've been watching Taskmaster today.
Make a Snowman without Snow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33wuaNWB4yo)
Happy acoustic cover of System of a Down's Chop Suey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7dizP92pW0
:lol:
Quote from: Syt on February 07, 2020, 04:58:42 PM
Happy acoustic cover of System of a Down's Chop Suey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7dizP92pW0
:lol:
That channel is a treasure trove. :lol:
Oversimplified have released a two part video on the American Civil War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsxmyL7TUJg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV6uuMAnJUE
Pretty cool clandestinely shot footage in occupied Paris.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1LdRmFZdnU
For historical nitpickers, the inaccuracies in The Animaniacs' US Presidents' Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDVDyWWbsf0
:P
P.S.: The same for Wakko's World (his song of the nations of the world): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYVwOv8Pevg (though it doesn't address all the inaccurate borders)
Wow those are beautiful in their pedantry.
70s jazz fusion is best played by teenagers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XFr7U2MJkM).
Sloppy drumming.
The most important/versatile word in Vienna:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuXR53ex4iI&feature=emb_logo
Do you say "Oida" when you check your family's facebook pages?
:lol:
Yes. :(
Quote from: Syt on February 18, 2020, 01:39:12 PM
The most important/versatile word in Vienna:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuXR53ex4iI&feature=emb_logo
I'll make a mental note for my next visit. :lol:
The Spiffing Brit.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRHXUZ0BxbkU2MYZgsuFgkQ
Channel focuses on using game mechanics and glitches to break games, mostly strategy games, like Civ, Paradox games, but also Skyrim and others.
Yeah I love that channel :lol:
I've seen that Blender is on Steam and installed it (it's free, after all).
I looked around for tutorials and have settled on Blender Guru's for now. He has a detailed tutorial that goes from basic to more advanced stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgEq0u2MzVgAaHEBt--xLB6U
I've finished the first part which leaves me with a basic donut. The next chapters add textures, sprinkles, a cup of coffee etc. Rather enjoying this (I've always been interested in 3D modeling, but never made much of an effort to really get into it). I was stumped a few times, but usually there's comments from people who ran into similar issues and explain how to fix them in the comments.
The result so far. Basic, but quite happy with the result so far. :)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ES2qznVWkAEy86w?format=jpg&name=large)
Finished part 2 of the tutorial. I think my donut is a bit undercooked. :D
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETFmKYdXQAA9Y7o?format=jpg&name=medium)
I never got the appeal of sprinkles. Why ruin a sweet dessert by adding a gritty texture?
Me neither. What's the point of adding something that makes your teeth hurt when biting into it?
Quote from: DGuller on March 14, 2020, 08:52:53 PM
Me neither. What's the point of adding something that makes your teeth hurt when biting into it?
:huh:
Finished part 3 of the tutorial. In which I cursed a lot trying to wrap my head around the interface. :lol:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETt6GOMWkAEo-Ae?format=jpg&name=medium)
Shit, I could use a donut now... :licklips:
Quote from: DGuller on March 14, 2020, 08:52:53 PM
Me neither. What's the point of adding something that makes your teeth hurt when biting into it?
You might want to see a dentist about that pain
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C1y8N0ePuF8
For those who enjoyed "Sunderland Til I Die", here is the 'prequel'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbPKFiKE4-A
I love it of course as that is my team and my era of going to the match every weekend.
Though I think its quite interesting even apart from that due to the era in which it is set, 1997, being in that bridge between the old world of working class football and the multi billion industry of today, especially in teams like Sunderland.
Vinheteiro is a channel if you like piano music or music in general: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSE6yilNScIz1SLTNQvrXMw
But also video games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHDwKIO-hfA
And there's a Cold War channel with weekly bite sized episodes on Cold War topics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/videos
Quote from: Syt on April 05, 2020, 08:40:30 AM
Vinheteiro is a channel if you like piano music or music in general: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSE6yilNScIz1SLTNQvrXMw
But also video games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHDwKIO-hfA
And there's a Cold War channel with weekly bite sized episodes on Cold War topics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/videos
The Cold War one is cool, it's from the Kings and Generals team, following the style of the Indy Neidell ones on the Great War and WWII.
Vinheteiro is pretty funny when he does weird stuff on the piano. :lol:
Quote from: The Larch on April 05, 2020, 09:33:38 AM
the Indy Neidell ones on the Great War and WWII.
Anyone watching WWII? I kind of burned out on it after the Great War ended.
I think I may have plugged the channel before, but I really enjoy Military History Visualized:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK09g6gYGMvU-0x1VCF1hgA/videos
Done by an Austrian historian, mostly covers WW2 topics, basic tactics, etc.
Quote from: Maladict on April 05, 2020, 11:04:10 AM
Quote from: The Larch on April 05, 2020, 09:33:38 AM
the Indy Neidell ones on the Great War and WWII.
Anyone watching WWII? I kind of burned out on it after the Great War ended.
I am. It is pretty good so far but the war is still kind of limited so I don't know if it will hold up as well when the war gets really enormous. While he touches a lot on the Sino-Japanese War it is a bit weird since we enter it 2 years in so how we got to the massive stalement we find ourselves in in 1939 is not really adequately explained, though he did have an episode about that in the Between Two Wars series.
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the Indy Neidell ones on the Great War and WWII.
Anyone watching WWII? I kind of burned out on it after the Great War ended.
I am. It is pretty good so far but the war is still kind of limited so I don't know if it will hold up as well when the war gets really enormous. While he touches a lot on the Sino-Japanese War it is a bit weird since we enter it 2 years in so how we got to the massive stalement we find ourselves in in 1939 is not really adequately explained, though he did have an episode about that in the Between Two Wars series.
The pre-war years are done in a different show, I think. I've definitely seen his videos on the time period.
Quote from: The Larch on April 20, 2020, 08:01:52 AM
The pre-war years are done in a different show, I think. I've definitely seen his videos on the time period.
Yeah the Between Two Wars show. Yes we got one episode on it but not the week by week treatment. How and why the battle lines got frozen where they were in September 1939 is only vaguely explained.
The WWII show does really hit home how bloody and futile and just generally demoralizing the endless meatgrinder in China was to both sides though.
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Quote from: The Larch on April 20, 2020, 08:01:52 AM
The pre-war years are done in a different show, I think. I've definitely seen his videos on the time period.
Yeah the Between Two Wars show. Yes we got one episode on it but not the week by week treatment. How and why the battle lines got frozen where they were in September 1939 is only vaguely explained.
The WWII show does really hit home how bloody and futile and just generally demoralizing the endless meatgrinder in China was to both sides though.
Well, it's the eternal debate about when did WWII start exactly, and being a western-centric product, it puts the start in 1939, rather than 1937. :P
A guys has started integrating Star Trek TNG outtakes into the actual scenes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDCdegF5KUP5fq6mtXw8LLeKPwcfrBkZB
One channel I've come to enjoy is "Mr. Terry History", in which a history teacher reacts to YouTube history videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCbJSm-pLHjna1JW9X31N8g
Now, his comments are usually not too insightful, and you can usually tell which areas he's not very familiar with, but I found the channel an excellent way to discover other YouTube history channels. :)
Atun-Shei is one of many history channels out there. He has some Civil War content, and he has a dedicated playlist where he reacts to some of the comments that try to explain that the South wasn't fighting for slavery etc.
"Checkmate, Lincolnites!"
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwCiRao53J1y_gqJJOH6Rcgpb-vaW9wF0
(Warning, contains Confederate tears)
Thanks Syt, I needed a laugh :lol:
Quote from: Syt on May 01, 2020, 01:22:41 AM
Atun-Shei is one of many history channels out there. He has some Civil War content, and he has a dedicated playlist where he reacts to some of the comments that try to explain that the South wasn't fighting for slavery etc.
"Checkmate, Lincolnites!"
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwCiRao53J1y_gqJJOH6Rcgpb-vaW9wF0
(Warning, contains Confederate tears)
The Cynical Historian is pretty great as well in the same vein plus he is General Patton's cousin. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5mhhJYPcNUKBMZkR5Nfzg
It was through Cynical that I found him. :)
I recently discovered the Cynical Historian as well, so if you recommend anything by him let me know!
Quote from: Syt on May 01, 2020, 01:22:41 AM
Atun-Shei is one of many history channels out there. He has some Civil War content, and he has a dedicated playlist where he reacts to some of the comments that try to explain that the South wasn't fighting for slavery etc.
"Checkmate, Lincolnites!"
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwCiRao53J1y_gqJJOH6Rcgpb-vaW9wF0
(Warning, contains Confederate tears)
Great channel I had never heard of. Thanks, Syt.
Quote from: The Larch on May 01, 2020, 03:23:59 PM
I recently discovered the Cynical Historian as well, so if you recommend anything by him let me know!
I was offended by his ignoring Al Stewart as a significant historical author of music. He's of a previous generation , but unmatched, IMO.
Quote from: The Larch on May 01, 2020, 03:23:59 PM
I recently discovered the Cynical Historian as well, so if you recommend anything by him let me know!
Obviously his video on the Texas Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDWH-DC74Pk :P
But also he has a good one about the death of the Western as a genre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zD1sjnClM and the Lost Cause myth about the American Civil War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EOhXF5lNgQ and the American Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRdmx_Y40yw
His other thing is history movies and wow has he made a lot of videos on them.
Since I have a personal interest I really liked his video on the Texas Revolution.
If you like reviews of history movies, check History Buffs:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggHoXaj8BQHIiPmOxezeWA
The videos are slow to come, but quite good. The channel focuses more on whether the told story is true or close enough rather than nitpicky details like whether a uniform has the right number of buttons. :P
I actually got to The Cynical Historian through History Buffs. When I watched HB's video on The Death of Stalin, TCH's one was sugested, so I took a look at it.
HB has put up reviews of Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Let's just say he's not a fan of how they portray history. :D
Weird moment: when you look away from the screen and think for a second a clip from SW Ep. I found its way into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TON70FHymno&t=1696s :blush:
Quote from: Syt on May 02, 2020, 08:04:10 AM
HB has put up reviews of Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Let's just say he's not a fan of how they portray history. :D
Yeah, he's no fan of those two. :lol:
Not sure if I mentioned the channel, but Sam O'Nella is pretty good for weird stuff, both historical and otherwise. His videos are generally under 10 minutes.
A good intro to his style is IMHO "Timothy Dexter: The Dumbest Rags-to-Riches Story"
https://youtu.be/ChSUvdU_Sbk
His latest is about "World War II's Unluckiest Ship, the William D. Porter"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz0PYzzfixY&feature=youtu.be
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Quote from: Syt on May 02, 2020, 08:04:10 AM
HB has put up reviews of Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Let's just say he's not a fan of how they portray history. :D
Yeah, he's no fan of those two. :lol:
How about Shakespeare in Love?
He hasn't done Shakespeare in love...but I doubt he likes it much.
New video from Oversimplified: Henry VIII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewLpXw6uN28
Quote from: Syt on May 15, 2020, 09:47:35 AM
New video from Oversimplified: Henry VIII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewLpXw6uN28
Loved the Brexit analogy. :lol:
Those videos about the Tudors make me want to play EU4. And then I fire up EU4 and am quickly cured of that impulse. I should install EU2 again. :hmm:
If you like Sudoku this is an incredible video. Holy moly! :wacko:
https://youtu.be/yKf9aUIxdb4
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 18, 2020, 05:32:11 AM
If you like Sudoku this is an incredible video. Holy moly! :wacko:
I like the samurai theme, but I still need to finish the Dark Souls games and Bloodborne.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 18, 2020, 05:32:11 AM
If you like Sudoku this is an incredible video. Holy moly! :wacko:
https://youtu.be/yKf9aUIxdb4
I don't do Sudoku myself, but agree the vid is a fun watch.
Quote from: grumbler on May 18, 2020, 07:30:40 AM
I don't do Sudoku myself, but agree the vid is a fun watch.
The way he's really into it really pulled me in. :)
I used to do a lot of Sudoku but I got a little too robotic about it and it ceased to be fun. The techniques in those videos make me want to take it up again. Thanks for bringing that to my attention Tim. :)
The head of the German Tank Museum, Ralf Raths, is somewhat unpopular with some of the Wehraboos who complain about a "young" guy (he's born in '77) with long hair running the museum, and that he "badmouths" (i.e. doesn't glorify) the German Panzerwaffe/Wehrmacht but rather sticks to facts and evidence in his YouTube videos and book reviews.
With his intro showing him "working from home" for the announcement that the museum reopens (with Corona rules in place) I'm sure he's trolling that segment:
(https://i.postimg.cc/NG5zx9Js/rr.jpg)
:lol:
(The actual presentation is all professional after that, with a proper shirt, and hair tied into his trademark pony tail)
Funny how actual historians tend not to glorify historical events or agents while the amateur "history nerds" gravitate around such things.
"Five Amazing Easter Eggs in The Empire Strikes Back - YouTube in 1980"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPhuU6V5JIQ
NANOWAR OF STEEL - Valhalleluja:
https://youtu.be/S9WWz95ripA
The longest Ikea ad I've ever seen.
It's a fantastic video. :)
I was recently put on to them due to their Tooth Fairy video, which is equally as impressive.
Nanowar (of Steel) are awesome, but you need to know a lot about Italy and its society to get many of their jokes.
I take it that you're familiar with Norwegian Reggaeton already? :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0YXfeNxJJ0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0YXfeNxJJ0)
Quote from: The Larch on May 22, 2020, 09:36:35 AM
Nanowar (of Steel) are awesome, but you need to know a lot about Italy and its society to get many of their jokes.
:hmm: Not sure which of the jokes I missed--they all seem pretty transparent to me!
QuoteI take it that you're familiar with Norwegian Reggaeton already? :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0YXfeNxJJ0
:D Yes, I'm working through all their videos now that I got the bug.
Quote from: Habbaku on May 22, 2020, 09:52:41 AM
Quote from: The Larch on May 22, 2020, 09:36:35 AM
Nanowar (of Steel) are awesome, but you need to know a lot about Italy and its society to get many of their jokes.
:hmm: Not sure which of the jokes I missed--they all seem pretty transparent to me!
It's not in every song, and many are more "International" and less local, and more focused on general nerdiness, but some of them (mainly the ones in Italian, maybe?) need some proficiency in Italian pop culture and present events.
QuoteQuoteI take it that you're familiar with Norwegian Reggaeton already? :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0YXfeNxJJ0
:D Yes, I'm working through all their videos now that I got the bug.
Haha, that one was I believe their first big budget video, so to speak, prior to that their videos had a much more lo-fi ting to them. If you're going through their catalogue you might have seen that already. :P
TierZoo is a pretty good channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsRtomD4twRf5WVHHk-cMw), for anyone with kids who play video games. Talks about zoology in video game terms, which animals have the best defense stats, the best HP, etc.
Since Thomas Winkler from Gloryhammer was in the Valhalleluja video, check out his band Gloryhammer who have a cheesy space fantasy theme and some fun videos, e.g. "Rise of the Chaos Wizards": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGV6bCTMM5w
Or "Hootsforce" with submarine in space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkUAzcja74Y
Quote from: FunkMonk on May 21, 2020, 04:06:31 PM
Funny how actual historians tend not to glorify historical events or agents while the amateur "history nerds" gravitate around such things.
Tell me about it. :glare:
Quote from: Syt on May 22, 2020, 10:10:18 AM
Since Thomas Winkler from Gloryhammer was in the Valhalleluja video, check out his band Gloryhammer who have a cheesy space fantasy theme and some fun videos, e.g. "Rise of the Chaos Wizards": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGV6bCTMM5w
I still haven't recovered from The Unicorn Invasion of Dundee. :lol:
I wasn't sure where to put this, but a Russo-German is working on a nuclear war simulator tool:
http://nuclearwarsimulator.com/
He has a demonstration video: https://youtu.be/55x11a0aKtY
fahdiz wouldn't like this. :(
Quote from: PRC on May 22, 2020, 10:07:46 AM
TierZoo is a pretty good channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsRtomD4twRf5WVHHk-cMw), for anyone with kids who play video games. Talks about zoology in video game terms, which animals have the best defense stats, the best HP, etc.
That's a good one, yes. Pity they don't publish much lately.
Knight Rider for 8 cellos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYf595EJAc4
Also, the Imperial March; John Williams conducting the Vienna Philharmonic at Musikverein earlier this year, a concert I seriously regret to have missed (he was here for two nights and conducted pieces from several movies of his):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMWVW4xtwI
System Of A DOwn - BYOB as relaxing accoustic cover. :wub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgvgFGg9glo
Quote from: Syt on May 26, 2020, 10:29:48 AM
System Of A DOwn - BYOB as relaxing accoustic cover. :wub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgvgFGg9glo
Those kids have some really amazing weird covers playing with the tone of the songs.
Radiohead - Creep (Happy cover): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkJ8Oc3JEnw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkJ8Oc3JEnw)
Aqua - Barbie Girl (Sad cover): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bt7j8sXTkY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bt7j8sXTkY)
RATM - Killing in the name of (Polite Jazz cover): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTnZIRnNlRI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTnZIRnNlRI)
The Police - Every Breath You Take (Creepy cover): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeoUMoSEFqU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeoUMoSEFqU)
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark (Bright Acoustic cover): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CksAtD83yk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CksAtD83yk)
I've been following them for a while now and enjoy them quite a bit.
I also like Ten Second Songs who does covers of songs in unfamiliar styles. Especially is [Song] in X different styles, like his latest "KoRn - Freak On a Leash in 22 Styles": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIVZ8HvSuss
Probably his best cover is Bohemian Rhapsody in the style of System of a Down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95jTsckJjFo
Arnold Schwarzenegger with a message for the people of Styria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FvMoe-0gOE&feature=emb_logo
Nothing special, mostly urging them to keep social distancing and washing their hands, so they can come back strong after Corona, but I though people might like to hear him talk German.
how's his accent in german?
I've been watching a lot of PBS Space Time lately.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g/featured
Quote from: HVC on June 05, 2020, 01:41:26 PM
how's his accent in german?
Styrian. Not unusual in Austria, but the accent generally stands out as a bit rural.
For comparison, here's Arnold's German dub voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKxNSt85BO8
It's the same voice as Terrence Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXDD4Qve_wY
and Sylvester Stallone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSXcwCq4_C8
I don't know if it's been posted before, but I started watching these videos not long ago, and I quite like it. I was always fascinated by big cats. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenVMnOi2uA
New Zealand spot about adult online content and kids: https://youtu.be/94mINLDSWlk
:D
It is, incidentally a bit reminiscent about an older German spot: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cgxpw6bdI0I
Quote from: Syt on June 16, 2020, 10:49:35 AM
New Zealand spot about adult online content and kids: https://youtu.be/94mINLDSWlk
:D
It is, incidentally a bit reminiscent about an older German spot: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cgxpw6bdI0I
I saw it the other day, it seems to me that New Zealand is cornering the quirky humour market in today's media. :lol:
Quote from: Syt on June 05, 2020, 01:54:54 PM
For comparison, here's Arnold's German dub voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKxNSt85BO8
It's the same voice as Terrence Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXDD4Qve_wY
and Sylvester Stallone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSXcwCq4_C8
The joys of dubbing. :lol:
Actually, Arnold spoke a bit German in Escape plan but the Austrian Styrian accent was not as strong.
Arnold should have dubbed himself in German.
Quote from: Valmy on June 16, 2020, 11:21:05 AM
Arnold should have dubbed himself in German.
Apparently he sounds too funny in German to be beliveable as an action hero, AFAIK.
I mean it is not like he doesn't sound funny in English :P
Quote from: Valmy on June 16, 2020, 11:44:44 AM
I mean it is not like he doesn't sound funny in English :P
So funny he got dubbed in his first English movie, Hercules in New York. :nerd:
I've recently started following the "Todd in the Shadows" channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaTSjmqzOO-P8HmtVW3t7sA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaTSjmqzOO-P8HmtVW3t7sA)), it's a guy who does videos analizing current pop hits, failed records by established artists and, the funniest and most interesting ones, researching one hit wonders (who the artist is, pre-hit fame, failed attempts to replicate the hit,...). You get to learn quite a lot of interesting things, and contrary to what it might seem, he's quite ok with many of them, and the careers of some of the artists are fascinating. Also, it's really fun to see an American reviewing Eurodance hits from the 90s. :lol: Here are some of the ones he's done so far:
Funkytown: https://youtu.be/OxvaIo-6bhk (https://youtu.be/OxvaIo-6bhk)
Lovefool: https://youtu.be/hy63VPG8Q8I (https://youtu.be/hy63VPG8Q8I)
Scatman: https://youtu.be/u9rUy0lvWxE (https://youtu.be/u9rUy0lvWxE)
I'm too sexy: https://youtu.be/P2Vav3a4PAc (https://youtu.be/P2Vav3a4PAc)
Come on Eileen: https://youtu.be/UK6v74hQjvA (https://youtu.be/UK6v74hQjvA)
Mickey: https://youtu.be/PiTqaeuFbMc (https://youtu.be/PiTqaeuFbMc)
Turning Japanese: https://youtu.be/1mbdSKPWs30 (https://youtu.be/1mbdSKPWs30)
I encourage you to check it and take a look at them. :)
He's pretty good, yes. I came across him when Channel Awesome didn't suck. :) Check his Safety Dance video. Quite enlightening about Canadian dance culture. :P
Quote from: Syt on June 16, 2020, 12:35:08 PM
He's pretty good, yes. I came across him when Channel Awesome didn't suck. :) Check his Safety Dance video. Quite enlightening about Canadian dance culture. :P
I had no idea what Channel Awesome was, but lately I've started following some people who were all part of it, so back in the day it must have been pretty cool.
Channel Awesome is just Doug now.
Anyway yeah Todd is really great. His Trainwreckords series is really good.
Quote from: The Larch on June 16, 2020, 12:41:42 PM
Quote from: Syt on June 16, 2020, 12:35:08 PM
He's pretty good, yes. I came across him when Channel Awesome didn't suck. :) Check his Safety Dance video. Quite enlightening about Canadian dance culture. :P
I had no idea what Channel Awesome was, but lately I've started following some people who were all part of it, so back in the day it must have been pretty cool.
Yeah. Unfortunately there's been a lot of drama around channel management who were, by all accounts, idiots/dicks. Best to stay away from that drama. I'd also highly recommend Linkara (comics) Obscurus Lupa (cheesy movies and TV), and Filmbrain (movies). Oh, and Oancitizen for arthouse movies.
Quote from: The Larch on June 16, 2020, 12:41:42 PM
Quote from: Syt on June 16, 2020, 12:35:08 PM
He's pretty good, yes. I came across him when Channel Awesome didn't suck. :) Check his Safety Dance video. Quite enlightening about Canadian dance culture. :P
I had no idea what Channel Awesome was, but lately I've started following some people who were all part of it, so back in the day it must have been pretty cool.
There used to be a ton of similar type of review comedy people on the same website and have crossovers and such. It was a chaotic mess.
One of the darker aspects was the case of Jewario, a fan favorite, who ended up shooting himself. Only years later did it come out that he was also grooming and molesting teenage girls he'd meet at conventions and that management covered for him. By all accounts, the site management was a shitshow, and it's now only Brad Jones (CinemaSnob) and the the original Walker brothers left on the site. It's a hot button topic for most former members of the site.
Quote from: Syt on June 16, 2020, 12:50:21 PM
One of the darker aspects was the case of Jewario, a fan favorite, who ended up shooting himself. Only years later did it come out that he was also grooming and molesting teenage girls he'd meet at conventions and that management covered for him. By all accounts, the site management was a shitshow, and it's now only Brad Jones (CinemaSnob) and the the original Walker brothers left on the site. It's a hot button topic for most former members of the site.
I know but really was it that surprising it was horribly mismanaged? A bunch of 20-somethings getting together and cultivating their own fanbases. The Walkers were really in over their heads.
And yeah the Wario thing was about as dark as it gets.
I had no idea about what had gone on behind closed doors, but heavy drama was always implied whenever it was mentioned, so I never really felt the need to dug it up.
Quote from: The Larch on June 16, 2020, 12:53:16 PM
I had no idea about what had gone on behind closed doors, but heavy drama was always implied whenever it was mentioned, so I never really felt the need to dug it up.
There is no need. It is all ancient history now and it is a pretty deep rabbit hole.
Agreed. Just follow the guys that you like. :)
A channel I follow is Whang! who mostly explains/researches old internet stories, viral content and memes (90s/00s). Quite entertaining to be reminded of some of the stuff, but warning: he also handles some gross out stuff (like My Little Pony Cum Jars which were apparently a thing :x ). I appreciate his use of SNES music in his videos (esp. from Shadowrun). :lol:
Anyways, one of the stories he follows is "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet", a tape recording from the early 80s from my old home radio station NDR with an unknown darkwave song that people try to identify. He just released his 2nd update on the status of the search. :D
The original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90JvgNQicp0
The first update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-55pGtFL_o
The second update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1DP0lsY-0E
Quote from: Syt on June 16, 2020, 10:49:35 AM
New Zealand spot about adult online content and kids: https://youtu.be/94mINLDSWlk
:D
It is, incidentally a bit reminiscent about an older German spot: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cgxpw6bdI0I
There's an entire series of those NZ vids. All are pretty great and refreshingly wholesome at the end. :D
I am not sure how Languish has missed this - the British Museum has a Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvpQ-l09fCVxJd3urZbxzHg
Found this to be a pretty interesting take on BLM for foreigners who grew up watching American comedies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5mo-UeeiDI
Quote from: crazy canuck on June 25, 2020, 11:29:35 AM
I am not sure how Languish has missed this - the British Museum has a Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvpQ-l09fCVxJd3urZbxzHg
The Curator's Corner section is great, as is anything that has Irving Finkel, the museum's resident expert on ancient Mesopotamian stuff, who looks exactly like you'f expect an expert on Mesopotamian stuff to look. :lol:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BevTQTACMAAmbJH.jpg)
They have some videos on the oldest boardgame in the world, the Royal Game of Ur, which Finkel helped to decipher its rulebook.
About: Repairing Tigers (by Military History Not Visualized)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThfWP2lBoFc
Also: Why 879 Men for 45 Tigers (by Military History Visualized)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThfWP2lBoFc
Quote from: The Larch on June 25, 2020, 11:48:36 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on June 25, 2020, 11:29:35 AM
I am not sure how Languish has missed this - the British Museum has a Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvpQ-l09fCVxJd3urZbxzHg
The Curator's Corner section is great, as is anything that has Irving Finkel, the museum's resident expert on ancient Mesopotamian stuff, who looks exactly like you'f expect an expert on Mesopotamian stuff to look. :lol:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BevTQTACMAAmbJH.jpg)
They have some videos on the oldest boardgame in the world, the Royal Game of Ur, which Finkel helped to decipher its rulebook.
I was actually going to link one of his videos, but I was not sure how widely he is known here. :)
For Finkel, here is an extraordinary lecture - worth watching for the humour alone :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfYYraMgiBA
He looks like a moonshiner dressed up for court.
He looks like the older brother of Alan Moore. :D
Meanwhile: children's choir singing Iron Maiden's Wasted Years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC8t9DSlrgk :wub:
Also, this kid sings Number of the Beast better than probably any of us. :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP0JFPZT0x4
Quote from: Syt on June 28, 2020, 02:38:36 AM
He looks like the older brother of Alan Moore. :D
Meanwhile: children's choir singing Iron Maiden's Wasted Years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC8t9DSlrgk :wub:
Also, this kid sings Number of the Beast better than probably any of us. :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP0JFPZT0x4
That last one was incredible. Although you set them a very low bar.
Quote from: Berkut on June 28, 2020, 08:43:35 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 28, 2020, 02:38:36 AM
He looks like the older brother of Alan Moore. :D
Meanwhile: children's choir singing Iron Maiden's Wasted Years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC8t9DSlrgk :wub:
Also, this kid sings Number of the Beast better than probably any of us. :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP0JFPZT0x4
That last one was incredible. Although you set them a very low bar.
:lol:
I think the best cover on their channel is Dream Theater's Pull Me Under, as sung by an 11 year old girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqiotc_fKQ4
I think she went on to sing in a small indie band.
The group that covered 46 and 2 was also quite good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXFhTXSLjco
Brothers prank sister zonked on anesthetics with zombie apocalypse. Which pet to take is best part. :lol:
Quote from: PDH on June 28, 2020, 11:07:29 AM
The group that covered 46 and 2 was also quite good.
The vocals on this one are astounding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf8XEtR5524&list=RDPKIJpFxlHck&index=6
Passive Voice is fine after all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS-Txm3R3v8&t=16s
I've never understood the hate against passive voice. All the arguments against it always seemed no more logical than "well...because!"
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 29, 2020, 07:21:12 PM
I've never understood the hate against passive voice. All the arguments against it always seemed no more logical than "well...because!"
Politically it's used to duck blame. "Mistakes were made."
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 29, 2020, 07:21:12 PM
I've never understood the hate against passive voice. All the arguments against it always seemed no more logical than "well...because!"
Passive sentences can be terribly confusing when you are waiting to find out what or who the actor in the sentence is. His examples, are a good reminder that active voice can also be confusing when trying to communicate a narrative.
That dude looks like he's wearing a powdered wig.
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 29, 2020, 07:21:12 PM
I've never understood the hate against passive voice. All the arguments against it always seemed no more logical than "well...because!"
Passive voices isn't hated, it is simply warned against. Passive voice places the emphasis on the actor, not the action or object. That's okay when the author wants to convey that: "the murderer was Nero" places the emphasis on Nero, not murderer. We already knew that there was a murder, we just didn't know who it was. Passive voice is inappropriate when the emphasis isn't on the actor, and can allow the actor to be skipped entirely. "Nero fled and was immediately pursued" doesn't say anything about the pursuit, which is what the reader would want to know about; the reader already knows that Nero is a murderer and so presumably would be pursued.
My grammar lessons are a bit rusty, but I think "a murderer was Nero" is not passive voice, but just reversing the order of subject and object without changing their grammatical role? And passive voice would be "Nero was murdered"? :unsure:
Atun-Shei talks about the Film Gettysburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAL9J4VCt84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJtMa73kiyg
Third day coming soon.
The last few minutes of the second video are hilarious to anybody who is familiar with this film and Gods and Generals.
Quote from: Syt on June 30, 2020, 12:45:38 AM
My grammar lessons are a bit rusty, but I think "a murderer was Nero" is not passive voice, but just reversing the order of subject and object without changing their grammatical role? And passive voice would be "Nero was murdered"? :unsure:
You are correct. I originally had someone getting killed by Nero, but the changed it to murdered and botched the whole thing in the process. "Don't talk grammar when tired" was the takeaway for me.
Ah, "Nero was the murderer of Agrippina" vs "Agrippina was murdered by Nero." :)
And yeah, grammaring while tired is hard. My uni course on German grammar was at 7 pm during my studies. :zzz:
Quote from: Valmy on July 02, 2020, 01:22:57 PM
Atun-Shei talks about the Film Gettysburg
The last few minutes of the second video are hilarious to anybody who is familiar with this film and Gods and Generals.
you are right, this is a gem! :P
I won't dispute the historical innacuracies of Gods&Generals (I can't remember exactly what/where), I certainly can't dispute that it came off as a movie promoting the idea of the Lost Cause and was totally inferior to the gem that is Gettysburg, but I will point that the Director's cut of the movie is infinately better than the theatrical cut (yes, the bar was low, but the movie is imho better and a tad more balanced than it originally was, though again, it ain't saying much ;) ).
If you haven't seen this version, I highly recommend it. I bought a blu-ray package containing both extended versions on Amazon.ca but I can't find it now on Amazon US, only the individual movies:
Gods and Generals extended Director's cut (https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Generals-Extended-Directors-Blu-ray/dp/B005NFJAYE/ref=sr_1_1?crid=PG3CMLA5B05D&dchild=1&keywords=gettysburg+gods+and+generals+blu+ray&qid=1593918295&sprefix=Gods+%26+Generals+%2F+Gettysburg+%2Caps%2C190&sr=8-1)
Gettysburg Director's cut (https://www.amazon.com/Gettysburg-Directors-Blu-ray-Book-Packaging/dp/B0019NG73G/ref=sr_1_2?crid=PG3CMLA5B05D&dchild=1&keywords=gettysburg+gods+and+generals+blu+ray&qid=1593918295&sprefix=Gods+%26+Generals+%2F+Gettysburg+%2Caps%2C190&sr=8-2)
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 28, 2020, 03:54:25 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXFhTXSLjco (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXFhTXSLjco)
Brothers prank sister zonked on anesthetics with zombie apocalypse. Which pet to take is best part. :lol:
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Too bad, I'm disinclined to use the VPN just for this americano-centric video :sleep: :D
Quote from: Syt on May 26, 2020, 10:29:48 AM
System Of A DOwn - BYOB as relaxing accoustic cover. :wub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgvgFGg9glo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgvgFGg9glo)
The best covers of System of a Down:Chop Suey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUpcCN_PWYw)
Toxicity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8liMsWDC80)
Lauren Babic has an incredible voice. :wub:
But Violet Orlandi is :wub: :wub: :wub:
Unrelated to SOAD, but a metal cover I really like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65MD5-XSu8M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65MD5-XSu8M)
Escape the Fate: Guillotine.
Quote from: Syt on June 22, 2020, 01:52:34 AM(like My Little Pony Cum Jars which were apparently a thing :x ).
The My Little Pony and neo-nazi connection was already :wacko: but this is at least :wacko: :wacko: :wacko:
Samurai Sword Master Rates 10 Japanese Sword Scenes In Movies And TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMmLRJYdQlQ
QuoteKaito Suiju is master of the Hisui school of battōjutsu and instructor at Hisui Tokyo. He has been teaching katana sword fighting for decades and is of samurai descent. Master Suiju rates the realism of katana sword scenes in movies, including skills of actors, the way they hold and train with the swords, as well as the choreography of fights. He also debunks some of the commonly-accepted myths and legends around samurai history and culture, and points out where Hollywood gets it wrong. During the video Master Suiju demonstrates the correct method of how to grip and move with a katana sword, as well as talking us through the different parts of the sword.
Master Suiju rates Japanese-language movies including "Harakiri" (1962), "Yojimbo" (1961), "13 Assassins" (2010), "The Sword of Doom" (1966), "Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins" (2012) as well as anime such as "Samurai Champloo" (2004).
And Hollywood movies such as "John Wick Chapter 3 - Parrabellum" (2019),"The Last Samurai" (2003) and Kill Bill Vol.1 (2003). He also looks at a fight between Maeve (Thandi Newton) and Musashi (Hiroyuki Sanada) in HBO's "Westworld" (2020).
Not really YouTube, but it didn't really fit into the games thread, either, and we don't have an ARMA thread. :P
By chance I came across the streams of a group of German ARMA3 players: https://airborne-division.de/airborne/
The roleplay as members of the 101st Airborne and play missions in large groups. Normally modern day, but yesterday they had a WW2 event where they, as members of the 101st had to advance through a woodland area with some small villages and clear them from hostiles. There were 70-80 participants, divided into (understrength?) platoons, squads, etc. A few Americans also joined, and with language being an issue, they formed the scouting element (with one German as radio guy).
This being WW2, there were few radios (they used one per platoon, I think, with a dedicated radioman), plus the scout troop. Otherwise it was just voice communications within hearing range (meaning a lot of passing on orders along the line, and sending runners to relay orders). Additionally, they didn't use the in game maps, relying on hand drawn maps the organizer had prepared, adding some challenge to navigating terrain or relaying positions of hostiles (or themselves). The most "gamey" concession they made was that if you "died" you would wake up after a while and your medics could nurse you back to health. Even so, near the end of the scenario medics had run out of most first aid materials, so some soldiers remained wounded, limping, etc.
I initially came across a guy that was a simple rifleman in the line, on the far left flank. The whole unit advanced in formation, and his view was relatively uneventful (until about half way into the 4 hour mission), but it also was quite interesting, even though much of it was getting commands to adjust formation, close up, spread out, further left, etc. His squad was ordered to hold the left flank, while the center elements were clearing a village. He was at the edge of the woods, looking into a small valley towards another wooded ridge. There was a lot of shooting going on somewhere in those woods and village, but they saw nothing of it, and had no idea what was actually happening. Some stray bullets came their way, but that was it. At some point the shooting stopped and they advanced again. It was surprisingly tense.
I later put on two more streams in parallel to the rifle guy's. One was his platoon sergeant, the other was the recon squad. It was quite interesting to see how each handled their tasks (the sergeant by far being the busiest one, making sure his squads were doing as the should, and keeping them safe), using squad tactics, and how a lull for one element could over lap with frenzied action for another group. Near the end the unit ran into a King Tiger that gave them a lot of trouble till they brought their anti tank team in. Seeing this from various angles was surprisingly captivating.
The whole thing was one of the most :nerd: things I've seen in a while on Twitch, but it was quite captivating to see. It would be cool to do one of these at some point, but I'm not sure I want to invest the time in their tight training regimen. :D
P.S.: Earlier this year they did a WW2 winter scenario, it seems:
(https://airborne-division.de/community/attachment/712-20200320203251-1-jpg/)
(https://airborne-division.de/community/attachment/715-20200320205636-1-jpg/)
(https://airborne-division.de/community/attachment/713-20200320203602-1-autoscaled-jpg/)
(https://airborne-division.de/community/attachment/741-20200320203630-1-autoscaled-jpg/)
More screenshots from their missions are here: https://airborne-division.de/community/forum/board/28-verlauf/
(though they do some mundane stuff - like mission "Arrival": "Today we relocate into our new area of operations. We will familiarize ourselves with the situation, move into our new quarters, and take over our new equipment. Afterwards we will patrol a nearby village.")
Where exactly are we fighting there?
Gotta be Bulge.
Quote from: Valmy on July 25, 2020, 01:38:19 PM
Where exactly are we fighting there?
Dunno about that scenario. Yesterday's map was meant to represent the French/Belgian border, though TBH the buildings made it look like the Russian countryside, but only if you nitpick.
Quote from: Syt on July 25, 2020, 02:02:19 PM
Quote from: Valmy on July 25, 2020, 01:38:19 PM
Where exactly are we fighting there?
Dunno about that scenario. Yesterday's map was meant to represent the French/Belgian border, though TBH the buildings made it look like the Russian countryside, but only if you nitpick.
I don't see any buildings, but it just looked like it was taking place in some far off eastern european area not in the Ardennes, but then it is not like I have explored the entire Ardennes.
Back to weird song covers. Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, in Classical Latin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk
They also have House of the Rising Sun in Medieval French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvAEMz64O9c
And Pumped Up Kicks in Old English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcKqhDFhNHI
Quote from: Syt on July 31, 2020, 01:43:49 AM
Back to weird song covers. Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, in Classical Latin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk
Oh YouTube :D
Quote
CALLIDO
1 week ago (edited)
This is great. We need more Latin covers. The pronounciation is on point, but there are some mistakes in the translation, like:
0:31 "Para pilis" should be "para pila", "trahere" means "to drag" and i never saw it i nthe context of "to bring". instead i would use "affere" or "ferre"
0:43 "O non" -> there is no "no" in Latin. I would use the intejection "Vae", which basically means "oh no".
0:49 "parvus" means "small" and not low. I would rather use the word "humilis" here with "quam" -> Quam humiliter? = how low?
1:05 "Me sentio" is used with double accusative, so it should be "Me sentio agrum, stultum", also "aeger" means sick. Contagious means "contagiosus"
1:38 "peior" means "worse". Instead the superlative "pessima" should be used, or, to convey similar meaning "nimis mala"
1:44 "Ipso munere" means "the gift itself", the translator propbably confused it with "isto" which means "this"
2:49 "ut" here should be used with a subjunctive in order to convey a final clause "in order to laugh". So it should be "ut rideam". If your goal was however to translate "how to laugh", ut is the wrong "how". Rather "quomodo" should be used. So "quomodo rideatur, puto".
2:54 "durum" means hard, but in a physical way, like for example "a hard wall". If it is hard as in "difficult", you should use "dificilis"
sorry for being so picky, but I'm a Latin fanatic so its very important to me. If you ever do another Latin cover, I will gladly look over the lyrics for you and scan for mistakes.
That being said, i still love your work and im looking forward to your future cover
QuoteI'm a Latin fanatic
Lazio ultra? :unsure:
Quote from: The Brain on July 31, 2020, 03:21:59 AM
QuoteI'm a Latin fanatic
Lazio ultra? :unsure:
Did he say Latium or Laziale fanatic? ;)
Quote from: Syt on July 31, 2020, 02:48:25 AM
Back to weird song covers. Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, in Classical Latin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk
Better than the original! :thumbsup:
Mind you, this applies as well to Weird Yankovic's cover. :P
Comments on his medieval French cover of House of the Rising Sun say that the translation is good, but the pronunciation is awful. Can you comment on that?
Quote from: Syt on July 31, 2020, 01:43:49 AM
Back to weird song covers. Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, in Classical Latin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk
They also have House of the Rising Sun in Medieval French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvAEMz64O9c
And Pumped Up Kicks in Old English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcKqhDFhNHI
Medieval covers seem to be one of the latest internet fads, I've even seen it being called "Bardcore". :lol:
More examples:
Fortunate son: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK7olFGxw3Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK7olFGxw3Y)
Jolene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugqQlB5fpuc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugqQlB5fpuc)
Billie Jean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtgFMqrABbY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtgFMqrABbY)
Toxicity (instrumental): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5d8bnvO2JQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5d8bnvO2JQ)
Checking other videos it seems that many don't really bother with the lyrics and focus on the music alone (as well as funny drawings :P)
Quote from: Syt on July 31, 2020, 04:10:03 AM
Comments on his medieval French cover of House of the Rising Sun say that the translation is good, but the pronunciation is awful. Can you comment on that?
GF says its gibberish.
Which is a shame as it sounds so much clearer to me than regular French and I thought speaking like a Knight could be a solution for me.
Quote from: Syt on July 31, 2020, 04:10:03 AM
Comments on his medieval French cover of House of the Rising Sun say that the translation is good, but the pronunciation is awful. Can you comment on that?
If it's about the trilled r, then they are wrong. The uvular r, commonly thought nowadays of French r dates from Louis XIV. "ll" not pronounced as nowadays as well.
Estoit in pronouncing the s is correct but oi as nowadays French [wa] or even [we) till the 18th century or in some archaic dialects. "oi" was also possibly pronounced as [e] as in œcuménique (proper pronunciation). In Old French, the i could be there to nasalise the previous vowel. This unreformed spelling still finds its way in oignon where the i is silent.
There is definitely an Anglo accent however but is far from the worse or even the average anglo accent. It's not far from the best attempts of In Extremo in their full medieval period. Attempts which occasionally were faulty.
I'd say the Latin pronunciation in the previous song is much better, as in good Erasmian and not that awful Church Latin.
PS: comments mention a Cajun/Acadien vibe and there is some of it as in Anglo pronouncing French.
That Fortunate Son cover sounded a kinda synthy to me.
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on July 31, 2020, 05:44:13 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 31, 2020, 04:10:03 AM
Comments on his medieval French cover of House of the Rising Sun say that the translation is good, but the pronunciation is awful. Can you comment on that?
If it's about the trilled r, then they are wrong. The uvular r, commonly thought nowadays of French r dates from Louis XIV. "ll" not pronounced as nowadays as well.
Estoit in pronouncing the s is correct but oi as nowadays French [wa] or even [we) till the 18th century or in some archaic dialects. "oi" was also possibly pronounced as [e] as in œcuménique (proper pronunciation). In Old French, the i could be there to nasalise the previous vowel. This unreformed spelling still finds its way in oignon where the i is silent.
There is definitely an Anglo accent however but is far from the worse or even the average anglo accent. It's not far from the best attempts of In Extremo in their full medieval period. Attempts which occasionally were faulty.
I'd say the Latin pronunciation in the previous song is much better, as in good Erasmian and not that awful Church Latin.
PS: comments mention a Cajun/Acadien vibe and there is some of it as in Anglo pronouncing French.
Thanks. :)
I've been watching a fair bit of old "Firing Line" episodes on Youtube (perhaps a yearning to hear more civil debates in our frazzled times).
In doing so, one of the recommended videos, is certainly the best comic impersonation of William F. Buckley by none other than Robin Williams: https://youtu.be/S_VMwVpx4GI
Wow that is spot on :lol:
I've always liked Joe Flaherty's from SCTV (https://youtu.be/_58bvwFau8k?t=257), but that is a fabulous one.
In the 70s(?) and 80s, German TV station ZDF had this intro for late night horror/sci-fi movies. It scared the bejeezus out of me at the time. The sequence was designed by Heinz Edelmann who was also the art director on The Beatles' Yellow Submarine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXIjbbet1V4
More conventional was the ARD's intro for science-fiction movies, featuring the intro part from Donna Summers' "I feel love" with classic sci-fi art:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydGFwSJmUuE
This is beyond excellent. :lol:
Star Wars version of Cindy Lauper's Time after Time
"You can run, you can hide
but they will find you ...
TIE after TIE ..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_utoy8t2A
OMG! This is pure genius! :D
Quote from: Berkut on June 27, 2019, 03:53:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo&fbclid=IwAR1YBs_80I7Bc75Lmj82vWUElIvCOP-7lCV7SYLsJT3lK1oMV8JJjy0kuGU
An amazingly well done re-telling of Midway. Amateur animation extremely well presented that shows the dilemma and problems Nagumo faced the morning of June 4th.
This is really, really good - IMO.
Parts two and three are up!
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXjydKPcX60
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHO6xrSF7Sw
Quote from: Valmy on August 11, 2020, 08:05:10 PM
Quote from: Berkut on June 27, 2019, 03:53:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo&fbclid=IwAR1YBs_80I7Bc75Lmj82vWUElIvCOP-7lCV7SYLsJT3lK1oMV8JJjy0kuGU
An amazingly well done re-telling of Midway. Amateur animation extremely well presented that shows the dilemma and problems Nagumo faced the morning of June 4th.
This is really, really good - IMO.
Parts two and three are up!
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXjydKPcX60
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHO6xrSF7Sw
First pleasant surprise this year.
Quote from: Valmy on August 11, 2020, 08:05:10 PM
Quote from: Berkut on June 27, 2019, 03:53:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo&fbclid=IwAR1YBs_80I7Bc75Lmj82vWUElIvCOP-7lCV7SYLsJT3lK1oMV8JJjy0kuGU
An amazingly well done re-telling of Midway. Amateur animation extremely well presented that shows the dilemma and problems Nagumo faced the morning of June 4th.
This is really, really good - IMO.
Parts two and three are up!
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXjydKPcX60
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHO6xrSF7Sw
Extremely good stuff. I appreciate he approached this from the Japanese point of view.
Quote from: FunkMonk on August 12, 2020, 04:55:24 PM
Quote from: Valmy on August 11, 2020, 08:05:10 PM
Quote from: Berkut on June 27, 2019, 03:53:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo&fbclid=IwAR1YBs_80I7Bc75Lmj82vWUElIvCOP-7lCV7SYLsJT3lK1oMV8JJjy0kuGU
An amazingly well done re-telling of Midway. Amateur animation extremely well presented that shows the dilemma and problems Nagumo faced the morning of June 4th.
This is really, really good - IMO.
Parts two and three are up!
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXjydKPcX60
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHO6xrSF7Sw
Extremely good stuff. I appreciate he approached this from the Japanese point of view.
Yes, it is basically
Shattered Sword with graphics. The one thing that he failed to point out, though, was that the Japanese plane that spotted TF 17 wasn't supposed to get to that position for another hour (the pilot turned back early). Without that, Nagumo wouldn't have had his dilemma.
In case people missed it, Atun-Shei put up a new "Checkmate, Lincolnites" about Sherman's March to the Sea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYj9CSxlGSk
This guy has been posting on reddit. Apparently he recently got a camera with binaural microphones and has started recording walks in Vienna. No commentary, just the ambient sounds. So far he has taken a stroll from Westbahnhof down Mariahilfer Straße (the main shopping street), a stroll around Stephansplatz/St. Stephens, and a walk from the new Hauptbahnhof and its area of new office buildings through the 4th District and its side streets. The videos are about half an hour long.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmJyklELcNBeu2p1eAZylXA
As Finnish came up in the Trump thread a weird flashback of my earliest exposure to Finnish. When I was a kid and we would take the bus to the next biggest town for going to the department store (later this would take me to advanced school and work), the bus would pass through Hohenlockstedt, formerly Lockstedter Lager, and past this sign:
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It points the way to the memorial for the Finnish Jägers who were trained in Lockstedter Lager during WW1 and who would go on to play an important role in the Finnish fight for independence. There's an annual ceremony with a Finnish dignitary and a representative of the German military and politicians to commemorate this.
What I didn't know is that the town of Kellinghusen where I grew up also holds a memorial these days for some of the Finnish soldiers who died of disease during their training and who were buried there (in the WW1 section of the main cemetery): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po-LmdGiVD8
Medieval crossbow enthusiast
Had no idea you could fire one that quickly, he's getting a bolt off every 10 seconds
https://youtu.be/iIkxyjVu9gc
Quote from: Syt on August 15, 2020, 01:49:22 AMSo far he has taken a stroll from Westbahnhof down Mariahilfer Straße (the main shopping street).
That's a route I do pretty often whenever I'm in town. :lol:
Quote from: Syt on August 14, 2020, 02:01:20 PM
In case people missed it, Atun-Shei put up a new "Checkmate, Lincolnites" about Sherman's March to the Sea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYj9CSxlGSk
Yeah, he can't hit a home run every time. That was pretty weak sauce.
I'm slightly worried/concerned that an educational Youtuber I follow (Geography Now, for anyone interested) is either developing fringe conspiracy-adjacent opinions or has always held them and is only now showing them or I'm just starting to pick them up. Normally I'd watch his videos almost inmediately upon release, but due to this I'm putting them off at the moment as it kinda brings a bad taste to my mouth. I should have never started to follow him on Twitter...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4G7asMHqZ4
QuoteMAGA and Fascism | Renegade Cut
Is MAGA a movement based on ultra-nationalism, race-based and religion-based divisions, and an obsession with the past? If it is, then, we need to stop avoiding what that is called..
Quote from: Syt on August 26, 2020, 10:24:19 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4G7asMHqZ4
QuoteMAGA and Fascism | Renegade Cut
Is MAGA a movement based on ultra-nationalism, race-based and religion-based divisions, and an obsession with the past? If it is, then, we need to stop avoiding what that is called..
This would be a lot more convincing if the author actually knew what fascism was, rather than creating a new definition for fascism so that he could call MAGA fascist. MAGA is a lot of bad things, but it does not exalt the race or nation over the individual, one of the key defining ideas of fascism. His "fascism" is what knowledgeable people call "paleoconservatism." MAGA is very close to being paleoconservatism, except for the Imperial Presidency desires.
Vids like this are the problem, not the solution.
I've seen some of his videos before. He has a pretty good handle on what fascism is.
It's important that these things aren't binaries and Trump definitely ticks a lot of the boxes.
On the topic Philosophy Tube's video was pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgwS_FMZ3nQ&t=770s
Quote from: The Larch on August 20, 2020, 04:39:40 AM
I'm slightly worried/concerned that an educational Youtuber I follow (Geography Now, for anyone interested) is either developing fringe conspiracy-adjacent opinions or has always held them and is only now showing them or I'm just starting to pick them up. Normally I'd watch his videos almost inmediately upon release, but due to this I'm putting them off at the moment as it kinda brings a bad taste to my mouth. I should have never started to follow him on Twitter...
What has he been doing?
Quote from: grumbler on August 27, 2020, 08:36:33 AM
Quote from: Syt on August 26, 2020, 10:24:19 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4G7asMHqZ4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4G7asMHqZ4)
QuoteMAGA and Fascism | Renegade Cut
Is MAGA a movement based on ultra-nationalism, race-based and religion-based divisions, and an obsession with the past? If it is, then, we need to stop avoiding what that is called..
This would be a lot more convincing if the author actually knew what fascism was, rather than creating a new definition for fascism so that he could call MAGA fascist. MAGA is a lot of bad things, but it does not exalt the race or nation over the individual, one of the key defining ideas of fascism. His "fascism" is what knowledgeable people call "paleoconservatism." MAGA is very close to being paleoconservatism, except for the Imperial Presidency desires.
Vids like this are the problem, not the solution.
You must have missed the part when they were calling for people to sacrifice themselves for the economy.
Quote from: grumbler on August 27, 2020, 08:36:33 AM
Quote from: Syt on August 26, 2020, 10:24:19 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4G7asMHqZ4
QuoteMAGA and Fascism | Renegade Cut
Is MAGA a movement based on ultra-nationalism, race-based and religion-based divisions, and an obsession with the past? If it is, then, we need to stop avoiding what that is called..
This would be a lot more convincing if the author actually knew what fascism was, rather than creating a new definition for fascism so that he could call MAGA fascist. MAGA is a lot of bad things, but it does not exalt the race or nation over the individual, one of the key defining ideas of fascism. His "fascism" is what knowledgeable people call "paleoconservatism." MAGA is very close to being paleoconservatism, except for the Imperial Presidency desires.
Vids like this are the problem, not the solution.
Without having watched the video, how is a movement that literally has as its motto "Make America Great Again" not exalt the nation above the individual? I've definitely seen some academics discussing Trumpism and Fascism as close enough to warrant debate and discussion.
Quote from: Tyr on August 27, 2020, 08:48:42 AM
Quote from: The Larch on August 20, 2020, 04:39:40 AM
I'm slightly worried/concerned that an educational Youtuber I follow (Geography Now, for anyone interested) is either developing fringe conspiracy-adjacent opinions or has always held them and is only now showing them or I'm just starting to pick them up. Normally I'd watch his videos almost inmediately upon release, but due to this I'm putting them off at the moment as it kinda brings a bad taste to my mouth. I should have never started to follow him on Twitter...
What has he been doing?
Hydroxicloroquine, Epstein papers, human traficking is the real issue, why is Bill Gates in the vaccine business, stuff like that. It's not as if he's ranting 24/7 about it, but he brings it up every now and then.
What kinda triggered this was his adamant defense of the "demon sperm" doctor.
Quote from: The Larch on August 27, 2020, 01:20:06 PM
Without having watched the video, how is a movement that literally has as its motto "Make America Great Again" not exalt the nation above the individual?
If patriotism = fascism, then fascism is so commonplace as to be unremarkable.
QuoteI've definitely seen some academics discussing Trumpism and Fascism as close enough to warrant debate and discussion.
Sure, debate and discussion. Not blanket condemnation as fascism on no better grounds than "they are the other side and so must be evil."
The video is the opposite of debate and discussion.
Most patriots think their country is great now, not fallen from some imagined golden age that must be restored by great leaders.
Quote from: Valmy on August 27, 2020, 01:44:17 PM
Most patriots think their country is great now, not fallen from some imagined golden age that must be restored by great leaders.
Unlike you, I've never met "most patriots," so cannot tell you what they think, but I can say that many people considered patriots wanted to see their country improved. Martin Luther King Jr was certainly a patriot, but also certain that his country was not great:
QuoteLet us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
The concept that the past included an "imaginary golden age" has been a feature of conservatism since at least the days of the Roman Republic, long before the creation of fascism.
I think restoring a mystical golden age, ruined by leftwing degenerates, via a great leader is pretty close to fascism even if this particular brand may not literally be.
The fact that this is kind of adjacent to typical right wing thinking is why fascistic type movements often emerge from the right (and often include more traditional right wing allies), even thought they often differ very substantially from typical conservative right wing thinking.
However you are correct that often patriots may want the ideals of the nation to be more fully realized I concede.
Then you have to throw in a personal attack and sarcastic quotes in there. I am not sure why you felt the need to do that, I feel like I made some good points there.
I'm getting so many commercials for "Grammarly" I'm beginning to suspect Google analyzed my writing on here and decided I was in the target audience. Between that and eToro it is bullying me into buying a YouTube subscription. :(
Military History Visualized: "Best German WW2 General? Definitive Answer." ;)
https://youtu.be/L6PtPEYOGJw
Quote from: Syt on September 10, 2020, 02:11:03 PM
Military History Visualized: "Best German WW2 General? Definitive Answer." ;)
https://youtu.be/L6PtPEYOGJw
Utterly frustrating video. :wacko:
I think he makes a good point, though. ;)
Quote from: Syt on September 10, 2020, 02:33:06 PM
I think he makes a good point, though. ;)
Maybe, but in a very annoying way. :P
Quote from: Syt on September 10, 2020, 02:11:03 PM
Military History Visualized: "Best German WW2 General? Definitive Answer." ;)
https://youtu.be/L6PtPEYOGJw
Wow. Clickbait has crept in everywhere. That was a fifteen-minute video to describe in excruciating detail what could have been fully explained in a minute.
He actually had a video recently addressing criticism of him switching from straightforward, content describing titles to clickbaity titles. The long and short of it is that it does help his visibility on Youtube and its ever changing algorithms. :(
Edit - video: https://youtu.be/q0aVWo0hGIg
The Russian Revolution - OverSimplified (in 2 parts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqbleas1mmo&ab_channel=OverSimplified
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1reY72ktEc&ab_channel=OverSimplified
Merrie Melodies -Daffy Duck the Wizard
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ur3tw
Awesome hair metal parody with a hint of Frank Frazetta. :lol: :thumbsup:
Simpsons episode but with sounds from Half-life for peak 1990's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xxiJd1IpyE
It fits oddly well.
I love that gag where they moved Mr. Burns desk but not the trap door :P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEvQANDXkZ0
Best directions for making pizza pockets I've ever seen.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 14, 2020, 08:12:00 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEvQANDXkZ0
Best directions for making pizza pockets I've ever seen.
Couple of very nice tips shown.
going through my list of YT suggestions, deleting all that rap&pop crap my friend's teen leftover, I clicked on what I thought was a power metal video from a group I didn't know...
So, uh, well, I'll let you judge the content, and don't forget to read the comments! ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVmOnwng6gs
Today is Austria's National Holiday. Normally, the Hofburg would have a day of open door with a chance to shake hands with the president. However, due to Covid this isn't possible.
Instead they made a cool little video with a drone flight through and around the Hofburg (they make it looks like Pres. van der Bellen is piloting it, but I sincerely doubt he did :lol: ).
https://youtu.be/1TohH4qOxBs
Not youtube by twitch - violinist plays along to orchestra. She is amazing and is my work from home background music when she is on.
https://www.twitch.tv/storionigirl
Is washing rice really still necessary?:
https://youtu.be/B3CHsbNkr3c
Christopher Lee reads you scary stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXTdYE2Jq20&t=3059s
It seems BBC Radio did this for Christmas 2004 :blink:
I guess after Charles Dickens the British decided Christmas is a horror holiday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thwu9nw4qyo
This is for you Cal. The best ribs in KC are in a gas station.
Quote from: Habbaku on October 26, 2020, 05:59:17 PM
Is washing rice really still necessary?:
https://youtu.be/B3CHsbNkr3c
I'm shocked to hear some people don't. The sheer amount of gunk you get when you do it....
Quote from: Tyr on November 14, 2020, 06:44:02 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on October 26, 2020, 05:59:17 PM
Is washing rice really still necessary?:
https://youtu.be/B3CHsbNkr3c
I'm shocked to hear some people don't. The sheer amount of gunk you get when you do it....
gunk?
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 14, 2020, 10:41:37 AM
Quote from: Tyr on November 14, 2020, 06:44:02 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on October 26, 2020, 05:59:17 PM
Is washing rice really still necessary?:
https://youtu.be/B3CHsbNkr3c
I'm shocked to hear some people don't. The sheer amount of gunk you get when you do it....
gunk?
Tyr never watched the video so is just spouting nonsense. The "gunk" is starch, which is what rice is, as well. If you want sticky rice, don't rinse. If you want separated rice, rinse. I usually rinse, myself, but then I don't eat with chopsticks so don't need the rice to be sticky.
I see. Normally I don't rinse it for the opposite reason. :) A lot of the time the rice is a bed for stir fry and I find it easier to eat that way. Also, I just like the taste of sticky rice.
Quote from: grumbler on November 14, 2020, 08:43:19 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 14, 2020, 10:41:37 AM
Quote from: Tyr on November 14, 2020, 06:44:02 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on October 26, 2020, 05:59:17 PM
Is washing rice really still necessary?:
https://youtu.be/B3CHsbNkr3c
I'm shocked to hear some people don't. The sheer amount of gunk you get when you do it....
gunk?
Tyr never watched the video so is just spouting nonsense. The "gunk" is starch, which is what rice is, as well. If you want sticky rice, don't rinse. If you want separated rice, rinse. I usually rinse, myself, but then I don't eat with chopsticks so don't need the rice to be sticky.
:blink:
I specifically refer to something in it so I never watched it?
There's more than just starch in rice often. Pretty common to find a few stones and occasional weavils/their eggs.
Quote from: Tyr on November 15, 2020, 02:59:42 PM
Quote from: grumbler on November 14, 2020, 08:43:19 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 14, 2020, 10:41:37 AM
Quote from: Tyr on November 14, 2020, 06:44:02 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on October 26, 2020, 05:59:17 PM
Is washing rice really still necessary?:
https://youtu.be/B3CHsbNkr3c
I'm shocked to hear some people don't. The sheer amount of gunk you get when you do it....
gunk?
Tyr never watched the video so is just spouting nonsense. The "gunk" is starch, which is what rice is, as well. If you want sticky rice, don't rinse. If you want separated rice, rinse. I usually rinse, myself, but then I don't eat with chopsticks so don't need the rice to be sticky.
:blink:
I specifically refer to something in it so I never watched it?
There's more than just starch in rice often. Pretty common to find a few stones and occasional weavils/their eggs.
The video says that is a misconception. Once upon a time that was the case. But not now. I have been cooking rice for a while now (read too long than I care to admit) and anecdotally, I have never encountered that kind of gunk. :)
Its not a misconception. I very definitely regularly find stones in rice and have on occasion found insects.
As the video says north American rice is different.
Quote from: Tyr on November 15, 2020, 03:16:46 PM
Its not a misconception. I very definitely regularly find stones in rice and have on occasion found insects.
As the video says north American rice is different.
I think you didn't actually watched the whole of the video. Unless you don't live in the developed world and you buy your rice in a large sack, there is no need to wash your rice. I suggest you watch between the 3 and 4 minute mark.
Yes, I saw that.
I have found stones and on occasion insects in my rice. And yes I buy it in large sacks.
How much rice do you eat?
Not really sure why you're grilling Tyr over this. It's entirely possible he buys a brand of bulk rice that doesn't prep the stuff a la North American brands.
Are we seriously debating whether or not Tyr found something in his rice? :lol:
Quote from: Maladict on November 15, 2020, 04:58:45 PM
Are we seriously debating whether or not Tyr found something in his rice? :lol:
This. Is. Languish.
At least he didn't find any ants.
Quote from: Maladict on November 15, 2020, 04:58:45 PM
Are we seriously debating whether or not Tyr found something in his rice? :lol:
No, we are pointing out that, had he watched the video, he would never have said that he was "shocked to hear some people don't." The video clearly stated why some people don't, and he wouldn't have been shocked after learning something so obvious.
What Tyr finds in his rice isn't relevant, except as a warning not to buy your rice from whatever cheapass outfit he buys from.
Quote from: Habbaku on November 15, 2020, 05:13:40 PM
Quote from: Maladict on November 15, 2020, 04:58:45 PM
Are we seriously debating whether or not Tyr found something in his rice? :lol:
This. Is. Languish.
At least he didn't find any ants.
Giant Ants?
Quote from: Maladict on November 15, 2020, 04:58:45 PM
Are we seriously debating whether or not Tyr found something in his rice? :lol:
No, there is some serious backtracking going on by Tyr, from OMG people don't wash rice to, in his particular circumstances, it makes sense to do so.
Which is kinda the point of the video - leading to the conclusion he did not actually watch it.
Quote from: grumbler on November 15, 2020, 05:43:08 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on November 15, 2020, 05:13:40 PM
Quote from: Maladict on November 15, 2020, 04:58:45 PM
Are we seriously debating whether or not Tyr found something in his rice? :lol:
This. Is. Languish.
At least he didn't find any ants.
Giant Ants?
If Lee had those Giant Ants from Tyr's rice make the charge up Cemetery Ridge...could the Confederacy have won at Gettysburg?
Quote from: Tonitrus on November 15, 2020, 06:13:32 PM
If Lee had those Giant Ants from Tyr's rice make the charge up Cemetery Ridge...could the Confederacy have won at Gettysburg?
No, they can't hold AK-47s :(
:bleeding:/ :lol:
Watch the bloody video people. It's literally in the opening seconds he says washing rice isn't as common in the US as elswhere.
I've always taken it as a given that you wash rice so it's a surprise that in America this isn't done.
Simple.
Me and rice... I eat it a fair bit. Not as much as I used to but as with most things that keep well it's best to buy in bulk.
Quote from: Tyr on November 15, 2020, 06:29:42 PM
:bleeding:/ :lol:
Watch the bloody video people. It's literally in the opening seconds he says washing rice isn't as common in the US as elswhere.
I've always taken it as a given that you wash rice so it's a surprise that in America this isn't done.
Simple.
Me and rice... I eat it a fair bit. Not as much as I used to but as with most things that keep well it's best to buy in bulk.
Yeah, that is what I thought, if you only watched the opening seconds, you could completely miss what he was actually saying. Why did you have to fib about watching the whole thing?
Fuck off. I really don't get why you're being such an absolute cunt over a throw away comment about a random video?
And at least try to come up with some better form of attack than idiotic gaslighting.
Quote from: Tyr on November 15, 2020, 07:07:34 PM
Fuck off. I really don't get why you're being such an absolute cunt over a throw away comment about a random video?
And at least try to come up with some better form of attack than idiotic gaslighting.
First Rule of Holes
This is quality stuff right here.
I think what everyone here is trying to ascertain is the timing of Tyr's shock. Was he shocked at the beginning of the video or at the end?
It's conceivable that his shock came at the beginning of the video, and did not dissipate before he made his post. Sometimes it takes time to process videos, especially about matters that have an emotional impact like shock on you.
If Tyr did watch the video, and only at the end did he start being shocked by it, then it's far less excusable.
Yeah we need to get to the bottom of this. Tyr, give us a reaction video
Quote from: Maladict on November 16, 2020, 12:33:47 PM
Yeah we need to get to the bottom of this. Tyr, give us a reaction video
I think Tyr could go viral as an English Uncle Roger.
Quote from: DGuller on November 16, 2020, 12:17:29 PM
I think what everyone here is trying to ascertain is the timing of Tyr's shock. Was he shocked at the beginning of the video or at the end?
It's conceivable that his shock came at the beginning of the video, and did not dissipate before he made his post. Sometimes it takes time to process videos, especially about matters that have an emotional impact like shock on you.
If Tyr did watch the video, and only at the end did he start being shocked by it, then it's far less excusable.
It is really the only explanation for how someone could miss the fact that the video went in a completely different direction after the first few seconds.
I have to admit that my reaction was different because I don't wash rice. I thought, oh crap, do I need to wash rice and then the confirmation came - nope all good.
Screen Rant has a series of fake "pitch meetings" between the writer of various Star Wars movies and an exec, funny ensues:
https://youtu.be/uAvprzqwbo8
Not just Star Wars, there's over a hundred videos in the series.
Quote from: Eddie Teach on December 04, 2020, 01:45:39 AM
Not just Star Wars, there's over a hundred videos in the series.
And to do so many of them and keep them fresh must be real hard, right? No, super easy; barely an inconvenience!
They are pretty tight, I gotta admit.
SR's Pitch Meetings are hillarious, yeah yeah yeah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX_laaF3CvI
Afghan country people try various foods. This one is shrimp. Some good reactions.
Looks like the series was made by the same folks who did "Irish People Try." Or they just ripped it off.
We're sharing videos of likely underage girls soaping themselves up why? :huh:
Quote from: Josephus on December 19, 2020, 07:14:26 AM
Portuguese speaking teenage girls showering in their bikinis. Not sure if they're Brazilian or Portuguese. Not sure it matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5BVAcEBkN8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5BVAcEBkN8)
Brazilian for sure. Besides that...
it's on YTube...it's perfectly fine. I take it you've never been to a beach,
I deleted it anyway, though it is still there on Braganca's reply
More appropriate for our age, a beach full of random celebrities from the 80s and 90s singing a Beatles song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un3TmvzoVYM
Quote from: Habbaku on December 03, 2020, 09:58:05 PM
Screen Rant has a series of fake "pitch meetings" between the writer of various Star Wars movies and an exec, funny ensues:
https://youtu.be/uAvprzqwbo8
There went my entire night. These are freaking fucking awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhKOV3nImQ
Quote from: Berkut on December 21, 2020, 12:50:18 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on December 03, 2020, 09:58:05 PM
Screen Rant has a series of fake "pitch meetings" between the writer of various Star Wars movies and an exec, funny ensues:
https://youtu.be/uAvprzqwbo8
There went my entire night. These are freaking fucking awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhKOV3nImQ
Yeah, that's one of the best. But, watching it, I was disappointed by the fact that it didn't bring up the dragon breath that could destroy a 5,000-year-old thousand-foot-high wall, but not knock over a small pile of bricks when Jon was hiding behind it. Maybe that was too tough even for Pitch Meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot4qdCs54ZE
The Netherlands has the highest wealth inequality in the world.
tldnw: In the Netherlands you can borrow 110% of the value of a home, so lots of people have negative net worth. Plus Euro style dynasties tend to keep family wealth concentrated in the heir.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 23, 2020, 01:51:03 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot4qdCs54ZE
The Netherlands has the highest wealth inequality in the world.
tldnw: In the Netherlands you can borrow 110% of the value of a home, so lots of people have negative net worth. Plus Euro style dynasties tend to keep family wealth concentrated in the heir.
You gotta wonder when the video is titled "How The Dutch Economy Shows We Can't Reduce Wealth Inequality With Taxes." Of course, the Netherlands does not show that at all. In fact, this video is premised on something very unlikely to be true: that the Netherlands is the most unequal country in the word in terms of wealth distribution. This appears to be true from the 2019 data, but in the 2018 GINI wealth data it is #71, and in 2008 #125 (of 170 countries).
GINI data in the table here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_equality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_equality)
So wealth inequality seems to be rising in the Netherlands, but the 2019 data is way out of line with the historical data. The reason seems to be a change in the Dutch government's estimate of the hidden economy, which the government admits is a preliminary estimate, not a final number. Of course, to compare the Netherlands to other countries, you have to make the same assumptions about their hidden economies.
TLR Version: don't believe videos that seem to be making claims that go against common sense, without checking out the data. They could easily be just pursuing an agenda with cherry-picked evidence.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 23, 2020, 01:51:03 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot4qdCs54ZE
The Netherlands has the highest wealth inequality in the world.
Nah. We have very high private debt, yes. But this video is more than a little misleading.
Quotetldnw: In the Netherlands you can borrow 110% of the value of a home
Not true, and hasn't been for nearly a decade. But it is possible to borrow 100%.
Quote, so lots of people have negative net worth.
The number has been falling in recent years, but I suppose most young people with students loans and/or a recently bought home will have negative worth.
QuotePlus Euro style dynasties tend to keep family wealth concentrated in the heir.
I don't know if we have a lot of dynasties. There's some old money for sure but I doubt it would affect nationwide numbers. And the 20% inheritance tax takes a fair chunk out of it.
Inheritance is equal parts among children by law. Even if disinherited they can still claim part of the inheritance.
Also from the video:
Tax deduction on mortgages is being phased out. And you can only deduct taxes on your primary mortgage, the example of the landlord is incorrect.
The mortgage guarantee is not free of charge, and is only applicable to homes up to 250K or so.
And a big one: we have massive pension schemes that are not considered wealth. If you include those the numbers would be different.
hbomberguy has released an excellent video about an excellent game, Fallout: New Vegas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzF7aHxk4Y4&ab_channel=hbomberguy
He's also added a video about the War on Christmas (TM). Contains the joke "It [Catholic Church] hasn't been the same since the Byzantine Papacy." :nerd:
https://youtu.be/jbZo4x0NbbI
It'd be cool if he could make videos that were not one hour long or even longer.
Quote from: The Larch on December 24, 2020, 05:05:09 AM
It'd be cool if he could make videos that were not one hour long or even longer.
Well, he only makes them every few months/years, so ...
I usually put them on in the background while doing something else, kind of like a podcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1oByXmohhU
Chinese woman attacked by octopus she is trying to eat live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UvzWoQUJvc
I'm watching this series of clips about which country you hate/dislike. A couple one off answers, plenty of people in all countries saying they dislike the US because of the politics. Then I start watching the one shot in England and here's the first one with people saying they dislike their own country.
Hating England is the British way.
It's why our nationalists are so utterly horrid. They fly in the face of the thing they claim to represent.
https://twitter.com/Martina/status/1351396110452011009?s=20
About the funniest clip I've seen in a long time. :lol:
Here's a really surprising look at The Outlaw Josey Wales (one of my favorite movies) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndsdQO0Wmk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndsdQO0Wmk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zovrM0LdrZ0
This is genuinely terrifying.
At the Lincoln Memorial, Joe needs your help to save Skyrim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am4a8EfQDQM
Quote from: The Brain on January 30, 2021, 07:37:47 AM
At the Lincoln Memorial, Joe needs your help to save Skyrim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am4a8EfQDQM
The vid is okay, but the comments are what makes for te funny.
Quote from: grumbler on January 30, 2021, 10:44:14 AM
Quote from: The Brain on January 30, 2021, 07:37:47 AM
At the Lincoln Memorial, Joe needs your help to save Skyrim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am4a8EfQDQM
The vid is okay, but the comments are what makes for te funny.
"Trumpists" is out. It shall be "Trumpsworn" now.
Quote from: Tonitrus on January 30, 2021, 10:47:30 AM
Quote from: grumbler on January 30, 2021, 10:44:14 AM
Quote from: The Brain on January 30, 2021, 07:37:47 AM
At the Lincoln Memorial, Joe needs your help to save Skyrim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am4a8EfQDQM
The vid is okay, but the comments are what makes for te funny.
"Trumpists" is out. It shall be "Trumpsworn" now.
Trumpcloaks?
Certainly less confusing than Trumpsuit.
Quote from: Tonitrus on January 30, 2021, 06:21:07 PM
Certainly less confusing than Trumpsuit.
A Trumpsuit is an incredibly lame legal filing done by lawyers who are both shameless and unbelievably stupid. They will be fodder for the legal humor community for decades - the standard against which all future dumb lawsuits will be measured.
I saw that the Wolf Conservation Center has a 24/7 live feed. :wub:
https://www.twitch.tv/wolfconservationcenter
There are two types of youtube clips I never bother looking at. Anything that mentions the *real* reason. Anything that mentions person X *owning* person Y.
Do you watch clips that mention how unlikely it is that you will give what transpires next any credence?
I can't recall watching any clips that fit that description.
Good. Good.
Today's released video of the Perseverance rover landing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czjS9h4Fpg
Very cool
I didn't know Ben Shapiro wrote a novel, but it sounds like hilarious right-wing nonsense. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9jhtD5al6s&ab_channel=Jos%C3%A9
Quote from: Syt on February 28, 2021, 10:43:24 AM
I didn't know Ben Shapiro wrote a novel, but it sounds like hilarious right-wing nonsense. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9jhtD5al6s&ab_channel=Jos%C3%A9
Worse than Trigger Warnings?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMgMr0JcYJ4
Having watched the video now I would say similar, but Shapiro's book has (among many other things) a domestic terrorist who tries to kill the president (she's one of the heroes and looks like Natalie Portman which is an important plot point). :)
Quote from: Syt on March 03, 2021, 09:38:47 AM
Having watched the video now I would say similar, but Shapiro's book has (among many other things) a domestic terrorist who tries to kill the president (she's one of the heroes and looks like Natalie Portman which is an important plot point). :)
Another point of fixation of the right with V for Vendetta?
Quote from: crazy canuck on March 03, 2021, 11:57:31 AM
Quote from: Syt on March 03, 2021, 09:38:47 AM
Having watched the video now I would say similar, but Shapiro's book has (among many other things) a domestic terrorist who tries to kill the president (she's one of the heroes and looks like Natalie Portman which is an important plot point). :)
Another point of fixation of the right with V for Vendetta?
https://www.amazon.com/True-Allegiance-Ben-Shapiro/dp/1682610772
QuoteAmerica is coming apart. An illegal immigration crisis has broken out along America's Southern border—there are race riots in Detroit—a fiery female rancher-turned-militia leader has vowed revenge on the president for his arrogant policies—and the world's most notorious terrorist is planning a massive attack that could destroy the United States as we know it. Meanwhile the President is too consumed by legacy-seeking to see our country's deep peril.
Brett Hawthorne is the youngest general in the United States Army—and he's stuck, alone, behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. He's the last lost soldier of a failed war, fighting to stay alive and make it back home—but will he be able to stop the collapse of America in time?
The book also contains a scene of a nice cop shooting an 8 year old black kid who mouthed off at him - he thought the kid was armed but it was a toy gun, and how activists use the incident as a means for advancing their insurrectionist agenda.
So basically its a typical dystopian sci fi but where the baddies are the heroes?
John Oliver on Tucker Carlson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMGxxRRtmHc
Not sure about this segment. It's a decent enough catalog of why Tucker Carlson is a waste of carbon molecules, but it doesn't seem to really add anything we didn't know before. :hmm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ObplLKEGk
Rather well done shanty about Karens.
Quote from: grumbler on January 19, 2021, 11:14:07 PM
Here's a really surprising look at The Outlaw Josey Wales (one of my favorite movies) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndsdQO0Wmk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndsdQO0Wmk)
I don't quite get all the hatred about God&Generals. It's a boring movie, but I don't see it as championing the Lost Cause myth. It simply makes the characters express themselves, express what they thought at the time, I never see it as imposing this view as the absolute truth on me. I don't find it quite radical that people born&raised in a slave society's resent being told what to do with what they consider as no more than cows.
I guess you could have them all being tortured souls or demons, that would please the modern crowd, but it would be just as bad.
Quote from: viper37 on March 25, 2021, 11:14:14 AM
Quote from: grumbler on January 19, 2021, 11:14:07 PM
Here's a really surprising look at The Outlaw Josey Wales (one of my favorite movies) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndsdQO0Wmk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndsdQO0Wmk)
I don't quite get all the hatred about God&Generals. It's a boring movie, but I don't see it as championing the Lost Cause myth. It simply makes the characters express themselves, express what they thought at the time, I never see it as imposing this view as the absolute truth on me. I don't find it quite radical that people born&raised in a slave society's resent being told what to do with what they consider as no more than cows.
I guess you could have them all being tortured souls or demons, that would please the modern crowd, but it would be just as bad.
Where was the analysis that the problem was they were too cheerful? Anyway it did have tons of scenes of them being tortured souls so I don't even understand your point.
The point was that the cheerleading session in the Virginia Secession convention wasn't anything like it was in actuality with many walking out in protest and emotions running high on both sides. Instead they make it look like only a tiny minority of weirdos did not want to secede, rather than it actually eventually leading the state splitting up. So kind of bullshit in addition to being boring.
Quote from: Syt on February 01, 2021, 01:21:06 PM
I saw that the Wolf Conservation Center has a 24/7 live feed. :wub:
https://www.twitch.tv/wolfconservationcenter (https://www.twitch.tv/wolfconservationcenter)
I love animal documentaries. But really, a 24/7 live feed of an enclosed forested area is a little too much for me :P
Quote from: Valmy on March 25, 2021, 11:17:30 AM
Quote from: viper37 on March 25, 2021, 11:14:14 AM
Quote from: grumbler on January 19, 2021, 11:14:07 PM
Here's a really surprising look at The Outlaw Josey Wales (one of my favorite movies) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndsdQO0Wmk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndsdQO0Wmk)
I don't quite get all the hatred about God&Generals. It's a boring movie, but I don't see it as championing the Lost Cause myth. It simply makes the characters express themselves, express what they thought at the time, I never see it as imposing this view as the absolute truth on me. I don't find it quite radical that people born&raised in a slave society's resent being told what to do with what they consider as no more than cows.
I guess you could have them all being tortured souls or demons, that would please the modern crowd, but it would be just as bad.
Where was the analysis that the problem was they were too cheerful? Anyway it did have tons of scenes of them being tortured souls so I don't even understand your point.
The point was that the cheerleading session in the Virginia Secession convention wasn't anything like it was in actuality with many walking out in protest and emotions running high on both sides. Instead they make it look like only a tiny minority of weirdos did not want to secede, rather than it actually eventually leading the state splitting up. So kind of bullshit in addition to being boring.
Reading about it seems like many officers of the South didn't want their State to secede, but once done, they could not resolve themselves to fight against their neighbors & families.
Do you think the Northerners rallied behind the great cause of freeing all the slaves? They all happily marched south to liberate them black folks from the injustice of them being considered unequal to white folks?
Look, people were raised/educated to consider blacks as an inferior "species", even in the North, not many people considered them equal, or were willing to see black families living next door to them. You got to put things in proper context too. It's morally abject to think so today, it wasn't back then.
I think all in all, Gods&Generals did a good job of presenting what the characters thought of themselves. It made so in a really boring way, but it's insightful. I never got the feeling the civil war happened because of a couple of weirdos on both sides from this movie, I never got the feeling Stonewall Jackson was a great misunderstood character full of love&empathy for his black brethren. I guess they should have presented Lee as some kind of flesh eating monster to satisfy the sensibilities of a modern audience? If so, I highly recommend Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, it might be a better movie for such inclined audience.
Back then, people had a choice of fighting against their home or fighting for their country. It's not something trivial. You may hate Texas and most of your people, but your reaction would be different if all your family&friends were concentrated there. Try to understand that instead of seeing every non pro-Union sentiment as nazism.
Finally, there's a difference between a bad, boring movie and a piece of propaganda. Gone with the wind is an excellent movie, but it's very close to propaganda. Gods&General is a bad movie, not something I'd show to my friends, but it's far from propaganda. It's mostly disappointing because it follows Gettysburg, by the same author, which was a great movie.
Quote from: viper37 on March 25, 2021, 11:14:14 AM
Quote from: grumbler on January 19, 2021, 11:14:07 PM
Here's a really surprising look at The Outlaw Josey Wales (one of my favorite movies) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndsdQO0Wmk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndsdQO0Wmk)
I don't quite get all the hatred about God&Generals. It's a boring movie, but I don't see it as championing the Lost Cause myth.
Atun-Shei covers that too: https://youtu.be/S3E2FdedPwU
Quote from: viper37 on March 25, 2021, 11:37:02 AM
Reading about it seems like many officers of the South didn't want their State to secede, but once done, they could not resolve themselves to fight against their neighbors & families.
Sure. The Unionists had to eventually come down on one side or the other. Jubal Early went from being a Unionist to being the fanatical leader of the Lost Causers. Others went radically in the other direction to the point even I think they were being a little unreasonable :lol: But we are talking about during the actual secession convention. Remember Virginia had met earlier that year and had voted to stay in the Union. They met again after Fort Sumpter and, despite it being contentious, voted to secede the second time but the way it is shown in the film is really boring and not historically accurate at all...which is just one of many scenes that suck and thus why the movie sucks
QuoteDo you think the Northerners rallied behind the great cause of freeing all the slaves? They all happily marched south to liberate them black folks from the injustice of them being considered unequal to white folks?
Please provide me the evidence I think this. While there were abolitionists, which for some reason people making this stupid argument just pretend did not exist as if all the yankees were this hive mind, the majority did at least agree that slavery should not exist anywhere outside the Southern States which was why they voted for the Republican Party. But even many the Democrats, and those who were open to slavery spreading into territories where people wanted it, were angry about the actions of the Southerners. I think it is perfectly consistent to believe all of those things, even abolitionism, while still endorsing and supporting white supremacy.
QuoteLook, people were raised/educated to consider blacks as an inferior "species", even in the North, not many people considered them equal, or were willing to see black families living next door to them. You got to put things in proper context too. It's morally abject to think so today, it wasn't back then.
Yet Gods&Generals did not do this at all. In fact it did just the opposite and presented the Confederate Generals as being abolitionists with views designed to make them appealing to modern audiences. Gettysburg also did this in one cringey line, and hey I like James Longstreet as much as the next guy but come on. And G&G makes it worse by having all the black characters being so sympathetic to the southerners and their cause. Yes some certainly felt that way but at least have a few who felt differently.
QuoteI think all in all, Gods&Generals did a good job of presenting what the characters thought of themselves.
They did a good presenting what this director thought we should think of the characters, as figures with admirable 21st century values fighting for honor who wanted to free all the slaves despite fighting for the South.
QuoteIt made so in a really boring way, but it's insightful. I never got the feeling the civil war happened because of a couple of weirdos on both sides from this movie, I never got the feeling Stonewall Jackson was a great misunderstood character full of love&empathy for his black brethren.
I am glad you got that feeling, but the movie said the opposite.
QuoteI guess they should have presented Lee as some kind of flesh eating monster to satisfy the sensibilities of a modern audience? If so, I highly recommend Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, it might be a better movie for such inclined audience.
I don't think so but they can have northerners saying "Darkies" they might have at least touched on how different they were from us a little bit.
QuoteBack then, people had a choice of fighting against their home or fighting for their country. It's not something trivial. You may hate Texas and most of your people, but your reaction would be different if all your family&friends were concentrated there. Try to understand that instead of seeing every non pro-Union sentiment as nazism.
What the flying fuck are you talking about? I love Texas and I love all of "my people" and I even love those guys who were pro-slavery and fought for the Confederacy. They were human beings and I am descended from them. But they weren't glowing balls of light either, their feelings were based on irrational fear and propaganda (and in some cases cynical self interest). But then whose aren't entirely not influenced by that kind of thing?
QuoteFinally, there's a difference between a bad, boring movie and a piece of propaganda. Gone with the wind is an excellent movie, but it's very close to propaganda. Gods&General is a bad movie, not something I'd show to my friends, but it's far from propaganda. It's mostly disappointing because it follows Gettysburg, by the same author, which was a great movie.
It had inaccurate scenes that seemed weirdly and pointlessly pro-South. As if that many people are carrying a torch for the Confederacy that they need to be pandered to. I don't really care why they were but that is not a great way to get me to like your film. A sanctimonious film making all northerners appearing to be saintly figures would also be obnoxious.
QuoteIt's mostly disappointing because it follows Gettysburg, by the same author, which was a great movie.
Cannot disagree there.
Let me remind you that, according to letters and writings by the southerners themselves, they were 100% sure that if the slaves were freed they would murder them all Haiti-style. They would not be so casually saying they should free all the slaves.
Quote from: viper37 on March 25, 2021, 11:14:14 AM
Quote from: grumbler on January 19, 2021, 11:14:07 PM
Here's a really surprising look at The Outlaw Josey Wales (one of my favorite movies) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndsdQO0Wmk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndsdQO0Wmk)
I don't quite get all the hatred about God&Generals. It's a boring movie, but I don't see it as championing the Lost Cause myth. It simply makes the characters express themselves, express what they thought at the time, I never see it as imposing this view as the absolute truth on me. I don't find it quite radical that people born&raised in a slave society's resent being told what to do with what they consider as no more than cows.
I guess you could have them all being tortured souls or demons, that would please the modern crowd, but it would be just as bad.
The issue is not how the movie portrays the main characters and what they think, it is about how it portrays the actual reality of the world they lived in.
So no, making them all "tortured souls" would not fix this - so far as I am aware, they were not all that tortured anyway. They mostly thought their beliefs about slavery were noble and right.
But that doesn't mean you get a pass because you are just repeating what some figure thought, if at the same time you rather pointedly do NOT include the reality behind what they thought. If the only thing you know about the ACW is that the south had a bunch of people who claimed they fought for states rights and said slavery was fine and why, the black people never had it so good...and didn't actually show that the first claim is a lie, and the second observation just fucking untrue and horrifying, then in fact you probably are engaged in propaganda.
You are only presenting one particular viewpoint on a controversial subject, and in this case, a viewpoint that serious historians have largely dismissed as total bullshit.
Quote from: Valmy on March 25, 2021, 12:18:21 PM
It had inaccurate scenes that seemed weirdly and pointlessly pro-South. As if that many people are carrying a torch for the Confederacy that they need to be pandered to. I don't really care why they were but that is not a great way to get me to like your film. A sanctimonious film making all northerners appearing to be saintly figures would also be obnoxious.
Exactly.
Could you imagine a ACW film that focused on the Union, and all the generals were all "We must fight to free our equal black brothers from slavery!" and every Union soldier was waxing on about how they were on a quest from god to bring equal rights, the vote, and equal opportunity to black people?
It would be ludicrous and roundly mocked by anyone who knows the truth. Most norther soldiers fought to preserve the Union, or simply because they were drafted. I am sure some of them had an opinion about slavery, probably even most opposed it - but that did not make them anti-racist. There is a lot of space between "Lets enslave them" and "They are equal"!
Just look how a movie like "Glory" portrays those fighting for the Union. Sure, there were definitely out and out "balls of light" abolitionists, but most of them were a rather mixed bag morally, at least by modern standards. And even the "best" of them morally were pretty sketchy by our standards.
The Hamburg miniature railroad diorama Miniatur Wunderland sets a world record - Model train plays classical hits on 2,840 wine glasses
https://youtu.be/aBNHmUT3GPg
Article: https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2021/0408/1208569-germany-model-train-music/
Quote from: Syt on April 08, 2021, 06:44:04 AM
The Hamburg miniature railroad diorama Miniatur Wunderland sets a world record - Model train plays classical hits on 2,840 wine glasses
https://youtu.be/aBNHmUT3GPg
Article: https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2021/0408/1208569-germany-model-train-music/
I was there two years ago, it's so cool :cool:
If you've never seen it this Stephen fry series from a few years ago where he meets leading homophobes of the world is rather great.
https://youtu.be/WODLiNaY4aU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFwxKHX6ID4
Restored video of 1906 Copenhagen. Goddamn idyllic to see people just walk freely about with no car in sight. Also lots of fish and cabbage of course. 11/10 would vote for a car free Copenhagen.
One of the more interesting reaction channels I've seen recently is Doug Helvering's; he's a classical composer, mostly reacting to heavy metal, but also other things.
Here's his video of reacting to Yngwie Malmsteen's Icarus' Dream Suite, Op. 4 performance with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra.
https://youtu.be/xVTNnFAHvHw
Leo has surpassed himself once again!
He's got to be the coolest Norwegian of all :D
The final countdown - Metal cover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUtg-utg2XU)
Noah Gervais has published two new videos
A look at the Star Wars FPS games from Dark Forces to Jedi Academy: https://youtu.be/MMAYCB3b7rY
I thought it was fine but I found it a fair bit blander than some of his other videos and series examinations.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 Vs. Joseph Campbell: https://youtu.be/OI2iOB8ydGo
QuoteThis is a focused retrospective and critique of both of the older Knights of the Old Republic CRPGs from Bioware and Obsidian. It looks to how they interface with the Monomyth template as originally laid down in 1949 by Joseph Campbell in The Hero With a Thousand Faces, one game conforming exactly to it and the next game violently rejecting the entire premise. It also discusses how Campbell's monomyth influenced the philosophies of the Jedi and Sith more than George Lucas might care to admit. Spoilers throughout.
I'm watching this one right now. He is aware that the monomyth while still widely used in pop culture, has been reassessed and lost some influence among theorists in recent years.
Quote from: viper37 on April 30, 2021, 04:42:49 PM
Leo has surpassed himself once again!
He's got to be the coolest Norwegian of all :D
The final countdown - Metal cover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUtg-utg2XU)
I like Leo's work, but his covers can be a bit hit and miss for me. This one doesn't do it for me. :(
I think the best metal cover of the song is by Dispatched: https://youtu.be/A8gc6vulshI
The funniest one, obviously, is by the Excrementory Grindfuckers: https://youtu.be/vz2xMyZ5rP0
Quote from: Syt on May 05, 2021, 07:22:21 AM
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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 Vs. Joseph Campbell: https://youtu.be/OI2iOB8ydGo
QuoteThis is a focused retrospective and critique of both of the older Knights of the Old Republic CRPGs from Bioware and Obsidian. It looks to how they interface with the Monomyth template as originally laid down in 1949 by Joseph Campbell in The Hero With a Thousand Faces, one game conforming exactly to it and the next game violently rejecting the entire premise. It also discusses how Campbell's monomyth influenced the philosophies of the Jedi and Sith more than George Lucas might care to admit. Spoilers throughout.
I'm watching this one right now. He is aware that the monomyth while still widely used in pop culture, has been reassessed and lost some influence among theorists in recent years.
George Lucas had Campbell staying at his house during the writing of Star Wars and always acknowledged his own debt to the monomyth.
I'm not sure who the "theorists" are that have lost interest in the monomyth. It was never accepted as the only way to describe myths (and I'm not sure Campbell actually believed that himself; he was always referring to a specific type of myth), but I don't think that the objections to it are any more popular now than in the past.
I think that the objections to Campbell come more from his appearance in
The Power of Myth than in his writings.
I possibly misstated. Still, an interesting exercise in the video to map the games to Campbell's Hero's Journey from his Hero With a Thousand Faces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrsEpxj2KKc
Sarah Silverman fans should get a kick of this. Great impressions of her parents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWuXfIZiSqY
Bill Burr's Philly Rant
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0lG3Ihe4LGV851lODRIS5g (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0lG3Ihe4LGV851lODRIS5g)
French cooking academy, some french expatriate in Australia cooking French food in a pedagogical appetizing manner.
The best goddamn cooking channel I've found.
Anyone know of any similar for italian food?
Quote from: Threviel on May 21, 2021, 01:09:08 AM
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0lG3Ihe4LGV851lODRIS5g (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0lG3Ihe4LGV851lODRIS5g)
French cooking academy, some french expatriate in Australia cooking French food in a pedagogical appetizing manner.
The best goddamn cooking channel I've found.
Anyone know of any similar for italian food?
It's not exactly the same thing, but there's a magazine and associated youtube channel called "Italia Squisita" that shows famous Italian cooks from both traditional and modern restaurants teaching how to make their recipes in a quite understandable way. It is in Italian but there are English subtitles.
They have plenty of different formats, and sometimes they'll put in the same video the "traditional" and the "modern" way of doing a famous Italian recipe, or how different chefs do the recipe, and I think it's good to see that Italian cooks are not as fundamentalist on the "proper" way of doing a certain recipe or as opposed to innovation as they might seem, although they also play a bit with that stereotype in certain videos, and most of the times the cooler recipes are the ones where you have a really old cook saying stuff like "this is the way we've done X in our restaurant since my grandparents' time".
Small selection of videos:
Cacio e pepe, traditional & modern versions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkQUblKCkOg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkQUblKCkOg)
Fettucini Alfredo, as explained by the cook of the restaurant where the dish was created: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9HCxfIREo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9HCxfIREo)
Three versions of carbonara, traditional, contemporary and modern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elq1UYbJ-JQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elq1UYbJ-JQ)
Robert Picardo is making some weird videos these days: https://youtu.be/zAUGfMyzFYY
Quote from: The Larch on May 21, 2021, 07:35:39 AM
Quote from: Threviel on May 21, 2021, 01:09:08 AM
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0lG3Ihe4LGV851lODRIS5g (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0lG3Ihe4LGV851lODRIS5g)
French cooking academy, some french expatriate in Australia cooking French food in a pedagogical appetizing manner.
The best goddamn cooking channel I've found.
Anyone know of any similar for italian food?
It's not exactly the same thing, but there's a magazine and associated youtube channel called "Italia Squisita" that shows famous Italian cooks from both traditional and modern restaurants teaching how to make their recipes in a quite understandable way. It is in Italian but there are English subtitles.
They have plenty of different formats, and sometimes they'll put in the same video the "traditional" and the "modern" way of doing a famous Italian recipe, or how different chefs do the recipe, and I think it's good to see that Italian cooks are not as fundamentalist on the "proper" way of doing a certain recipe or as opposed to innovation as they might seem, although they also play a bit with that stereotype in certain videos, and most of the times the cooler recipes are the ones where you have a really old cook saying stuff like "this is the way we've done X in our restaurant since my grandparents' time".
Small selection of videos:
Cacio e pepe, traditional & modern versions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkQUblKCkOg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkQUblKCkOg)
Fettucini Alfredo, as explained by the cook of the restaurant where the dish was created: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9HCxfIREo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9HCxfIREo)
Three versions of carbonara, traditional, contemporary and modern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elq1UYbJ-JQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elq1UYbJ-JQ)
Thanks! I love the small comments that the chef making Alfredo makes. "Just fold in the eggs exactly as at home", "simple machine that can be bought in any super market".
You don't happen to know a good one for Spanish food?
That channel's got 10 different videos on how to do pizza at home. My kid is going to love pizza Fridays a few weeks ahead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reNSWRwPaYw
I've seen a bunch of these dog grooming videos. I find them strangely thought provoking, mostly on issues related to craftsmanship and job satisfaction.
She seems happy, competent, and proud of her work. Is there way to distill that and transfer it to the corporate setting?
OverSimplified has new videos about the Napoleonic wars:
https://youtu.be/zqllxbPWKNI
https://youtu.be/mY3SEMTROas
History Buffs reviews the 2019 Midway movie:
https://youtu.be/4qQim09n6mY
https://youtu.be/uZGGn2ZfGZo
(TL;DW: he overall is impressed with the historical accuracy of events, but isn't happy with the movie being dedicated to both American and Japanese soldiers considering the war crimes of IJN and the regime they fought for)
Presented without comment: https://www.youtube.com/c/ABeckettKing/videos
Quote from: Syt on June 05, 2021, 05:25:33 AM
Presented without comment: https://www.youtube.com/c/ABeckettKing/videos
The British Simpsons one is pretty good.
I have no idea where to put this, but it made laugh so much, I had to share:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m-c4GixUpg&t=140s
It's a Danish road safety ad. In Danish, with english subtitles.
Quote from: viper37 on June 07, 2021, 10:49:45 PM
I have no idea where to put this, but it made laugh so much, I had to share:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m-c4GixUpg&t=140s
It's a Danish road safety ad. In Danish, with english subtitles.
I'm not sure who the target audience is for that ad, but I certainly enjoyed it.
Quote from: viper37 on June 07, 2021, 10:49:45 PM
I have no idea where to put this, but it made laugh so much, I had to share:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m-c4GixUpg&t=140s
It's a Danish road safety ad. In Danish, with english subtitles.
:D
That was great.
I posted this one a while ago, I think, but it popped into my feed again, and it's still amazing.
A short homage to the game TIE-Fighter, animated in the style of 1980s sci-fi anime. The detailing and animations are crazy good in this one.
https://youtu.be/PN_CP4SuoTU
Great discussion about US, Soviet, and German armored production during WW2:
https://youtu.be/N6xLMUifbxQ?t=1561
Nothing new per se, but some new (to me) insight into some of the details around the actual manufacturing strategies.
The anti baby-killing movement in Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1rbtXLsVwA
Nice little video about the bizzarely horrific ye olde Japanese practice of mabiki (sending newborn babies back) and efforts to tackle it.
Quote from: Berkut on June 15, 2021, 07:32:00 AM
Great discussion about US, Soviet, and German armored production during WW2:
https://youtu.be/N6xLMUifbxQ?t=1561
Nothing new per se, but some new (to me) insight into some of the details around the actual manufacturing strategies.
That actually was an excellent presentation, now that I had a chance to view it. Maybe a little bit playing to the audience, but some fascinating nuts and bolts stuff (literally: the T-34 in the British tank Museum was sent out with the minimum number of bolts needed to keep the armor on; why waste bolts?).
Quote from: grumbler on July 13, 2021, 10:31:19 AM
Quote from: Berkut on June 15, 2021, 07:32:00 AM
Great discussion about US, Soviet, and German armored production during WW2:
https://youtu.be/N6xLMUifbxQ?t=1561
Nothing new per se, but some new (to me) insight into some of the details around the actual manufacturing strategies.
That actually was an excellent presentation, now that I had a chance to view it. Maybe a little bit playing to the audience, but some fascinating nuts and bolts stuff (literally: the T-34 in the British tank Museum was sent out with the minimum number of bolts needed to keep the armor on; why waste bolts?).
Yeah, the comment that the average T-34 lasted like 36 hours once it reached the front, and only 12 hours in combat makes you realize that a really reliable transmission that will last a long time makes no damn sense.
Quote from: Berkut on July 13, 2021, 03:29:02 PM
That actually was an excellent presentation, now that I had a chance to view it. Maybe a little bit playing to the audience, but some fascinating nuts and bolts stuff (literally: the T-34 in the British tank Museum was sent out with the minimum number of bolts needed to keep the armor on; why waste bolts?).
Yeah, the comment that the average T-34 lasted like 36 hours once it reached the front, and only 12 hours in combat makes you realize that a really reliable transmission that will last a long time makes no damn sense.
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When I saw the tank (and for a long time afterwards) I thought that the missing bolts were missing because the Soviets couldn't find enough good workers to put in all the bolts, and that therefor they were forced to send out tanks put together by people that didn't know how tanks were properly put together. After seeing that presentation, the missing bolts make a lot more sense: why put them in when the same worker can be putting in necessary bolts in the next tank. Why change the plate to have less bolt holes when that would delay production (even if infitessimally) and the existing plates worked well enough.
The Soviet versus German approaches to AFV production is pretty much the poster child for "better is the enemy of good enough."
Quote from: viper37 on June 07, 2021, 10:49:45 PM
I have no idea where to put this, but it made laugh so much, I had to share:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m-c4GixUpg&t=140s
It's a Danish road safety ad. In Danish, with english subtitles.
This is great "But it will mess up my braids" :lol:
We should definitely do the same bike helmet approach here.
Quote from: grumbler on July 13, 2021, 05:43:05 PM
When I saw the tank (and for a long time afterwards) I thought that the missing bolts were missing because the Soviets couldn't find enough good workers to put in all the bolts, and that therefor they were forced to send out tanks put together by people that didn't know how tanks were properly put together. After seeing that presentation, the missing bolts make a lot more sense: why put them in when the same worker can be putting in necessary bolts in the next tank. Why change the plate to have less bolt holes when that would delay production (even if infitessimally) and the existing plates worked well enough.
The Soviet versus German approaches to AFV production is pretty much the poster child for "better is the enemy of good enough."
Glantz had a good summary of this:
The Germans treated their tanks as assets to be protected, fixed, recovered, and put back into service.
The soviets treated their tanks as ammunition. Something to be produced and expended.
Quote from: Berkut on July 14, 2021, 11:06:06 AM
Glantz had a good summary of this:
The Germans treated their tanks as assets to be protected, fixed, recovered, and put back into service.
The soviets treated their tanks as ammunition. Something to be produced and expended.
I like it. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of a WW2 Soviet tank recovery vehicle. Surely they must have had
some, to recover vehicles incapacitated by an easily-fixed problem that just couldn't be fixed in the field.
John Oliver has discovered John Dillermand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A51mJjFyG_w
Quote from: grumbler on July 14, 2021, 02:37:22 PM
Quote from: Berkut on July 14, 2021, 11:06:06 AM
Glantz had a good summary of this:
The Germans treated their tanks as assets to be protected, fixed, recovered, and put back into service.
The soviets treated their tanks as ammunition. Something to be produced and expended.
I like it. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of a WW2 Soviet tank recovery vehicle. Surely they must have had some, to recover vehicles incapacitated by an easily-fixed problem that just couldn't be fixed in the field.
I always thought they treated the tanks the way they treated their soldiers. If it couldn't make its way off hte battlefield on its own it was left to rot.
A video chronicling some of the more extreme challenges in the Dark Souls community, particularly the "no hit" runs over multiple games:
https://youtu.be/ppJi6uAstP4
The narrator is a bit bland and makes a few minor factual errors, but overall a decent summary (e.g. you don't need just dexterity for weapons, but each weapon has its own set of stat requirements, but the point is clear - you need to level up for more powerful gear).
Never liked watching Happy Hob (one of the runners), because he's a bit loud and brash for my tastes; I prefer chill streamers - Squillakilla is exactly that. Quiet, calm, smooth voice, perfect for having on in the background. :D
Dark Souls 1 has a mandatory death in the campaign that advances the story. Purist no hit runners will get around this by using a tricky jump in the area to skip that part of the game (though no hit runners otherwise won't use glitches or exploits unlike certain speed run categories).
Besides the no hit runs there's IMHO some harder challenges - e.g. these runs generally are all just taking on the mandatory bosses and skipping the optional ones. Squilla e.g. was going for no hit runs against all bosses for the DS trilogy,+ Bloodborne and there's also the no damage runs.
What's the difference between no hit and no damage? Two main reasons: in DS1-3 there's the Red Tearstone Ring (RTSR) which boosts damage if your life is low. In the video you see runners with low health in some boss fights - that's intentional to trigger the RTSR; usually it's triggered by carefully chosen falls that cause damage (since you can't let enemies hit you). However, in a no damage run ... additionally, there are areas in the games where you're expected to take some damage in a normal play through - poison swamps, some drops off ledges etc. So the runner has to go get items and certain spells to mitigate that damage.
On the one hand I admire these guys who do those challenges. On the other hand I find it troubling when people chase such runs for a year or so and commit a huge chunk of their lives to this. :D
But I am somewhat fascinated by these challenges and find people doing challenge runs in Dark Souls/Bloodborne games quite entertaining.
Even playing dark souls normally mystifies me.
I never knew this existed and it's pretty cool.
Apparently in the early 1960s, Hugh Hefner was given a television show, called Playboy's Penthouse.
This aired on U.S. television, (so it's all SFW). It's basically Hugh inviting several pop culture people of the time into his "penthouse" and drinking, smoking and chewing the shit. Kind of like a talk/variety show.
It's interesting to me, as a window into early 60s pop culture. Also, it was fairly controversial because he had black people on. Several southern states refused to air it.
https://youtu.be/fwN09HzpYBQ
I'm almost ashame I like it... I think it's that spanish accent, I got the same effect with Shakira's Nothing Else Matters:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxLLJ9Lmcg&list=PLW-e786IaZ12fdNDDfVzqBtQ-a-EyIs9m
John Oliver on the state os Emergency Medical Services (i.e. ambulances) in the U.S.
https://youtu.be/Ezv8sdTLxKo
Damn. :wacko:
(I recall when my dad had his stroke and had to be taken to hospital where he then died the same day, we also got a bill, but we sent it to our health insurance and that was that. We were actually surprised they didn't send it to the insurance right away.)
Quote from: Syt on August 09, 2021, 11:54:31 AM
John Oliver on the state os Emergency Medical Services (i.e. ambulances) in the U.S.
https://youtu.be/Ezv8sdTLxKo
Damn. :wacko:
(I recall when my dad had his stroke and had to be taken to hospital where he then died the same day, we also got a bill, but we sent it to our health insurance and that was that. We were actually surprised they didn't send it to the insurance right away.)
I didn't realize that John Oliver had lost so much of his game. Those "jokes" did not work.
But, yeah, ambulance fees are absurd, and what's equally absurd is that ambulances race each other to the scene, since the first one there gets the business.
I've listened to this a dozen or more times since discovering it recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58v-IpXXUiQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58v-IpXXUiQ) It's in French, but you can easily find translations of the lyrics.
I'm not sure why I like it so much; it is more than it's dramatic nature and the vivid vocals, but I can't put my finger on it.
12 minute Vice minidocumentary on the shit going down in South Africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cew-BnjA_q4
Quote from: grumbler on August 09, 2021, 07:05:39 PM
Quote from: Syt on August 09, 2021, 11:54:31 AM
John Oliver on the state os Emergency Medical Services (i.e. ambulances) in the U.S.
https://youtu.be/Ezv8sdTLxKo
Damn. :wacko:
(I recall when my dad had his stroke and had to be taken to hospital where he then died the same day, we also got a bill, but we sent it to our health insurance and that was that. We were actually surprised they didn't send it to the insurance right away.)
I didn't realize that John Oliver had lost so much of his game. Those "jokes" did not work.
But, yeah, ambulance fees are absurd, and what's equally absurd is that ambulances race each other to the scene, since the first one there gets the business.
Back in my original home, we were lucky that our local city/jurisdiction had EMS as a public service under the fire department. It was very high quality, and the voted-on tax levy that provided their funding always passed overwhelmingly.
It is said that Montreal has a lot of professional firefighters & that their training is exceptional.
Historically, there were a lot of fires here.
Quote from: Grey Fox on August 10, 2021, 12:43:14 PM
It is said that Montreal has a lot of professional firefighters & that their training is exceptional.
Historically, there were a lot of fires here.
A lot of firefighter calls are non fire related here. They and the ambulance service get called as first responders to medical emergencies.
I can't imagine the chaos of private EMS competing with eachother to get the "business".
Folding Ideas about the mess that is Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Ring (and Ralph Bakshi): https://youtu.be/Cr_rb_pitHk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OkuyqUU180
"Beyond Expert" mountain bike trail
Quote from: Syt on August 21, 2021, 01:23:15 PM
Folding Ideas about the mess that is Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Ring (and Ralph Bakshi): https://youtu.be/Cr_rb_pitHk
That was a big bowl of shit soup.
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on August 31, 2021, 05:31:19 AM
Quote from: Syt on August 21, 2021, 01:23:15 PM
Folding Ideas about the mess that is Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Ring (and Ralph Bakshi): https://youtu.be/Cr_rb_pitHk
That was a big bowl of shit soup.
Sorry :(
Quote from: Syt on August 31, 2021, 06:00:17 AM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on August 31, 2021, 05:31:19 AM
Quote from: Syt on August 21, 2021, 01:23:15 PM
Folding Ideas about the mess that is Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Ring (and Ralph Bakshi): https://youtu.be/Cr_rb_pitHk
That was a big bowl of shit soup.
Sorry :(
No, the video was cool. It was Bakshi's horror of a Lord of the Rings adaptation that sucked.
Oh that, yeah :D
An actual phone call of President Lyndon B Johnson ordering pants:
https://youtu.be/nR_myjOr0OU
:)
CGP Grey descends into madness again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEV9qoup2mQ
I think that man needs help :P
Quote from: Valmy on September 09, 2021, 01:10:20 PM
CGP Grey descends into madness again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEV9qoup2mQ
I think that man needs help :P
When in some past video he warned about not straying away from the path of what you're researching so you won't get lost in the bushes he truly talked from his own experience. :lol:
Watched Norm MacDonald videos all day on account of his death and saw this one and thought of Languish.
Norm on Germany: https://youtu.be/uXdtafGdIVM
RIP to the GOAT comedian and the greatest Canadian in history.
Quote from: FunkMonk on September 14, 2021, 10:17:15 PM
Watched Norm MacDonald videos all day on account of his death and saw this one and thought of Languish.
Norm on Germany: https://youtu.be/uXdtafGdIVM
RIP to the GOAT comedian and the greatest Canadian in history.
Yeah, that one is great. It is part of his last appearance on Letterman. The whole set is brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFjEvl43zYY
Quote from: FunkMonk on September 14, 2021, 10:17:15 PM
RIP to the GOAT comedian and the greatest Canadian in history.
He was funny, but not even in the Top-100 of GOAT comedians. MacDonald is in no way better than, say, Richard Pryor or Jack Benny or George Carlin.
Yeah, gotta agree with grumbler. He wouldn't even cross my mind if I was contemplating a top ten.
This folks is why Americans need to import Canadian comedians. :P
You can make an argument that Norm Macdonald was somewhat unrecognized or unappreciated (that moth joke, which I linked to two days ago, had me busting a gut), but agree he wouldn't even crack the top 10.
Interestingly, I just googled "best stand-up comedians" and found one list had him at #22, another at #20, and a third had him unranked (but went for a lot of older comedians the other lists ignored).
Quote from: Barrister on September 16, 2021, 11:09:25 AM
You can make an argument that Norm Macdonald was somewhat unrecognized or unappreciated (that moth joke, which I linked to two days ago, had me busting a gut), but agree he wouldn't even crack the top 10.
Interestingly, I just googled "best stand-up comedians" and found one list had him at #22, another at #20, and a third had him unranked (but went for a lot of older comedians the other lists ignored).
Yeah, "one of the best of his generation" is something I could go along with, but the AT in GOAT stands for "all time."
So more GOTT (Greatest of This Time) than GOAT.
A compelling argument could be made that he is the Greatest Comedian Of All Time Named Norm.
Quote from: Berkut on September 16, 2021, 12:45:49 PM
A compelling argument could be made that he is the Greatest Comedian Of All Time Named Norm.
I googled "Comedians named Norm" and sounds like a guy named Norm Crosby was a fairly big deal in his day, but I can't say I'm familiar with him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Crosby
A series of animated shorts about Diablo:
https://youtu.be/CSR5qvoWkxI?list=PL0QrZvg7QIgrcCWHIXRtnTHN4nPI_galb
The creator also has a series about D2, Starcraft and WoW.
The reaction to meeting The Butcher the first time is spot on for me. :blush:
His WoW one is great too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Hzh43k330
Quote from: crazy canuck on September 18, 2021, 11:04:54 AM
His WoW one is great too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Hzh43k330
Jesus. That is fucking spot on and really sad.
As one of the comments said though "Don't be sad it is gone, be happy it existed!"
Quote from: Berkut on September 18, 2021, 04:09:58 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on September 18, 2021, 11:04:54 AM
His WoW one is great too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Hzh43k330
Jesus. That is fucking spot on and really sad.
As one of the comments said though "Don't be sad it is gone, be happy it existed!"
Yeah. Also one of the comments about people chasing a high was true.
Quote from: Berkut on September 18, 2021, 04:09:58 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on September 18, 2021, 11:04:54 AM
His WoW one is great too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Hzh43k330
Jesus. That is fucking spot on and really sad.
As one of the comments said though "Don't be sad it is gone, be happy it existed!"
That is a great way to think about it.
Those were the days....
Black bears are majestic, I never realized that these big hulky animals could be such agile gymnasts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz4G-NFKXxE. It's a shame that the guy creating these videos is slowly killing them. :(
Quote from: DGuller on September 20, 2021, 07:37:38 AM
Black bears are majestic, I never realized that these big hulky animals could be such agile gymnasts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz4G-NFKXxE. It's a shame that the guy creating these videos is slowly killing them. :(
Agile and fast. This guy is an idiot - the bear is going to get shot one day because it has learned to get food at a house, without fear.
The best thing he could have done when he saw the bear coming to his porch is yell at it to scare it away.
Quote from: crazy canuck on September 20, 2021, 09:55:28 AM
Quote from: DGuller on September 20, 2021, 07:37:38 AM
Black bears are majestic, I never realized that these big hulky animals could be such agile gymnasts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz4G-NFKXxE. It's a shame that the guy creating these videos is slowly killing them. :(
Agile and fast. This guy is an idiot - the bear is going to get shot one day because it has learned to get food at a house, without fear.
The best thing he could have done when he saw the bear coming to his porch is yell at it to scare it away.
Not an idiot. An asshole. Bears get put down all the time because of this shit.
Quote from: DGuller on September 20, 2021, 07:37:38 AM
Agile and fast. This guy is an idiot - the bear is going to get shot one day because it has learned to get food at a house, without fear.
The best thing he could have done when he saw the bear coming to his porch is yell at it to scare it away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ONRbj8GKJ4&list=PL5YSr-Ra7W80LkbR9PpS9Uy7MbYZmnuqy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ONRbj8GKJ4&list=PL5YSr-Ra7W80LkbR9PpS9Uy7MbYZmnuqy)
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on September 20, 2021, 10:12:34 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on September 20, 2021, 09:55:28 AM
Quote from: DGuller on September 20, 2021, 07:37:38 AM
Black bears are majestic, I never realized that these big hulky animals could be such agile gymnasts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz4G-NFKXxE. It's a shame that the guy creating these videos is slowly killing them. :(
Agile and fast. This guy is an idiot - the bear is going to get shot one day because it has learned to get food at a house, without fear.
The best thing he could have done when he saw the bear coming to his porch is yell at it to scare it away.
Not an idiot. An asshole. Bears get put down all the time because of this shit.
Yeah, the guy making the videos is definitely an asshole, he knows that bears should not be fed, but he pretends that leaving bird seed out for bears is somehow not feeding them. The idiots are the commenters who praise him and enable him. This guy is probably not going to get hurt, but the next hunting season, these bears are going to practically walk themselves to the weigh station.
Been watching Reel History recently. Historian looks at history movies. He has a playlist for Band of Brothers. I thought it was kind of interesting - he's partially doing it to flog his book about Dick Winters and his first few episodes are a bit bumpy, but he adds some context with letters and memories from the time even if he doesn't point out every inaccuracy: https://www.youtube.com/c/ReelHistory
Lol, some guy modded in a big freaky centaur monster that can go invisible into his GTA roleplay server. Would use a fancy soundboard to lure people into isolated area with creepy messages then kick their heads in. Then would use recordings of the things they said to troll the next folks, Predator style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztHdyGQFOZM
Still funny. (WW2) first person shooter logic: https://youtu.be/VSxufUoCaG8
Fascinating dive into what happened on the last Concorde flight....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-nALYF73hU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-nALYF73hU)
Quote from: Berkut on October 01, 2021, 02:37:52 PM
Fascinating dive into what happened on the last Concorde flight....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-nALYF73hU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-nALYF73hU)
It wasn't the
last Concorde flight, but an interesting video nonetheless.
Here's an even more horrifying air crash video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU1f47SC_A8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU1f47SC_A8): sixteen Soviet generals and admirals die due to their own incredible stupidity. None of them were in the cockpit.
Quote from: grumbler on October 01, 2021, 03:48:48 PM
Quote from: Berkut on October 01, 2021, 02:37:52 PM
Fascinating dive into what happened on the last Concorde flight....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-nALYF73hU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-nALYF73hU)
It wasn't the last Concorde flight, but an interesting video nonetheless.
Here's an even more horrifying air crash video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU1f47SC_A8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU1f47SC_A8): sixteen Soviet generals and admirals die due to their own incredible stupidity. None of them were in the cockpit.
I hate videos like this.
I am 7 minutes in, and the narrator has not told me fucking anything yet other then that a plane crashed and a bunch of high ranking naval officers died. He has said that about 25 times in 12 different ways though.
Did you know that during all of WW2, only 4 admirals died? NO I DID NOT AND I DONT ACTUALLY CARE TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED ALREADY!
Excellent. Now it is talking about toilet paper factories.
It's scary that I'm getting the same feed on Youtube that Berkut and grumbler do. The admirals one I watched a couple of days ago, and I always watch Mentour's accident videos, as they tend to be far more insightful than Mayday.
Quote from: Berkut on October 01, 2021, 04:12:40 PM
Excellent. Now it is talking about toilet paper factories.
That's actually a key to the background of the crash. A non-Soviet person wouldn't really get the entire situation that led to the crash.
Quote from: DGuller on October 01, 2021, 04:14:49 PM
Quote from: Berkut on October 01, 2021, 04:12:40 PM
Excellent. Now it is talking about toilet paper factories.
That's actually a key to the background of the crash. A non-Soviet person wouldn't really get the entire situation that led to the crash.
I am very confident that I would have gotten the situation just fine without that detail.
A bunch of admirals went shopping before heading home and told the pilot to STFU and fly the overloaded and poorly balanced plane, and they all died.
Quote from: Berkut on October 01, 2021, 05:01:35 PM
I am very confident that I would have gotten the situation just fine without that detail.
A bunch of admirals went shopping before heading home and told the pilot to STFU and fly the overloaded and poorly balanced plane, and they all died.
Yeah, the actual crash was nothing complicated, shitty planes that are overloaded and unbalanced aren't going to take off reliably, the context was everything about it. Had I not been born to that world, I personally would've found it incomprehensible that a lot of VIPs would be stocking up on toilet paper and oranges to take home with them at the conclusion of their business trip. As it was, my dad was doing the very same thing; every time he took a business trip to Moscow, I eagerly awaited his return, because he'd be back with bags of pretty basic goods that were nevertheless impossible to get in our town.
Quote from: Berkut on October 01, 2021, 02:37:52 PM
Fascinating dive into what happened on the last Concorde flight....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-nALYF73hU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-nALYF73hU)
I think this channel is great, I've seen a number of his videos.
Drinking History followed up his Tasting History episode about Gladiators with a common Gladiator drink. I probably won't try it, but it is, as always fascinating.
I might try making the Viking blood bread.
Quote from: Berkut on October 01, 2021, 04:03:11 PM
I hate videos like this.
I am 7 minutes in, and the narrator has not told me fucking anything yet other then that a plane crashed and a bunch of high ranking naval officers died. He has said that about 25 times in 12 different ways though.
Did you know that during all of WW2, only 4 admirals died? NO I DID NOT AND I DONT ACTUALLY CARE TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED ALREADY!
That is, alas, how storytelling works. You usually don't even learn who the killer is until the last 10% of the mystery story.
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on October 02, 2021, 12:38:45 PM
Drinking History followed up his Tasting History episode about Gladiators with a common Gladiator drink. I probably won't try it, but it is, as always fascinating.
I might try making the Viking blood bread.
I've been watching those videos as well. The Roman palate was certainly peculiar.
Over the last few days I've been binging Viva La Dirt League's Epic NPC Man series (skits about logic in MMOs/RPGs, set in the game of Skycraft and the world of Azerim).
If you like stuff like Door Monster (though I think these guys are better in terms of acting and the production quality in later seasons and their mini movie (don't ask) are becoming quite silly), I highly recommend checking them out. They put their skits into supercuts for easier viewing and someone made a handy playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaV2bHVOlYSDbo0JGghjISwfO3hH9jBav
A weird little time capsule: The MTV European Top 20 October 1993: https://youtu.be/ly-PNXxMI9Q
Some videos edited out, I guess to get around YouTube's content flags.
I watched MTV Europe excessively from 1992 till 1996 (or1997? whenever they went from free to a subscription channel), so between ages 16 and 20 ... good times. I think it was good because it exposed me to all kinds of music that you might not hear on the radio or see elsewhere (it was also when Bravo TV, a multiple hours long program by Germany's leading youth print magazine started) - I don't recall Enter Sandman or Smells Like Teen Spirit coming on the radio until years later on a few more niche stations popped up.
I mean it also exposed me to a lot of songs I now loathe, or came to loathe because of how much they overplayed them. But yeah, MTV's Most Wanted with Ray Cokes was fun, Beavis and Butthead were still new and interesting, and Headbangers Ball was the most important program for me (though they did play e.g. Sepultura during normal programming at the time).
Also, the Aerosmith videos with Alicia Silverstone :wub: (yes, she's 16 in "Crying", but it's ok, she's 4 days older than me IRL :P )
Those Aerosmith video with Alicia, and Steve Tyler's daughter were great.
Quote from: Syt on October 03, 2021, 09:40:55 AM
I mean it also exposed me to a lot of songs I now loathe, or came to loathe because of how much they overplayed them.
You mean like this? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)
I used to watch Musique Plus. They had some good stuff sometimes, like this one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtcD6JAZ6SY).
Solidrock was my favorite show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpT5t7AQt1U) on this channel :)
Interestingly (or not :P ), that dude, talking heavy metal everyweek and seeming to enjoy it decided to launch a musical carreer shortly after his tv show ended.
Blue Jeans on the beach (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRsS3Ik51HA)
Not surprinsingly, that was a flop.
Quote from: viper37 on October 04, 2021, 10:20:08 PM
You mean like this? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)
:P
More like this: https://youtu.be/3JWTaaS7LdU
Also, it was a rough time if you weren't into dance pop or techno which dominated the singles charts at the time. Sure, MTV played grunge and alt rock and a bit of (mainstream) metal, but those were completely pushed to the sides for pop and techno (more so in later years), and ... well, see above which seemed to play once or twice every hour. :P
Germany also got its own music TV station, VIVA, in the 90s, too. It was massively popular, but it was almost exclusively focused on dance, pop, and techno, so while it was massively popular I barely watched it. They were acquired by MTV in 2005 and shut down in 2018 (who watches music television anymore?).
A major reason why I loved my MTV ( :P ) was that it was one of the few programs I had that broadcast in English at the time.
I remember VIVA, it was available in Spain through cable or some such. Man was that something different. :lol:
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on October 02, 2021, 12:38:45 PM
Drinking History followed up his Tasting History episode about Gladiators with a common Gladiator drink. I probably won't try it, but it is, as always fascinating.
I might try making the Viking blood bread.
I had not watched this yet (on my list of "I should watch") but I decided to take the plunge...and that was a deep dive. Fun tidbits and recipes, thanks Wagonator 2000.
One of my favorite web series.
I remember getting VIVA Germany on satellite in Portugal, as well.
Viva Polska seemed to show more metal or am I mixing up with another Polish music video channel?
Not sure if VIVA had foreign offshoots. VIVA did launch quite a few TV careers, though.
VIVA definitively had foreign off-shoots.
There was a short-lived Polish Atomic TV music video channel which I may have mixed up with VIVA Poland.
Quote from: Syt on October 05, 2021, 01:10:13 AM
Quote from: viper37 on October 04, 2021, 10:20:08 PM
You mean like this? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)
:P
More like this: https://youtu.be/3JWTaaS7LdU
I see... :P
Quote
Also, it was a rough time if you weren't into dance pop or techno which dominated the singles charts at the time. Sure, MTV played grunge and alt rock and a bit of (mainstream) metal, but those were completely pushed to the sides for pop and techno (more so in later years), and ... well, see above which seemed to play once or twice every hour. :P
Germany also got its own music TV station, VIVA, in the 90s, too. It was massively popular, but it was almost exclusively focused on dance, pop, and techno, so while it was massively popular I barely watched it. They were acquired by MTV in 2005 and shut down in 2018 (who watches music television anymore?).
A major reason why I loved my MTV ( :P ) was that it was one of the few programs I had that broadcast in English at the time.
I remember going on a student exchange and discovering MuchMusic with, I think, it's "Power hour", where they would play rock&metal for 1hr every day... I felt so cheated by my music's channel weekly hour of metal! Why them?? Why can't we have this dammit! :D
At, the goold ol' 80s :P
I wasn't a huge radio consumer back then, for musical reasons. In the late 90s, one controversial station appeared with rock&metal music being the main stuff that got played, in English and French. Those where the good days :)
This is a great channel, all kinds of interesting stuff on the US Navy and Naval aviation.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUteckG37fXz0g5h8iZ_0g
Quote from: Berkut on November 11, 2021, 04:08:44 PM
This is a great channel, all kinds of interesting stuff on the US Navy and Naval aviation.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUteckG37fXz0g5h8iZ_0g
Yep. Been following him for years. Some really eclectic stuff as well as the history stuff.
That's the guy from the Proceedings podcast, no?
While playing Path of Exile I've head Preach's MMO Drama series on in the background. There's 9 seasons, but it's ok if you start with the latest (as I did):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0j3zibAlFDv2kKlYw465mW1qTZotF4gq
In short, users write stories of their MMO - mostly WoW - drama to him (usually guild related, or messy dating relationships), and the stories range from hilarious to intensely cringe-worthy, and often both. Don't mind his shouty intro, the rest of the episode is not that way. How embellished the stories are is up for debate, obviously, but some do include screenshot proof of the story (or at least their side of it).
J.B.O.'s cover of "Music Was My First Love" called, surprisingly, "Metal Was My First Love":
https://youtu.be/Ly9q31JprPM
Can you recognize all album covers (solution at the end of the video)?
Didn't know these guys, that was a fun one. :lol:
They're not really known outside Germany. They mostly do parody covers and other comedy songs and sing predominantly in German.
Their cover of Roots by Sepultura is also great, with a parody Pavarotti: https://youtu.be/GbXpFiJoFj8 :)
Quote from: Syt on November 15, 2021, 08:00:31 AM
They're not really known outside Germany. They mostly do parody covers and other comedy songs and sing predominantly in German.
Their cover of Roots by Sepultura is also great, with a parody Pavarotti: https://youtu.be/GbXpFiJoFj8 :)
I'll look up some of their songs and maybe do a comedy metal playlist with them, Nanowar of Steel and Gigatron. :P
Sounds like a plan :D
Maybe check out We Butter The Bread With Butter then - though they sing exclusively in German, so the humor might get lost (i.e. the contrast between lyrics and metalcore).
Definitely add Eskimo Callboy, though:
https://youtu.be/75Mw8r5gW8E
https://youtu.be/D1NdGBldg3w
They also asked a bunch of other bands to cover Hypa Hypa, so you'll find parodies of that song, too. :D
New song by Bloodywood: Gaddaar. They label themselves Indian Folk Metal, though IMHO they also lean heavily towards Rage Against the Machine and System of a Down.
https://youtu.be/7iKjSCTxke8
Moms react to their sons' new death metal video.
https://youtu.be/tS1_j2pOTa4
Sure, they'll be biased, but it's still cute. :)
Would be an improvement to mention what position the guys have in the band as well as their names. But cute.
It's a funny fact of life that heavy metal tends to attract the nicest guys.
Quote from: Tyr on November 20, 2021, 05:29:09 AM
It's a funny fact of life that heavy metal tends to attract the nicest guys.
Except in Norway.
Quote from: The Brain on November 20, 2021, 05:49:20 AM
Quote from: Tyr on November 20, 2021, 05:29:09 AM
It's a funny fact of life that heavy metal tends to attract the nicest guys.
Except in Norway.
What about Norwegian Reggaeton? (though made by Italians, tbf)
https://youtu.be/j0YXfeNxJJ0
Quote from: Syt on November 20, 2021, 05:53:17 AM
Quote from: The Brain on November 20, 2021, 05:49:20 AM
Quote from: Tyr on November 20, 2021, 05:29:09 AM
It's a funny fact of life that heavy metal tends to attract the nicest guys.
Except in Norway.
What about Norwegian Reggaeton? (though made by Italians, tbf)
https://youtu.be/j0YXfeNxJJ0
Metal chicks are one of those expectations vs reality things. :(
In German (sorry).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJKpH0_h5KI&ab_channel=DasPanzermuseum
Ralph Raths, historian, is the CEO of the German Panzermuseum. I follow his private account on Twitter because he usually has pretty good metal and sometimes book recommendations.
He's now put out a video in the style of "music that made me". The bandlist is as follows:
02:23 Guns N' Roses
03:59 Metallica
05:29 Rage against the Machine
06:33 Faith No More
07:44 Clawfinger
08:25 Dog Eat Dog
09:05 H-Blockx
09:48 Black Label Society
10:53 Amorphis
12:30 Children of Bodom
13:53 In Flames
14:43 System of a Down
15:58 Devil Driver
17:38 Motorowl
18:46 Wucan
19:40 Kadavar
20:12 Year of the Goat
21:19 Deichkind
23:16 Dendemann
24:08 Antilopen Gang
25:01 Edgar Wasser
25:53 Fatoni
26:56 Juse Ju
27:43 Waving the Guns
28:27 Alligatoah
29:35 K.I.Z.
30:17 Fischmob
31:06 Sabaton
33:20 Powerwolf
34:33 Gloryhammer
36:08 Wizardthrone
37:17 Alestorm
38:42 Rise of the Northstar
40:06 Machine Head
42:25 Amorphis
43:58 Insomnium
45:25 Aether Realm
46:50 Aether
47:45 Aephanemer
49:13 Bloodred Hourglass
50:28 Norther
51:46 Brymir
52:40 Wintersun
54:10 Orbit Culture
55:39 Scherbenwald
57:21 Vorna
58:49 Northland
1:00:48 Isenmor
1:03:06 Orphaned Land
1:04:16 Bloodywood
1:06:02 Gyze
1:07:30 Lorna Shore
1:13:42 Archspire
1:15:51 Worm Shepherd
1:17:35 Shadow of Intent
1:21:10 Can Bardd
1:22:16 Der Weg Einer Freiheit
1:23:53 AETHER REALM - THE SUN, THE MOON, THE STAR (FULL PLAYTHROUGH VIDEO)
The first few tracks show he's clearly grown up in the 90s (G'n'R, Metallica, Clawfinger, Dog Eat Dog, H-Blockx ...). :D
Fwiend?
Wow. I used to think I had broad tastes in music.
Ran across this video from the "I can't believe that they got to grab this title" World War Two and thought some here might find it interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z6HNH4-6_I&t=659s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z6HNH4-6_I&t=659s). It is basically an explanation of how ill-conceived Japanese economic plans for their "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" really were.
Quote from: grumbler on January 01, 2022, 05:56:42 PM
Ran across this video from the "I can't believe that they got to grab this title" World War Two and thought some here might find it interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z6HNH4-6_I&t=659s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z6HNH4-6_I&t=659s). It is basically an explanation of how ill-conceived Japanese economic plans for their "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" really were.
Thanks, very interesting. If this is representative of his current stuff he has certainly improved over the years.
This is cool. Simulated 1985 attack on a US CVBG group by 100 T-22Ms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCPmRnUZb3I
Quote from: Berkut on January 02, 2022, 01:49:18 AM
This is cool. Simulated 1985 attack on a US CVBG group by 100 T-22Ms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCPmRnUZb3I
It's fun to see this stuff because it is right in my wheelhouse, but they should have talked to me first.
The fact that they are calling this "realistic" is funny, given the canned scenario, weird OOB decisions, lack of knowledge about things like the Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS), and the lack of knowledge about how the US planned to defend the battle groups in this scenario.
First, the scenario is set in 1985, which means that there are only 3 Ticos commissioned, and this CVBG has two of them. It has none of the roughly 30 other cruisers in the USN, no DDGs, and no Spruance class destroyers. It has an over-abundance of OHP frigates.
The Nimitz had an air wing of 36 Tomcats and 30 Intruders for only a short time, and no USN carrier in the history of ever had 36
operational Tomcats available. When the Nimitz operated 36 Tomcats it probably had 26 or so that could fly on a given day. The F-14A was notoriously difficult to keep in service. It would be far more realistic if they had a carrier with 24 Tomcats, with, say, 17 available.
It isn't unrealistic to think that a CVBG that was somehow caught in the Black Sea would be overwhelmed. At short ranges like that, the Tu-22M could, indeed, carry 3 Kh-22 and, while they couldn't get 100 Tu-22Ms aloft, they could certainly get a regiment or two (probably about 30-60 operational aircraft) of them, with another maybe 2 or 3 regiments of other anti-ship bombers like the Badger to keep things lively. There wouldn't likely be enough launch warning time to get the whole carrier fighter force in the air. But the chances that the US would leave a CVBG in the Black Sea with tensions high is nil.
The US knew when the Soviet launched significant numbers of Backfires. The heat signature was visible to the early warning satellites that were designed to detect ICBM launches. Knowing the launch time and thus the time to target, the USN planned to have every fighter in the wing waiting for the Backfire beyond the Kh-22 launch range. There would be no DLI; if it could fly, it was already airborne. This was known as "the outer air battle." The F-14s would not be carrying 6 Phoenix missiles, though (that was theoretically possible, but that loadout left no stations for fuel, and so was unsuitable for the OAB). Also, the F-14 couldn't land with six Phoenix, so such a loadout would have to ditch two Phoenix if the raid turned back or targeted something else. There weren't enough Phoenix missiles to allow that.
Missile engagements were not as the creators of this video suggest; no radio calls about "you take the guys on the left and I will take the guys on the right." Every bandit would be digitally tagged with a track number, and the each fighter would be directed to engage specific track numbers. The RIO in each plane could see what tracks had been engaged and which ones hadn't, if the situation got hectic enough to overwhelm the controllers. When an F-14 locked on a track, the other F-14s knew it.
So, in something of a realistic scenario with realistic forces, this engagement wouldn't look much at all like the one depicted here. There would be far fewer leakers, but also a weaker SAM screen. IIRC, the USN generally believed that each Tomcat would splash three bombers (two with Phoenix, one with Sparrows).
There's no electronic warfare on either side in this scenario, which also misses a big part of the doctrine of both sides. The EA-6 was designed to suppress air defenses, but would be up jamming the shit out of those Down Beat radars, the the Kh-22 has to get a radar lock from the launch plane before launching. That's going to cut down launch range by A LOT. That means more splashed Backfires before they get to launch. The Tomcat radar was harder to jam, but the Soviets could certainly deny the 90+ mile launches the game predicts in this video. Sixty miles is more reasonable, but that wouldn't matter so much because they Tomcats are not as time-limited as in the video simulation.
The presenters also are rather comically misinformed about computer modelling capabilities in the 1980s. Even in the late 1970s, I participated in training simulations that modelled this in real time (though obviously without the graphics). In the early 1980s, working for a Beltway bandit, I helped model the shit out of these kinds of scenarios to help the USN decide on future weapons programs.
Quote from: Berkut on January 02, 2022, 01:49:18 AM
This is cool. Simulated 1985 attack on a US CVBG group by 100 T-22Ms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCPmRnUZb3I
This was cool.
Quote from: grumbler on January 02, 2022, 10:04:08 AM
Quote from: Berkut on January 02, 2022, 01:49:18 AM
This is cool. Simulated 1985 attack on a US CVBG group by 100 T-22Ms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCPmRnUZb3I
It's fun to see this stuff because it is right in my wheelhouse, but they should have talked to me first.
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The presenters also are rather comically misinformed about computer modelling capabilities in the 1980s. Even in the late 1970s, I participated in training simulations that modelled this in real time (though obviously without the graphics). In the early 1980s, working for a Beltway bandit, I helped model the shit out of these kinds of scenarios to help the USN decide on future weapons programs.
Thanks grumbler, that was a very interesting read.
When I posted that video I was mentally thinking "....and I can't wait to get grumblers take on it..."
It's a fun little scenario to watch play out, but of course is pretty clearly completely amateur, and limited to the abilities of the sim they are using, which is rather general purpose. I sure as hell hope the USN (and the Russians for that matter) have and had MUCH better capabilities to simulate this stuff.
Quote from: Berkut on January 02, 2022, 11:00:31 AM
When I posted that video I was mentally thinking "....and I can't wait to get grumblers take on it..."
It's a fun little scenario to watch play out, but of course is pretty clearly completely amateur, and limited to the abilities of the sim they are using, which is rather general purpose. I sure as hell hope the USN (and the Russians for that matter) have and had MUCH better capabilities to simulate this stuff.
SOme of the comments claim that they did have some sophisticated simulations available back in the day, although their computers may have taken a few days to crunch all the numbers. No graphics though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6CKltZfToY
Quote from: Berkut on January 02, 2022, 11:21:18 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6CKltZfToY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6CKltZfToY)
Okay, that's really cool.
Quote from: Berkut on January 02, 2022, 11:21:18 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6CKltZfToY
Engineering can be fascinating, as this vid shows.
LegalEagle is practically chortling as he describes Alex Jones's disastrously legal strategy of ignoring judges in the lawsuits against him results in a series of summary judgements against him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSm7sRx-0hA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSm7sRx-0hA)
The trials will only determine how much Jones is liable for. Jones can get away with not participating in that trial.
Quote from: grumbler on January 02, 2022, 08:38:00 PM
LegalEagle is practically chortling as he describes Alex Jones's disastrously legal strategy of ignoring judges in the lawsuits against him results in a series of summary judgements against him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSm7sRx-0hA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSm7sRx-0hA)
The trials will only determine how much Jones is liable for. Jones can get away with not participating in that trial.
Well he can never fully pay the damages, and so he'll play up his roll as the martyr, fighting for the truth against corrupt leftist activist judges.
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on January 03, 2022, 08:28:15 AM
Well he can never fully pay the damages, and so he'll play up his roll as the martyr, fighting for the truth against corrupt leftist activist judges.
True, but he will also lose his company, house, etc in the bankruptcy proceedings.
Quote from: grumbler on January 03, 2022, 06:22:49 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on January 03, 2022, 08:28:15 AM
Well he can never fully pay the damages, and so he'll play up his roll as the martyr, fighting for the truth against corrupt leftist activist judges.
True, but he will also lose his company, house, etc in the bankruptcy proceedings.
Street cred for his victimhood. They're all victims, he's taking on the System. Plenty of people will put him up for a night or two.
He's going to need his street cred after losing his house.
Well he can't back down or else he wouldn't be the big damn hero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JABdS-HN5A
Ugandan CGI. ^_^
Old (2015) but classic. :P
Who killed Captain Alex ?!
My wife's been watching a channel about ancient & medieval food. Here's the video on medieval pizza (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hFVvDOlznE).
Quote from: Jacob on January 25, 2022, 03:27:29 AM
My wife's been watching a channel about ancient & medieval food. Here's the video on medieval pizza (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hFVvDOlznE).
This other channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/TastingHistory (https://www.youtube.com/c/TastingHistory)), in the same vein, is also quite entertaining.
I love Tasting History, and his newer Drinking History. Sola El Wali's History Channel series about historical food is also interesting.
I'll check out that Medieval one.
This seems a fascinating series. Explaining complex topics to people of different levels of expertise from kids up to professors.
I loved the way they explain zero knowledge proofs to kids.
https://www.wired.com/video/watch/5-levels-zero-knowledge-proof
Quote from: Tyr on January 26, 2022, 06:20:17 AM
This seems a fascinating series. Explaining complex topics to people of different levels of expertise from kids up to professors.
I loved the way they explain zero knowledge proofs to kids.
https://www.wired.com/video/watch/5-levels-zero-knowledge-proof
:thumbsup:
Apparently, the new Animaniacs reprises a classic, the "Countries of the World"n song, but set in the (mid?) 19th century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP0aeSGtPUk
Unofrtunately, it's fading into a scene transition and is incomplete. :(
The guy who rated the previous songs for accuracy checks this one: https://youtu.be/jtiaY8VGeLE
Based on the countries, I half guess they just looked at the starting map of Victoria II (they probably didn't, because some of the countries mentioned - e.g. Jolof, Kaabu, etc. - are not in the game). :P
Quote from: Syt on February 08, 2022, 01:19:09 PM
Apparently, the new Animaniacs reprises a classic, the "Countries of the World"n song, but set in the (mid?) 19th century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP0aeSGtPUk
Unofrtunately, it's fading into a scene transition and is incomplete. :(
The guy who rated the previous songs for accuracy checks this one: https://youtu.be/jtiaY8VGeLE
Based on the countries, I half guess they just looked at the starting map of Victoria II (they probably didn't, because some of the countries mentioned - e.g. Jolof, Kaabu, etc. - are not in the game). :P
New new Animaniacs has been great.
A video about how schnitzel, with explanations from Meissl & Schadn on the Ringstraße:
https://youtu.be/O3H9UDtiTTg
In the before times, we would occasionally go there for, uhm, business lunches, because it's in walking distance from the office. :D
Louis theroux meets the alt right. Somebody has uploaded it. His docs are great and if you've never seen one you need to see them all.
https://youtu.be/hq8ljf28zEc
Double the recommendation. Louis is great.
Quote from: Tyr on February 19, 2022, 11:33:11 AM
Louis theroux meets the alt right. Somebody has uploaded it. His docs are great and if you've never seen one you need to see them all.
https://youtu.be/hq8ljf28zEc (https://youtu.be/hq8ljf28zEc)
Well, that was unpleasant.
I think this short video illustrates the GOP today.
Quote from: Razgovory on February 19, 2022, 09:50:32 PM
Quote from: Tyr on February 19, 2022, 11:33:11 AM
Louis theroux meets the alt right. Somebody has uploaded it. His docs are great and if you've never seen one you need to see them all.
https://youtu.be/hq8ljf28zEc (https://youtu.be/hq8ljf28zEc)
Well, that was unpleasant.
Yeah, I like Louis but that is a tough one to watch.
Quote from: Razgovory on February 19, 2022, 10:39:05 PM
I think this short video illustrates the GOP today.
I think you forgot to add the link there. :)
Quote from: Tyr on February 19, 2022, 11:33:11 AM
Louis theroux meets the alt right. Somebody has uploaded it. His docs are great and if you've never seen one you need to see them all.
https://youtu.be/hq8ljf28zEc
It was an interesting look at the mindset, but really didn't establish why we should be afraid of these characters.
Quote from: Eddie Teach on February 20, 2022, 06:30:58 AM
Quote from: Tyr on February 19, 2022, 11:33:11 AM
Louis theroux meets the alt right. Somebody has uploaded it. His docs are great and if you've never seen one you need to see them all.
https://youtu.be/hq8ljf28zEc
It was an interesting look at the mindset, but really didn't establish why we should be afraid of these characters.
Their (allegedly) millions of viewers. The people in Louis' documentaries, although often espousing violent and reprehensible things, always had a certain entertaining value because they were so obviously fringe that they didn't really pose a public threat. I'm not getting that vibe here at all.
The big difference I found between this one and the usual is that when Louis speaks to fringe people usually they're certain of the correctness of their beliefs.
They're open and willing to teach about how right they are whether it's neo nazis, boer nationalists, or swingers.
These guys though spent the whole time dancing around their actual beliefs. It's all a joke but it isn't and they aren't really racist but they are.
Quote from: Syt on February 20, 2022, 03:10:52 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on February 19, 2022, 10:39:05 PM
I think this short video illustrates the GOP today.
I think you forgot to add the link there. :)
Ah, yes. That would help.
I think it would be introduced as "and a rebuttal by the Republican party"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzh7gyEI4eo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzh7gyEI4eo)
And before Teach becomes pedantic, the guy was going on about Joe Biden right before the video starts. There is a longer video https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-unruly-passenger-growling-screaming-joe-biden-american-airlines-n1278623 (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-unruly-passenger-growling-screaming-joe-biden-american-airlines-n1278623) but I think the shorter video is more entertaining.
And the guy seems to be in business class....
Drunks behave like drunks. Film at 11.
Noah Caldwell Gervais has made a short video essay about the Dark Souls Trilogy (it comes in chapters, you don't have to watch it in one go :P ). I'm only 45 minutes in, but I would still recommend it up to this point if you have some interest in the series but are put off by the elitist "Git Gud" mentality surrounding the games at this point. He's writing very much from the perspective of someone who's not great and difficult games requiring lightning reflexes, and, after trying Bloodborne, decided these games were not for him. So even if you only watch the first 10-20 minutes you will get the gist of his change in attitude.
He points out something I really enjoy about the games. Yes, they have an innate difficulty, and they want to you to learn their mechanics and how the combat flows. However, they also provide you a lot of tools to mitigate that. You can level up your character. You can get better gear (weapons, armor, rings ...). You can upgrade your gear. You can summon NPCs or other players to help. If you suck at timing your dodges, get a shield and heavier armor. Some enemies might be vulnerable to certain elements. Etc.
And even though there's people who scoff at players making use of those aids, he's right: nobody *really* cares how you play the games as long as you have fun. And the developers put all those tools in there for a reason. There's no "wrong" way to play.
And he's quite right that once the games hook you in, you can get a bit obsessed with talking about your experiences and the games themselves. :D
If anyone's looking for metal songs to check out, I very much recommend Tank the Tech:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvSGePWjMWirFn_YEeeoiYA
Tank is a roadie who started reaction videos to metal videos. Unlike most reaction channels, though, he does actual research into the bands and songs (if he doesn't do it beforehand, he'll often add additional info in "pop up video" style info boxes). Since he's a roadie he often comments on the bands' equipment such as it's visible in videos. It used to be a much bigger focus in his earlier videos. In between he does the occasional interview/podcast with musicians.
He's generally upbeat and positive, which is a bonus.
This was pretty good
For Warhammer 40K:
Since we do have one or two sci-fi nerds here, I recommend checking out the Templin Institute:
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheTemplinInstitute
I thought this would have been posted here already, but turns out it wasn't. It primarily started out making lore summaries of sci-fi factions from various media (games, series, movies) and some of their equipment, but has been branching out into editorial content. If you want a place to quickly brush up on the factions of Twilight Imperium, Star Trek, the Third Reich in Man in the High Castle or the Astra Militarum, it's got you covered. :)
Quote from: Syt on May 07, 2022, 05:14:17 AMSince we do have one or two sci-fi nerds here, I recommend checking out the Templin Institute:
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheTemplinInstitute
I thought this would have been posted here already, but turns out it wasn't. It primarily started out making lore summaries of sci-fi factions from various media (games, series, movies) and some of their equipment, but has been branching out into editorial content. If you want a place to quickly brush up on the factions of Twilight Imperium, Star Trek, the Third Reich in Man in the High Castle or the Astra Militarum, it's got you covered. :)
They have good stuff indeed!
Yes, Templin is cool. They did a Stellaris one too.
A virtual tour of the Vienna military museum. It's been a while since I went; last time was with Dorsey in 2015 IIRC. :D
(Though by the looks of it, nothing's changed since then.)
Quote from: Tamas on May 09, 2022, 03:17:14 AMQuote from: viper37 on March 19, 2022, 07:59:39 PM
Whole series so far is hilarious. :lol:
Watched the playlist up till Stormveil (haven't met Godrick yet, so don't want to watch it yet), but it's all pretty accurate. Esp. the first part of entering Stormveil. Fuck those birds. :D
I think I linked the channel's Final Fantasy XIV videos at some point. They were also spot on. :lol:
Speaking of poking fun at vidya games, I recommend Viva La Dirt League's Epic NPC Man series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSMETuURtTXCzW7Q_ZIy4QzEnyUG8totf
I recommend starting at the top, because most of the clips are hilarious, and surprisingly well acted, but some highlights are:
The have more playlists about other genres/games on their channel (including a pretty good Dark Souls one).
VLDL has some good stuff indeed. And with their recent kickstarter the quality they're delivering has already gone up markedly.
Somehow I wound up watching a video series produced by The Onion back from 2012 called Sex House. It's a scripted parody of almost every reality show ever. 6 attractive people (well 5 attractive people plus Frank) locked in a house encouraged to have sex all the time.
You might think that parodying reality tv would be like shooting fish in a barrel, but the show just gets darker and darker as it goes on. It's all played completely straight (in usual The Onion style), and is funny as balls.
You can find it on youtube, and the complete season together only runs for one hour so it's not a huge time commitment.
Favourite line "to call this place 'evil' implies a clarity of purpose that I do not want to attribute to anyone involved".
Okay, so there's a Russian youtube channel (with English subtitles) called 1420. It does nothing more and nothing less than ask Russians on the street various questions. It's fascinating because the questions they ask are all vaguely subversive, but nothing that would get them arrested (at least so far). They all follow the basic logic of the government line, but then take them a step further.
I also find it fascinating because I fucking paid for university doing "man on the street" questions for the local newspaper (not that I did a bad job, but a total nepotism job from my dad). 3x per week, 7x per column, for I dunno 3-5 years. There's an art to getting people to answer your questions - and that's not while living in a totalitarian system. I really admire these guys for doing "streeters" in Russia - because you can totally tell how carefully people are choosing their answers.
Just as an example from one week ago - they showed people pictures of the bombed mall in Ukraine and asked them what they thought - was it a fake? Was it us? Was it a mistake? All totally neutral in tone.
Earliest film featuring New Orleans, showing the Rex Parade from Mardi Gras, 1898.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65DpZ_0nByE
Quote from: grumbler on July 05, 2022, 09:59:40 PMAn oldie but a goodie
Excellent band, seen them multiple times.
Check out The Backrooms videos. Can be pretty creepy.
Quote from: Barrister on June 01, 2022, 10:41:02 AMSomehow I wound up watching a video series produced by The Onion back from 2012 called Sex House. It's a scripted parody of almost every reality show ever. 6 attractive people (well 5 attractive people plus Frank) locked in a house encouraged to have sex all the time.
You might think that parodying reality tv would be like shooting fish in a barrel, but the show just gets darker and darker as it goes on. It's all played completely straight (in usual The Onion style), and is funny as balls.
You can find it on youtube, and the complete season together only runs for one hour so it's not a huge time commitment.
Favourite line "to call this place 'evil' implies a clarity of purpose that I do not want to attribute to anyone involved".
Have you watched Porkin' Across America?
I stumbled upon this video about some stuff in Louisiana. I know very little about Louisiana, and I'm in no position to judge the accuracy of facts presented, though I have no reason to doubt them. I was very impressed by the way they presented, and their tone. Serious, but still "positive", factual and not full of "holy indignation". I liked that they were very clear about not blaming corporations for keeping costs down in a legal manner, but that both the problem and the solution are to do with the actions of the state of La.
I think I saw that video popping up yesterday on my sugestions, which is funny given that it seems to be 3 years old already.
Reading a bit on them, it seems to be a network of Louisiana civic and religious organizations that is working on a number of issues, but mostly on ending corporate welfare in the state, as well as voter organization.
This video randomly cropped up on my suggestions and I found it rather interesting.
I can relate quite a bit to what its saying. Sums up very well how I just don't get people who are really into street fighter or a old friend of mine's completely opposite attitude on RPGs.
Quote from: The Brain on July 14, 2022, 02:24:55 AMI stumbled upon this video about some stuff in Louisiana. I know very little about Louisiana, and I'm in no position to judge the accuracy of facts presented, though I have no reason to doubt them. I was very impressed by the way they presented, and their tone. Serious, but still "positive", factual and not full of "holy indignation". I liked that they were very clear about not blaming corporations for keeping costs down in a legal manner, but that both the problem and the solution are to do with the actions of the state of La.
Blame Blue States; claim they actually do all the heavy lifting. etc etc.
Maybe this is the exception.
Not sure if it would apply to many others, it is quite dry, but I found this to be fascinating. A early 90s doc looking at bus privatisation.
Quite depressing as despite the problems being clear then, nothing was done.
Ok, this was really weird. I didn't expect a VFX explainer/debunker to collaborate with a Japanese girl group, but here we are.
Nicholas Moran aka Chieftain has visited the HGM in Vienna. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syVP6zDZN7I
Photo and video computer modeling to debunk moon landing hoax.
The modeling stuff is pretty cool.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 12, 2022, 08:19:03 PMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syVP6zDZN7I
Photo and video computer modeling to debunk moon landing hoax.
The modeling stuff is pretty cool.
The guy gets so much stuff wrong it's hard to think he will have any debunking success. He calls the Sea of Tranquility "Tranquility Bay." He misquotes Armstrong's famous words repeatedly ("giant leap for mankind" not "giant step for mankind") and says that NASA "forgot" to put a handle on the egress hatch (the hatch opened inwards so that no handle was needed and would just be dead weight in an extremely weight-critical design)...
and there was more bullshit but I just shut it off. When every tenth word is an untruth, it's not worth spending lifespan on.
Here's the moon landing hoax response that is more honest and careful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z93yWXb9Tb0
Business nerdy cool. 10 largest companies in the world by market cap day to day, 1979 - 2021.
I chuckled at the Japanese moment in the sun.
Are Royal Dutch Shell and Shell Oil not the same company? confused
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 13, 2022, 02:33:39 AMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z93yWXb9Tb0
Business nerdy cool. 10 largest companies in the world by market cap day to day, 1979 - 2021.
I chuckled at the Japanese moment in the sun.
Are Royal Dutch Shell and Shell Oil not the same company? confused
Cool beans.
There were two "Shell" companies, one British and one Dutch, until they merged in 2005.
Jordan Peterson really fits into the Command and Conquer universe.
Quote from: grumbler on August 13, 2022, 09:56:40 AMQuote from: Admiral Yi on August 13, 2022, 02:33:39 AMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z93yWXb9Tb0
Business nerdy cool. 10 largest companies in the world by market cap day to day, 1979 - 2021.
I chuckled at the Japanese moment in the sun.
Are Royal Dutch Shell and Shell Oil not the same company? confused
Cool beans.
There were two "Shell" companies, one British and one Dutch, until they merged in 2005.
Iirc Shell Oil was the American subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell.
Quote from: Maladict on August 13, 2022, 01:54:07 PMIirc Shell Oil was the American subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell.
Shell Oil USA was the subsidiary. It's numbers would be included in the Royal Dutch Shell numbers.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 13, 2022, 02:33:39 AMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z93yWXb9Tb0
Business nerdy cool. 10 largest companies in the world by market cap day to day, 1979 - 2021.
I chuckled at the Japanese moment in the sun.
Are Royal Dutch Shell and Shell Oil not the same company? confused
Schlumberger is not a French company? It was founded in and remains based in Paris. I know Houston is its second home but still seems odd.
I chuckled when pfizer showed up. boner pills took the market by storm.
Also, what the hell does AT&T do? I thought they were a phone com0any? Do/did Americans just pay a lot for phone service?
The used to be the primary landline phone company...kinda died off for a while, then came back to be one of the major telcom/cell phone companies. They are also a major cable TV/internet provider in some markets.
AT&T was not just a phone company, it was a phone equipment company with an effective monopoly on phone services and equipment, plus its R&D branch (Bell Labs) was one of (and probably the) the most innovative research organizations on the planet; multiple Nobel prizes, invention of the radio telescope, the transistor, the laser, pretty much all of the major early computer operating systems and programming languages...
AT&T was huge, incredibly diversified, extremely profitable, and utterly monopolistic. It was eventually broken up by court order because of the latter trait.
Interesting. Thanks guys.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 13, 2022, 02:33:39 AMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z93yWXb9Tb0
Business nerdy cool. 10 largest companies in the world by market cap day to day, 1979 - 2021.
I chuckled at the Japanese moment in the sun.
Are Royal Dutch Shell and Shell Oil not the same company? confused
Surprised its quite so America dominated, with some I've not heard of even. Would have thought BP and maybe the big consumer goods companies would be up there earlier.
And holy shit NTT. :blink:
Checking up it seems they just started listing their stock suddenly in 87- this could be a matter thats warping the charts, I imagine similar with Saudi Arabia suddenly popping up towards the end. It was already there and huge, just not measured on the markets.
Quote from: grumbler on August 13, 2022, 02:07:48 PMQuote from: Maladict on August 13, 2022, 01:54:07 PMIirc Shell Oil was the American subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell.
Shell Oil USA was the subsidiary. It's numbers would be included in the Royal Dutch Shell numbers.
Still, that seems to be the company indicated by Shell Oil in the video. The Dutch and British companies were both called Royal Dutch Shell since near-fully merging in 1907.
I didn't now the British Shell company actually started out as a seashell business.
Quote from: frunk on July 26, 2022, 07:23:37 PMOk, this was really weird. I didn't expect a VFX explainer/debunker to collaborate with a Japanese girl group, but here we are.
That was bizarrely interesting.
I wonder how that came about- he did quite a lot of work for them in making 3 music videos. And AFAIK they're just another 2 a penny idol group. Their people hired him and he agreed on condition he could make this?
I think he wanted to do a video on Music Video VFX by making videos for an actual band, and this is probably the first band that said yes.
Because of music copyright it's tough to do a good explainer on music videos without going through potentially expensive licensing, so it was cheaper (although not easier) to obtain it by doing short music videos for the band.
Oversimplified have released a two part video about the First Punic War :)
Oh, in case you missed it, they also had one about the 1850s Pig War between UK and US which was quite amusing. :D
The Pig War one is great. :lol:
Using 40 yo technology to imitate a 200 yo instrument playing a 120 yo song, the commodordion!
:lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjjqvjbhlf8
Norwegian announcers spazzing about their man crush for Norwegian golfer Victor Hovland's practice session.
Quote from: Syt on September 03, 2022, 05:39:09 AMOversimplified have released a two part video about the First Punic War :)
The intro for part 1 where Roman Dad is telling his son what it means to be Roman is amazing :lol:
Quote from: Valmy on November 04, 2022, 12:07:49 AMQuote from: Syt on September 03, 2022, 05:39:09 AMOversimplified have released a two part video about the First Punic War :)
The intro for part 1 where Roman Dad is telling his son what it means to be Roman is amazing :lol:
It was the poo sponge, wasn't it? :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLUMJJDyK1w
A therapist analyzes Darrell Brooks' manipulative courtroom behavior in the framework of domestic violence.
Brooks is the dude who plowed through a parade and defended himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LXbH8W0hes
Mark Felton Production about the Soviet hottie who directed traffic in front of the Brandenburg Gate after Germany's surrender.
Just saw this a day or two ago. Basically the history of how we knew about global warming / climate change. And it only goes up to the 1960s/70s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGtAilkWTtI
Would be very surprised if there isn't at least a part 2 if not more.
A short one relevant to the Kanye West situation.
Turns out Garfunkel and Oates are time travellers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RMdwA8GWB8
For many years I was not aware that the music I associated with Ghost'n'Goblins was exclusive to C64 (on which I played the game).
Here's the arcade theme that most people are familiar with:
And this is the C64 version, inspired in parts by Chopin and written by Mark Cooksey:
(After the "spooky"(?) part it becomes a lot funkier around the 0:30 mark.)
If the SID version hurts your ear, here's a more orchestral one. :P
As a non-USian, I find this kind of stuff fascinating, in a "what if" kind of way (esp. considering how arbitrary some of the states in the US are). :)
Alas, I am pretty sure that 99% of wannabe states are just efforts of rural folk trying to get them city slickers out of messing' with their land.
Quote from: Tonitrus on January 03, 2023, 12:23:38 PMAlas, I am pretty sure that 99% of wannabe states are just efforts of rural folk trying to get them city slickers out of messing' with their land.
I'd think it closer to 2/3, with the other third rich folks trying to avoid paying taxes that just support benefits received mostly by the poor.
Guy builds accordion out of two C64s and floppy disks. End of the video has an explanation of how the build works.
:nerd:
Brett Goldstein on Sesame Street. Contains several Ted Lasso references. :D
That's like the wholesome version of Roy Kent. :lol:
Super square Irish TV presenter in 1983 meets THE YOUTH and their crazy ways. Quite the stark contrast to the famous Sex Pistols interview. Kind of interesting as a glimpse into a world that on the surface is what we know but...off.
I'm sure many are familiar with the "steamed hams" bit from The Simpsons, in which Skinner invites Superintendent Chalmers for dinner and things don't go as planned. For some reason it has been edited, re-edited, parodied and transformed countless times by the interwebs, but I feel this might be the pinnacle, a re-enactment as German Expressionist silent film:
How to sell to the new negro market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8PBrhFN35c
Could bit on the Bismark, and the sinking of the Hood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaFFzY8OXZc
Quote from: Syt on January 25, 2023, 01:41:26 AMI'm sure many are familiar with the "steamed hams" bit from The Simpsons, in which Skinner invites Superintendent Chalmers for dinner and things don't go as planned. For some reason it has been edited, re-edited, parodied and transformed countless times by the interwebs, but I feel this might be the pinnacle, a re-enactment as German Expressionist silent film:
The lightning is wrong for a German Expressionist film <_< :nerd:
Nitpicking aside, I loved it. :)
Quote from: Josephus on February 04, 2023, 07:41:40 AMCould bit on the Bismark, and the sinking of the Hood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaFFzY8OXZc
Alas, as click-baity and overly melodramatic as YouTube gets.
Bismarck was not "the most feared ship of World War 2" and, in fact, was sunk on her maiden war voyage. The RN felt, quite rightly, that their latest battleships were as good or better. One could make the argument that
Tirpitz was the "most feared" ship because the RN had to always account for her when deploying their forces, keeping two fast battleships and a carrier in the Home Fleet to ensure they'd sink her if she got out.
I am rather surprised that they found some naval historians in 2021 that are still promoting the false claim that
Hood was somehow faulty because she was a battlecruiser, and she "sacrificed protection for speed." She did not.
Hood was the best-armored British battleship coming out of WW1, and was, in fact, the first fast battleship. The RN called the design a "fully armored battlecruiser." That's what they called the
King George V class, as well.
Hood's problems were not due to being a battlecruiser, but due to being old and not modernized.
Lots of problems with the tactical description of Denmark Strait, as well. They have one guy claiming (falsely) that the Bismarck was able to fire without being distracted by British fire, then a claim that PoW hit
Bismarck before
Bismarck opened fire. One mistake after another. Breathless descriptions of very ordinary things like correcting gunnery solutions.
I did like the use of first-person accounts, though.
I didn't understand why the presenter was bobbing around in a small boat, though.
Nit-picking.
Being the best armoured ship coming out of WW1, doesn't make you a good ship in WW2. as you point out, it was old, not modernized, and as the doc points out, not refitted for WW2.
You also say that
They have one guy claiming (falsely) that the Bismarck was able to fire without being distracted by British fire, then a claim that PoW hit Bismarck before Bismarck opened fire
He didn't say it wasn't distracted for the whole battle. Just the first few minutes when Hood and POW were erroneously firing on Eugen.
I'm not an expert on the Atlantic sea battles, so I found the doc pretty interesting.
Quote from: Josephus on February 04, 2023, 12:19:16 PMNit-picking.
Being the best armoured ship coming out of WW1, doesn't make you a good ship in WW2. as you point out, it was old, not modernized, and as the doc points out, not refitted for WW2.
But the repeated claim is that, since she was a battlecruiser, Hood sacrificed armor for speed (false) and that she was not designed to stand up in battle against battleships (also false).
Hood's armor had nothing to do with her loss (though everything to do with Holland's tactics). Bismarck couldn't penetrate either her deck nor her belt at that range and inclination. The fatal hit almost certainly went in under the belt.
QuoteYou also say that
They have one guy claiming (falsely) that the Bismarck was able to fire without being distracted by British fire, then a claim that PoW hit Bismarck before Bismarck opened fire
He didn't say it wasn't distracted for the whole battle. Just the first few minutes when Hood and POW were erroneously firing on Eugen.
PoW never fired on Prinz Eugen. She fired before Bismarck and always targeted Bismarck.
QuoteI'm not an expert on the Atlantic sea battles, so I found the doc pretty interesting.
It's designed to be "interesting" what with the breathless description of the Admiralty's new technology: the room! (dun dun duuun). It's just not very historically accurate in some key areas and repeats old folklore that has long since been discarded by any serious historian of the battle.
Fair enough; like I said, not my area of expertise.
I suspect Grumbler didn't actually watch the full program. None of the Móvil historians said what he claimed they said about the Bismarck rather, they all said something along the lines that the Bismarck was comparable to what the British had.
I suspect grumbler was triggered by the title, and decided to come here and rant.
In any event, the British naval historians who were interviewed probably have a better idea of what happened.
For people who want to actually watch it, it's well done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yysKhJ1U-vM&ab_channel=RealTimewithBillMaher
his rules are served up by the algorithm ever so often.
Quote from: crazy canuck on February 05, 2023, 09:40:42 AMI suspect Grumbler didn't actually watch the full program. None of the Móvil historians said what he claimed they said about the Bismarck rather, they all said something along the lines that the Bismarck was comparable to what the British had.
I suspect grumbler was triggered by the title, and decided to come here and rant.
In any event, the British naval historians who were interviewed probably have a better idea of what happened.
For people who want to actually watch it, it's well done.
I suspect that you didn't listen carefully to the whole program and just wrote this post to be contrarian without regard to what is true.
Everything that I claimed they said, they said. The idea that somehow these British naval popular history authors have some special source of knowledge that is unavailable to other British naval historians is laughable. Being a talking head on a YouTube channel does not grant anyone magical powers.
Quote from: Crazy_Ivan80 on February 05, 2023, 09:49:48 AMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yysKhJ1U-vM&ab_channel=RealTimewithBillMaher
his rules are served up by the algorithm ever so often.
His editorials can be hit and miss, but this one is one of his better ones. I've been saying for a while to friends and colleagues that the Woke people remind me a lot of the Cultural Revolution in China.
Watching the Nostalgia Critic's review of Old.
Quote from: grumbler on February 05, 2023, 12:05:51 PMQuote from: crazy canuck on February 05, 2023, 09:40:42 AMI suspect Grumbler didn't actually watch the full program. None of the Móvil historians said what he claimed they said about the Bismarck rather, they all said something along the lines that the Bismarck was comparable to what the British had.
I suspect grumbler was triggered by the title, and decided to come here and rant.
In any event, the British naval historians who were interviewed probably have a better idea of what happened.
For people who want to actually watch it, it's well done.
I suspect that you didn't listen carefully to the whole program and just wrote this post to be contrarian without regard to what is true.
Everything that I claimed they said, they said. The idea that somehow these British naval popular history authors have some special source of knowledge that is unavailable to other British naval historians is laughable. Being a talking head on a YouTube channel does not grant anyone magical powers.
"Hood was pretty much equivalent in size to Bismark" The dimensions are then discussed after which the historian concludes, "She as designed to be fast and very powerful, best described as an ocean greyhound. She was designed to be fast and she was designed to be very powerful."
The historians also comment on the fact that the Hood's armour was inadequate to the demands of modern naval warfare because she had not been refitted, like some other ships, after the effects of long range fire were better understood.
The also make the point that her armour disadvantage was compensated by her "very high speed".
So Grumbles, the historians you maligned said exactly the opposite of what you claimed.
You could learn a thing or two by listening to actual historians rather than making snide comments about them. If anything is laughable, it is that you seem to think you know more than an actual naval historian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRyzUZMLthk
Discussion by Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger on inequality.
Quote from: crazy canuck on February 06, 2023, 04:38:44 PM"Hood was pretty much equivalent in size to Bismark" The dimensions are then discussed after which the historian concludes, "She as designed to be fast and very powerful, best described as an ocean greyhound. She was designed to be fast and she was designed to be very powerful."
The historians also comment on the fact that the Hood's armour was inadequate to the demands of modern naval warfare because she had not been refitted, like some other ships, after the effects of long range fire were better understood.
The also make the point that her armour disadvantage was compensated by her "very high speed".
So Grumbles, the historians you maligned said exactly the opposite of what you claimed.
You could learn a thing or two by listening to actual historians rather than making snide comments about them. If anything is laughable, it is that you seem to think you know more than an actual naval historian.
I am not sure why you are vomiting out a bunch of words that have nothing whatsoever to do with any of the points I made, unless it is just more mindless contrarianism. It is clear that you lack either the patience to read what I wrote, or the intellect to understand it.
Nobody is fooled by you.
These are much better than they have any right to be. :lol:
For Pacific War fans we have The Bar Room Brawl (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME_XABJP4Do&t=1721s) and The Night of the Giants (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyxpSVy7MYo&t=13s) about the two naval battles of Guadalcanal. Good use of external historians.
https://youtu.be/F6rUOOtN2GU
Jordan Peterson describes Vampire: The Masquerade clans.
US presidents play hoi4.
how! why?
they're pretty fun though.
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edit:
the new Maher is also funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO2Wbf5GR8E&ab_channel=RealTimewithBillMaher
A series I recently enjoy is Dominic Noble's Lost in Adaptation where he compares movies with the books they're based on.
I wasn't prepared for his initial summary of Watership Down in this video, though. :lol:
Dom is great, I really like his videos too. :lol:
He has a really funny "feud" going on with EL James and her whole catalogue. :ph34r:
Quote from: Habbaku on February 10, 2023, 07:41:04 PMhttps://youtu.be/F6rUOOtN2GU
Jordan Peterson describes Vampire: The Masquerade clans.
You should check out his latest video about China.
Something nice and relaxing to watch over dinner. :)
Matt Whitman (https://youtube.com/@MattWhitmanTMBH)
A religious channel, so not for most, but he does interviews with other denominations and shows churches, which as an atheist is the part I like. Mainly I think sheilbh would like it :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJX_G96aO-k&t=64s
4 year olds wrestling. :lol:
The Pacific War YouTuber guy who did some great videos on Midway and Pearl Harbor has returned (finally)
Those videos just show that:
A. In the Pacific War the Japanese had very little margin for error
and
B. In the Pacific War they committed tons of errors.
So even here when everything goes about as well as it reasonably could and they catch the American carrier force exposed and surprise them: they still fuck it up and lose the battle.
Quote from: FunkMonk on April 13, 2023, 10:13:30 AMThe Pacific War YouTuber guy who did some great videos on Midway and Pearl Harbor has returned (finally)
I was just coming here to mention these. He did make a mistake regarding FJF, though. FJF left on the day outlined in the plan. What he did not do was extend the carrier coverage for an extra day, as Turner and Vandergrift wanted. The latter were culpable in the failure of the amphibs to unload the cargo ships because the Marines assigned to the beach det were far too few, and hundreds of Marines (including Vandergrift) just stood around watching.
I thought that it was interesting that the Marine colonel assigned to Fletcher's staff (the man best-placed to balance the needs of the carriers and the Marines, supported the withdrawal of the carriers when they left.
Fletcher got fucked over by King, and to this day I've not seen any sign that anyone in power ever confronted King on the replacement of the battle-winning Fletcher with the bungling Noyes and then battle-losing Kincaid.
Great videos, though.
Quote from: grumbler on April 13, 2023, 08:44:31 PMQuote from: FunkMonk on April 13, 2023, 10:13:30 AMThe Pacific War YouTuber guy who did some great videos on Midway and Pearl Harbor has returned (finally)
I was just coming here to mention these. He did make a mistake regarding FJF, though. FJF left on the day outlined in the plan. What he did not do was extend the carrier coverage for an extra day, as Turner and Vandergrift wanted. The latter were culpable in the failure of the amphibs to unload the cargo ships because the Marines assigned to the beach det were far too few, and hundreds of Marines (including Vandergrift) just stood around watching.
I thought that it was interesting that the Marine colonel assigned to Fletcher's staff (the man best-placed to balance the needs of the carriers and the Marines, supported the withdrawal of the carriers when they left.
Fletcher got fucked over by King, and to this day I've not seen any sign that anyone in power ever confronted King on the replacement of the battle-winning Fletcher with the bungling Noyes and then battle-losing Kincaid.
Great videos, though.
I was hoping to see your opinion. Good to see these new videos are as good histories as the other videos he's done. :cool:
I knew nothing about this battle so I really liked the parts in the first video which prompts the viewer to make a decision based on what Fletcher knew at the time. Really puts you in the person's shoes, as any good history does.
Quote from: FunkMonk on April 13, 2023, 08:56:45 PMI was hoping to see your opinion. Good to see these new videos are as good histories as the other videos he's done. :cool:
I knew nothing about this battle so I really liked the parts in the first video which prompts the viewer to make a decision based on what Fletcher knew at the time. Really puts you in the person's shoes, as any good history does.
I only wish that we had enough information to do the same for the Japanese side. Those records were mostly destroyed during the surrender.
I also liked the reconstruction of the battle through Fletcher's eyes. I've read Lundstrom, but he presents the omniscient view of the battle. HP Wilmott does better at analyzing the decisions, but he doesn't go into the detail presented here. This is an excellent use of existing history to focus on seeing things through a different lens.
Speaking of battle reconstructions, Ward Carroll did an interesting one on Operation Praying Mantis, the US retaliation for the Iranian mining of the Sammy B.
As they note, this was the last single-service US combat operation before everything became joint and messy.
Okay, so these recommendations are mainly of use to those of us who have to watch young-child youtube (which is some of us) as opposed to directly appeal to the average languishite...
Recently I've come across Scratch Garden, and their stuff is IMO pretty good (and by "pretty good" I mean "significantly less inane than average"). The music is pretty catchy (in the non-annoying way) and there's a sense of humour underlying them too.
Saw this earlier on terrestial TV:
Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric? Live at The Old Grey Whistle Test (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nt5EH0UYxE&t=3s)
Surprised it doesn't feel too dated, guess it helps Gary Newman was just getting into his stride then.
Note to Tyre/Josq, the music is pre-Thatcher( :bowler: ), but the performance is from about 3 weeks after she came to power. :( Are you conflicted? :P
About the music video of 'Into The Great Wide Open' it's almost easier to ask who isn't in it, also do people still make video this long, 6min 30sec, anymore?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsZ28xn9ATo
Hank Paulson defends his actions during 08.
An early TV version of Dire Straits doing Sultans of Swing. Would hate to be in that audience...not my scene.
https://youtu.be/trjXtH39aX4
Guys, not a pogo beat.
Cool of Lou Reed to show up.
Josh Strife Hayes asks, "Chrono Trigger - Was it any Good?" (Spoiler: it was :P )
If you're looking for some 2 hour nostalgia bait to have on in the background on Sunday, here you are. :D
https://www.youtube.com/@QuinnsIdeas
again for what it's worth:
but this guy produces videos deepdiving into lore and what not of more than a few SF (and adjoining genres) books/series.
Definately enjoyed his Dune material last year.
Just leaving this here ... :whistle:
In the wild world of the Youtube algorithm, I ran across a video of someone posting videos of freemen/sovereign citizens interacting with police. One video then turned into many more showing up as recommended. Sometimes it's the police body cam, sometimes it's the freeman recording it themselves.
Maybe you have to be in my line of work, but it's quite cathartic to watch these videos of police being very polite and measured while the subject acting completely idiotically. The best ones of course are where the police ultimately have to get quite physical with the subject, but the ones where the person goes quietly are satisfying as well.
Quote from: Barrister on August 03, 2023, 03:38:31 PMIn the wild world of the Youtube algorithm, I ran across a video of someone posting videos of freemen/sovereign citizens interacting with police. One video then turned into many more showing up as recommended. Sometimes it's the police body cam, sometimes it's the freeman recording it themselves.
Maybe you have to be in my line of work, but it's quite cathartic to watch these videos of police being very polite and measured while the subject acting completely idiotically. The best ones of course are where the police ultimately have to get quite physical with the subject, but the ones where the person goes quietly are satisfying as well.
A while back I had to deal with a number of these guys in various forms of litigation - mainly trespass and breaches of regulatory requirements.
I thought they had disappeared or at least diminished in number when word got out that in fact the law of the land does apply to them.
Quote from: crazy canuck on August 03, 2023, 03:59:49 PMQuote from: Barrister on August 03, 2023, 03:38:31 PMIn the wild world of the Youtube algorithm, I ran across a video of someone posting videos of freemen/sovereign citizens interacting with police. One video then turned into many more showing up as recommended. Sometimes it's the police body cam, sometimes it's the freeman recording it themselves.
Maybe you have to be in my line of work, but it's quite cathartic to watch these videos of police being very polite and measured while the subject acting completely idiotically. The best ones of course are where the police ultimately have to get quite physical with the subject, but the ones where the person goes quietly are satisfying as well.
A while back I had to deal with a number of these guys in various forms of litigation - mainly trespass and reaches of regulatory requirements.
I thought they had disappeared or at least diminished in number when word got out that in fact the law of the land does apply to them.
So I have to admit I haven't dealt with any for a long time. I do remember dealing with a guy in Beaver Creek (Canada's westernmost community!) who was driving around with a homemade license plate. Thankfully he decided to ignore the court and he just remained silent, which made the proceedings much easier. :)
But given all the conspiracy theories and falsehoods floating around, now spread by social media, I can only assume that such movements are even more prevalent, despite my own personal experiences. Certainly on this Youtube channel the videos were all quite recent.
In a similar vein I've seen a few YouTube videos of dumb Canadians trying to cite American laws when arguing with cops.
Quote from: HVC on August 03, 2023, 04:19:44 PMIn a similar vein I've seen a few YouTube videos of dumb Canadians trying to cite American laws when arguing with cops.
The truckers convoy gave us that gift. BB thinks it unlikely but the source of all of this nonsense is likely traced back to Fox News and clips of that being shown on social media.
Quote from: crazy canuck on August 03, 2023, 03:59:49 PMQuote from: Barrister on August 03, 2023, 03:38:31 PMIn the wild world of the Youtube algorithm, I ran across a video of someone posting videos of freemen/sovereign citizens interacting with police. One video then turned into many more showing up as recommended. Sometimes it's the police body cam, sometimes it's the freeman recording it themselves.
Maybe you have to be in my line of work, but it's quite cathartic to watch these videos of police being very polite and measured while the subject acting completely idiotically. The best ones of course are where the police ultimately have to get quite physical with the subject, but the ones where the person goes quietly are satisfying as well.
A while back I had to deal with a number of these guys in various forms of litigation - mainly trespass and breaches of regulatory requirements.
I thought they had disappeared or at least diminished in number when word got out that in fact the law of the land does apply to them.
They are increasing in number as the Do Your Own Research crowd search for new ways of making themselves special and unique little snowflakes.
Quote from: crazy canuck on August 03, 2023, 04:28:10 PMQuote from: HVC on August 03, 2023, 04:19:44 PMIn a similar vein I've seen a few YouTube videos of dumb Canadians trying to cite American laws when arguing with cops.
The truckers convoy gave us that gift. BB thinks it unlikely but the source of all of this nonsense is likely traced back to Fox News and clips of that being shown on social media.
Might be in part, I wouldn't be surprised, but I think it's in large part an offshoot of a TikTok/YouTube short fad. Tools go into public annoy people in legal yet aggravating ways until cops show up and they "own" the cop. Like filming in public until people are uncomfortable enough to call the cops. Not illegal, but not exactly kosher. Laws aren't the same here so doesn't work out exactly as planned (the big one that seems to pop up is showing id in Canada vs the states).
Quote from: Barrister on August 03, 2023, 03:38:31 PMIn the wild world of the Youtube algorithm, I ran across a video of someone posting videos of freemen/sovereign citizens interacting with police. One video then turned into many more showing up as recommended. Sometimes it's the police body cam, sometimes it's the freeman recording it themselves.
Maybe you have to be in my line of work, but it's quite cathartic to watch these videos of police being very polite and measured while the subject acting completely idiotically. The best ones of course are where the police ultimately have to get quite physical with the subject, but the ones where the person goes quietly are satisfying as well.
I love sovereign citizen clips. My favorite stock line is "I am NOT under arrest!" The only problem is the folks posting them talk over the video too much with pointless comments.
The ones in court are good too.
I agree about showing the cops in a good light. People could argue that shows like Cops cherry pick but AFAICT (someone correct me if I'm wrong) police body cam footage is public domain. Anyone who wants to make the argument that cops are bullying law breaking dickweeds can curate whatever footage they want. And I have seen clips titled "Look What These Asshole Cops Did!!!" which usually are nothing burgers.
Body cams are the most revolutionary change in policing in my lifetime.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 03, 2023, 05:08:05 PMI agree about showing the cops in a good light. People could argue that shows like Cops cherry pick but AFAICT (someone correct me if I'm wrong) police body cam footage is public domain. Anyone who wants to make the argument that cops are bullying law breaking dickweeds can curate whatever footage they want. And I have seen clips titled "Look What These Asshole Cops Did!!!" which usually are nothing burgers.
Body cams are the most revolutionary change in policing in my lifetime.
I am pretty sure that body camera footage that will be used in trial is not public domain. Generally, it is released after a while, but my understanding is that it isn't immediately available for fear it would taint witness statements.
We've got a recent similar court case with someone claiming to be "king of Ireland" :lol: https://www.irishcentral.com/news/james-carey-king-of-ireland
Their WW2 videos are getting demonetized because YT is flagging them as adult content. Google is getting touchy about the new EU regulations, even though they don't apply to educational content.
That's not much new, though, is it? Cynical Historian had a bunch of videos a few years back how YouTube would demonetize his (and other historians') content regularly if it factually discussed WW2, holocaust, nazis, etc.
This one was posted 6hrs ago, so in their case, it is new.
Yeah, youtubers moaning about youtube and demonisation has been going on a long while.
I sympathise. But fundamentally they have chosen to go freelance and make a living off a hobby. That's always going to be tough.
More respect for guys like this doing interesting content than many others. But still... It's hard to put in words but there's a bit of loss of sympathy in the "why don't I earn good money doing the thing many people do for free"
It's not so much about earning good money than about covering costs.
I don't think they expect to earn what entertainers and influencers earn.
Quote from: Josquius on September 03, 2023, 04:28:45 PMYeah, youtubers moaning about youtube and demonisation has been going on a long while.
I sympathise. But fundamentally they have chosen to go freelance and make a living off a hobby. That's always going to be tough.
More respect for guys like this doing interesting content than many others. But still... It's hard to put in words but there's a bit of loss of sympathy in the "why don't I earn good money doing the thing many people do for free"
You should probably listen to what they are actually saying before you tell us what you assume that they are saying. What you assert here is completely off base (surprise! ...not).
Quote from: grumbler on September 03, 2023, 08:16:03 PMQuote from: Josquius on September 03, 2023, 04:28:45 PMYeah, youtubers moaning about youtube and demonisation has been going on a long while.
I sympathise. But fundamentally they have chosen to go freelance and make a living off a hobby. That's always going to be tough.
More respect for guys like this doing interesting content than many others. But still... It's hard to put in words but there's a bit of loss of sympathy in the "why don't I earn good money doing the thing many people do for free"
You should probably listen to what they are actually saying before you tell us what you assume that they are saying. What you assert here is completely off base (surprise! ...not).
And as usual a completely wacky attack by Grumbler.
What are you even talking about here?
I did watch that particular video and I was speaking about youtube in general.
Quote from: Josquius on September 04, 2023, 02:42:38 AMAnd as usual a completely wacky attack by Grumbler.
What are you even talking about here?
I did watch that particular video and I was speaking about youtube in general.
Ah, the ad hom concession. I accept.
Quote from: grumbler on September 04, 2023, 08:39:38 AMQuote from: Josquius on September 04, 2023, 02:42:38 AMAnd as usual a completely wacky attack by Grumbler.
What are you even talking about here?
I did watch that particular video and I was speaking about youtube in general.
Ah, the ad hom concession. I accept.
:lmfao:
Are you like this in real life?
Quote from: Josquius on September 04, 2023, 09:08:23 AM:lmfao:
Are you like this in real life?
If you are going to double down on the
ad hom concession, I will double down on my acceptance of that concession. :bowler:
Dodging answering :(
I believe this breaks one of the rules of the imagined debate club in his head.
I think I've figured out the pattern.
If grumbler says "this is the single stupidest post I've ever read," that is not an ad hom but a comment about a post.
If you respond "why are you always such an incredible pain in the ass," that is an ad hom because it extends beyond the immediate post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRNZIKa6k7E
This is old. Belgian chick shot putter and hammer thrower subs in to save hurdle team from elimination.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 04, 2023, 12:49:50 PMI think I've figured out the pattern.
If grumbler says "this is the single stupidest post I've ever read," that is not an ad hom but a comment about a post.
If you respond "why are you always such an incredible pain in the ass," that is an ad hom because it extends beyond the immediate post.
The pattern is that Josq says something bizarre like "youtubers moaning about youtube and demonisation has been going on a long while" when we were discussing a specific YouTube vid asking subscribers to consider helping out on Patreon because YouTube is unnecessarily blocking access to their stuff. No mention of demonization in the vid. No mention by these guys about trying to "make a living off a hobby" (none of them are trying to make a living off history videos) but Josq brings it up for whatever reason. In fact, Josq makes not a single point relevant to the discussion - as is also the pattern.
The pattern then is that I point out that his post is entirely orthogonal to the video and discussion, and he, as is his pattern, announces that I am making a "completely wacky attack." I blow off his non-responsive response and he goes ad hom. As is the pattern.
Then, as is the pattern, you show up to fan the flames.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMhnIUOOLdE&t=66s
Hilarious coke fueled James Brown interview.
Quote from: Josquius on September 03, 2023, 04:28:45 PMYeah, youtubers moaning about youtube and demonisation has been going on a long while.
I sympathise. But fundamentally they have chosen to go freelance and make a living off a hobby. That's always going to be tough.
More respect for guys like this doing interesting content than many others. But still... It's hard to put in words but there's a bit of loss of sympathy in the "why don't I earn good money doing the thing many people do for free"
People are able to do loads of historical research and do extensive public outreach about it for for free?
In any case it is a call to action for their supporters and funders. We want to know these things so we can make sure their work continues.
I don't really care if you feel sympathy. If you don't like history work and public education then don't fund it.
I've got to watching this guy's videos lately.
Super dry and unspectacular. Just a guy talking with occasional diagrams and random nature shots.
But the topics are really interesting. Lots of stuff about the development of the English language, nicely presented in such a way that non linguistics with a interest can get it.
Randomly suggested this one. Interesting stuff.
How different cultures view the world fundamentally differently and this impacts design preferences
Also the topic I traditionally thought I'd do for my PhD if I were ever to do one.
Quote from: Josquius on October 12, 2023, 03:05:07 AM
Randomly suggested this one. Interesting stuff.
How different cultures view the world fundamentally differently and this impacts design preferences
Also the topic I traditionally thought I'd do for my PhD if I were ever to do one.
Had the exact same one in my suggestion a few days ago. Was worth the time
Undertaker and Mick Foley watch and reminisce about their (in)famous 1998 Hell in a Cell match.
(If you're wondering why the match replay goes black and white at some point - usually it's because YouTube is not happy to show blood/bleeding people in videos. :P )
The Oldest View part 3 came out. I admit to being scared.
I feel posting this video here is basically just preaching to the choir, but still ... :P
Yahtzee's first post-Zero Punctuation's review. Basically still the same, but updated art style. And he can swear more.
If you like horror The Oldest View is decent. The last one made me scream at least once.
If anyone wants someone talking about books, mainly fantasy and sci-fi, in a voice that can comfortably put you to sleep, then check out this guy's channel.
I'm not big into Steampunk, but him going back to the roots of the genre had me more interested than I expected.
Quote from: Syt on December 03, 2023, 02:36:12 AMIf anyone wants someone talking about books, mainly fantasy and sci-fi, in a voice that can comfortably put you to sleep, then check out this guy's channel.
I'm not big into Steampunk, but him going back to the roots of the genre had me more interested than I expected.
Interesting, but it's curious that he only passingly mentions cyberpunk as an inspiration for steampunk.
I'd agree with his conclusion that steampunk isn't as good now that it is mainstream (or, perhaps, that it's simply much harder to find good steampunk amid the noise).
Dunno if anybody else has been following the Billy Mitchell craziness but I found this just under 4 hour documentary immensely entertaining.
"Never before has a man lied so much for the sake of achieving so little."
What's the story?
Quote from: Jacob on December 10, 2023, 07:13:31 PMWhat's the story?
Back in the 80s Billy Mitchell got the high score in Donkey Kong, then in the early 2000s there was a documentary about him and other players that beat that record called King of Kong. After that point he set a couple more records at Donkey Kong on "original hardware". Several years later it was proved that the later records, including one at the end of the documentary, were set on MAME. The records were removed once it became indisputable. He's been denying that it was on emulated hardware and suing bunches of people for defamation. Now there was a deposition earlier this year that is rather hilarious for an inveterate liar.
Once interesting is the thoroughness of the evidence, the vehemence of Billy Mitchell's denial, his lies about other things (like being proclaimed the Video Gamer of the Century), the intersection with online confusion about the whole matter and the pointlessness of it all considering the records have been thoroughly surpassed by others.
Seems to be quite a hot debate but according to this guy...Italian food is actually American
Chalk up a victory for garbon in his fight against protected regions
:ph34r: <= that's a ninja
Quote from: frunk on December 10, 2023, 08:28:35 PMQuote from: Jacob on December 10, 2023, 07:13:31 PMWhat's the story?
Back in the 80s Billy Mitchell got the high score in Donkey Kong, then in the early 2000s there was a documentary about him and other players that beat that record called King of Kong. After that point he set a couple more records at Donkey Kong on "original hardware". Several years later it was proved that the later records, including one at the end of the documentary, were set on MAME. The records were removed once it became indisputable. He's been denying that it was on emulated hardware and suing bunches of people for defamation. Now there was a deposition earlier this year that is rather hilarious for an inveterate liar.
Once interesting is the thoroughness of the evidence, the vehemence of Billy Mitchell's denial, his lies about other things (like being proclaimed the Video Gamer of the Century), the intersection with online confusion about the whole matter and the pointlessness of it all considering the records have been thoroughly surpassed by others.
Thanks!
What a world :lol:
He has a bunch of interesting facts shorts.
Haven't seen SNL in many years but this was actually pretty good :lol:
Laboratory chicken tastes pretty good but currently takes more energy to create than legacy chicken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Yo2rLxmDg
"Legacy chicken" :lol:
Is that your coinage?
Yup :smoke:
:cheers:
That made me laugh. She got the exaggerated manners of the Sabaton singer in her entrance totally nailed. :D
Never mind the ships, the voice is amazing.
He Bon Jovi - It's my life clip is also great.
Quote from: FunkMonk on December 28, 2023, 01:57:26 PM
Haven't seen SNL in many years but this was actually pretty good :lol:
Which one was that? We can't see the content in Canada. With the sketch title, I'll be able to find it and use a VPN.
Makes me laugh everytime I see it
Quote from: viper37 on January 06, 2024, 03:04:24 PMQuote from: FunkMonk on December 28, 2023, 01:57:26 PM
Haven't seen SNL in many years but this was actually pretty good :lol:
Which one was that? We can't see the content in Canada. With the sketch title, I'll be able to find it and use a VPN.
Washington's Dream
Thanks, I'll look it up. :)
Oversimplified is out with new videos. Second Punic war this time.
Part 2 is out too
Darts is hype. I never knew until now.
If they've got such a big crowd they should have a bigger board. Which means bigger darts.
And feet are bigger than hands so they should really kick it. Hard to kick a dart so let's turn that into a ball. But the target will be too easy to hit by making it bigger so let's put an opposing player in place to try stop it. Might even need to add even more players.
Not sure what to call it now since the dart has been removed. But it might evolve into something played to even larger crowds.
Josh Strife Hayes has done a retrospective of WH40K: Dawn of War I:
Not really played it myself (not really into RTS), but hearing the music ... "Wait, that sounds a bit like Morrowind with hints of KotOR ... it's Jeremy Soule isn't it?" (Spoiler: Yes. Yes, it is. :P )
Watching the solution of this Sudoku gave me a headache. :lol:
Summary of how to break in and discover x/y:
Quote from: Syt on February 04, 2024, 03:48:36 AMNot really played it myself (not really into RTS)
Try it, if you like Warhammer.
I think it's worth it, even if you don't like RTS.
The first expansion has a story, the other 2 don't.
Although I had heard of Warhammer before, I had no real idea of the lore before that.
That was an extremely funny introduction. Everyone is completely nuts in this universe. :P
Yeah, sorry, not enjoying RTS much (with the single exception of Age of Kings). Too stressful. :P
Anyways, if anyone likes sound effects from movies/tv shows old and new, this channel more than likely has you covered:
https://www.youtube.com/@thatsfxguy
For Analog Horror Angel Hare is good.
Mash up for a faux Cher and David Lynch interview.
https://youtu.be/7IvTunmj048
I found this quite interesting. A DW news doc/series of interviews about male extremism.
Some good snippets in there. Avoids just saying "Aren't these people awful!" and instead discusses the why in a pretty matter of fact way.
Great link, thanks
The DW vid is unwatchable for me because there is so much distortion in the audio. Is that my connection or the video itself?
Sounds fine on my end.
I think it's you Grumbler. The audio quality for me was good.
Quote from: Syt on March 14, 2024, 11:32:01 AMSounds fine on my end.
Thanks. I will watch when I have a different connection.
What if you got all the great guitar players in the world to record a Mark Knopfler song for charity
https://youtu.be/kNKvoVMcslk?si=krFzCVXZ725PIiOl
How many can you name?
Quote from: Josephus on March 15, 2024, 12:56:48 PMWhat if you got all the great guitar players in the world to record a Mark Knopfler song for charity
https://youtu.be/kNKvoVMcslk?si=krFzCVXZ725PIiOl
:nerd:
I chuckled. Boston accent.
I'd never seen the video to Al Jarreau's Mornin', but I'm glad I've watched it now.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 19, 2024, 04:20:34 PM
I chuckled. Boston accent.
This makes me sad. Why is she correcting herself :(
Quote from: Josquius on March 28, 2024, 12:23:34 PMThis makes me sad. Why is she correcting herself :(
I assume because she want to have a career in TV.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 28, 2024, 01:06:53 PMQuote from: Josquius on March 28, 2024, 12:23:34 PMThis makes me sad. Why is she correcting herself :(
I assume because she want to have a career in TV.
It's not the 70s anymore.
Quote from: Maladict on March 28, 2024, 02:52:58 PMIt's not the 70s anymore.
I'd be interested to hear your point if you have one to make.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 28, 2024, 03:57:04 PMQuote from: Maladict on March 28, 2024, 02:52:58 PMIt's not the 70s anymore.
I'd be interested to hear your point if you have one to make.
Meaning insisting that newsreaders should not have regional accents is a relic from the 70s. I'd like to think we've largely moved on, but I might be wrong.
Not on this side of the pond. Unless maybe you want to work for local news I guess. Wouldn't make it to the big leagues.
Play by play of Wittmann at Villers-Bocage.
An ancient American TV show with minimal budget giving a really pretty interesting beginners look at linguistics. No big things I didn't know before but some interesting little side facts. Really hard to imagine such a show today.
There's been some controversy (because there always is) about the Fallout series on Amazon supposedly retconning the lore of previous games (esp. the infamous blackboard - if you know, you know :P ).
I think Many A True Nerd has a decent view of things and how/why they make sense. I'm mostly reminded of controversies like when the Mandalorian TV show introduced Mandalorians never removing helmets and parts of the fandom losing their shit - only for it to be explained later.
So I've seen a whole ton of Conan O'Brien stuff on social media. You almost wondered if he had died or something - but no he did an appearance on chicken wing talk show Hot Ones which was really quite funny. From Conan stuffing chicken wings in his pocket, to bringing out his "personal physician" to check on him, to chugging hot sauce at the end, he brought it.
Quote from: Barrister on April 15, 2024, 03:43:15 PMSo I've seen a whole ton of Conan O'Brien stuff on social media. You almost wondered if he had died or something - but no he did an appearance on chicken wing talk show Hot Ones which was really quite funny. From Conan stuffing chicken wings in his pocket, to bringing out his "personal physician" to check on him, to chugging hot sauce at the end, he brought it.
The John Oliver one was good, as well.
So here's a totally random anecdote.
Summer of 1997. I had been accepted to law school that fall. I had a environmental science / geology degree I had just graduated with. So for a summer job I had a job with Manitoba Energy and Mines as a research assistant. We spent part of our time out in the field (which in northern Manitoba is in the absolute middle of fucking nowhere) but the rest of our time was in Thompson, Manitoba, which was a town of maybe 10k, also in the middle of nowhere.
But even living in Thompson, I lived in an RV which was out by the float-plane base out on the Thompson River. Just so you know I was hardly living in luxury.
So anyways - when we ere back in town I'd listen to the local radio - in Thompson I think there was only one. They were doing a call-in request show. I think this might be the only time in my life I was bored enough to call in to a request show. I requested the latest Depeche Mode song - "It's No Good". In part because I wanted to hear it, but in part just because I thought they wouldn't - this is northern Manitoba in the 1990s.
Anyways the radio host (who was probably no older than I was) was very excited for my request. She dug through whatever cassettes they had. On the air she was like "I found it! I found it!" And played my request for Depeche Mode to the people of Thompson Manitoba in 1997.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-QPvffO1gs
I'm not even saying it's a great song or anything (although I love DM). But it's something I'll always remember.
(but seriously if you're curious - look up Thompson Manitoba - then look up Island Lake, Manitoba where I did my field work - way the fuck in the middle of nowhere)
Quote from: Barrister on April 18, 2024, 11:47:12 PMSo here's a totally random anecdote.
Summer of 1997. I had been accepted to law school that fall. I had a environmental science / geology degree I had just graduated with. So for a summer job I had a job with Manitoba Energy and Mines as a research assistant. We spent part of our time out in the field (which in northern Manitoba is in the absolute middle of fucking nowhere) but the rest of our time was in Thompson, Manitoba, which was a town of maybe 10k, also in the middle of nowhere.
But even living in Thompson, I lived in an RV which was out by the float-plane base out on the Thompson River. Just so you know I was hardly living in luxury.
So anyways - when we ere back in town I'd listen to the local radio - in Thompson I think there was only one. They were doing a call-in request show. I think this might be the only time in my life I was bored enough to call in to a request show. I requested the latest Depeche Mode song - "It's No Good". In part because I wanted to hear it, but in part just because I thought they wouldn't - this is northern Manitoba in the 1990s.
Anyways the radio host (who was probably no older than I was) was very excited for my request. She dug through whatever cassettes they had. On the air she was like "I found it! I found it!" And played my request for Depeche Mode to the people of Thompson Manitoba in 1997.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-QPvffO1gs
I'm not even saying it's a great song or anything (although I love DM). But it's something I'll always remember.
(but seriously if you're curious - look up Thompson Manitoba - then look up Island Lake, Manitoba where I did my field work - way the fuck in the middle of nowhere)
By the way I only linked to the video to complete the story - I had forgotten how funny portraying Depeche Mode as a bunch of skeezy lounge singers was.
Song is still merely okay.
Quote from: Barrister on April 18, 2024, 11:47:12 PM(but seriously if you're curious - look up Thompson Manitoba - then look up Island Lake, Manitoba where I did my field work - way the fuck in the middle of nowhere)
It has a Tim Hortons, how remote can it be? :P
Doesn't The Hip have a song about Thompson?
Quote from: Tonitrus on April 19, 2024, 12:56:57 AMQuote from: Barrister on April 18, 2024, 11:47:12 PM(but seriously if you're curious - look up Thompson Manitoba - then look up Island Lake, Manitoba where I did my field work - way the fuck in the middle of nowhere)
It has a Tim Hortons, how remote can it be? :P
You underestimate Tim Hortons ubiquitousness :P
The only Tim hortons I know is pretty remote. None nearer to civilization round here :p
Cute Chinese girls being harmlessly pranked on stairs.
I liked this compare/contrast analysis video of the filmic styles of old vs new Trek:
Pretty Good Alert! Jon Bois with the first of three parts on the US Reform Party:
If you are unfamiliar with Join Bois it's all good, but I like the Bob Emergency:
and the 1904 Olympic Marathon:
This show didn't make it to Germany AFAIK (unlike, say, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Yes Minister, Whoops! Apocalypse ... ), but it might give some Brits here some pleasant nostalgia. :P
Dan Snow describes the portrayal of Napoleonic naval combat in
Master and Commander
Quote from: grumbler on May 03, 2024, 10:18:21 PMDan Snow describes the portrayal of Napoleonic naval combat in Master and Commander
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
I adore that movie.
Quote from: Barrister on May 03, 2024, 11:51:27 PMQuote from: grumbler on May 03, 2024, 10:18:21 PMDan Snow describes the portrayal of Napoleonic naval combat in Master and Commander
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
I adore that movie.
I've said it before and will say it again: the lack of sequels to that film is probably my biggest Hollywood disappointment.
But the box office rules, not cinematic excellence.
Oh wow, right in the nostalgias. A friend had all the Masters of the Universe toys when we were kids, and I recall us being excited about these new figures. :lol:
LEarn about the famous Vienna Sacher Torte:
I agree with the guy, though - it's fairly dry, and one of the reasons I'm not really into it.
Some really crappy Chinese propaganda on a channel named "The Military Update." There's lots more.
Quote from: Syt on June 03, 2024, 06:20:33 AMLEarn about the famous Vienna Sacher Torte:
I agree with the guy, though - it's fairly dry, and one of the reasons I'm not really into it.
German Chocolate is the king of chocolate cake varieties.
Is German chocolate cake even a thing in Germany? Or is it like French fries? :hmm:
It looks delicious, but Wiki says that it's names after Samuel German: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_chocolate_cake
And there's no German wiki page for it. :P
If I had to name a "typical" German cake, I'd opt for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest_gateau
(https://i.imgur.com/L9tto0n.png)
Quote from: Syt on June 04, 2024, 01:10:19 AMIt looks delicious, but Wiki says that it's names after Samuel German: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_chocolate_cake
And there's no German wiki page for it. :P
I am properly shamed in being ignorant of its etymology. :P
And Caesar salad is Mexican!
Presented for your consideration:
Quote from: Syt on June 04, 2024, 01:10:19 AMIt looks delicious, but Wiki says that it's names after Samuel German: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_chocolate_cake
And there's no German wiki page for it. :P
If I had to name a "typical" German cake, I'd opt for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest_gateau
(https://i.imgur.com/L9tto0n.png)
Cakes like this (although not necessarily this exact one, less fruit the better) are what I miss eating-wise the from Hungary.
Quote from: grumbler on June 04, 2024, 06:36:52 AMPresented for your consideration:
^_^
Loved the Southern Airways one esp. :D
:punk:
I'm only ten minutes in, but this is already my favorite version of the Phantom Menace.
I'm not normally a standup comedy afficionado, I thought this was pretty funny:
For military jet aficionados, here's a couple of Mooch Carrol vids:
I always love his schtick where he arbitrarily assigns numbers and then announces that (since there are numbers) "remember, this isn't opinion, it's SCIENCE!"
Man, I loved this show as a kid. One of those I wish could have had a longer run.
Might be of interest to some here: https://www.youtube.com/@An_Economist_Plays/videos
QuoteI've taught Macroeconomics for many years and am an avid simulation gamer, having designed a few military simulation games in my day. Now, I keep the action on my PC and enjoy the challenge of grand strategy games, particularly those involving deep economic thinking and choices.
New Indie Neidell channel: The Korean War.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheKoreanWarbyIndyNeidell/featured
One of these things the algorithm throws at you you weren't expecting, but wound up strangely enjoying:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6R_p4hsfk
Middle Aged Dad Jam Band featuring Weird Al covering Billy Joel's Scenes from an Italian Restaurant.
Middle Aged Dad Jam Band winds up being just that - a bunch of middle aged guys belting out classic songs in someone's garage. The lead singer is Ken Marino - a B actor you'll probably recognize but never really a star.
I came for the Weird Al content but really - he's just in the band playing the accordion. Which worked very well here.
It wasn't anything like super amazing, but just a well done cover of a Billy Joel song, very well produced, by a bunch of guys who are clearly having a lot of fun doing it. Also done super straight, for as cheesy as the song might otherwise be. It was fun.
That was nice. :)
This guy from Quebec has a few videos breaking down differences between historically accurate music and modern interpretations. E.g. "modern" medieval and bardcore vs. what actual medieval music sounded like (includes a brief comparison Quebec and Metropolitan French :P ), "oriental" music in western media vs the genuine article, or current "Viking" music (like Heilung or Wardruna) vs the actual stuff. He goes out of his way to stress he's not saying that the modern versions are better than the others, but that one shouldn't think tavern music in an MMORPG is "real" medieval music. Though he does rile a bit about soundtrack composers throwing together "Arabic" instruments that come from way different cultures, like mixing Armenian and Indian instruments with Arab vocals, saying it's like unironically using banjos with Dutch vocals as mood music for the Soviet Union. :D
Bit heavy on the music theory, maybe, but I found the videos quite informative. :)
And yes, he has a playlist of Byzantine music for your next CK/EU playthrough. :P
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMlRYqqqM5roJj62ySujDuXLgsoJ9vhMD
It seems interesting but I fear I'd have to know about the music he's talking about to really value it. I'm unfamiliar with this neo-x genre.
Quote from: Josquius on July 03, 2024, 05:03:49 AMIt seems interesting but I fear I'd have to know about the music he's talking about to really value it. I'm unfamiliar with this neo-x genre.
Then check his Orientalism video. Talks about how Western movies' and games' "desert music" vs the real thing.
Quite old, but I just ran across it again and wanted to share:
The "fluffy" reference is to his oft-stated line that "I'm not fat, I'm fluffy!"
Oddest internet sensation ever IMO. She's coming out with here own line of merch.
Interesting discussion on Joe Rogan about the difference between hotness and beauty. It's an old clip I think.
:mellow:
Afraid Yi is approaching Trump/Biden brain wave patterns...
sorry
We Didn't Start The Fire rethemed for middle ages/renaissance. :nerd:
Quote from: Syt on July 17, 2024, 11:58:19 AMWe Didn't Start The Fire rethemed for middle ages/renaissance. :nerd:
:lol: Sent this to the woman who took over teaching my AP Euro class.
Mike Bassett, England manager.
It is the full movie.
I would say it is one of the best satires from Britain. Old, though.
It's good. The follow up series was decent too.
A better satire not everyone has seen is three lions. Also entirely on YouTube I think.
"Wirrall Rubbish. I get it now, gaff"
Quote from: Syt on July 03, 2024, 05:17:24 AMQuote from: Josquius on July 03, 2024, 05:03:49 AMIt seems interesting but I fear I'd have to know about the music he's talking about to really value it. I'm unfamiliar with this neo-x genre.
Then check his Orientalism video. Talks about how Western movies' and games' "desert music" vs the real thing.
Fascinating videos - thanks for sharing.
So Syt, thanks again for sharing Farya's channel. The informational videos are excellent, but his historical music is phenomenal. I've been listening all evening.
Glad you enjoy it. :)
A fun little exploration of "fossil words." Don't click if you have a tooth phobia. :lol:
So, were speaping of accents...
What is this accent??
I know I'm not the only Frenchie out there struggling tp understand him. He speaks super fast, but there's something else.... what is it?
Sounds like a southerner trying not to sound southern.
My money on West Coast. NoCal, Wash, Oregon.
I am utterly fascinated by some bloke who seems to be taken right out of Metallica talking about overclocking CPUs.
Reminds me a bit of how Allen Xie from Generation Tech sounds:
No idea where in the US he is from, though. :P
All Star, in Latin.
QuoteOlim aliquis mi dixit,
fati rapturi sunt me,
non sum acutior gladius in harena.
Me reiciebat sine verbo,
statim pollice verso
putares Caesarem in spectaculo.
Anni veniunt et continuo veniunt,
mores stringunt sed non impediunt,
stultum non vivi ad delectandum
prudentior fio, at ineptus vocandus.
multa facienda, multa spectanda,
ergo semitae sunt non vitandae.
Non cognosces si non iveris,
Non lucebis, si non nitueris.
Hercle, tu es victor,
i et accipe palmam,
Hercle, es imperator,
i et accipe triumphum.
Omnia micantia aurum.
Caudata sidera devertunt mala tempora.
Frigidus locus et, aiunt, frigidior,
es vinctus, eo peius, quo adultior,
sed augures volunt differre:
aiunt unam hirundinem facere ver.
Ambulamus gelu tabescens,
Mare incaluit, vide me natantem.
Meus mundus fervet, qualis est tuus?
Mi placet et id numquam fastidiam!
Hercle, tu es victor,
i et accipe palmam,
Hercle, es imperator,
i et accipe triumphum.
Omnia micantia aurum.
Caudata sidera devertunt mala tempora.
Hercle, tu es victor,
i et accipe palmam,
Hercle, es imperator,
i et accipe triumphum.
Omnia micantia aurum.
Caudata sidera...
Olim aliquis caballum
petivit qui esset firmum.
"Ipse valde volo fugere hinc."
Dixi "Ego quoque!
Volo firmum caballum ipse."
Animum et caelum muta, age!
Anni veniunt et continuo veniunt,
mores stringunt sed non impediunt,
stultum non vivi ad delectandum
prudentior fio, at ineptus vocandus.
multa facienda, multa spectanda,
ergo semitae sunt non vitandae.
Non cognosces si non iveris,
Non lucebis, si non nitueris.
Hercle, tu es victor,
i et accipe palmam,
Hercle, es imperator,
i et accipe triumphum.
Omnia micantia aurum.
Caudata sidera devertunt mala tempora.
Also, Linkin Park:
Quote(initium est) una res, qua de causa ignoro,
nihil interest quam enixe conor,
tecum recoli, oro, versibus laboro
ut doceam sine mora (quaequae scio.)
Aetaem, caram rem illam,
specto volantem dum acqua destillat,
specto numerantem retro ad finem diei,
acqua stillat vitam, (non est verum.)
non aspexi subter,
a fenestra specto aetatem euntem,
conans tenere, ne scivi quidem
me omnia perdidisse (ut abeas.)
Tenui omnia meo corde,
tametsi conatus, omnia perdidi.
Id quantum valui memoria erit
praeteriti temporis cum
[rit.] enixe conatus et feliciter gessi
sed extremo nihil interest,
mi perendum ut omnia perdam
sed extremo nihil interest
una res, qua de causa ignoro,
nihil interest quam enixe conor,
tecum recoli, oro, versibus laboro
ut me doceam enixe (conatum.)
Tamenetsi tunc me irridebat,
agens ut eram tua res privata,
si cogito quantum pugnavissemus,
miror quod bene (gestum sit.)
Omnia omnino mutata sint,
iam me ipsum non agnoveris,
ne tunc quidem me noscebas
sed omnia perduntur (extremo.)
Tenuisti omnia corde,
tametsi conatus, omnia perdidi.
Id quantum valui memoria erit
praeteriti temporis cum
[rit.] enixe conatus et feliciter gessi
sed extremo nihil interest,
mi perendum ut omnia perdam
sed extremo nihil interest
Confisus sum tibi,
quam enixe conatus,
toto huic
solum hoc tibi sciendum est [x2]
Two days into Belgium... very much in line with our Languish roots.
My boy shared this with me. I think he'll be playing some of our games not too long from now :wub:
Quote from: Jacob on July 31, 2024, 11:50:17 PMTwo days into Belgium... very much in line with our Languish roots.
(snip)
My boy shared this with me. I think he'll be playing some of our games not too long from now :wub:
Great little song, and Ima steal it for an AP European History class.
I thought we collectively agreed Belgium does not exist years ago? :cry:
A fairly strong line-up as a backing band for Roy Orbison there, I'd say.
Cynical Historian is not a fan of Ridley Scott's Napoleon:
(First 25 minutes are recap of Nap's life, so skip if you're familiar.)
Quote from: grumbler on August 01, 2024, 07:16:37 AMQuote from: Jacob on July 31, 2024, 11:50:17 PMTwo days into Belgium... very much in line with our Languish roots.
(snip)
My boy shared this with me. I think he'll be playing some of our games not too long from now :wub:
Great little song, and Ima steal it for an AP European History class.
:cheers:
Turns out it's a cover/spin-off of a viral hit called "Two Days Into College" which is honestly also quite good (but different vibe, obviously).
Quote from: Syt on August 08, 2024, 12:20:29 PMCynical Historian is not a fan of Ridley Scott's Napoleon:
(First 25 minutes are recap of Nap's life, so skip if you're familiar.)
Accurate. But quoting Andrew Roberts taints it.
Admittedly from April last year, but interesting interview with Indie Neidell and how he ended up in Sweden.
Found an old BBC series called, "Sapphire and Steel". I'm enjoying it. Dark fantasy, creepy minimalist staging and few characters in each series.
OMG, as an 80s LEGO kid, those computers were just about the most precious things. :wub: :nerd:
(And yes, I also "painted" my own, but less elegantly - mostly it involved permanent markers :lol: )
Example from one of the sets I used to have:
(https://i.imgur.com/4WBBp2Z.png)
The surprisingly interesting history of punctuation :bowler:
Another interesting (I hope) etymology recommendation. This time about the origin of animal names in English. Spoiler for one, we don't know where the word dog comes from.
Quote from: HVC on August 17, 2024, 10:35:48 AMThe surprisingly interesting history of punctuation :bowler:
Popped up in my feed too, as his work does regularly. Was great
Quote from: Crazy_Ivan80 on August 21, 2024, 04:35:01 AMPopped up in my feed too, as his work does regularly. Was great
Algorithm also showed me the channel a week ago, but I find it a very interesting one.
Josh Strife Hayes looking at King's Field 1994 (which was not released outside Japan), the first FromSoftware game. A focus of the video is how many of their typical design that would live on in Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Elden Ring is already present here in some form.
So 8+ years ago there was this guy on YouTube who did video game music covers a capella, with himself. An old video randomly showed up in my feed, so I checked if he was still going ... turns out he is (or was, 8 months ago :D ).
:nerd:
That reminded me of the Floppotron, a musical project which did covers of classic songs just using floppy disk drives, hard disk drives and scanners as instruments. Sadly the channel hasn't been in over a year, though appropriately enough the last song on the channel is the Final Countdown.
:thumbsup:
How jazz improvisation works. Much simpler than I thought.
The best reinterpretation of Star Wars movies continues.
Hard to believe that it's been already 35 years since Warsaw Pact and NATO clashed in Europe and the Pacific North West.
Best looking game ever - a (brief) look at some of the "best looking" games and how it evolved over time (making omissions by necessity).
Goes to show again how far ahead Crysis was (and in some ways still is - like the destructive environments. Too bad the second half of the game goes from semi-realistic near-future military shooter to an alien invasion shooter).
Heh. That one was thrown at me yesterday too.
It is curious how processors stopped getting faster for a long while and only now are jumping again to 8 cores. Or was there some improvement in professor busses or something.
Increases in speed are partially hidden, as the bloated resource leak ridden OS and browsers will expand with eveyr incremental performance increase. :bowler:
A video by People Make Games (by the guy of Shut Up and Sit Down boardgames channel) about the resurgence of Wargames, and their visit to the UK's DSTL (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/defence-science-and-technology-laboratory/about).
I was hoping for a more technical video; it's however primarily looking at the ethical side of this (games that help kill people?), which ... I mean, yeah, worth looking at, and while the presenter tries to be balanced (i.e. wargames as tool to avoid conflict/be prepared for crises, their use in non-military and NGO environments etc.), but he always comes back to it being ethically problematic. Which I assume a lot of people here (including me) don't have as much of an issue with. Yes, playing a scenario as Peiper, set a few days after his unit killed hundreds of civilians in Ukraine has a bit of a bitter taste. Or playing Russia in, well, anything these days. :P
But him standing in front of a projected screen of an air battle over England in the military version of Command: Modern Operations, or scenarios set in England in Flashpoint Campaigns: Southern Front or Combat Mission and feeling uncomfortable about such simulations is a bit unfamiliar to most of us, I guess? :D Which more raises the question: which is the more common/humane response? Are we desensitized to simulating bombing raids on our hometowns? :P
If he is appalled that people enjoy violent entertainment...then I would guess he has only been introduced to humans for the first time. Welcome to earth alien man.
If he is appalled by simulations being used by the actual military for training purposes then...I can only assume he is an alien who has only been introduced to humans for the first time.
His vibe is more like, "Our lovely gaming hobby is used ... by ... the military!!!" Again, he tries to be balanced, but it feels like he's been quite sheltered.
Quote from: Syt on September 06, 2024, 08:23:11 AMHis vibe is more like, "Our lovely gaming hobby is used ... by ... the military!!!" Again, he tries to be balanced, but it feels like he's been quite sheltered.
Well the military has been using gaming for training purposes since the Kingdom of Prussia was a thing. Hell, if anything we are using the military's hobby.
Quote from: Valmy on September 06, 2024, 08:44:55 AMQuote from: Syt on September 06, 2024, 08:23:11 AMHis vibe is more like, "Our lovely gaming hobby is used ... by ... the military!!!" Again, he tries to be balanced, but it feels like he's been quite sheltered.
Well the military has been using gaming for training purposes since the Kingdom of Prussia was a thing. Hell, if anything we are using the military's hobby.
Oh, he covers that, and some of the evolution into Chainmail and D&D etc.
I don't think that Quinto Smith quite understand what military training is, because he keeps insisting that training aids are weapons, not training aids. Training aids don't kill people (unless something goes horribly wrong in the training) and what he is talking about here is training that replaces some manual with a simulation. And sometimes not even that, just replacing a manual with an interactive manual.
I guess that some people who design or review wargames are just desperate for some philosophical approach that makes their work seem edgy.
Quote from: Jacob on September 13, 2024, 07:19:09 PM
The only thing better-tuned to bait clicks than "Stupid Americans never heard of this!" is "this (evolutionary) thing was revolutionary!"
It looks cool and seems to be artistically ahead of its time, but it isn't the first graphic novel. And tons of people around the world, not just some Americans, haven't heard of it.
I admit the title is click baity :(
My main reason for sharing it is that I love Corto Maltese and that Hugo Pratt's early life (which I didn't know about) is pretty damn interesting.
I don't have a strong opinion about what the first "graphic novel" is, but I'm still curious to hear what you think it is (since it's not Corto Maltese).
Quote from: Jacob on September 13, 2024, 09:50:09 PMI admit the title is click baity :(
My main reason for sharing it is that I love Corto Maltese and that Hugo Pratt's early life (which I didn't know about) is pretty damn interesting.
I don't have a strong opinion about what the first "graphic novel" is, but I'm still curious to hear what you think it is (since it's not Corto Maltese).
I don't know about which was the first one, but there was a graphic novel published in the early 19th C in Switzerland, which was then pirated by French, British, and American publishers.
I agree with you that the vid's dissuasion of Hugo Pratt's early life and how it impacted his decisions on characters and plots was interesting.
8 charts that will change the way you perceive dating. I found this eye opening.
Tristan Hughes from The Ancients podcasts (which I think some of us here listen to) looking at some of the best and worst depictions of Rome in movies and TV.
Worst moment: "Ah, David Tennant, Doctor Who. A long time ago, I remember watching this when I was growing up." :cry: (The episode aired 16 years ago.)
Quote from: Syt on September 03, 2024, 12:52:33 AMBest looking game ever - a (brief) look at some of the "best looking" games and how it evolved over time (making omissions by necessity).
[youtube]rTOE
Goes to show again how far ahead Crysis was (and in some ways still is - like the destructive environments. Too bad the second half of the game goes from semi-realistic near-future military shooter to an alien invasion shooter).
I've been thinking about this for some reason. The 2000s trend for destructive environments and everything being interactive- Shenmue is a stand out one, being able to touch basically everything in the Ryo's house. Even racing games of the time tended to allow damage far more than today.
Its really weird we veered away from this. I wonder why developers did so. That's a topic that deserves more coverage.
Quote from: Josquius on September 17, 2024, 04:34:46 AMQuote from: Syt on September 03, 2024, 12:52:33 AMBest looking game ever - a (brief) look at some of the "best looking" games and how it evolved over time (making omissions by necessity).
[youtube]rTOE
Goes to show again how far ahead Crysis was (and in some ways still is - like the destructive environments. Too bad the second half of the game goes from semi-realistic near-future military shooter to an alien invasion shooter).
I've been thinking about this for some reason. The 2000s trend for destructive environments and everything being interactive- Shenmue is a stand out one, being able to touch basically everything in the Ryo's house. Even racing games of the time tended to allow damage far more than today.
Its really weird we veered away from this. I wonder why developers did so. That's a topic that deserves more coverage.
Feels like a lot of effort for marginal gains.
That's what I'm guessing. Unless you can implement it very easily with minimum fuzz or it has significant gameplay impact there's likely little reason to spend resources on it.
Plus, fully breakable environments can be a headache for level designers - what's the point of crafting a cool setpiece when the player can just completely obliterate the level geometry and bypass/break your carefully scripted events?
A clip from The Green Book in which they bleeped out the black character saying negro.
A fascinating story that will teach you much about how the USSR operated under Stalin.
Quote from: Syt on September 17, 2024, 04:50:40 AMThat's what I'm guessing. Unless you can implement it very easily with minimum fuzz or it has significant gameplay impact there's likely little reason to spend resources on it.
I'm not sure it is so much work though?
Objects are generally independently created models. To make it so these aren't permanently stuck in place but rather can be moved.... Doesn't sound like such a huge programming challenge- the issues perhaps more in system load of tracking where they all are.
QuotePlus, fully breakable environments can be a headache for level designers - what's the point of crafting a cool setpiece when the player can just completely obliterate the level geometry and bypass/break your carefully scripted events?
Yes.
This is far more the reason I fear. Level designers want to carefully craft their entertainment corridors. They want to create interactive movies. They aren't keen on giving players genuine choice and the opportunity to improvise.
Quote from: Josquius on September 18, 2024, 02:53:16 AMQuote from: Syt on September 17, 2024, 04:50:40 AMThat's what I'm guessing. Unless you can implement it very easily with minimum fuzz or it has significant gameplay impact there's likely little reason to spend resources on it.
I'm not sure it is so much work though?
Objects are generally independently created models. To make it so these aren't permanently stuck in place but rather can be moved.... Doesn't sound like such a huge programming challenge- the issues perhaps more in system load of tracking where they all are.
I don't know the technical details but lets assume what you've put out that trivially easy to have objects able to move about. 1) I think they'd still need to have more effort put in as you could see them now from all angles so all angles would need to look good. 2) There would need to be meaningful things to do with all these objects that can move about otherwise it'd just be frustrating to players. Only so many times you want to smash everything to bits vs. try to use these moveable objects in some fashion.
Quote from: Josquius on September 18, 2024, 02:53:16 AMQuotePlus, fully breakable environments can be a headache for level designers - what's the point of crafting a cool setpiece when the player can just completely obliterate the level geometry and bypass/break your carefully scripted events?
Yes.
This is far more the reason I fear. Level designers want to carefully craft their entertainment corridors. They want to create interactive movies. They aren't keen on giving players genuine choice and the opportunity to improvise.
We've seen what happens when they don't focus on narrative choices. We end up with what a lot of time is spent with in Ubisoft games, doing a whole lot of busy tasks / a whole lot of nothing.
Also, do recall that all of this is done not as pure art but as a business. Unless there are signs that players enjoy games more when they can interact with everything, why bother?
I dunno, fully destrcutable environments have their drawbacks. I remember an old build of Starbound (Terraria in space) and getting excited about a dungeon/bunker I found. Only to realize I could bypass the traps and deadly enemies by digging around it and into the vault, because destructable everything. Which made it a bit boring.
Quote from: garbon on September 18, 2024, 03:09:14 AMI don't know the technical details but lets assume what you've put out that trivially easy to have objects able to move about. 1) I think they'd still need to have more effort put in as you could see them now from all angles so all angles would need to look good. 2) There would need to be meaningful things to do with all these objects that can move about otherwise it'd just be frustrating to players. Only so many times you want to smash everything to bits vs. try to use these moveable objects in some fashion.
They're 3D models. Unless an object is complex and definitely only ever going to be visible from one side and they know that from the start they're usually complete.
And I don't know. Useful objects would certainly be good. But even just seeing a shoot out in a shop with things flying off shelves, trees being hacked to bits in the forest, etc... would add to the atmosphere- and as I write I realise as well as doing something with an object there's also doing something with the absence of an object to consider.
QuoteWe've seen what happens when they don't focus on narrative choices. We end up with what a lot of time is spent with in Ubisoft games, doing a whole lot of busy tasks / a whole lot of nothing.
Or Deus Ex. A masterpiece with myriad ways to solve problems.
Or classic Fallout or to a lesser extent Bethesda games (they suffer from trying to offer full interactivity in a giant world)
QuoteAlso, do recall that all of this is done not as pure art but as a business. Unless there are signs that players enjoy games more when they can interact with everything, why bother?
Art and creating a good game is part of it. Though YMMV depending on the developer.
Certainly I expect this is key to the reason.
Quote from: Josquius on September 18, 2024, 03:19:40 AMQuote from: garbon on September 18, 2024, 03:09:14 AMI don't know the technical details but lets assume what you've put out that trivially easy to have objects able to move about. 1) I think they'd still need to have more effort put in as you could see them now from all angles so all angles would need to look good. 2) There would need to be meaningful things to do with all these objects that can move about otherwise it'd just be frustrating to players. Only so many times you want to smash everything to bits vs. try to use these moveable objects in some fashion.
They're 3D models. Unless an object is complex and definitely only ever going to be visible from one side and they know that from the start they're usually complete.
Again I don't know the technical aspects but intuitively what you've described seems...wasteful? I get that the 3d model would exist but I don't see why they would put in as much detail on sides that aren't intended to be shown. Similar to say one sided staging in a play.
Quote from: Josquius on September 18, 2024, 03:19:40 AMAnd I don't know. Useful objects would certainly be good. But even just seeing a shoot out in a shop with things flying off shelves, trees being hacked to bits in the forest, etc... would add to the atmosphere- and as I write I realise as well as doing something with an object there's also doing something with the absence of an object to consider.
But surely that would require more work. Let's take your tree object. They could be setting up each static tree object with all its individual components modeled as separate objects (leaves, branches, trunk, bark, roots, etc.) or it could just be one object that is the tree. No need for each individual object as individual piece with its own physics if you aren't planning to have every part move / break apart.
Haven't gotten into Total War: Warhammer III (which after initial backlash and Creative Assembly trying to make amends with their fans seems to turn around in reception?), but this video showed up in my YouTube feed.
It's typical faction guide and what to look out for when playing dwarves. Except the creator, "Blake's Takes" has the tone and diction of a BBC public awareness campaign. :lol:
Long, but I found it interesting.
The host has an annoying voice which I've just learned isn't something he puts on for comedic effect.
But the woman being interviewed has a lot of good insights into the modern anglosphere far right.
Also, irrelevant, but she's cute and looks like she's 23 but is actually 40 :blink:
Russia paid American youtubers. Jimmy Johnson is someone I've seen a lot.
Ceave always presents an enjoyable angle on video games and gaming, but I particularly enjoyed his latest one on 3-D platformers. A genre I don't even play.
8 hardest positions in sports (America centric).
What has been dubbed "most myterious song on the internet" has been found and identified, and reunited its band.
Long story short: in the 1980s, a guy in Germany recorded music off North German radio station NDR. Over the years he labeled all songs ... except one.
In 2007, his sister turns to the internet for help. What follows is years of investigations, research etc., trying to figure out who the band was.
Here's the happy ending, after 17 years of internet mystery:
(Incidentally, the song comes from Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein - it seems very North German to be at the center of such a thing and not even be aware of it :D )
German article on NDR: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/schleswig-holstein/FEX-spielt-The-Most-Mysterious-Song-on-the-Internet-nach-40-Jahren,mostmysterioussong100.html
For those interested, here's Whang's other videos about it which give a bit of a summary of the past few years:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU_4_X2epTdAEwEqk-a7Uxt_M-rJJu4V7
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subways_of_Your_Mind
Quote from: Syt on September 06, 2024, 06:52:41 AMI was hoping for a more technical video; it's however primarily looking at the ethical side of this (games that help kill people?), which ... I mean, yeah, worth looking at, and while the presenter tries to be balanced (i.e. wargames as tool to avoid conflict/be prepared for crises, their use in non-military and NGO environments etc.), but he always comes back to it being ethically problematic.
I was thinking about this in connection with some of the recent EU5 dev diaries.
Slavery is modeled in Victoria 3 but in the context of the gameplay itself it is almost always a bad thing, and there is strong incentives to change the law ASAP. So the player never faces a conflict between optimal play and doing the "right" thing.
It seems like EU5 will be quite different in that respect, and that there will be economic benefits that accrue from slave plantation-based production and the slave trade itself. Which may be historically accurate but which I think does raise ehtical issues. Games - especially Paradox style historical map games - do have a pedagogical function, whether intentioned or not, and their audience includes young people. I do think there is a potential problem with a game design where participating in the slave trade may be optimal gameplay without some kind of contextualization within the game itself.
Paradox has a game in which the Nazis can conquer the world, complete with gratuitous art which celebrates that outcome. I am not sure they are spending much in the way of resources to contextualize the slave trade.
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 14, 2024, 05:08:48 PMParadox has a game in which the Nazis can conquer the world, complete with gratuitous art which celebrates that outcome. I am not sure they are spending much in the way of resources to contextualize the slave trade.
But explicitly excludes the holocaust, concentration camps and (IIRC) slave labor or e.g. the more vile actions of the Japanese (biological warfare against the Chinese, Unit 751, "Comfort Women", etc.).
Which is something you see in most wargames.
I'm sure nobody but middle aged folks on Twitter find Minions funny any more. But this ... this made me chuckle.
Quote from: Syt on November 15, 2024, 05:57:19 AMI'm sure nobody but middle aged folks on Twitter find Minions funny any more. But this ... this made me chuckle.
:lmfao:
Quote from: Syt on November 11, 2024, 04:19:31 AMWhat has been dubbed "most myterious song on the internet" has been found and identified, and reunited its band.
Long story short: in the 1980s, a guy in Germany recorded music off North German radio station NDR. Over the years he labeled all songs ... except one.
In 2007, his sister turns to the internet for help. What follows is years of investigations, research etc., trying to figure out who the band was.
Here's the happy ending, after 17 years of internet mystery:
(Incidentally, the song comes from Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein - it seems very North German to be at the center of such a thing and not even be aware of it :D )
German article on NDR: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/schleswig-holstein/FEX-spielt-The-Most-Mysterious-Song-on-the-Internet-nach-40-Jahren,mostmysterioussong100.html
For those interested, here's Whang's other videos about it which give a bit of a summary of the past few years:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU_4_X2epTdAEwEqk-a7Uxt_M-rJJu4V7
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subways_of_Your_Mind
They solved it? :o
This is huge.
Quote from: Syt on November 14, 2024, 11:27:25 PMQuote from: crazy canuck on November 14, 2024, 05:08:48 PMParadox has a game in which the Nazis can conquer the world, complete with gratuitous art which celebrates that outcome. I am not sure they are spending much in the way of resources to contextualize the slave trade.
But explicitly excludes the holocaust, concentration camps and (IIRC) slave labor or e.g. the more vile actions of the Japanese (biological warfare against the Chinese, Unit 751, "Comfort Women", etc.).
Which is something you see in most wargames.
OK but everything I said in my post is still accurate.
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 15, 2024, 08:07:12 AMOK but everything I said in my post is still accurate.
Yes and maybe the distinction is too fine, but I do think there is a difference between leading the electronic troops to simulated victory that have the swastika flag on their icons vs. actually assigning Einsatzgruppe battalions to murder Jews and Slavs.
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 15, 2024, 09:41:55 AMQuote from: crazy canuck on November 15, 2024, 08:07:12 AMOK but everything I said in my post is still accurate.
Yes and maybe the distinction is too fine, but I do think there is a difference between leading the electronic troops to simulated victory that have the swastika flag on their icons vs. actually assigning Einsatzgruppe battalions to murder Jews and Slavs.
Certainly, but I was responding to your post being concerned about the pedagogical effect of a game, modelling slavery in a way that made it seem that it was the most economically beneficial option.
my point is simply that there is already a game that promotes the proposition that it's most beneficial for a fascist regime to rule the world. They just released a whole DLC to make that fantasy come true.
I think it's more complicated. I think there's a qualitative difference between a game making slavery the optimal way of playing, while HoI makes almost no ethical judgment calls as to its politics, I think. Fascism or Communism or Democracy are just gameplay concepts without really going into its implications for the people living in those societies and policies that affect them. Unlike, say, Vic3 where racial segregation, slavery, nationalist superioty etc. affect the pops in various ways (to be fleshed out more with next DLC). HoI meanwhile leans in on the "cool" factor, and the "clean" military side of things without dealing with the "problematic" parts of e.g. Nazi ideology.
Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa, or Cauldrons of War: Barbarossa make some attempt of addressing this by giving you decisions - want to enact the Komissarbefehl? Want to discipline a unit that in a drunken rage killed hundreds of Jews? Do you want to treat your prisoners humanely? Sure, these are pretty basic choices, and the affects are necessarily abstract, but that those games even bring up these questions at all is notable, because it's rarely made a topic in games around WW2.
EDIT: Also, without mods, HoI (and many wargames) doesn't even have swastikas. :P
I haven't played around with HOI since HOI2, but as I seem to recall the game makes absolutely zero reference or mention of the holocaust or concentration camps, even though most historians think the resources diverted to the camps made a noticeable difference in the German war effort.
These are tough questions though. You can certainly imagine a game that includes the Holocaust and having sntisemitic edgelords competing to see how many Jews they can murder before the end of the game, as one example.
Or very specifically not to compare the two, but the US military was still segregated during WWII. Should the game try to model segregation in the US, and what would or would not happen if the military was desegregated in the middle of war?
Putting aside the morals of it. It'd be a curious one to handle.
It's a pretty basic level "what if", the whole "what if Hitler wasn't a genocidal anti semitic moron".
The basic answer is... If he wasn't like that he'd not have took all the gambles he did and gotten into the position where it really became a problem.
Pretty easy for a gamer to say ok, so I won't be anti semitic, I'll keep the nuclear scientists and the manpower.... But what then? The "Hitler" character revolts against them? Unrest in Germany for lack of a easy scapegoat? - maybe this could be the way it goes, pick your scapegoat, some groups cause less material loss but they're less "satisfying" for the masses, don't secure your regime as much.
It's hard to imagine how it could be done right even before you get to the morality of it being awful.
Quote from: Syt on November 15, 2024, 05:57:19 AMI'm sure nobody but middle aged folks on Twitter find Minions funny any more. But this ... this made me chuckle.
Heheh, that was worth the time.
Nice find
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 15, 2024, 10:08:59 AMQuote from: The Minsky Moment on November 15, 2024, 09:41:55 AMQuote from: crazy canuck on November 15, 2024, 08:07:12 AMOK but everything I said in my post is still accurate.
Yes and maybe the distinction is too fine, but I do think there is a difference between leading the electronic troops to simulated victory that have the swastika flag on their icons vs. actually assigning Einsatzgruppe battalions to murder Jews and Slavs.
Certainly, but I was responding to your post being concerned about the pedagogical effect of a game, modelling slavery in a way that made it seem that it was the most economically beneficial option.
my point is simply that there is already a game that promotes the proposition that it's most beneficial for a fascist regime to rule the world. They just released a whole DLC to make that fantasy come true.
That's a novel take on the American elections....
Quote from: Crazy_Ivan80 on November 15, 2024, 01:51:37 PMNice find
The channel is quite good. I especially recommend Frank Reynolds from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia in BG3 and Rambo in Half Life 2 (I may have posted them somewhere further up).
Quote from: Crazy_Ivan80 on November 15, 2024, 01:53:04 PMQuote from: crazy canuck on November 15, 2024, 10:08:59 AMQuote from: The Minsky Moment on November 15, 2024, 09:41:55 AMQuote from: crazy canuck on November 15, 2024, 08:07:12 AMOK but everything I said in my post is still accurate.
Yes and maybe the distinction is too fine, but I do think there is a difference between leading the electronic troops to simulated victory that have the swastika flag on their icons vs. actually assigning Einsatzgruppe battalions to murder Jews and Slavs.
Certainly, but I was responding to your post being concerned about the pedagogical effect of a game, modelling slavery in a way that made it seem that it was the most economically beneficial option.
my point is simply that there is already a game that promotes the proposition that it's most beneficial for a fascist regime to rule the world. They just released a whole DLC to make that fantasy come true.
That's a novel take on the American elections....
You're right, but we were discussing Minsky's post about EU5
Syt, Isn't the fact that there is no moral judgement made about whether one plays the Soviets, the Nazis or the Allies the very problem with the game. The symbolism may not be there, but the game is certainly a vehicle for Nazi fanboys to play out their fantasies.
Quote from: Syt on November 15, 2024, 02:17:57 PMQuote from: Crazy_Ivan80 on November 15, 2024, 01:51:37 PMNice find
The channel is quite good. I especially recommend Frank Reynolds from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia in BG3 and Rambo in Half Life 2 (I may have posted them somewhere further up).
Thanks for the steer. There's a lot of good stuff there.
Two part documentary from History Hit (ignore the click bait titles):
QuoteOn 22 June 1941, Hitler's Germany launched 'Operation Barbarossa', the attack of the Soviet Union, the largest invasion in military history. In June 2019, twelve dusty notebooks and a wealth of loose paperwork were discovered in Germany; the diaries of Oberleutnant Wilhelm Sander, a young officer in the 11th Panzer-Regiment who took part in the enormous campaign. On every single day Sander, in a brutally honest manner, elaborately recorded his experiences, impressions and the events he witnessed.
Now transcribed and translated for the first time, they offer a brutally honest, intimate and fascinating view into the murderous and unforgiving nature of war on the Eastern Front from the summer of 1941 to the eventual German retreat in the terrible winter of 1941/1942, while offering a unique glimpse into the world of thought of a highly politicised officer of the German Wehrmacht and member of the NSDAP.
Follow the path of Leutnant Friedrich Sander, a Panzer officer in the German Wehrmacht during Operation Barbarossa, the attack on the Soviet Union.
In the first part of a two-part film, we follow Leutnant Sander on the strenuous, and costly race towards Leningrad and learn about the murderous and terrifying goals of the German campaign in the east.
Part Two, we pick up with Sander as the Russian weather starts to turns, the German advance begins to stutter and the Soviets prepare for their enormous counter attack.
The brutal reality of the Eastern Front during World War II is exposed through his lost German diaries. The speaker recounts firsthand experiences of the difficulties faced in the harsh conditions of the war. The Russian army was tough and the Germans struggled to advance and capture Moscow. The speaker also describes the violence and brutality directed towards civilian populations in areas where the Germans retreated, which even shook the dedicated National Socialist soldiers. The war was a traumatic experience, reflected upon by the speaker who has become a pacifist as a result.
From 1981: Bernie Sanders, the Newly elected mayor of Burlington, VT talking to Phil Donahue:
Bernie has looked 75 years old his entire life.
the bbc archive on youtube was quick a lot of videos of Fred Dibnah the steeplejack:
You could hang quite a bit of British industrial and social history onto his life story.
The Amazon used to flow backwards
I was talking with my 11 year old on his way to taekwon do at first about the most popular songs of all time. We mentioned Elvis, to Michael Jackson, to Taylor Swift, to The Beatles.
But then it switched to the biggest videos on Youtube of all time.
I suggested it would be Gagnam Style.
My kid thought it would be Never Going to Give you Up (aka Rick Roll). I thought it was hilarious he'd know what a Rick Roll was because I distinctly remember that being a mid-2000s thing, nicely before he was even born.
So I searched it up.
Rick Astley didn't even make the top list that I could see.
Psy - Gagnam Style wasn't a bad guess - it was #10 (with over 5 billion views).
But the number one most watched video on Youtube? Baby Shark. :bleeding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w&list=PLirAqAtl_h2r5g8xGajEwdXd3x1sZh8hC&index=1
(over 15 billion views)
Makes sense. Youtube Kids is pretty huge.
A downtown Montreal building blasts Baby shark 24/7 to keep homeless people away. Maybe they're just streaming the youtube video.
Ignore the preview image. Not that well known Mitchell and Webb vid at all.
An hour long but I found this quite interesting. An apparently popular youtuber I've not ran into before but who was very much down that edge lord anti-woke obsessive rabbit hole explaining why he has nothing to do with that nonsense anymore.
There's a bit in the middle where he talks about what if Terminator 2 and Aliens had been released today....yep.
Male elephant seals fighting for dominance. 4 tons of blubber and testosterone duking it out will never stop being both majestic and funny at the same time. :lol:
Quote from: Legbiter on December 06, 2024, 03:46:58 PMMale elephant seals fighting for dominance. 4 tons of blubber and testosterone duking it out will never stop being both majestic and funny at the same time. :lol:
:cool:
Your equivalent of the garden birds?
A rather interesting take on Saudi Arabia from a travel channel that normally shies away from the political stuff.
Quote from: PJL on December 29, 2024, 02:27:37 PMA rather interesting take on Saudi Arabia from a travel channel that normally shies away from the political stuff.
So absolutely no money changed hands, good to know.
Now THIS is how you make a clickbait title. :lol:
"The Neo-Victorian Neo-N*zi Lesbian BDSM Cult That Made Video Games"
(Actually an interesting story, though)
I've been enjoying this guy's videos lately. Educated analysis of topics around sci-fi and fantasy series.
Been on a "The Rest is History" binge over the holidays. Not sure how I never listened to it before. :blush:
Since we had a bit of a wrestling chat here the other day - Kim Justice just released a video of their 50 favorite (North American) finishing moves. Some classics in there. :)
I also like Kim's other channel, focused on retro games retrospectives/video essays: https://www.youtube.com/kimblejustice
In preparation for the incoming meme based administration I've been watching Folding Ideas.
"They're sitting around a blackjack table convincing each other that there's a secret rule, that if you hit 31 then the dealer has to give you their entire tray. So hit me, hit me, hit me, hit me."
Anyone remember this one? :P
Quote from: Syt on January 11, 2025, 11:37:42 PMAnyone remember this one? :P
Very well, really.
It was slightly better than the first Crusader Kings. :secret:
Quote from: Josquius on January 07, 2025, 06:47:22 AM
I've been enjoying this guy's videos lately. Educated analysis of topics around sci-fi and fantasy series.
We had a good discussion about the shortcomings of the show in the book thread a while back. I think this video nailed the core problem. But, I saw the show before reading the books, and enjoyed it for its own merits. In hindsight I should have waited to read the books until after the show ended its run, but I think the show has moved so far away from the books now that I can still enjoy it on its own merits.
Quote from: Syt on November 15, 2024, 05:57:19 AMI'm sure nobody but middle aged folks on Twitter find Minions funny any more. But this ... this made me chuckle.
Middle-aged? You mean like us?
The true dark story behind Family Matters
I love that video. I like the When the Party Won't Stop But you Wish It WOuld one as well.
They do have great skits.
Insomnia watching does some funky things to your algorithm. While I'm in no way a basketball guy I found this interview of Larry bird by Thierry Henry a good watch.
This popped up in my feeds, and I've been binging these. I found them fun and hilarious, though I assume YMMV. :P
Essentially, comedians doing table reads (and light improv) of the scripts for Star Wars Episodes I-III (which means it includes cut scenes, slightly different dialogues etc.).
Ep. I was good, Ep. II was great, Ep. III was fine IMHO. Performers include Tawny Newsome (Padme Ep. I), Haley Joel Osment (Anakin Ep. I-III, absolutely killing it), Jess McKenna (Padme Ep. II, excellent), Tony Hale (Qui-Gon Jinn), Eric Bauza (Jar Jar and others, often slipping into his Looney Tunes voices), Seth Green (Ct. Dooku Ep. II), Paul F. Tompkins (Palpatine Ep. III) or Matt Jones (Gen. Grievous). Debra Wilson was amazing as Mace Windu in Ep. II.
They're going to do more of these, moving to Holiday Special and Original Trilogy next.
The title of the third installment has aged poorly, though. :ph34r:
Already posted the first two, and I agree the third is just fine. The extended fight scene at the climax was cute but completely unnecessary.
Quote from: frunk on June 07, 2024, 09:08:50 PMI'm only ten minutes in, but this is already my favorite version of the Phantom Menace.
Quote from: frunk on August 30, 2024, 08:37:24 PMThe best reinterpretation of Star Wars movies continues.
The George Lucas Talk Show itself can also be worth checking out, but there's a lot of episodes and the zoom based episodes run for many many hours.
Some of my favorites:
Jack Quaid, Tawney Newsome and H. Jon Benjamin
Amy Irving, Andrew Barth Feldman and Michael Urie
Here's an excerpt from a much longer episode, where Paul F. Tompkins calls people to say your welcome for being thanked in end credits.
and Weird Al Yankovic at MC Escher's death.
Although any episodes with D'arcy Carden, Rachel Zegler or Rich Sommer are worth watching.
Thanks, will check them out. :) (Though I'm already following way too many weekly podcasts etc. :D )
This one showed up in my feed. A German guy looking at Gothic 2, contrasting it with Skyrim (he likes both games :P ) and how Skyrim is all about empowering you and being a power fantasy, Gothic 2 is much more concerned with social standing and hierarchies (esp. in the beginning) and hindering you at every step until you raise your social status. (Never mind the pretentious title of the video :P )
I thought it was a well made video, and I kind of vibed with his sense of humor. :D Also, it seems a bit rare to get English language videos about Gothic games made by Germans, I guess? :P
He labels his channel "Subversive lefty nonsense", so be forewarned. :P Though he seems to only put out a video every year or so. :D
Renaissance - Northern Lights TOTP 1978:
:bowler:
This is better in a different way, it's them playing live a year later in a recording studio:
Reposting because it doesn't seem to become any less relevant? :P
(Use CC for English subtitles)
:lol: That's amazing. Ah 2011.
60 Minutes story on version of Huckleberry Finn with all the niggers replaced with slave.
I have very strong feelings about teaching Huckleberry Finn using the n-word. Those feelings change all the time as I hear more people argue about it, but don't get less strong.
An octopus has started the process of domesticating fish. Soon he'll be walking them around and collecting their poop, just like any advanced species :D
I'm recently 'enjoying' this young cockney(ish) guy's videos. He's broadly on my wavelength with regards to the problems in the world and he has a good presentation style to appeal to those who need to compute this stuff.
The last time US-Canada relations were at a similarly low point was in 1997. :P