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mystes: May 31, 2006

PIZZA.BAT posted:

i want everyone to stop and think.... what would an extremely divorced guy who's addicted to being the smartest guy in the room to such a degree he's been fired multiple times be up to now

i can guarantee you all guessed correctly

Lol that your description did make me guess correctly.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2021 04:02

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 11:07

mystes: May 31, 2006

Please don't post videos from literal nazi Jordon Peterson.

Edit: I assume this is the same one where he implies that Hitler was just obsessed with cleanliness and that just somehow accidentally morphed into killing people because he got carried away with it ("Zyklon B was just an insecticide :smug:

") but I'm not going to watch to find out.

Also lol at all the comments being like "wow Jordon Peterson is so prescient!"

mystes fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Sep 2, 2021

# ¿ Sep 2, 2021 18:02

mystes: May 31, 2006

akadajet posted:

I’m happy the crazy cspam dude didn’t watch this

I was going to say "you're going to have to be more specific" but never mind

# ¿ Oct 10, 2021 01:01

mystes: May 31, 2006

toiletbrush posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGd6Uzq3cz4

I really like those bodum coffee cups. I think they finally discontinued that whole style but maybe I should buy some used.

# ¿ May 2, 2022 22:20

mystes: May 31, 2006

mobby_6kl posted:

I thought for sure you'd link the "I did a thing" channel, but he's way on a different side of educational vs legit dangerous curve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwrZuUiSXEI

Oh cool an insane video of someone making a giant beyblade out of a saw blade that's somehow not the insane video of someone making a giant beyblade out of a saw blade that I was thinking of.

Edit: ah this is the one I was thinking of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6xV0eXzQs

mystes fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Sep 9, 2022

# ¿ Sep 9, 2022 18:55

mystes: May 31, 2006

PokeJoe posted:

That I did a thing guy beat the poo poo out of a children's cartoon animator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihICfboGsBw

why is this a thing

# ¿ Sep 9, 2022 19:18

mystes: May 31, 2006

Sagebrush posted:

that can't be that man's real voice

I feel the same way about Elon Musk and Jordon Peterson but unfortunately they both seem to be real

# ¿ Oct 19, 2022 04:02

mystes: May 31, 2006

LanceHunter posted:

I hadn't heard about The Line before, but it seems so ridiculous that I can't decide if this video critiquing it belongs here or in Tech Bubble...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b7uMJkvS0o

Imagine rush hour when 9 million people are trying to commute in one linear space with one train line.

The only thing I could readily find ridership data on individual lines for was the tokyo subway lines but apparently the lines with the highest daily ridership are around 500,000 people per day.

Perhaps the other 8.5 million people will all try to commute by walking/biking at the same time.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2022 19:24

mystes: May 31, 2006

Sweevo posted:

A 1970 mechanical-optical machine for making engineering drawings (if you have to ask the price then you can't afford it)

https://vimeo.com/75532300

drat that's cool

# ¿ Oct 21, 2022 22:30

mystes: May 31, 2006

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Does that video cover the reticulation of splines?

This is very important to me

Same, lol

# ¿ Dec 10, 2022 00:54

mystes: May 31, 2006

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

It's just a shame he gets one little nit wrong, because Japanese has both stress/intonation and pitch accent.

Huh? AFAIK Japanese doesn't have stress in the sense of stress accent like in English and intonation is not relevant to what is being discussed.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2022 19:38

mystes: May 31, 2006

wargames posted:

he can't be called an engineer he doesn't have the ring.

it's not like he's trying to change his name to hellon.jpg or something

# ¿ Dec 29, 2022 17:28

mystes: May 31, 2006

This random (amateur) guy is making pretty good seeming videos about spiders that are common in houses in north america and it's nice because for some reason there seems to be a serious lack of good information about spiders on the internet
https://www.youtube.com/@travismcenery2919

E.g.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U29F4mE7okk

# ¿ Jan 4, 2023 02:02

mystes: May 31, 2006

tk posted:

This makes me irrationally angry.

You're mad that people are using subtitles? Or that movies are mixed in a way that makes them necessary? Or just by the style of the video?

# ¿ Mar 5, 2023 23:43

mystes: May 31, 2006

It is actually fine, hth

# ¿ Mar 6, 2023 22:07

mystes: May 31, 2006

PokeJoe posted:

The average YouTube video has better sound mixing than the average movie or prestige tv show. It's pathetic

Are you sure it doesn't just seem that way because you're watching youtube videos with earphones and tv shows on your tv?

# ¿ Mar 6, 2023 22:29

mystes: May 31, 2006

I mean I think they've kind of changed the way they approach dialog from having everyone sort of yell all the time to just assuming that either you're in a theater or watching a tv with the volume extremely high, you have subtitles on, or you're wearing earphones

I don't see this as particularly problematic unless you want to have tenet on in the background while you cook dinner or something

# ¿ Mar 7, 2023 00:56

mystes: May 31, 2006

They say to wear headphones so maybe try that

# ¿ Mar 7, 2023 23:22

mystes: May 31, 2006

I guess you could turn on dynamic range compression which will have the added bonus of making audiophiles angry

# ¿ Mar 7, 2023 23:30

mystes: May 31, 2006

Dijkstracula posted:

lol at needing a 2.5h video to conclude that harry potter is for babies

If you think that's not a suitable length for a harry potter youtube video essay maybe try this one which is only 10:00:04 long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2WDCD_tRnE

# ¿ Apr 5, 2023 19:07

mystes: May 31, 2006

Doom Mathematic posted:

Here's your science education:

https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1643450631347224576

Imagine spending 4 years slogging through all of that to discover that it's all 100% pointless/obsolete knowledge

# ¿ Apr 7, 2023 00:52

mystes: May 31, 2006

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

Nah, once the four years are over, you're now one of the worlds foremost experts in a field so narrow, unless you choose to work within that field, it's useless.

If you're lucky, you'll have learned critical thinking and other things along the way, but that's absolutely not a given as it typically isn't part of a curriculum.

Is this supposed to be some sort of joke that it's no different than grad school?

# ¿ Apr 7, 2023 01:20

mystes: May 31, 2006

pmchem posted:

well, the college is delivering what it advertises:
https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/a-liberating-education/program-objectives
https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/a-liberating-education/syllabus

I'll be contrarian and say that while the syllabus would not prepare you AT ALL for most jobs (and certainly not YOSPOS jobs lol), it'd be pretty good as a pre-seminary school or pre-law or getting into a philosophy phd program. It's vaguely like a liberal arts degree in classics with other stuff thrown in; https://classics.dartmouth.edu/menufeature/curriculum/classical-studies-courses

some of those freshman texts, like Plato's Apology and Republic, are heavy-duty reading for 18-year-olds. in general the world would probably be a better place if people go through their lives even reading 1/10 of the texts listed just for development of critical thinking skills. Locke's second treatise on civil government more or less underpinned the prime ideas in the US declaration of independence, but people have largely forgotten about it these days

If reading ~the great works~ actually even remotely taught critical thinking, christian fundamentalists wouldn't actually want to teach them

Compare that to normal introductory philosophy classes, which are literally 100% just critical thinking

# ¿ Apr 7, 2023 01:50

mystes: May 31, 2006

Achmed Jones posted:

somebody recommended a video about the fashion in muppet christmas carol and oh god it is terminal youtube bullshit. i am so disappointed

what would have been good: "here is rizzo's first costume. this is why it's cool, these are the details that you should pay attention to"
bad: (shouting) "LOOK AT IT! LOOK AT THE SMOCKING! [costume designer] YOU ARE A QUEEN! Look at the the little cute mousey!"

this is not me uncharitably paraphrasing. this is what she's actually doing.

It's because that's the laziest/easiest possible way to make a video, like all those movie critique channels where the "critique" is effectively just summarizing stuff that happens in the movie

# ¿ Apr 26, 2023 20:38

mystes: May 31, 2006

Sweevo posted:

youtube should go back to showing a frame from the video as the thumbnail

A randomly selected frame isn't going to be that useful as the thumbnail for many videos and allowing the uploader to select the frame would basically be equivalent to allowing a custom thumbnail

# ¿ Apr 27, 2023 18:40

mystes: May 31, 2006

MrQueasy posted:

I love when physicists complain about physicists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E

She's no Northernlion at Isaac, but her string theory ramblings are a lot of fun.

Also, Northernlion is not a PhD.

Oh neat I just stumbled across this video a couple days ago

# ¿ May 8, 2023 18:05

mystes: May 31, 2006

Dijkstracula posted:

in case any of you are not already following technology connections on your own, the latest one's a banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGVVAQVdEOs

I ended up not going to sleep until like 1 am last night because I for some reason started watching this after midnight rather than going to bed and now I feel crazy for having been so enthralled by a video on betamax/betacam that it seemed more important than sleeping

# ¿ May 10, 2023 14:41

mystes: May 31, 2006

Dijkstracula posted:

edit: actually, should probably also xpost this from the games thread, about the Doom WAD in question:

it should be called groverhausofleaves.wad

# ¿ May 27, 2023 21:40

mystes: May 31, 2006

oh 20 minutes in and now it's actually referencing house of leaves

# ¿ May 27, 2023 21:46

mystes: May 31, 2006

I'm pretty fond of her videos too

I like youtube videos where people just talk in an informative and entertaining way without ridiculous editing

I'm sure if she gets too many subscribers she'll have to make it her job and her videos will go to poo poo since that seems like how things work in 2023 though

# ¿ Jul 5, 2023 20:57

mystes: May 31, 2006

Sagebrush posted:

Interesting video but boy that guy's voice is annoying. Why does he talk like that?

It's like a modern version of old radio announcer intonation but without the transatlantic accent

# ¿ Jul 9, 2023 13:07

mystes: May 31, 2006

Perplx posted:

the first and only video on this channel and its a banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYsc-0Id1_Q

This seems cool but I wish it wasn't trying to copy the style of reality shows so much

edit: I guess it's less aggressive as it goes on but they still use reality show type background music at points and I wish they didn't

drat the result looks good though

mystes fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jul 12, 2023

# ¿ Jul 12, 2023 23:46

mystes: May 31, 2006

polyester concept posted:

i was hoping for something a lot cooler like the grape monkey refusing future grapes out of solidarity

Simians are too selfish for that

# ¿ Aug 10, 2023 15:18

mystes: May 31, 2006

A rail?

# ¿ Aug 11, 2023 06:28

mystes: May 31, 2006

that's goth fashion? I thought they dressed in black

# ¿ Aug 12, 2023 17:57

mystes: May 31, 2006

Eeyo posted:

imo it may not even be a black box thing, the average person may just legitimately click on those thumbnails more often.

it definitely seems like people on youtube tend to attribute things to "the algorithm" when it might just be user behavior, although I guess it's never clear

For example, I've seen a lot of people complaining that they are getting less views relative to how many subscribers they have and must be getting buried by the algorithm for creating content it doesn't like, and maybe that does happen I don't know, but since it seems like if you don't actually watch videos from a given channel that you're subscribed to for a while, youtube will stop showing that channels' videos as often, so in some cases it might also be possible that they have accumulated a lot of subscribers who lost interest in their videos but didn't actually unsubscribe, but I guess nobody wants to believe that

# ¿ Aug 13, 2023 03:46

mystes: May 31, 2006

low-tech magazine is great

# ¿ Aug 27, 2023 18:58

mystes: May 31, 2006

aren't they all also taking hgh in addition to testosterone?

# ¿ Sep 2, 2023 22:38

mystes: May 31, 2006

echinopsis posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wim0yAkEnOQ
most of this video is a history of the slave trade its pretty good

Yeah Saudi Arabia is going to be pretty hosed when the rest of the world bans fossil fuels any day now

# ¿ Sep 5, 2023 14:42

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 11:07

mystes: May 31, 2006

For a second I was going to say "that 100% looks like something that could actually have been from the late 90s" but I realized that even though he has done an amazing job capturing the look, in reality, in terms of editing, random youtube videos in 2023 just completely blow away what would have been possible in professionally produced educational videos from the 90s to a ridiculous degree (like there's no way it would have been practical to do the very smooth zooming/scrolling/having new text appear in a video like this in the 90s and a real informational video from the 90s would have tons of pauses that wouldn't get edited out)

He may be running it through a vhs tape but there's a huge difference between taking a complete high resolution digitally edited video and just passing it through a vhs tape to get the look and actually recording the video on some type of SD quality tape format and then editing it.

mystes fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Sep 7, 2023

# ¿ Sep 7, 2023 14:15

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