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Tildes Video Thread
To avoid the homepage getting swamped with too many YouTube links, we're doing a recurring thread to gather them up.
What are the best videos you have watched this past week/fortnight?
To avoid the homepage getting swamped with too many YouTube links, we're doing a recurring thread to gather them up.
What are the best videos you have watched this past week/fortnight?
That was an interesting journey.
As someone who literally just spend the last 2 weeks 3d scanning, printing, finishing and painting mini sculptures for a live job, this video was of particular interest to me.
I was sitting in a waiting room this morning with the audio off just admiring the technique and workflow. I was not until hours later when I plugged my headphones in that I realized this wasn't just an ASMR soundtrack... Holy fuck, this videos stock went up like 50 points!
Brad pit in snatch meets Lego batman. This was almost as momentous as the day I realized the primitive technology YouTube channel has stellar subtitle tracks detailing everything happening on screen.
You have made my day with this video sir, thank you.
Sadly the post has been deleted. What was it about?
Bobby fingers Michael Jackson diorama video on YouTube, please look it up immediately
Games that Don't Fake the Space - Jacob Geller
Ruminating about the emotional and psychological impact when video games use extraordinarily large spaces (whether cleverly "faked" or fully realized in the game world).
Finally got around to watch this. Interesting, but I wished it went into the actual gameplay impact of it more, i.e. some immersive sim letting you make the right conclusions and bypass a locked door by walking around from a different angle or how Outer Wilds requires you to understand the actual movement of its planets around the sun. This essay was more about the aesthetics with the fake-ness referring to technical details that are invisible to the player. Maybe a missed opportunity?
If I remember correctly, the physics engine in Outer Wilds moves the entire solar system while keeping your spacecraft fixed. Apparently the coding and math is easier that way.
Yea, I remember reading that! I guess you could technically say that, for this reason, it also “fakes” the space (or at least the movement) but that’s ridiculous, lol. What’s so remarkable about the game is that understanding the space is crucial to solving the puzzles and the space is vast. The presentation or technical approach is an achievement of its own but has very, very little to do with the nature of the game as it is experienced by players.
Motorcycle Motorhomes! Honda Gold Wing vs. Suzuki GSX-R1000 | CTXP by RevZilla.
A humorous take on RV camping with motorcycles. Ari and Zach are really good hosts and bring an enthusiasm that is infectious.
CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"
The transformation of data is the only purpose of any program. Common approaches in C++ which are antithetical to this goal will be presented in the context of a performance-critical domain (console game development). Additionally, limitations inherent in any C++ compiler and how that affects the practical use of the language when transforming that data will be demonstrated.
A Crash Course in Modern Hardware by Cliff Click
Von Neumann architecture, CISC vs RISC, the rise of multicore, Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP), pipelining, out-of-order dispatch, static vs dynamic ILP, performance impact of cache misses, memory performance, memory vs CPU caching, examples of memory/CPU cache interaction, and tips for improving performance.
When Elites Stopped Dominating Paintings
YouTube – Nerdwriter – 25th July 2023
Richard Stallman, GNU/Linux Action Show - 11 years old video but still inspiring and motivational for anyone interested in FOSS or Open Source in general.
RobWords shares two dozen really neat medieval words, including some absolutely worth bringing back and some others with really cool etymological insight.
https://youtu.be/9wd08CqED0w
https://youtu.be/0FImBCNRGxo
Rob Scallion video with classical guitarist Marvin. Fantastic watch, totally changed my understanding of what can be done with a guitar.
This question has highlighted for me again how much I hate Youtube despite how much time I spend on Youtube. My top three from the last week:
Hank Green gives a quick intro on the ICECube Neutrino Observatory.
Everyday Astronaut gives a primer on orbital vs. sub orbital flight.
Sam Morril's standup special "I Got This".
Are video threads really a good idea? I think that if someone is posting a video that warrants discussion, it should have it's own post. Maybe any video post can just have a "video" tag so users can filter them out if they want.
I kind of like having a video thread, its an easier consolidation of videos people are watching/have interest in. And potentially lower threshold for posting as a comment vs a standalone post. Just look through the list and pick out anything that catches my eye, if not, go about my scrolling as usual.
?tag=videos already exists. But not every video necessarily warrants/deserves its own topic, so that's why this megathread exists. Nothing is stopping people from submitting videos on their own if they want to though. I still typically submit several videos a day despite this megathread existing.