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Tildes Video Thread
Find yourself watching tons of great videos on [insert chosen video sharing platform], but also find yourself reluctant to flood the Tildes front page with them? Then this thread is for you.
It could be one quirky video that you feel deserves some eyeballs on it, or perhaps you've got a curated list of videos that you'd love to talk us through...
Share some of the best video content you've watched this past week/fortnight with us!
Why use many streetlights when one will do?
YouTube – Tom Scott – 27th November 2023
Tom compared the tower's light output to a full moon... I don't remember ever seeing a shadow from a full moon. Granted, I've not been somewhere with only natural moonlight for quite some time, but still.
A full moon does cast distinct shadows. When I'm backpacking I dread clear nights with a full moon, it can be so bright it's difficult to sleep. Many times I've night-hiked using only moonlight, no headlamp required. If you've truly never experienced unadulterated moonlight I'd encourage you to get out somewhere dark next full moon and see for yourself. It's really remarkable how bright it can be.
Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second
Quoting one of the comments:
As someone who doesn't have a PhD in physics, I agree. It's such a beautifully simple visualization that's clarified things for me a ton.
The ability to simply see something is such a huge advantage. We take it for granted when something complex is immediately visible, so when that’s not available we don’t hunger for visual aids like we should.
Youtube - Innuendo Studios - The Alt-Right Playbook: Didoing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IrG68YTMjo
Highly recommend watching the whole series, it's very eye opening.
I recently learned about Nathan Fielder and his whole schtick and that was the funniest thing I've seen in a while.
I've been a fan of Fielder since... Forever? And this will always be my favorite clip of his. In it, he's just finished trialing a new (absurd) business idea for the owner of a struggling funeral home, and meets with her to wrap up the episode, in a typically absurd and slightly surreal way.
It's a shame that the YouTube clips rarely show the whole story and there aren't many and a lot are repeats. I'm watching everything I can find. Unfortunately I don't think I can get Comedy Central here, and the few torrents I found are lacking seeders.
Look, I'd never ever ever encourage piracy or... illicit... online activity, but there are certainly websites available that (with the aid of a strong adblocker) could enable a less scrupulous person than you or I to stream the entire show for free. No one should visit these websites, except to report them to the relevant authorities, but they do exist.
An illegal TV streaming site? That’s terrible! But there are so many. Which one?
Glad you asked, Tea. I always enjoy talking to you, I know how much you love justice and the law and such. It's important to know what these sites are so that they can best be avoided. Personally, I LOATHE fmoviesz.to -- it's been around for ages, and has more or less everything hosted on multiple servers with captions, including new releases. Needless to say, this is a real heinous move. 123movies offered similar functionality until it was shut down by the government a couple years ago (thank God the government is out there protecting the intellectual property rights of enormous media conglomerates!) but regrettably, many of its descendants and mirrors remain operational.
Johnny Harris: Why Switzerland is Obsessed with Guns
Nebula link
Looks like it's not on YouTube yet. Probably will be soon.
Seen
This animator has uploaded 10 videos since starting their channel, TAEETIMEE, about a year ago. They're all about a minute long, and they're each really expressive and beautifully made. I suggest just going back to the oldest and seeing how they progress up through today's latest.
Five years ago I stumbled upon a video that introduced me to my favorite YouTube creator. The video was "How Horror for Kids Dominated in the 90s," by In Praise of Shadows / Zane Whitener. The video explains how shows like Courage the Cowardly Dog exposed a whole generation of children to age-appropriate, yet thought-provoking horror themes. I was instantly enamored with the channel and have been watching his videos about horror/film/comics/etc. ever since.
That video was one of his shortest, earliest videos, he rarely covers cartoons, and his videos take a long time to produce, so I wasn't sure if I would ever get to see similar content from him. I knew he must have hours of interesting commentary to offer about Courage, but I figured he had moved on from covering kids shows.
But finally, last week he released a 4 hour video that reviews each episode of all four seasons of Courage the Cowardly Dog, and I've never been so happy to see a video release in my life. That show was incredibly influencial on my taste in media as an adult and my perspective on the world in general, and in this new video Zane compellingly presents and analyzes what was special about the show. Especially the things that I loved as a child but didn't have the context to appreciate at the time, like literary/film references and unique, experimental art styles and animation techniques.
Two related videos of a collaboration between Sorted Food and Tasting History:
(that I can be bothered to submit as topics and properly tag right now ;)
American food historian reviews UK Biscuits/Cookies ft.@TastingHistory
The history of the chocolate chip cookie - Depression vs WW2
Nguyamyam.
Lessons learned 30 years ago bubbled up from the depths of my subconscious today.
I saw lots of water in the sand in Google Maps and while investigating I found this video which I really like:
Pawel Krawczyk: DevOps guide to the galaxy of self-defending applications (Devoxx Ukraine 2019) - https://scitech.video/w/4PQibke6AzV9DaYQZGQ8mP
Principal's Office - Grinding at the School Dance.
New announcement from Phil Edwards, whose videos have been posted here by various users (myself included):
Leaving vox actually
p.s. To save you from the obnoxious music, and annoyingly slow cue card presentation... here's a transcript:
So I hope that means we're going to see much more frequent video releases by Phil now, but just not on Vox's channel anymore.
Dwight Eisenhower: The President Who Saved the World.