demagogue on 4/5/2013 at 16:18
I just keep being gobsmacked at how mind-bending and surprising most of it is. I mean our ancestors weren't anywhere even close to what reality is turning out to be like, not even in the same galaxy. And each new revelation seems to just set the bar ever higher. True reality is so bizarre from what actually experience, it makes you wonder just what is the world we experience, and maybe it's the really bizarre thing in the universe & we don't want to admit it.
Just look at some of them -- Nothing moves faster than light, except two bits in quantum entanglement "communicate" instantly even over light years distance; things that move near the speed of light appear to be slow down & compress, and things that accelerate to near the speed of light slow down even to the rest of the world, so time travel into the future is possible; gravity is acceleration is warped space; the universe used to be smaller than a subatomic particle then blew up to begin time, and we know the date; we and our planet are made out of the dust of a supernova'd star; particles exist & interact in discrete quanta; particles are discrete small points/vibrating strings and continuous expanding waves at the same time; you can know exactly a particle's place or momentum but not both, and particles evolve like spread-out waves but collapse into points absolutely randomly according to absolute statistics; the universe is made up mostly of invisible matter and energy, the visible part is just a small bit of it; things have mass because certain particles get "clogged" in Higgs fields; all particles can be reduced to the vibrations of quantized relativistic strings or flux lines (confirmation pending); reality is a hologram on the 2D surface that surrounds it; a person near the horizon of a blackhole is obliterated by radiation into dust and experiences nothing unusual at the same time; blackholes evaporate, and the final fate of our universe is everything collapsing into a sea of massive blackholes that will one day evaporate into diffuse gas... The list goes on & on. People have actually figured these things out.
Jason Moyer on 5/5/2013 at 11:38
If I have a hard time sleeping, I like to fire up my Wii and stream the Cinemassacre/AVGN stuff. I dunno why but it's great to relax to.
henke on 5/5/2013 at 20:42
Quote Posted by icemann
16 Bit Gems (reviews of the hosts favorite Super Nintendo games)
A few episodes into this now. The host is no James Rolfe but he has some good insights into what makes the games work nonetheless. I like it. :)
Will defenitely check out this rest of the stuff you listed. And yeah I'm familiar with the other Cinamassacre stuff. Hell, I even bought the Cinemassacre iPad app! :D
retractingblinds on 6/5/2013 at 16:35
I found this series to be soothing in a nice way. It's a bit of a throw away jig, with its short length per episode and small number of installments, but set the playlist to auto-play. Works well to sleep to.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0&list=PLF17F07CFC3208E29)
Also, check out peep show! It's nice. British show, all on youtube to boot.
Yakoob on 6/5/2013 at 19:47
Quote Posted by icemann
* Angry Joe (reviews of games and occasionally movies)
* 16 Bit Gems (reviews of the hosts favorite Super Nintendo games)
* TheSpoonyOne (mix of movie, videogame and pen and paper memories videos)
Oooh thanks, watched a few 16bit gems now and while the reviews aren't as flashy or entertaining as, say, zero punctuation or AVGN, they are pretty thorough and informative often going into the history behind the game. Watching the EarthBound one right now and he's spending like 10 minutes talking about the NES predecessor and the marketing behind the game. Very very good stuff!
I've seen nostalgia critic before and really dislike it - the entire persona/demeanor of the presenter just annoys the crap out of me. Always felt forced and "haha look how funny I am!" to me.
henke on 10/5/2013 at 19:55
Just stumbled on another (very obscure) YouTube videogame show called (
http://www.youtube.com/user/fofxStudios?feature=watch) The Examined Life (of gaming). The host reviews some real clunkers from the past 2 decades. The (
http://www.youtube.com/user/fofxStudios?feature=watch) Enter the Matrix review is pretty good. He's got some good insights into what makes (and breaks) the games. His jokes are only slightly better than 16 bit Gems-dude's, but his delivery is really good. Doesn't come across as trying too hard like most of the horrible nerds on YT.
Yakoob on 11/5/2013 at 02:31
Ah I know what you mean henke, that's why I never got into watching Lps, most of the hosts are either really annoying, retarded, nerdy, or some combination of the three. RockLeeSmith is the only one I really could follow though he tends to fall a little on the dry boring side, so works best as background while I do other stuff on my comp
Muzman on 11/5/2013 at 12:58
It's incredibly hit and miss. I hate most of the famous guys even when I kinda like what they say (Angry Joe fits that description. Also he's not angry. Spoony's alright though).
With that in mind, Yogscast can be kind of interesting (even though their 'network' is this vast stew of all sorts of crap these days). Their original Minecraft series (became known as the Israphel saga) is pretty interesting, mostly just for seeing what crazy business people build for them to get into. It started out as just another Minecraft LP series among the thousands at the time (and now really), but then they somehow turned it into a story with all this built stuff and other characters ( "played" by other people). I don't know how much they knew about it all but it was like they were playing this sprawling, crazy D&D adventure built for them in Minecraft.
So if you can stomach their whacky Englishness it might be worth a look.
june gloom on 11/5/2013 at 19:12
Inline Image:
http://i.imgur.com/y01kY.jpgI really hate the vast majority of LPers but PewDiePie is straight up the worst and I wish he'd just like, get hit by a car or something.
demagogue on 11/5/2013 at 19:44
Visiting my nephews today and my 6-year-old one caught me playing on the Yogscast Israphel map & talking about it with my other teenage nephew, and he wants to watch every episode now... That's not going to happen, but there's no easy way to explain that to a 6 year old that without a little trauma. :sweat:
Too bad they don't have an extra channel with the language silenced out. I'm sure they'd get plenty of volunteers willing to put in the work for it & I bet it'd boost their total post-counts, but it'd lessen the post count on a single one. And no other external channel could do it of course. Such is life.
