Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread
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Since I mentioned the video in @ben_lubar 's thread about YouTube fuckery: an examination of what the fuck is going one with those weird SpidermanElsa videos, and why.
Weird Kids' Videos and Gaming the Algorithm – 14:24
— Folding Ideas
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@lorne-kates It occurs to me that Gaben & Co. should see this as well, since it is basically the same phenomenon that has turned their own distribution service into a Steam-ing pile of shit.
It's not quite the same, as the main goal of gaming Steam's algorithms is less about sales/views than about using Steam Cards and game keys as a cover for money laundering, but the basic structure is quite similar - especially in the irrelevance of the games or videos themselves, and the whole process of auto-generated 'content' (mostly involving multiple re-skins of a base game, usually some something simple such as platformers, vertical shooters (Space Invaders/Galaxian), brick breakers, balloon shooters, and the like.
Last year, one Steam Direct 'developer', Zonitron, was caught re-uploading at least 173 games to Steam generated by scripts. This one company's game spam accounted for 2% of all new games added to Direct in the first six months of the service and almost 1% of all games on Steam.
2% of PC Games Released in 2017 Removed from Steam – [05:02..16:15] 16:15
— News Cartridge
Steam Removes 173 Games Made By One Developer – 10:48
— Jim Sterling
Dirty Devs: The Downfall of Silicon Echo – 05:33
— SidAlphaOh, and Zonitron had the gall to fire back after they got booted by Valve. Apparently, they looked at DigiHom's fuckups and said, "Great plan, let's do that!"
Silicon Echo and Zonitron Respond to Valve – [04:00..13:29] 13:29
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SsvYFYmS78While Valve did step in in that case, it is just one of many, and Valve generally avoids "interfering with the free market behavior on Steam", not so much because of their principles as because it makes them a lot of money and actually policing it would cost a lot and require them hiring a large number of human employees just to check the games manually. Like YouTube, they keep trying to find an algorithmic solution, but that would probably require a fully sentient AI to really make it work, and besides, actually solving the problem would hurt their bottom line.
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I hate giving Vice views because they are the ass cancer of YouTube, but this is pretty interesting:
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@polygeekery said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
I hate giving Vice views because they are the ass cancer of YouTube
Is there anything on YouTube that isn't?
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@hardwaregeek there are quite a few content creators on YouTube that I really like.
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The Ti
mde pod Challenge is obviously stupid. Just how stupid? Taking this case history as typical, you can see that it is... well, it's fucking gruesome.A Boy Ate 3 Laundry Pods. This Is What Happened To His Lungs. – 11:35
— Chubbyemu
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Agree or disagree - and a lot will disagree - this is a conversation the needs to happen in the game industry and game market, especially since (as they are pointing out) this is the driving force behind a lot of the more predatory crap the AAA game houses have been pulling. It's not the sole force involved by any means, but it's kind of the elephant in the room.
Why Do Games Cost So Much To Make? - AAA Game Budgets - Extra Credits – 10:41
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@scholrlea A triple A PC title costs 45 euros. Back when I started buying my own PC games in the mid nineties. a triple A PC title cost 100 guilders, which is pretty much exactly 45 euros.
In the same period, many other prices have gone up tens of per cents.
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@pleegwat If only we were so lucky here in the USA. Not 100% sure, but ISTR that most AAA games cost around $40 back then. Now it's around $60.
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I think this YouTuber is deliberately trying to get a rise out of @Karla
Trigger Warning on Poster's name and video title
judo chop action super buddha stabs guy – 00:35
— judochopaction
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@masonwheeler said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@pleegwat If only we were so lucky here in the USA. Not 100% sure, but ISTR that most AAA games cost around $40 back then. Now it's around $60.
That lack of inflation on game prices has likely caused the microtransaction/loot box fuckery.
Shit, that's what happens when you enter a thread at the end and work your way back. @ScholRLEA already posted it.
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This one is kind of dumb, definitely random, but I find it amusing and strangely entertaining.
Bigger, tighter mouse maze experiments – 13:11
— MatthiasWandel
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Pablo Eskobear. I R Amused.
The Curious Case of Pablo EskoBear: The Cocaine Bear – 07:09
— Today I Found Out
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Acorn A5000 running RISC OS 3.1 (From 1991) - Tour and Look Inside! – 37:47
— Cameron Gray
Acorn Archimedes RISC OS in 2013 (Raspberry Pi) – 23:03
— Dan Wood
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@boomzilla said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/958150975134474240
Seems normal, what's the random part?
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@tsaukpaetra A rogue wave? It has no other reason to be posted around here? What's random about any other video here?
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@boomzilla said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
What's random about any other video here?
Rolling Dice Slow Motion Web – 00:26
— john lundIt's not a very good RNG, though. It rolls 2 every time.
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@boomzilla said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
What's random about any other video here?
Oohhhhh, you meant "random" as in "arbitrarily chosen", not "random" as in "unexpected"...
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@tsaukpaetra said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@boomzilla said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
What's random about any other video here?
Oohhhhh, you meant "random" as in "arbitrarily chosen", not "random" as in "unexpected"...
Well, you didn't expect to see a video like apparently so I think it fits both criteria!
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@boomzilla said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@boomzilla said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
What's random about any other video here?
Oohhhhh, you meant "random" as in "arbitrarily chosen", not "random" as in "unexpected"...
Well, you didn't expect to see a video like apparently so I think it fits both criteria!
Someone give this guy a er, no, there we go...
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@boomzilla said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@tsaukpaetra A rogue wave?
Not to be confused with L~.
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@boomzilla said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@tsaukpaetra A rogue wave?
Closest thing I could find to a wave, but it doesn't look very friendly. But better than this, which looks like she's about to ask you to bend over.
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Ugh, Instagram. I hope it embeds correctly.
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@polygeekery So... what exactly was it how he got away with just a $25 fine? The dash cam recorded the cop saying the MF-word?
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@jbert I think the judge was amused so he got off with a warning.
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I love the VinWiki channel. They have some amusing videos.
We sold a car filled with drugs at CARMAX! – 10:22
— VINwiki
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@polygeekery 0/10, did not create the universe
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@pie_flavor said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@polygeekery 0/10, did not
create the universediscuss labeling regulations
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Jay Leno's Garage has been pretty commercial and rubbish for a while, but this one is pretty good:
2017 Case IH Quadtrac - Jay Leno's Garage – 34:10
— Jay Leno's GarageWe used to use these exact tractors to pull scrapers on earthmoving jobs. They are a lot of fun to operate and extremely comfortable. In the video they mention that they have some of them running autonomously as part of an experimental program and that they have some running on electric. I would like to know what sort of runtime they are getting on electric. These sorts of tractors hold 350-400 gallons of diesel and will burn that in a 16 hour day. I would think it would take a semi trailer of 18650's to equal that amount of equivalent energy.
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I love ThisOldTony's videos. Here is a rare one that is not just all about machining and prototyping. He builds a solar cooker with his kids out of a discarded satellite dish and makes coffee with it.
DIY Parabolic Solar Cooker – 06:20
— This Old Tony
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This is basically a horror movie for some forum members:
The computer designed to only run Java Applets - Sun JavaStation – 30:52
— Cameron Gray
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@polygeekery I was actually working on a Windows PE based diskless solution not entirely unlike that.
The biggest problems were getting domain user profiles to work in a Preinstallation Environment. Well, and getting programs to work in said environment. A surprising amount of programs expected write access to things like Windows and Program Files for some reason....
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@tsaukpaetra Doesn't microsoft intentionally omit key OS features in PE specifically to keep it from being used for production?
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@pleegwat said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Doesn't microsoft intentionally omit key OS features in PE specifically to keep it from being used for production?
They omit key features in Windows PE because it's meant solely for installing Windows and possibly running diagnostics.
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@mott555 said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
Is it really the droplets that are being programmed though? It looked more like programmed droplet manipulation via electrical stimulation.
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A 1-second video from the surface of a comet:
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/988711358358261762
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@tsaukpaetra said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@mott555 said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
Is it really the droplets that are being programmed though? It looked more like programmed droplet manipulation via electrical stimulation.
Are you programming the robot, or are you programming its joints?