Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread
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@JBert said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
Well, that sent me down quite a Slow Mo Guys rat hole, of which this was very possibly one of the coolest I've ever seen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ys_yKGNFRQ
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Cop friend of mine shared this:
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OK, I got this one recommended from the last few videos. At least it doesn't contain an advertisement from the sponsors:
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@JBert Isn't it amazing what a ton of black balls can do?
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@JBert Interesting. I know exactly where that reservoir is; I grew up just a few miles from there, although it wasn't covered with black balls when I lived there (30+ years ago). It's the replacement for the reservoirs, or two rather reservoirs, Upper and Lower Van Norman Reservoirs, that were damaged in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake. (I think only the lower one was damaged, but when they rebuilt it, they made a single large reservoir instead of two smaller ones.) It was an earth dam with a concrete face to prevent erosion; the earthquake cracked the concrete and the dam started to erode and leak. The authorities were afraid the dam might collapse, so they evacuated a wide swath of the valley below the dam, including my family, for about a week.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV1xSLrkAGA&feature=youtu.be&t=428
Watch from the beginning to see some more regular cars or just how the track works.
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Even if you're not into speedrunning, this is worth watching just for the insane amount of knowledge about Super Mario 64's programming that was used in the making of the perfect run.
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Y'all are the reason some funky videos are appearing in my feed, aren't you?
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@Polygeekery said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
Somewhat interesting video, but it could have been edited to 1/5 of its length. For starters, why discuss Final Fantasy 8 twice in a video about Diablo?
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@boomzilla said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
It's just the Groupon tax. Nothing to see here...
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In case you've missed the Google Doodle.
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@Zecc Google apparently decided that I wanted to have Captions enabled in Afrikaans...
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@Tsaukpaetra Me too. Apparently English was not a sufficiently important language to deserve its own not-autogenerated closed captions.
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There's an argument to be made that this is dumb, I suppose.
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@boomzilla said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
It would have looked so much better in HDR 15-bit Ultra-High Super Mega HD 32K.
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OK, the title is clickbait (just pull that bulb out of the fitting) but it is an interesting phenomenon:
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@kazitor This video does toe the "not dumb" line which this topic's videos are supposed to keep clear of, but I'll admit it's funny enough...
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@boomzilla the video skips are entirely off-putting .
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@Tsaukpaetra Maybe you had some lag or something; it looked perfect for me
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Anyway, Beyond the Press have started a new video series where they make slow motion bullet-time videos, mostly of things exploding. It's incredible and today's episode is the best one yet:
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@hungrier I like the way he pronounces CEEdee.
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@Zecc His accent certainly helped the main channel get popular
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@HardwareGeek This is relatively tame for the guy because he's using "off the shelf" parts.
Before, he circuit-bended / remote-controlled a boatload of Furbies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLBjScgb7o
Or even earlier he made this flamethrower organ: (not a pyrophone though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxxf01KUjMA
His current big project is building a synthesizer out of 64 gameboys:
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@HardwareGeek said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@JBert said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
boatload of Furbies
Nope! thread is .
It might be a true abomination and a perversion of science and technology, but it is still worth a watch. Just don't put the volume up too loud.
I must restrain myself from laughing when he starts saying "they're heavily sedated" so they seem not to be in any pain (that he can tell), and even more so when he pulls out his "conductor" Furbie.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD6KiUfWY1U
Okay, maybe a bit dumb.
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@boomzilla said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
Not all heroes wear capes.
Heroes that deliberately put themselves in dangerous situations for "the views" aren't heroes IMO.
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@dcon Classic video, but wouldn't that be a better fit for the rather dumb videos thread?
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"Broke" as in "broke the speedrun record". By 3 hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR6eJSmRkPI
Original Reddit thread on the glitch: https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/ddrsfd/grand_theft_auto_san_andreas_skip_that_saves_over/
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@LaoC I'm surprised the hiders didn't learn to make a jail around the seekers.
(as far as the video mentions. I didn't read the paper)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@boomzilla said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
Not all heroes wear capes.
Heroes that deliberately put themselves in dangerous situations for "the views" aren't heroes IMO.
Uh....wakeboarding? Without a life jacket? Not sure what the dangerous situation is supposed to be here.
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@boomzilla said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
Not all heroes wear capes.
Some wear "We cannot complete this request, remote server returned an unexpected status code (400)"
(I did see the image previously)
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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:
Not all heroes wear capes.
Heroes that deliberately put themselves in dangerous situations for "the views" aren't heroes IMO.
Uh....wakeboarding? Without a life jacket? Not sure what the dangerous situation is supposed to be here.
Did you even see how close she was to losing that beer?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@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:
Not all heroes wear capes.
Heroes that deliberately put themselves in dangerous situations for "the views" aren't heroes IMO.
Uh....wakeboarding? Without a life jacket? Not sure what the dangerous situation is supposed to be here.
Did you even see how close she was to losing that beer?
I assume her beer is long gone since she appears to be holding a wine bottle. But fair point.
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There's one dual op amp chip on it, and the type of op amp isn't really important. But there are guitar players out there who spend hours and hours researching op amps and switching them around, trying to pick out the "warmest" and "smoothest" and other ill-defined highly-subjective terms with no bearing on reality. I met one once, and he immediately asked what op amp I had on my overdrive. I told him it was a TI RC4558, and he dismissed it as worthless because "There was one production run of 4558's in 1978 by a company that went bankrupt, and every other 4558 ever made is complete junk." (Apparently people go dumpster diving to find old VCR's and stereo amplifiers so they can desolder these chips and and sell them... )
It doesn't matter than I can take about 100 chips of different make and model and purpose, and prove with an oscilloscope and spectrum analyzer that the output is 100% identical in this design1. Obviously, I'm missing something because he can hear the difference like night-and-day. If I was more of a troll, I'd try to set up a blind test with him, but I don't feel like wasting that much time.
Then he asked me if my design was based on the Ibanez TS-9 or the TS-808. My response was "Uh, either one, they're the exact same thing..." because they are2. Got to listen to another monologue about how the TS-808 is thousands of times better than the TS-9, with polite implications that I must be a complete moron to think they're identical.
So apparently Brian Wampler has videos on these exact two topics. He must have been just as annoyed by the nonsense as me.