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/r/videos/comments/qx4pca/american_psycho_with_huey_lewis_and_weird_al/
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[
"Surprised weird al agreed to be in something this unfunny",
"Well, it did say Funny Or Die",
"As a long time fan of Weird Al and someone who fought with my friends over how good American Psycho was, I enjoyed this. I feel it's a very small, very specific Venn diagram.",
"You sound fun",
"Ok so they redid the scene with huey lewis talking about american psycho and not vice versa, but were there any jokes in there that I missed? They can hire c- and d-list celebrities but couldn't get a writer to punch things up?",
"So go watch something else. How entitled are you to think they should make it exactly how you see fit? Fucking dweeb",
"This is so fucking good!!!!",
"There are dozens of us.",
"When I Want A New Duck came on I almost cried",
"I just thought the same thing. We are out there.",
"As a fellow long time fan of Weird Al and someone who watched American Psycho but did not fight with my friends over how good it was, this made me more uncomfortable than the film did.",
"I guess your friends have better taste in movies than mine",
"you're so unique...",
"DOZENS!",
"Funny & die",
"Formerly Weirdo Al, he's now back to just Weird Al, as he recently gave the \"O\" that Dr. Demento gave him to Paul F. Tompkins, who is now known as Paul oF Tompkins.",
"DVD stands for Digital VERSATILE Disc. Literally unwatchable.",
"is both, sir",
"NormAl",
"Huey Lewis nails it. The little jump-flourish he does when he goes to get the raincoat is right on mark.",
"that was prob a fun fukin night.",
"I didn't like the part where Weird Al dies. ;_;",
"I mean, I thought it was decently humorous, but do you say this to everyone who says they didn't think something was funny? Pretty much any time someone critiques something it's because they didn't make it how they saw fit",
"TIL Huey Lewis is a good actor. That was great, and so meta.",
"I was very late to the party to find out that Funny or Die was founded partly by Will Ferrell, and I feel like everything made so much more sense with that context. The strange niche humor, the great access to famous people, the ebaumsworld-style website.",
"If they got a writer to change things up any further its just a new scene. Almost all the dialogue is updated already to talk about the movie instead of the band. What more do you want? The joke is the whole scene. Its not a sketch show where every scene needs to be a new joke.",
"Fantastic.",
"stands for Dragging Video Down, sir.",
"This is amazing",
"Actually the last D represents two words.",
"DOZENS",
"What a masterpiece.",
"I don't know who either of these people are, but this Weird Al guys sounds a lot like my favorite parody musician Weirdimony Alimony Tony.",
"Like in the old days when scrolling through cable listings results in stopping everything to watch Predator for the millionth time, I will always click on this video. \n\nAnd now you can probably guess my age, plus or minus a couple years.",
"What's up hotdog!",
"Reporting in.",
"The Kanye version is great too\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBHJkwqmm80",
"Well, the producers have \"humour\" in their *name*, I guess I just expected some.",
"Do you know the original scene? This was pretty humorous to be fair.",
"I'm sorry but you're just too darn loud.\n\nNext please.",
"DOZENS",
"Scott Dissick is an incredibly bad actor, that's all this confirmed for me. Good thing I almost forgot he existed till I saw this.",
"This is so old, went viral years ago",
"Tell us what sort of result you expect when you blurt out \"I don't get it\"? Or even \"I get it, but I don't think it's funny\"? Seems like you're getting what you asked for.",
"\"Fucking entitled dweeb\" is not what people are asking for when saying they don't like something or that they didn't get why people found it funny lol. He's right to an extent anyway, the only joke really is just that it's Huey Lewis performing a part that was previously talking about him. That's fine, but there's not really much to it",
"K",
"It's just G now, Jack, I sold the E! To Samsung. They're Samesung now!",
"that's about what I expected. I sure hope you've never said \"I didn't like it\" about anything without apparently having some in-depth description on exactly why and what they should do better next time",
"You don't say",
"ya what the hell was that haha",
"It's crazy that they actually killed Weird Al in order to make this.",
"American Psycho is a timeless masterpiece and it's comedy and relevance is never fading",
"Back to the Future right? I can’t believe I never knew that was Huey, in a film he had a song in!",
"He was brought on to do one song, but he loved the project so much he gifted them a 2nd song and asked for a small cameo.",
"ZZ Top does the BTTF3 theme, and are the band at the dance too",
"Dubbed Video Dub",
"I want a new duck\n\nNot a swan or a goose!",
"I’m talking about the parody video mate, not the original source it’s riffing",
"Applies to both",
"When it said Al I thought it meant Ai so I thought it was deep fake and I was amazed how good it was",
"One that won’t quack all night",
"Heynong man!",
"Huey is scary believable, he like American psycho is his 50s. Still swinging like MF."
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American Psycho with Huey Lewis and Weird Al
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qx5adc/deleted_by_user/
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"facts",
"Wow.\n\nThat was really, really boring.\n\nThis kind of prattle has made me have to rethink my understanding of the world. I used to think it was simply that, since our model of capitalism rewards sociopathy, then the answer to 'success' was to either be one naturally or slowly purge yourself of empathy.\n\nBut this Buffet shit opens up another door to 'success.' Just become the kind of boring, empty, dead-inside person who engages specifically and determinedly with the very narrow part of mathematics and psychology that affects the world of business. Immerse yourself in it and disconnect from everything else. \n\nThat formula for success once again: be dead inside sociopath *or* a dead inside nerd.",
"All i’m reading is “I’m scared to work hard about something I’m passionate about”",
"We all see the world thru our own filters. Right now your filter reads neither 'dead-eyed sociopath' nor 'dead-eyed nerd' just 'serf.'\n\nYou can do better. Maybe I'm wrong about the hyper-rich fucks who run the world and do a really terrible job. If I am make a case for that. Come on. You really imagine that anyone is afraid to work hard at something they're passionate about? Afraid? Not lazy or disorganised. And about something they're passonate about? That doesn't make sense on any level. That's just some nonsense you heard some populist pundit shite on about. Figure it out for yourself.\n\nDo better.",
"The difference between you and I sir is that I do not need a shite eyed pundit to tell me what to believe. Good day"
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https://youtu.be/utfnnV3h51Q
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/r/videos/comments/qx5p9c/is_meta_autodestroying_themselves/
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"facebook meta is evil.",
"don't say it to loud, I feel that Zuckerberg is listening",
"Terrible title considering even this video shows that their userbase is still increasing.\n\nTo be honest, the world would be a better place without all social media. Reddit included.",
"To answer your question, no. \n\nThe graph in the video says it all, user numbers are increasing. Facebook has had scandals for the last 10 years and will have more as it gets bigger. \n\nTheir operating method is 2 steps forward and 1 step back - they overreach on privacy intentionally and then pull it back when there is outrage. But they pull it back to a level that is still ahead of where they were previously.\n\nThis video is just purely handpicked anecdotes to try to convey a predetermined message. Whether you like Facebook or not, this is lazy 'journalism'.",
"While something is popular it reamins popular until it is no longer popular. While people like Facebook they will continue using Facebook. Facebook has grown by acquisition and that's what corporations do when they can no longer grow by themselves.\n\nMeta is a reference to Meta World Peace and Meta Data ;)"
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is META auto-destroying themselves?
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https://youtu.be/T7x7V89dQ1I
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/r/videos/comments/qx5rmn/how_to_properly_rerack_your_weights/
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"Pathetic",
"Ikr, takes 3 scrawny dudes to do one tiny dick press.",
"Penises are funny",
"People are always laughing at mine."
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How to properly rerack your weights
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"just amazing and so funny",
"Garbage",
"You can't recognize great art"
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https://youtu.be/Q7LKJXvf_do
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/r/videos/comments/qx673b/two_ronnies_four_candles_hardware_shop_sketch/
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[
"North America has the Who's On First? sketch as their most important piece of comedy\n\nBritain has Four Candles as theirs",
"Brilliant, always had me in stitches from the first time I saw it as a kid",
"Oh, I get it…. I don’t get it.",
"No, fork handles. Handles for forks.",
"In good quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CmaLgxLDE0\n\nand the Mastermind sketch for good measure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KFMsjrD1bU",
"I wonder if the masterminds inspired the Mr Show pre taped call in show. https://youtu.be/mhVbLJvYP8s",
"What's the ending mean with \"billhooks\"?",
"'bollocks'.\n\nIt's a really great sketch let down by a pretty poor final joke.",
"Apparently Barker realised after it was filmed it should have ended on knockers."
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Two Ronnies Four Candles - Hardware Shop Sketch 1976. I love this set as much as I love the language in this skit.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eK_iMrrsRU&ab_channel=FairbairnFilms
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/r/videos/comments/qx6ual/when_you_offer_someone_food_but_you_dont_mean_it/
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"Every time I make a delicious breakfast for 3 people",
"Aussies say “chips”??",
"Is this more of an Australian thing? I’ve never done this or seen it in the US. People don’t offer you food unless they mean it from my experience.",
"This video is meant as satire...not really commentary on the social norms of Australia. I think you're reading a bit too much into this.",
"Ok…what is it actually satirizing? Satire is making a point about something specific. Usually these videos are supposed to be relatable jokes about something real, but as an exaggeration. Thus the “you” in the title. This isn’t relatable, and this isn’t funny to me, but, ok, I guess it’s “satire!”\n\n¯\\\\_(ツ)_/¯",
"Yikes",
"Wanna chip broo?",
"In the UK basically the rule is that people will offer something two or three times if they actually want you to have it. You're sort of supposed to say no the first time. \n\n\n\"Do you want a biscuit?\" \n\n\n\"No thanks\" \n\n\n\"Are you sure?\" \n\n\n\"Yeah, I'm good thanks\" \n\n\n\"Ah go on, have a biscuit!\" \n\n\n\"Ok, then you've twisted my arm, I'll have one. Thanks!\"",
"r/cringetopia",
"Yup. Like most of the world.",
"There’s something really nice about their delivery. Like every line is said as kind of fake.",
"What's I find funny is eagerly accepting on the second offer.",
"Meh",
"Crispsssssss",
"They say chips and hot chips.",
"Me: Wanna eat a burger? \nBro :Yes\nMe: Then go buy ur own stuff u dependent punk.",
"But there's a comment above you now trying to explain that there's a UK convention to decline a couple times before accepting food. Seems like something of a real thing and not worth -10 or -20 points for inquiring about.",
"Nah I don't eat chips, I don't have any teeth. I only eat plankton.",
"Thanks for the clarification.",
"I don't want none of your ghost chups",
"I would violate that rule without knowing if I were in the UK, I think. Lol!",
"Hah, I think foreigners get a pass. \n\nWhen I was in the Middle East some shopkeepers were super friendly - they basically refused to let me pay for bottles of water etc. \n\nIn hindsight it was probably similar to this, and I was just like, \"Wow?! For free?! Really? Thanks!\"\n\nMakes me cringe in hindsight",
"This channel's entire video library is 8 second jokes stretched out to 2+ minutes.\n\nAbsolutely unwatchable stuff.",
">Britain is the wrong ones\n\nExcept when looking at that terrible sentence.",
"Spoon!",
"thats the kind of shit that you think about at 3 am",
".",
"That's a Kiwi thing, these guys are Aussies",
"I don't see a part where they say they're from Australia?",
"The accent throws vowels into a blender, and inserts them back wherever.",
"For real, my kids steal all my breakfast until I have half a toast and egg scraps",
"It's a rule in OPs head, that's all.\n\nYou're round at someone's house and they offer a jam sandwich, say yes and eat your sandwich."
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When you offer someone food but you don't mean it
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qx6yh8/deleted_by_user/
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/r/videos/comments/qx6yh8/deleted_by_user/
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[
"Hey, this guy is as cynical as me!",
"I kept hearing about \"crypto games\" but I didn't actually know how they integrated NFTs. I'm completely unsurprised it's just an avenue to hype up their Ponzi schemes. Guarantee once the crypto bubble pops the only one that will survive will be Bitcoin and maybe Ethereum, as you can actually buy things with them. Everything else will fall into obscurity once it starts losing the \"get rich quick\" hype.",
"It's kind of irrelevant what the prices are now, if people want to buy NFTs for whatever price that's their choice. But the technology will keep on improving, these games are really setting the standards and ground work for what the future of gaming will be\n\n​\n\nI highly doubt these same games will be around in 10 years, but it's beside the point, digital ownership is here to stay and ignoring this only leaves you behind",
"> \"I don't wanna let earnest crypto holders off the hook. They are unequivocally stupid and they're doing a bad thing. You should continue bullying everyone you see with an NTF profile picture.\" \n\nlmao",
"Lol.\n\nPlease, for the love of God and everything holy, can I be left behind?",
"Haha, sounds like he got liquidated a few too many times.",
"/r/buttcoin",
"> digital ownership\n\n*eye roll*",
"None of them are used to buy things - they're horrible tools for that. \n\nThey're all exclusively for speculation.",
"Digital ownership is a nice idea to a younger generation that's already had their concept of ownership eroded so badly by predatory marketing schemes and late stage capitalism that NFTs seem like a promise of something better.",
"That's incredibly depressing, every single part of what you said",
"sorry u right",
"You already have been",
"No you don't. No one does. It's a gambling token, that's all. \n\nIf it's harder, more expensive, riskier, and far more costly to use something to complete a transaction, then you're stupid for doing it. Not that you can use them for anything.\n\nNaturally not that there are any serious merchants who accept it. I'm sure you've bought a Bitcoin hoodie from some shady, fly-by-night seller of kitschy crypto merchandise with your crypto before, but I wouldn't consider doing something stupid for the novelty of it \"using\" something.",
"Well first of all, it's not private. Because anything worth \"buying\" online with crypto isn't actually bought with crypto, you pay someone else to buy it for you with real money. \n\nSecond, no, you obviously don't buy anything with crypto. \n\nThird, there's nothing you need to buy \"privately\" online besides drugs and other illegal items. You can buy anything legitimate \"privately\" as is with real money. \n\nJust grow a pair, suck it up, and admit you're just an invested gambler dicking around with useless gambling tokens in the completely baseless hope they'll make your rich for no reason other than you hope they will.",
"> Well your first part isn't true. There are merchants who accept it directly. Those are the ones I use it\n\nNo there aren't. Not any real ones. Like I said, sure, knock yourself out with cheap Bitcoin hoodies from 'Bob the Bitcoin Guy\"'s online shop. \n\n> Second, again, yes I do. The cognitive dissonance is strong with you\n\nThat doesn't mean what you think it means. Evidently you don't, none of you idiots do. You and your \"private\" purchases. All of these super real, super serious things you purchase with your gambling tokens. \n\n> Third, that's your opinion. I prefer privacy for many (but not all) things\n\nHaha, lol. No you don't. And again, you're not getting it. \n\n\"I need to make super sure that in the case my bank is hacked to find out my super serious, super important purchase history that they don't know I purchased this pair of shoes. It's very important that this be very special and private.\"\n\nYou idiots need to get over yourselves. \n\nAnd you do realize that the fact that since to ever actually use crypto you have to pay third parties to pay other people real money, that your purchases are no more private than purchases made through any other merchant with real money. Those purchases are subject to the same exact risk of your \"privacy\" being violated.\n\n> I think you're the one who needs to admit that you might be wrong about something. You're resorting to telling people what they do and performing some pretty major mental gymnastics to avoid the fact that you are wrong about your blanket statement\n\nNo, what you're not getting is that I'm A. fully aware of what you can and can't do with crypto, and B. fully aware of how people use crypto. Evangelists love to pretend their shitty database entries are useful for anything but pure speculation. \n\nYou lie to me and most likely to yourself that your idiot tokens are anything but utterly useless and more difficult/costly/risky than sane alternatives because because admitting that they are what they are would force you to realize you're gambling large amounts of money on something propped up by nothing but collective delusion. \n\nIn other words, you actually do suffer from what \"cognitive dissonance\" actually is. \n\nKeep making shit up. You're only fooling yourself.",
"> Card packs are a popular way of parting impressionable people from their money, but Splinterlands ups the ante by making the cards NFTs and giving people a market.\n\nWhat a sentence :D Sadly... I had the same expierience browsing through available crypto games. It's close to fraud."
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/r/videos/comments/qx76cb/samson_gets_me_lifted/
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"Butternuts!",
"F",
"Butterstuff!"
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Samson Gets Me Lifted
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neLfKmGHwgo
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/r/videos/comments/qx7kpm/the_story_of_moondog/
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"The story of a blind man wearing a Viking hat standing on the streets of New York City collecting donations from people who didn't know of his background in poetry and music.",
"this is a really good video- thanks for posting , and the narrator has a very nice soothing voice\n\n​\n\ncool",
"Wow. I saw this guy one time and bought one of his CDs. It was good music.",
"This isn't about the Beach Bum",
"One of the most fascinating stories of a musician. Anyone Into experimental, minimalism, or classical should check him out! He influenced some of the biggest composers at the time including Steve Reich and Phillip Glass. Give birds lament a listen."
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The Story of Moondog
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"Okay... I hear you",
"I don’t think people realize just how important individuals like this are. The average person gets very little accomplished during their lives (myself included probably).\n\nThen we have people like this that get so much done it’s a shame they can’t live to 200.",
"Aren’t there like a trillion of those?"
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"That's cool. Do you make a steady living? How do you go about doing this?",
"It has its good months and bad, it all feels like a wave there can be hella work 1 week and no work the next. But before the pandemic I was working like crazy but things are slowly coming back.\n\nIf you wanted to get into it I’d recommend signing up with central casting and LAcasting should be your very first steps",
"Awesome work, and congrats on a dope video!",
"Great use of the Auralnauts trailer parody",
"I had a friend who did casual background acting in NYC. She was paid about $100+ a day to hang about and walk around in the background, or sit and chat in be a cafe scene.\n\nShe didn't do it for the money, just for fun life experience. I can't remember which movies she's in now but a couple of big titles, a few TV shows and a couple of ads. They would randomly call and say \"You free on X?\" And that was that. No clue what she would be in, she loved doing it. \n\nCool showreel, are we going to see you move to a foreground actor like the infamous Hector?",
"I’ve always wanted to do background in New York just to see how it is heard they shoot a lot of stuff there too.\n\nBut for foreground stuff I actually booked a bank commercial last month just waiting for it to come out!",
"I’ve always wondered with background conversations - like people sitting in a coffee shop behind the main cast - do they feed you guys lines to say to look real or do you make up something random between yourselves that you do every take (I’m guessing too much improv could be distracting and you’d piss off the director if it doesn’t work for the scene)?",
"Very cool! Hope you get a line one day!",
"This so cool, thanks! \nHow much do you get paid? Is it per hour? Is so how much time does it take?",
"Always wondered this too, like in case you goof off and make someone laugh and ruin a take.",
"How do you keep a stable financial income for purchasing large assets like a house or car?",
"Pretty much save, invest, live below your means, and have an emergency fund incase a rainy month comes along (like a strike, slow month, pandemic)",
"It really depends how far we are from the camera if I’m far away me and my partner will whisper but if I am close to camera we usually pantomime about our surroundings like if we’re at a coffee shop I would mouth “this coffee is really good” then let the other person respond",
"Tv pays: $182 for 8 hours\nCommercial pays: $388 for 8 hour\n\nYou get a guaranteed 8 hours so if we arrive and only work 1 hour we get paid for the full 8. There’s been times where I’ve arrived and they changed their mind about using us in the scene so we all signed our paperwork and go home after while getting paid a full 8 hour day.",
"Just popping in here as someone who used to work in background- you usually just mime conversation. If you have trouble doing that, I was always said to just run through the alphabet or just mime random letters and repeat.",
"it's good money for those who are ok with waiting a lot",
"These pretzels are makin’ me thirsty!",
"My cousin has been trying to make it in LA for 15-20 years now. When he was last home (Midwest) he was telling all these great stories of famous people. Said he is being considered for some big roles, he hasn't been in anything. He says he doesn't do extra work because he is better than that, even doesn't want to do commercials. He goes to parties where all the famous people go though, my guess is he's a waiter at them.",
"Fantastic. You have a very generic face. (in a good way) so you do not stand out to much are perfect for the extra work. Well done smiled throughout the video and glad you get to have some fun",
"It's often referred to as \"mock talk\": you just mouth conversations silently. The background chatter you hear in the final cut is the result of \"walla\", which is in-studio voice actors filling in background talking. I've done both.\n\nOn set once, in a restaurant scene, I started mock talking with the bg actor across the table from me. She stared at me, confused. When the director called cut, the bg actor said to me, \"I can't hear what you're saying!\" I think it was her first time.",
"Wardrobe department sends us an email telling us what to bring and if they don’t like our options they will always lend us their clothes",
"Congrats! :)",
"Did you actually get to see them titties?",
"How consistent is the work?",
"Before covid I was doing tv/commercials working around 4/5 times a week. now I only do commercials to focus more on auditions and work 1-3 times per week",
"you got quite the doo",
"Cool stuff, best of luck! 🤞",
"No no no that's not right at all, try this: \"these PRETZELS are makin' me THIRSTY!\"",
"Got any home movies where you happen to be in the background? I think those should be included in the reel.",
"It’s weird I don’t really work on movies much it doesn’t seem like a lot of them shoot in LA. But the ones I can remember off the top of my head are Ford v Ferrari, booksmart, captain marvel and marriage story. I feel like most movies are shot in Georgia.",
"I am so happy that you misinterpreted my question. Your answer is better than expected.",
"I'm guessing they always have you doing/kind-of doing somthing in each scene. \n\nSo far, what's been the most exciting/fun thing to do while in a scene?",
"Worked on a movie called yes day (Netflix) and all we did was have a water balloon fight for 5 days. It was pretty fun but my arm felt dead at the end of it.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/oP-yZ2rdPgE \n\nThere’s a scene in the movie where everyone is supposed to be kneeling down getting ready for “war”and I’m just standing there like a dummy not knowing what’s going on when I’m supposed to be kneeling down with everyone else",
"this is awesome im going to be looking for you from now on like i do stan lee in the marvel movies"
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I work as a background extra in Los Angeles, here’s everything I’ve been in so far.
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https://youtu.be/KN2NOuQQpt4
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/r/videos/comments/qxat53/new_footage_of_wb_take_on_smash_bros_multi_versus/
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"Supreme Shaggy? Sold!",
"Free ? \nI don't need a switch ?\nTHERE IS ULTRA INSTINCT SHAGGY ?\n\nOk I will give it a try xD",
"Wow, this looks terrible. Arya Stark in the same game as Adventure Time? Like I get that nobody likes GOT, but damn that's just some serious drag down."
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New footage of WB take on smash bros, “Multi Versus”.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE9lsThbaQk
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/r/videos/comments/qxay82/extent_of_the_flooding_in_bc_by_helicopter/
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"not to be a doomer, but there is no going back to 'normal'. Abnormal weather is the new normal. :'(",
"They can't \"get back to normal\". This flooding will continue to become more frequent and more devastating.",
"wow, the extent of that damage is insane.",
"The prediction by the UN is that extreme weather will become 5% more common by 2100, but as humans have gotten better at dealing with extreme weather, deaths from natural disasters have dropped more than 90% over the last 100 years despite a much larger population and there is no reason to think deaths from natural disasters won't continue to drop.\n\nPlease look up deaths by natural disasters by year yourself so you get the facts first hand. You should always do that, there is so much propaganda promoting an agenda these days.",
"Have a UN source for +5% by 2100? I would love to read that."
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Extent of the flooding in BC, by helicopter
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/r/videos/comments/qxbjsg/hellbound_comes_out_today_more_wholesome_korean/
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[
"Thanks for letting me know about this! I see the entire first season is on Netflix right now, so that's my evening sorted.",
"Meh , just Korea Americanized",
"I don't see any McDonalds",
"McDonalds is adored in Japan, Korea though, you don't need to see it in this film to become aware of that."
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Hellbound comes out today (More wholesome Korean entertainment)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qxcjut/deleted_by_user/
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"\"What a crypto scammer looks like\" or \"How a crypto scammer looks\".",
"I mean your title is incorrect.",
"I am disappointment in you're grammar."
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https://youtu.be/uNwJH6OjJtE
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[
"Ohh man this brings back memories.",
"Its like just old enough where I haven't thought about it but haven't forgotten the themesong.",
"Oh man my favorite one was the one where the guy got hit in the balls or the time the fat guy fell over.",
"Then there were S Tier parents who made whole skits with editing and stuff. Jackalope. That's when things went to the next level.",
"America..America..this is you",
"Jackalope was America’s funniest people with Dave Coulier.",
"The Jackalope was made by the competitor to America's Funniest Home Videos, that was also hosted by one of the dads from Full House... America's Funniest People.",
"I remember watching this show as a kid. Sometimes, my mom watched it with me. She laughed so much. Good times.",
"I unsubscribed from a lot of video-based subreddits on the day that I realized that I was spending a lot of time online basically watching America's Funniest Home Videos.",
"And the show is still on the air. You'd think it would've ended by now.",
"The thing I loved the most is Americas Funniest Home Videos suddenly got blasted with fake or staged videos trying to win the million dollar prize.\n\nThey had a whole segment about how they analyze staged videos one time.",
"Oh what?! There were two?!",
"Are you me?",
"America, America, this is... us.... @_@",
"America's Funniest Home Videos was the og. It was hosted by the main or serious dad from Full House, Bob Sagat. Then after it's success it got some competition in the form of America's Funniest People. AFP was co-hosted by the funny dad from Full House Dave Coulier. Dave voiced the Jackalope and the Jackolope skits were made by the show itself, most of the content was sent in by audiences like AFHV. The two shows often ended up airing back to back on the same channel and had a friendly rivalry going on. John Stamos the cool dad from Full House also got in on the action at one point."
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Before broadband video streaming was readily available, there was America's Funniest Home Videos
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https://youtu.be/CgbzeAHokBk
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"The info about exploding camels starts at 03:24\n\nSpoiler: you don't actually get to see any camels exploding, just the before and after photos. Still interesting nevertheless.",
"[ **Jump to 03:24 @** Don't Touch a Dead Camel in the Desert..It Will Explode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbzeAHokBk&t=0h3m24s)\n \n ^(Channel Name: TrTube, Video Popularity: 94.74%, Video Length: [05:33])^, [^Jump ^5 ^secs ^earlier ^for ^context ^@03:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbzeAHokBk&t=0h3m19s) \n \n----------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n \n ^^Downvote ^^me ^^to ^^delete ^^malformed ^^comments. [^^Source ^^Code](https://github.com/ankitgyawali/reddit-timestamp-bot) ^^| [^^Suggestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/timestamp_bot)",
"This is literally any dead mammal. Bloat up and explode. Can’t believe this needs to be explained, but touching dead carcasses puts you at risk for many pathogens."
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Don't touch dead camel
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https://youtu.be/7GUnQsnLVGo
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[
"Drunk Russians with a picckup truck?",
"That's surface freshwater, which is only a tiny fraction of total freshwater.",
"Travel agent",
"It is not true that this is the only species of seal living in freshwater in the world (as said in the first lines of the video). In Finland there are Saimaa seals, living in lake Saimaa:\n\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saimaa\\_ringed\\_seal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saimaa_ringed_seal)"
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How did a seal get to a lake in the middle of Siberia
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https://youtu.be/TwojpvG_Jv0
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[
"Happy Friday!!!",
"Happy Friday to you 😀 Make it a great weekend!",
"I didn’t even realize I needed more drone flute in my life."
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Hush now my baby from Prince of Egypt on drone flute
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SxJbT4IwUU
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/r/videos/comments/qxejk1/disgusting_ball_of_worms_found_slithering_on/
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[
"after floods (which is what this looks like) worms need to look for higher ground becasue the soil gets too wet. They're just trying to stay alive I dont think theres anything disgusting",
"Poor worms are like ‘wow, imagine just tryna live and being insulted like this’.",
"They call it a soup kitchen",
"Cute, you already know a name for the little zergling?",
"Right?! Just a ball of worms ungulating together like they are one massive slime covered, thousand-tentecled lovcraftian horror. How would anyone find that disgusting?",
"Those are Tubifex Tubifex, also called Tubifex worms. Absolutely disgusting to look at, but fish love to eat them! They grow in sewers and places like that, tend to clump up into big gross balls that sort of pulsate and move.\n\nBecause they are all touching when one gets disturbed it sends a chain reaction of all of them moving away from it so like the mechanics of it are simple but fuck is it unnerving to see.\n\nExample- [https://youtu.be/-WlsOlATT7I](https://youtu.be/-WlsOlATT7I)",
"The guy in your video sounds kinda like post10"
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Disgusting ball of worms found slithering on Texas farm.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3zfsOmVdS0
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/r/videos/comments/qxfdrv/this_yo_yo_commercial_is_the_most_90s_thing_ive/
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[
"Bruh I remember this, I had a yomega fireball",
"Same, they were so cool",
"Oh man the yo yo phase. Elementary and middle school if you didn’t have a yo yo you didn’t have friends and needless to say I had a ton of not friends",
"My man K Strauss would kill it with these things.",
"It's crazy to see K Strass in a commercial before he became a world famous yoyo master",
"Brain gang",
"Actually most 90’s commercials didn’t show a website, so not the most 90’s I’ve ever seen",
"The first guy's hair is stringier than the yo-yo. I apologize to the mullet for calling it the worst hairstyle.",
"I have such vivid memories of that summer... we put our ska albums aside and came together to just yo you all day long.",
"I want to say the entire series of Parker Lewis Cant Lose was filmed with that same fisheye filter",
"The yo yo craze was insane. They were literally everywhere for like 2 months and then it all vanished",
"That fad was pretty fun actually. We all learned a neat little skill. I remember getting a Fireball and being so psyched.",
"And I remember in the 80’s when yomega didn’t have ad money yet and the only place you could find them was the gift shops of science museums. My childhood best friend and I got super into yo yo’ing with yomegas after a class trip to the natural history museum. Problem was, if your yomega broke then…it was way more complicated than a trip to a toy store to get one. I remember seeing these commercials when I was in high school - it was weird to see such a niche toy start to blow up like that.",
"Had a yomega fireball and brain. Can confirm they were awesome as the commercial represents.",
"Nostalgic",
"I didn’t know the lead of Sum 41 liked yo yos so much",
"Oh shit, I remember this.",
"Oh man. This brings back memories. In the mid to late 90's I was a fairly accomplished yo-yoer on the competitive circuit. I was recruited and sponsored by Yomega to go around to malls, festivals, etc to demo their yo-yos and encourage people to buy them. I think it paid like $10/hr for every hour that I was on tour ($240/day), which was a lot of money to a kid.",
"my 90s commercials told me that if it isn’t a duncan, it isn’t a yo-yo.",
"I vividly remember this yo-yo salesman coming to my elementary school several years in a row, hyping that shit up.",
"15 in the 90s is like 25 today",
"that ad agency knew how to hit the 90s edge boner",
"I had a fireball. 0 regret",
"Yeah, I feel like this commercial might be early 2000s? There was a time in the late 90s when advertisements would contain the phrase \"AOL keyword:\" followed by the name of the product, but websites weren't really a popular thing to include at that time.",
"I was gonna say I’m pretty sure this was early 2000s anyways",
"Wow, this gave me flash backs to the Yo Yo craze back in school, that and the Beyblade fad were my faves",
"The Garth Brooks of yoyoing",
"Remember the yo-yo ball? You threw it down and the string would automatically retract.",
"So this was a pretty big deal in my life. All the real cool kids had fireballs. I had the Walmart special Butterfly. The day I saved up $20 to head to brookstone with my dad to buy a real Fireball was huge. I even greased the axle with petroleum jelly. I still have it to this day.",
"The moment the year 2000 hit, these same kids immediately co-opted the voice and persona of a black gang member from South Central LA, yet looked exactly the same as they do here and still lived with parents in the leafy suburbs",
"The Brain looked lame in comparison. \n\nWhat was the deal with the Saber. I couldn't figure it out or what the difference was compared to the fireball.",
"The yo-yo fad I remember was definitely in the 90s, but yeah this commercial is not from the 90s. Even if a commercial did have a website, most companies didn't have their own domains by that point so the URL would be something like \"http://earthlink.net/~yomega/\"",
"Why did this happen?!",
"I can guarantee you this is from like 98 or 99. For some reason yo-yos blew the fuck up in 4th grade for just that year lol. Everybody on the playground at recess had one",
"It’s NERF, or Nothing",
"This led me to look at the [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-yo) page for yo-yos, which has this in it:\n\n> In 1979, dentist and yo-yo celebrity Tom Kuhn patented the \"No Jive 3-in-1\" yo-yo",
"Clicked half expecting to see [this commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyd51lvu3xw)\n\nNow THAT is every 90s commercial, lol.",
"Reminds me of when I yo-yo'd through the South as a young man. Heck back in those days I could get a pack of Marlboros AND three gallons of gas for my Oldsmobile for $5. Why, if I recall, before the internets, yo-yo's was all we had!",
"The school got a cut so we all stopped learning for a day.",
"I did to. I bet I could still do around the world, and the swing if I got a hold of one right now\n\nHoly shit they still seem to be sold on [Amazon ](https://www.amazon.com/Yomega-Fireball-Professional-Responsive-Transaxle/dp/B07XQHX381/ref=asc_df_B07XQHX381/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=385575062602&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2470124768650591215&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003488&hvtargid=pla-844454897942&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=79288125595&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=385575062602&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2470124768650591215&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003488&hvtargid=pla-844454897942)",
"I get that a schools are underfunded, but profiting off toys feels iffy. I bet the yo-yo business has a lot of ups and downs.",
"So the Saber wing or brain automatically came up the line without you having to yank on the line. It didn’t really allow you to do what tricks you wanted on your own timing. There were springs in it that pulled taught on the axle and made the yo-yo return. It was a gimmick, and none of the boys really bought it",
"Lol. Just got my kids a couple Yomega Brain yo-yos as stocking stuffers for Christmas. Will be sure to share this video with them after they open them Christmas morning.",
"K-Strass, the yo-yo legend?",
"Is that Ben Foster?",
"I had the bee? brand. Maybe it was Bumblebee. But it was all the rage. Did tricks while waiting in line for Toy Story. Sick times, frosted tips need to come back imo.",
"I loved the commercials that made sure you got your parents permission to use the world wide web.",
"Surely it lasted longer than that? They did a whole Simpsons thing on it.",
"Sold!",
"You blast that reel big fish while you yo-yo!",
"what the fuck, why is this conversation making me want to go out and buy a yo yo now.",
"It was the bumblebee. In my school, only the rich kids had the fireball, so went with the next best thing, and got the bumblebee, and man I loved that thing.",
"Whoa. That caught me off guard. Fucking hilarious.",
"I had a Black Momba. So dope",
"Ah man, totally remember using baby oil to grease the axle on my fireball.",
"I had a fireball yo yo, judge me!",
"Yep, I got the fireball and I was the coolest kid in school for a week.",
"I remember them having someone come in and showing us his yoyos and tricks, but not actually selling them (obvious now that he was advertising them). I thought it was just the school trying to be relevant and bringing them in to show what yoyoing is like without a knot",
"Man that hyperwarp brings back memories. All i have left is a fireball but my hyperwarp was the GOAT. Cherish it!",
"I have a coworker (in his late 40s) that still carries a yo-yo around with him. He used to compete back in the day.",
"Those names are bringing back memories I haven't had since elementary school.",
"I can just smell the hair gel.",
"They were so smooth, and made the coolest sound!",
"que tiempos aquí le llamo yoyos",
"Everybody's doing the fish! Yeah yeah yeah!",
"When i'm in the pit i'm gonna punch and kick",
"As soon as I saw the thumbnail (on mobile, no less)... I was instantly transported back.",
"I think I still have my Yomega somewhere...",
"Inserting appropriate Simpsons clip:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-da-rJhbXI",
"That marketing was on point. Every kid in America was scrambling for Yomegas.",
"Bumblebee Turbo club represent!",
"I listened to ska when I yo-yoed just in case I dropped the yo-yo, the music made it easy to pick it up pick it up pick it up",
"At least in my case the school just hijacked our lunch hour for this guy to do his thing.",
"Yo-yos seem like a fever dream to me now",
"All about the Duncan",
"man , i remember in my school DUNCAN yo-yo's where goated.",
"Speaking of 90's commercials that are the most 90's thing ever, I will venmo/cashapp/whatever $20 to someone if they can find my white whale. There was a commercial around christmas time that was an old guy (don't think it was santa though) that was saying how much better Sega was over SNES. He kept using euphemisms for how it beats the SNES and a couple were along the lines of Sega hits SNES \"right in Granny's apples, right in Geppetto's workshop\" and so on. \n\nI'm sure it seems stupid to offer actual money to find this, but with the amount of google searches I do every 6 months when i'm bored trying to find it, its worth it.",
"What about the liquid slam commercial?",
"I'll take two.",
"And in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say. Now, where were we? Oh, yeah! The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.”",
"Fucking lol that was poetic I'm totally stealing the onion on my belt line",
"I remember Yoyos was the thing the year after pogs.",
"There’s more where that came from over in the [Yomega Zone](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-YomegaZoneYoYoTraining).",
"The Garth Brooks of yo-yos?",
"you could take it apart and remove the spring and the brain would sleep forever! That's what the cool kids did.",
"I felt like I was the only one in school who didn't have the parted bowl cut. Not a great look.",
"It's a scene from the Simpsons. Everyone stole it from grandpa.",
"Yeah I had that red one in 3rd grade.\n\nIt was cool.",
"If you want to dip back in to some ska real quick, check out Jeff Rosenstock’s Ska Dream album from last year. It’s fun.",
"I hear he has friends in yo places",
"There was a Simpsons episode from 1992 that showed a big yo-yo craze at the school. The writers chose yo-yos because it was completely out of style and a largely forgotten toy at the time. Not long after, yo-yos came roaring back, and I can't help but think that little satire in the Simpsons help bring it back into our collective consciousness for a while.",
"I thought \"riding the string\" is what girls said when they were having their period.",
"In the early 90s a rep from some yoyo company like this came to our school and did an hour long assembly about yoyos complete with how to buy them from his company in, front of the whole damn school.\n\nEducation at it's finest.",
"You weren't cool unless you had a yo-yo with gears in it. I can remember bringing my yo-yo that I'd been given by my uncle (it was probably from the 70s or 80s) to school when yo-yos were cool. I was informed my yo-yo and I were not cool.",
"Naw man. We were doing that in 93.",
"This commercial had me go out and buy one",
"I love that every now and then they try (and succeed!) at bringing back the yo-yo, which is as old as the hills.\n\nI keep waiting for the return of the hula hoop and those hoop-and-stick things.",
"My first job in the mid-2000s paid me $6.25 an hour. So yeah, as a kid you were banking.",
"This is a man who knows what he wants.",
"The 90s were so fun as kids",
"I bet the salesmen traveled Around The World going from school to school, Walking The Dog and pony show to peddle his goods.",
"Needs an AOL keyword",
"Fireball's were like our version of BFF necklaces lol. You and a friend would get 2 different colors so you could trade halves. Definitely some \"Hey, can I have my half back?\" situations which was basically like breaking up.",
"We got them ironically to make fun of the kids who were excited about their yoyos... then we all learned \"walk the dog\" and it wasn't ironic anymore...",
"Me too, they got so tangled...",
"I had a fireball. Pretty good, actually.",
"Before yo-yos became the in thing again, there were pogs.",
"Holy shit did this happen to everyone?",
"You mean Francis from Malcolm in the Middle?",
"Everyone was jealous of my bumblebee. Even the butterfly kids.",
"Better than fidget spinners!",
"Nah this is definitely late 90s. If I had to guess what I’d say 98? I specifically remember this ad. As for the website, that was right about the time you started to see them with the “ASK YOUR PARENTS BEFORE GOING ONLINE” shit.",
"Remember pogs. They were cool until old creepy guys wanted to enter tournaments with children.",
"😂 I only remembered rich white kids talked like that when my kid was randomly watching the Scooby Doo film from the early 2000s the other week and a couple of dudes talk like that in it. So cringeworthy!",
"YoMega was absolutely the cause of the fad. The three yo-yos shown in the commercial, specifically The Brain, were super innovative yo-yos that used weights, bearings, and other internal mechanisms to make it easier to use and do tricks with.",
"The 90s were huge for the color yellow, as evidenced by the shirts in this video. We really went from Color Me Bad- era mustard yellow shirts to All That’s acid green set decoration (a muted neon yellow-green) and this ad was produced during that shift.",
"The fidget spinners of their time.\n\nMan humans REALLY get distracted by shiny spinning stuff dont we...",
"but pokemon cards came out the year after",
"Just like fidget spinners",
"Ehhh...got to throw in some Dutch Angles and more than just a white background. But it's pretty damn 90's",
"Did they really return automatically or did you have to put some effort into it?",
"Directed by Hype Williams",
"The Yomega's were always seen as the \"Ferrari's\" of yo-yo's, but I still got a LOT of attention with my Duncan \"Midnight Special.\" That was one of the most fun trends in elementary school, then came Pokemon cards and things changed drastically, lol.",
"That is super strange to me, because it was the opposite at my school. We had an assembly where a guy did yo-yo tricks and sold them to kids afterwards, and I distinctly remember the bumblebee being the most expensive one, and the one the guy used in his act. Fireballs were like $7 and it seemed like everyone had one. I got really into it for a year or two, had a special glove for yo-yoing and everything. I had a Yomega X-brain from the commercial and it's actually the one I learned the most tricks on. I've thought about buying a high quality trick yo-yo as an adult just to see how many tricks I can remember how to do, but then I picture myself, a lanky, 30 year old accountant with a receding hairline playing with a yo-yo and a little piece of me dies so I haven't taken the plunge as of yet. Maybe when the mid life crisis hits, I'll be ready to return to that yo-yo life.\n\nEdit: I ordered a metal unresponsive yoyo on Amazon, come Tuesday I'll either be stoked about relearning tricks or I'll have a black eye from taking a metal yoyo to the face trying to do around the world for the first time in 15+ years.",
"I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago",
"I remember getting a glow in the dark yo yo from \"World of Science\" store in my local mall. It had the 2 ball bearing with springs inside which I had no clue what it does, but just knew more is better. We weren't poor, but I could not justify nor convince my dad to buy me the ones with 4 balls and springs inside that were just way more expensive for some reason. Yo yos just suddenly blew up for no reason for what felt like a whole year and all of them suddenly became super expensive.\n\nMan I miss the \"World of Science\" that was the place I would hangout when my parents did shopping. I would be in there the whole day playing with tops, spinny things, the object inside this mirrored bowl creating illusion it's on top, the water tube thing that would slip out of your hand if you try to grip it. I bought some glow in the dark planets and stars and had it just above me when I slept in the top bunk bed, meanwhile my dad bought a bunch of the small to medium ones and completely decked out his own bedroom with them, just completely covering his ceiling, meticulously spacing them randomly but evenly all over.",
"Yoooo i had a few yomegas haha",
"Makes me miss my Duncan yo-yo",
"Kanye West can see into another dimension where intergalactic humanoid Bears are in a war with a great evil, whose consequence will affect our dimension.\n\nSo earth has multiple interlinked dimensions. There is one where humanoid bears live in. Recently, a great evil has emerged on that dimension which affects all the dimensions.\n\nKanye can see the Bear dimension and using his knowledge of both dimensions, he can affect events in the Bear dimension that will affect the war.\n\nEvents that happen in one dimension affect the other. With this knowledge, Kanye is able to help the underdog good guys. Remember when Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift? If he didn't do that, half of Canada would have been destroyed.\n\nRemember this? https://v.redd.it/2qzojvgz8hw71 Kanye was preventing a head of state from being kidnapped, and he did it while still entertaining his fans.",
"Kanye West can see into another dimension where intergalactic humanoid Bears are in a war with a great evil, whose consequence will affect our dimension.\n\nSo earth has multiple interlinked dimensions. There is one where humanoid bears live in. Recently, a great evil has emerged on that dimension which affects all the dimensions.\n\nKanye can see the Bear dimension and using his knowledge of both dimensions, he can affect events in the Bear dimension that will affect the war.\n\nEvents that happen in one dimension affect the other. With this knowledge, Kanye is able to help the underdog good guys. Remember when Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift? If he didn't do that, half of Canada would have been destroyed.\n\nRemember this? https://v.redd.it/2qzojvgz8hw71 Kanye was preventing a head of state from being kidnapped, and he did it while still entertaining his fans.",
"You mean the commercial that has been stuck in my head, on a loop, since like 1993? Cause I never need to wind it, I can do it all?\n\nYeah, i remember that.",
"you better",
"> pick it up pick it up pick it up\n\n[Black Sheep](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9F5xcpjDMU&t=2m25s) still slaps",
"Hey, man! It's a yo-yo ball!",
"Remember when Yo Hans put out a single?(Yo Hans being the world Yo Yoing champion, obviously)",
"I LOVED my fireballs. I still have them today but unfortunately they don't catch anymore, think the string is just too old. But I'll never forget working on them and lubricating the bearings, that nice machine smell of the oil, and just getting it spinning perfectly smooth. Takes me back.",
"Obligatory r/Throwers mention (yoyo subreddit)",
"Except now is the time to get the infamous silver bullet, where you had to wear a wrist guard or it might break your wrist. “It happened to a kid over at the elementary school my friend goes to. For real….”",
"Goddamn inflation!",
"Somehow it makes me remember the early 1950s when a yo yo specialist from Duncan would, once a year, do the stage show at the Texas Theater in Dallas, TX (where, in 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald would shoot Officer Tippit). He would do all of the most amazing showboat yo yo tricks you can imagine. And, of course, sales of Duncan yo yos would trend upward for awhile.",
"I just spent like 20 minutes watching Sega commercials. I didn't find it but I did realize just how much absolute yelling and screaming was in old genesis commercials.",
"[Was this you?](https://player.vimeo.com/video/11156270?h=e4d18806eb)",
"The Matrix called it!",
"More like 40. Time sneaks up on you.\n\nEdit: Nevermind, they meant price, not age.",
"Remember splat, nutty putty, pog, bop it, yak baks?",
"It's from 1998: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms9LZvIbOB8",
"Remember those assemblies where groups would come and do yo yo tricks...and then sell you yo yos... So I'm just now having a realization that those yo yo assemblies were kind of bullshit.",
"Had the fireball and the higher model. It had 2 arms that separate when spinning and clamped back down on the hub when it slowed down making the yoyo return. Not sure if the fireball had it. \n\nZero effort.",
"Haven't seen it in years, but I can confirm that commercial was a thing FWIW.",
"I’ve seen ads that try to get Siri to pull something up like how dare you",
"I was gonna say, I remember this commercial, and it was definitely during the 90's. I think you're right about 98-- it feels too much like 98 to me.",
"Bless you, child. It's reassurances like these that give me comfort in trying times.",
"Follow that up with a capri sun commercial.",
"Do we even have silly fads like this anymore with the kids? Seems like it went from gameboys to Pogs to lanyards to Yoyos to hacky-sacks to aluminum scooters over the course of like 10 years. But the only thing I really recall in the last several years is fidget spinners... but that seems like the same age group, just older.",
"I loved the fireball. Some fucker stole mine. Fuck that guy.",
"No, we didn't all dress like background extras from Saved by the Bell.\n\nThe irritating thing about \"this is the most 90s thing\" is that you're actually referring to how hair, makeup and wardrobe coordinators dressed dorks up, and not actually what anything looked like in the 90s except maybe a few stage performers in any given genre that spawned mall shopper clones copping the cheaper/shittier version. If you saw these kids out on the street they'd look like bizarre Disney cartoons, i mean they're wearing primary color shirts? LOLWUT. \n\nLike here is \"so late 90s\" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIrb4GQm6Lw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIrb4GQm6Lw) right? Same thing, it's a bizarre caricature of what some sitcom teen looked like.\n\nIt's not as extreme as looking at some celeb that is in full on \"fashion clown\" wardrobe, but it's pretty close.\n\nIt's not difficult to look up what people really looked like in any era via documentaries, because again it varied based on your subculture. Starter jackets? Grunge? Huge legged jeans? way-too-big / baggy formal wear? Yueeeeeuuughhhh",
"These were dope",
"*we’re not worth. We’re not worthy*",
"Nothing like the yo-yo shooting back up to crush the tip of your finger after thinking it was \"sleeping\"",
"\"How would you like you hair cutting today, young man?\"\n\n\"Like a wet cat.\"",
"I was like: yeah I'm going to get this Fireball and become amazing at yoyo now I don't have a cheap one. \nAnd of course I was just as bad with it",
"i had a red fireball. it was a quality yo yo",
"L.A. Looks brand",
"Twice divorced",
"Man I was so happy when I got one of these. They really did spin forever.",
"Not just the style and vibe, but the idea that Yo-Yoing could be marketed as height of “cool”. So many kids bought into that 90’s coolness aesthetic, myself included. It’s so bizarre.",
"What a time to be alive",
"Definitely looks 98-ish. 95-97 was my sweet spot. 95. was all about skating with my homies and 97 was all about the ladies in my 8th grade class. Best. Summer. Ever.",
"I was…not prepared for that…",
"I distinctly remember trying to do an \"Around the world\" and the string coming off my finger and my Brain going on the roof of the house and into the gutter where it would spend the next 6 years. Good times.",
"*says “Rock n’ Roller bearing” with a straight face*",
"I’m pretty sure I had one of these. There was a period as a kid when yo-yos became super popular for some reason",
"Oh man these yo-yos took *over* for like a solid year at my middle school. Everyone had them. And honestly they were pretty fucking cool.",
"My mom found mine in the basement of her house a few weeks ago. My 4 and 5 year old boys love it, but haven't gotten the hang of it yet.",
"That’s awesome!! Yo-yoing is hard as hell. Do you ever carry it around to impress people with yo-yo party tricks?!",
"Wow it seems that they are still around and you can get them on Amazon.",
"That is violently '90s.",
"Absolute pussy magnets.",
"> Kanye West can see into another dimension where intergalactic humanoid Bears are in a war with a great evil, whose consequence will affect our dimension.\n\nYeah I tried that once but it was fish people vs some kind of retarded fish/frog or fish/squirrel people.\n\nI guess the difference is I had to eat a lot of mushrooms and Kanye can just do it at will because he's a genius.",
"I had the brain. It was definitely easier to do tricks with.",
"shit, we were cool",
"Oh man, I just went down a nostalgia rabbit hole in my brain.\n\nAnyone remember when hackysacks were huge?",
"Always a trip to se no website address on any of these older commercials",
"That fireball though was technology way ahead of it's time. THE DOG WALKS ITSELF!",
"Nah it was Reddit copypasta first then Simpsons did an homage to it",
"those brains used to be awesome",
"Phewwww \n\nYeah there’s quite an unrealistic romanticism of the 90s happening at a clearly safe distance - but the fact was it was properly raw and cringe.",
"Do what makes you happy, and fuck whatever other people think. Buy the yo-yo.",
"Dude I got nostalgic chills just now. Fuck getting older lol",
"The craziest part is \"...Toy store...\" I wouldn't even know where to find a toy store today.",
"There were loads of commercials just like this around that time and a couple years before that. Those obnoxious teen boys with that exaggerated in-your-face smirk. Even watching this now, it grinds my gears a bit, though now it also makes me laugh xD\n\nBut damn. Those yo-yos were fucking awesome.",
"I had one of these and foolishly let some asshole kid borrow it and I never saw it again. :(",
"[Those guys must be millionaires!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-da-rJhbXI)\n\n[I'm sick and tired of talking about yo yos.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzwKWBKVf_A)",
"Ha, I recently found my Brain and gave it a try. I still suck.",
"I had one of these. So did all of my friends.",
"Today this would be 1 white kid, 1 black kid, 1 latino girl, 1 asian girl, and 1 gay theirs/them/they. And nobody would be allowed to say the word \"yo\" which, honestly, makes advertising a yo-yo like 10x harder.",
"That look. That look of gelling you hair so much that it looked wet yet hard........it was a strange time historians will struggle to understand",
"Maaaan. I remember wanting one of those!",
"- Mark McGwire",
"Party like it's 1999, I guess!",
"I remember this commercial and how popular they were at school. People use to say using a brain was cheating lol",
"I still have my Yomega yo-yo! That purchase was 100% a result of wanting to yo yo with the same amount of swagger as those cool cats.",
"i want in that bubble!",
"He hides bodies in his basement, too?\n\n#freetom",
"How many yo-yos had to be sold to pay for the commercial?",
"I wanted one so bad. My parents got me a Duncan because, \"it's we grew up with. \" that darn Duncan butterfly rekt my fingers so many times",
"The Sears air conditioning commercial is way more 90s IMO",
"*Duncan Yo’s have entered the chat*",
"I went crazy and bought one called the metallic missile. It s the coolest yo yo I swear",
"Somehow that didn't seem to affect Pokemon.",
"That commercial was the reason why I had like 10yomega yoyos and all I could do was walk the dog.\n\n\n\nThe price of trying to be the cool kid in elementary school",
"> the yoyo with a brain that returns automatically\n\n...... what?",
"WHAT? HUH? I CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING OVER THE SOUND OF EVER SINGLE VAGINA IN THE WORLD DRIPPING DUE TO THIS COMMERCIAL",
"Holy fuck that was painful to watch",
"That's not ska, but Black Sheep is sampled in my all-time favorite pump up song [Put Your Hands Up - Fatman Scoop](https://youtu.be/yEEQ2FmWQQk?t=118)",
"I remember when this was the toy to have as a kid! I had the black Fireball as well as a Duncan brand yo-yo and thought I was so cool! I can't remember if that came before Pokemon or after but it was for sure after the Crazybones fad died down!",
"I had the one that was suppose to come up on it’s own",
"Wtf, that's Collin Robinson from What We Do in the Shadows!",
"It’s such a good bit, I swear they just wrote the Colin Robinson character for him.",
"Those kids are nearly 40 now.",
"Lucky, all I could have were the fake brand ones.",
"Excuse me that’s Eric Stringer.",
"fucking guy",
"No kids, no girlfriend. Doesn’t want one.",
"cranking [Fastball's The Way](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5jlTlUTWfQ) on repeat while the CD player skipped to all hell",
"I sold these in 1998 and the Fireball was always sold out. We also had a $200 aluminum yo yo in the case, I forget the brand or model, but sometimes I would take it for a spin and it was like the difference between driving a Honda and a Porsche. Just absolute balance and bearing quality. I got tired before it got done sleeping and it still came all the way back.",
"He bought too many and now he's in too deep.",
"You had to be there",
"I had a Yomega brain!! And a fireball, but the brain was amazing when I was a kid!",
"I need to get me a damn yo-yo again. This brought back some nostalgia",
"How’s Kenny’s dad doing?",
"There's another upload of this ad that states it's 1998. I thought the same as you so I looked for other uploads, and maybe this isn't 100% definitive proof, but I lean towards believing it.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms9LZvIbOB8\n\nIt's not only the description. Pause at around 9 seconds in and read the blue screen.\n\nEDIT: \nYou can also use https://archive.org/ on yomega.com and look at the October 1999 archive, like in the video, and see a link to a \"national TV commercial.\" The link is broken for me. If you click on the \"Hot News\" banner, it'll take you to a separate page, where you'll see this text:\n\n>WATCH YOMEGA'S NATIONAL TV COMMERCIAL\nYomega's commercial \"Ride The String\" is\ncurrently airing nationally on the WB, Fox ...\n\nThe link on this page works, but it just loads to a page with a bunch of errors for me. I'd say that's pretty definitive proof the \"Ride the string\" ad was out in the 90s.",
"Did you guys ever get [chatter rings](https://youtu.be/cAC0ZsdN7HQ) at your school? I remember they came in at some point while the yo yo craze was dying off",
"Yomega.com is still around",
"I still have mine. I'm 44.",
"Yo Yo's were huge, remember [Yo Yo Ball](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsUXtZauY68)?",
"the real ones know about the petroleum jelly!!!!",
"No, [THIS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyd51lvu3xw) is the most 90's commercial you'll ever see.\n\n#LIQUID *SLAM!*",
"That Brain yo-yo caused me so many bruised knuckles. Always came back at the worst time. I loved the thing.",
"It's like they fit an entire episode of Beakman's World in 30 seconds.",
"I miss the 90s",
"This commercial absolutely got me to buy a fireball",
"Better times",
"We’ve come a long way baby!",
"Mark Proksch is his name, and he is fucking brilliant in WWDITS.",
"Hahaha wtf was that?",
"Jesus christ. You really dug up a memory I didn't even remember having. I had a purple yo-yo from that brand. They worked pretty damn well.",
"Are you the one behind the bars or the one in front of them?",
"The office too",
"Gums gotten mintier lately. Have you noticed?",
"*so crunchy*",
"Name one person who got rich from doing yo-yo tricks.",
"Thank you... this is the first thing I thought of after watching the yo yo commercial.",
"Good ol' Colin draining em on the air waves. He must have gotten a good feeding off of that. Day time local broadcast channel. Sucked the life right out of em.",
"\"How can we make yo yos cool again, Bob?\"\n\n\"I Know! Those rapper guys say yo all the time. Let's emphasize the *yo* in yo yo!\"",
"Had an x-brain. loved that yoyo.",
"Buy me Bonestorm or GO TO HELL!!!!",
"I had one",
"You may have better luck posting this to r/tipofmytongue",
"Thanks! I actually buy stupid, so called \"childish\" things all the time, I was mostly just being self deprecating for humor. I have a pair of Heelys, I own several skateboards/longboards, my office at work is full of Star Wars knick knacks and Hot Wheels cars I thought were cool. In many ways I spend my money the same way that 12 year old me would want me to. I've just had more than my fair share of teasing from family and coworkers, so I know a large portion of society has problems with people enjoying things.",
"Yeah, that's pretty 90s. But can you handle [Dan Cortese on BKTV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scba6EWm8oQ) levels of 90s?",
"thanks for the link!\n\nloved the black sheep jam and thats fun to know\n\nit is a pump up jam for sure",
"Me too. It broke in a month",
"Hey it’s the sum41 dude",
"Yomegas were the shit all through grade school. Until those and our tamagotchis were banned. Fucking squares, man.",
"# SEGA!!!!",
"\"It will be one of their few pleasant memories when they're pumping gas for a living.\"",
"nice yo",
"So much of what we associate as 90s was actually early 2000s. Spongebob didn’t start until 1999 for example.",
"Those were cool but I liked the Duncan butterfly and the xbrain but I also remember not openly liking the xbrain because everyone liked to talk shit that it was a cheater yo-yo because of the bearings that made it spin longer. My brother was one of those people and liked to act like he was the shit because he used a variflex. Yo-yo elitism lmfao to be a kid again",
"and DreamCorp LLC",
"i'm so glad this guy got a chance in Better Call Saul and The Office",
"Damn this still slaps! Now I wanna go buy a yomega yo-yo!",
"I bought one on Amazon recently just because I randomly thought of playing with one when I was a kid. I don’t use it, it just sits on my desk with other collectible items.",
"still a thing.\n\n​\n\nhttps://yomega.com/",
"Looks like one kids wearing some JNCO's. You could fit sacks upon sacks of potatoes in those pant legs.",
"Alright alright now I'ma go listen to some Coal Chamber while I practice my hackey sack.",
"I just want to let you guys know that I don't have a hearing issue. I can actually hear very well.",
"Did the professional competitors actually use the Yomega product?",
"I remember the fireball and the brain!!",
"The 90's was such a weird time and I love it.",
"I had the Yomega X-brain. Yup, it was awesome. I miss it.",
"This was actually a good product too. Yomega yo-yos were so much better than Duncan. You could sleep them things for damn near a minute if you got a good throw.",
"AOL and dialup were pretty pervasive by 98. We even had high speed internet in our dorm in '96. (my campus was one of the first with it nationwide).",
"Fish eye lens, saturated-ass colors, skater bowl cut, nasty greasy spiked hair, bland-colored brandless clothes (especially the unbuttoned overshirts), baggy-ass jeans, oversized Vans-type shoes, ghetto slang talk. Yeah, this does hit all the 90s/early 2000s white kid commercial tropes.",
"For years I used to keep one in my pocket. I was never good with it, but if I found myself waiting for a bus or standing outside somewhere - like you used to line up for concert tickets - it was great. It was the original fidget spinner. Other people would get these really jealous looks on their faces and I'd just hand it over so they could have a go - and every time their faces would completely light up. \n\nMakes me want to get a yo-yo now, too.",
"To be fair, that was an awesome yoyo, and one I loved playing with until it inevitably fell off my finger and went flying. I must have had six of them, and I'd gladly buy more too.",
"Strobe light warning for those with issues...",
"This, and the \"CROSSSS FIYAAAAHHHHH!!!\" Crossfire commercial.",
"Yeah, it had a small centrifugal clutch",
"That's totally the somewhat deaf guy from The Office.",
"Love those Jnco pants. \nStill have mine stored in my closet if it ever comes back in style. **B-)**",
"Yo! MTV raps",
"Did anyone have a yo yo day in elementary school? The whole day was about yo yo's. They'd show tricks and sell them at lunchtime. This was like 96 or 97.",
"Could use a lil more hair gel",
"90's people loved to shove their face into wide angle lenses.",
"I actually remember this commercial. Also... these were some pretty solid starting yo-yo's fo' sho'-sho'.",
"I still have most of these models. I know for sure I still have my Fireball and Brain.",
"well... that got interesting in the end lol",
"Hey blonde kid, you'd look great in our commercial! Know how to yo-yo?\n\nNot at all! But my two Asian friends are fucking amazing.\n\nHmm throw some sunglasses on then and put them in the back... Let's roll film!",
"Nobody is saying all people dressed like this but that it was absolutely popular fashion at the time. I remember having spikey hair with washable blue dye on the tips all the time as a kid. Tripp pants were super popular. The kids often looked like the kids in the video and the parents wanted that Brandon Lee aesthetic.",
"I mean, he is an [Energy Vampire.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_xSilxHFns)",
"I remember yo yos being the coolest shit ever. I even had a yo yo magazine that showed off people doing tricks and stuff.",
"Back in elementary school we had a school assembly because a 'yoyo artist' was coming to visit. The whole thing turned out to be a sales pitch of Yomega and they handed out order forms to all the kids.\n\nAn entire school assembly for a yo-yo salesperson to sell yo-yos to the kids. I remember the teachers were pissssed when we got back to the classroom, but a few weeks later there were so many yo-yos going around that the school administration put a ban them.",
"Or at least a cheaply made knockoff.",
"I'm seeing this commonly made mistake all over this post, so I feel it's worth it to inform folks on the top comment that has it. No shame, just letting you know.\n\nThe correct form is '90s, not 90's. The apostrophe represents the two abbreviated digits. The \"s\" is plural, not possessive (as in all the years of that decade).",
"I’m guessing the guy may have bought bumblebees at low cost and sold for a profit…",
"I remember I had a Yomega fireball. It was so cool. It got stolen from my desk in grade school. And I couldn’t report it because we weren’t supposed to have them.",
"i remember that. i think it was santa.",
"I got one of those! :D",
"This looks like early Y2K to me",
"Those were so over priced. If you showed elementary school me modern yoyos and how much they are on Amazon I would flip. Also if you want a yoyo made out of aluminum that feels like it will take your hand off, ten dollars.",
"I had a clear Yomega Brain that I brought to school in a leather holster on my belt like it was a fucking handgun.\n\nThere were rumors of a yo-yo out there you could buy that spun so fast you could slash open skin and it was banned at school.\n\n\nGoddamn those were special times.",
"This was the introduction to the 90s:\n\n[Hypercolor](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tXzUG8Az0)",
"I bought a yomega fireball from that guy. Surprisingly still have it in a box \\~25 years later.",
"bruh... if you can't do the shit you like when you're older, when can you do them? Buy a fucking yo yo and reclaim some of your happiness.",
"Well you know what they say: growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional. AND BALLIN' IS FUCKING MANDATORY SO YOU GET OUT THERE AND GET THAT YOYO AND LIVE 👏 YOUR 👏 DREAMS 👏 BRO 🗿",
"Gen Z dresses like the kids in that commercial lol",
"Remember YoYo Ball? \n\n\nIt's so much fun, and easy to do \nGo wherever it goes, it comes back to you \nGotcha comin and goin, even OFF THE WALLLLLLLLLL\n\nHey man it's a YoYo ball.",
"The Fireball was sick! It really did spin forever. Mine was purple.",
"I forgot that we all got into yo-yos for a minute.",
"In case you don't know pick it up is something that is said in ska very often. [Like this gem I just found lol.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CCjZH3z9eI)",
"And they made the sickest screeching sound when you slept them. People joke but you’re right the yo-yo fad wasn’t completely out of nowhere, it’s because Yomega and some other brands started making fucking cool yo-yos.",
"Yeah I don’t know why people think the internet just popped into existence in 2000. This is certainly a 90s commercial, I remember it and I was in elementary school which was the 90s for me.",
"🎶Have you EEEEVERRR had to KNOCK ON WOOD!🎶",
"> I even greased the axle with petroleum jelly. \n\nThat's funny because 'real' yoyoers remove as much lube as possible so they spin longer.",
"Those fireballs were the must-have toy from that year for sure.",
"> They were literally everywhere for like 2 months and then it all vanished\n\nWas like 6th-8th grade, your school was slow, or I guess very fast..",
"link to steam engine?",
"Think I’ve seen this commercial when I was a kid, I watch stuff like this all day now!",
"You got to put those two loose loops in the wind before you tightener down on the full wind.",
"This one was even more 90s but came out in 2000's..\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvF0iqe0ibA",
"I think more likely my memory of life at 8 years old is unreliable",
"Not to brag but I had a neon greenish saberwing..",
"Also Better Call Saul",
"Pretty sure I had one of these",
"He killed it in BCS. That fucking yellow Hummer with the spinners!",
"Yo-yos kicked the piss out of fidget spinners",
"Wait, people associate Spongebob with the 90s?",
"There's only audio in the left channel. I found a trick to make it mono so that you have audio on both sides. Save this javascript line as a bookmark in your browser, and open it while on the page (I have it as a button right next to my address bar)\n\n javascript:c=new AudioContext(),v=document.getElementsByTagName('video'),a=c.createMediaElementSource(v[0]);c.destination.channelCount=1;a.connect(c.destination);void(null);",
"Me too. Holy crap hadn’t thought of this in frothed",
"I definitely had a few of these growing up. The 90s were great",
"I remember this and now feel ancient.",
"The Yomega Fireball was hype as fuck in the 5th grade school yard",
"And here we have an accurate timeframe of when White people adopted and ruined hip hop",
"Great. Now I want one.",
"I was a Duncan fan. The Black Magic was my yo of choice.",
"Fuck it, I was so jealous, one kid had the one with the lights, so I asked my parents for some cash, gone to the first store, asked for that, came home with the hope of being like that one.\n\nIt wasn't, still played it, even if I was disappointed",
"I remember this. I definitely had a yomega and a butterfly. Rocking the Eiffel tour and around the world all day every day. Listening to Coolio, Mc Hammer and Offspring like a fucking boss.",
"The audio is in mono hahaha. Only coming out one side of my headset. Good times.",
"Bumblebees... Butterbees... The shark one... Black mamba... Viper... Silver bullet... The list goes on and on.\n\nStill split atoms every now and then lmao.",
"The kid in the yellow shirt went to my elementary school. He was the school’s pride and joy.",
"I'm 36 and I can still throw enough to look impressive after learning close to 20 years ago lol. I wouldn't hold a candle to anyone competitive now, but I keep one on my desk and have fun with it every other week or so.",
"I never thought I'd live in a world where someone says, \"This is the most '90's thing I've ever seen.\" \n\n\nDamn I'm gettin' old.",
"You're a millennial, who gives a shit? We're fucked mate, so you enjoy your yoyo. Derive whatever enjoyment out of life you can because it's all fucked anyway.",
"You and me both, man.",
"I have one of those! They aren't really all that heavy, and the rounded edges made hits marginally less painful. I have a couple that are like 20-30g heavier with metal wings. You definitely know when you get hit with one of those!",
"This is incredible. If I understand it correctly, this comedian just went around ad-lib trolling whatever local news station would let him on the air, with as much cringe as he could muster...I am absolutely fascinated by this.",
"did anyone else have a schoolyard mythology around a very expensive yoyo that i think was called the silver bullet? Rumor at my elementary was a rich kid got one but it was so fast it took his finger off.",
"The og fidget spinner",
"I feel like I actually remember this commercial. Haha",
"It was posted yesterday, and I seriously can't watch it lol. I keep trying and bailing. It hurts.",
"Aw damn I was thinking afterwards it had to be South Park or Simpsons.",
"Omg this hits home.",
"I had a yellow one. \n\nHurt my hand every time",
"“Eh it’ll be a nice memory for when they’re pumping gas for a living…”\n\n**lmfao**",
"The Brain!!!!",
"He's phenomenal.",
"'Merica",
"Yup I learned to do a few pretty cool tricks that literally only impressed younger kids.\n\nHad a hell of a lot of fun with that thing though, it was a pretty solid yoyo for like $10 or whatever it cost.",
"Imagine looking at the hair styles (and clothes) in this commercial and saying \"this is not from the 90s\".",
"As a person who did lots of yo-yoing back in the day (and occasionally keeps up with it), they're definitely not in the realm of fidget spinners. Yo-yos are skill toys like tops or bolas or any number of wacky old-fashioned things. \n\nThey're a lot of fun, and you can do some really impressive looking tricks quickly!",
"OMG...I remember this ad! Added to my playlist.\n\nSpeaking of old commercials....anyone remember this one? Peak dog treat.\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M95\\_PhCYDEw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M95_PhCYDEw)\n\nI use this to annoy my family regularly....haha.\n\nEdit : This is NOT a Rick Roll...I promise you.",
"Not OP but I would guess it's probably a low or high temperature stirling engine. You can find kits online.",
"Years before his tragic Oscars Special injury",
"Yo-yos were huge for like 1 summer. It was the fidget spinners of the mid 90s",
"Oh bumble bees were pretty desirable as well, Duncans were for plebs but better than not having one",
"dres the driggy dres",
"I had a Yomega X-Brain blue and a red/yellow Duncan Butterfly.",
"> \"right in Granny's apples, right in Geppetto's workshop\" \n\nI think you're combining two memories from the same era. This commercial:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkw2L1AVt5I\n\nAnd this season 2 blooper reel of Everybody Loves Raymond:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lizfFSnrOK8&t=26s",
"Sorry that's probably my Dad calling I just gotta take... sec...",
"Oh man, I’ve got such vivid memories of my pride in my Yomega Fireball.",
"It was almost as stupid as the Tamagotchi craze.",
"I’m so happy that clown pants are no longer the shit. Those fucking things stayed popular in mainstream fashion for waaaaaaaaay too long",
"I STILL have an YOmega Fireball in a drawer. \n\nThat thing did fucking glide like butter.",
"Shit… I might look up how much they cost now. Just to say I have one. Lol.",
"It actually is almost exactly $25: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2415+in+1995+in+2021",
"I owned at least 3 fire balls and at least 1 brain. \n\nChristmas in 3rd grade was lit.",
"\"The pea-k of your civilization.\"",
"Fireball gang was legit.",
"this is what technology has stolen from us",
"But Americana didn't come out til November of 98.",
"I did not miss that hair cut. Or the oversized clothes.",
"My left ear enjoyed this",
"I had genuinely forgotten about the Yo-yo craze... jeez. it's almost like a repressed memory coming flooding back in now... Yo-yo's with a \"brain\" and lights that flashed... wow... thanks!",
"I had a fireball and a brain yoyos",
"I remember finding that Sega commercial in my searches but it didn't seem like it. What i remembered had more of an angry old man talking trash about SNES. Hard to argue with the ELR clip though, i might have combined a couple of things together. Will show these to a couple of my friends who also remembered it and see what they think.\n\nSomewhat related, i also remember a funny commercial where there is a cop that pulls 3 drivers over and asks each one \"do you know how fast you were going\". I think the first guy was the SNES guy and says something like \"i couldnt have been going more than 3 over the limit\". Second guy is sega or playstation and says \"you tell me, youre the one with the radar gun!\". Third guy is the other and says \"Not really sure, the needle stops at 120\". I couldn't find that one either in my searches, which makes me think there could be that other sega one out there too.\n\nYou may be the winner of the prize though, will check back in a bit.",
"Man were the machines right.",
"I always just thought this was a normal part of elementary school curriculum because it happened at my school and it was on The Simpsons haha",
"We had that assembly too, and I got a Yomega Fireball. This makes me question how competent school administration was that they wouldn’t even vet these events.",
"I had one of the blue ones. Was actually a pretty quality little yo-yo.",
"\\*we were so cool",
"I remember these! I went to KB-Toys and bought a purple yomega yoyo. Was into it for a while and used that thing til it was beat to shit.",
"I..... I definitely did not have a blue one with lights in it. Nope.",
"Is that show worth trying to make it through the first episode a second time?",
"I don't even have to watch it to know how painfully 1990's that was. (Already saw it as a kid.)",
"Looks like they're about the same as they were back then lol. Might be able to grab one on eBay or something. It was never really my favorite, but it's fun to play with. They do look really nice!\n\nWith like 2 hours of practice, you can learn the first few tricks that everyone learns, and they'll look super impressive.",
"The Fireball was legit. All my yomies had one. I had an SSII Sonic Spin which kicked ass.\n\nEveryone knows the Brain was for dweebs who didn't know how to yo-yo.",
"I was thinking \"holy hell he talks like the nerd guy from better call Saul.\" Well there is a very good explanation for that.",
"Shit I'm old, I remember this",
"I second this. I buy these little steampunk wood kits and I'm 32. They take me hours and do stupid shit, like go in circles playing the theme from The Sting.",
"I'll raise you a yoyo ball\n\nhttps://youtu.be/EvgOCYsoekU",
"This is so funny how these comments broke a fuzzy part in my memory from so long ago! Those were cheater yo-yo's! \n\nGunna tell the wife I don't want bbq tongs for Xmas, but a Duncan butterfly.",
"The only thing that could make it more 90s is the blatantly crippled person in the backround. There was a big push for handicapped equality then as racial/lgbtq issues are today.",
"If it helps he's a comedian and it's a bit.",
"In my opinion if you want to go peak 90s you gotta roll with a record breakers commercial.\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDWOpJoHAlQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDWOpJoHAlQ)",
"I had me a Yomega Fireball yo-yo. I got it for Christmas back in like 97-98. Mine was red and my brothers was blue. Thank you for this nostalgia.",
"I always assumed that just happened at my school. I guess not.",
"I love that thing every time I see it. But what is it from? Seems like something that would be on mad TV or something, I have a hard time believing somebody just made it and put that much work into it for it to be a 2 minute clip on YouTube.",
"I didn’t even get through one minute of that. That has to be the single most painful, hard to watch thing I’ve ever seen.",
"He’s actually a famous actor named Mark Proksch. Literally just saw something posted about this specific guy on Reddit.",
"I had a Fireball and it was epic but the one everyone coveted at my school was the X-Brain.",
"At least for my pocket of Oregon, it was definitely fall of 1998. They were huge for that school year and then disappeared off the face of the earth.",
"Nice work finding that - I stand corrected.",
"Duncan Butterfly was my daily driver",
"The 90's were such a cool decade to be a kid.",
"With this specific video too. Since we're talking about yo-yo's, I figured it fit in pretty well",
"Damn I had the butterfly too. Now you've brought back some memories",
"oh, I thought they meant the age lol",
"I think I still have this yoyo ina box somewhere lol it was actually pretty nice",
"Skip towards the end. I have never felt so intensely embarrassed for someone else in my life and it's done on purpose.",
"Not me, unfortunately, though I did spend quite a bit of time in the upper midwest (one show as far north as Duluth, MN).",
"In 1998/99, the internet was available, but AOL was still the primary internet provider for much of the country, and many companies were pushing AOL keywords instead of typing URLs (which were still foreign to some people) or using search engines (which sucked until Google got market share in 1999-2000). I wouldn't have put it much past 2001 or 2002, but I'm surprised it was 1998 - I'm glad that /u/wutitdopikachu found the correct date to put the issue to bed.",
"You were like the Garth Brooks of yo-yoing!",
"Haha. Definitely not me. I was a 12-year old kid who was obsessed with yo-yos. Probably dressed about the same, though...",
"Man I had one of these it was fucking sick",
"I mistyped the first time. It was $10/hr, not $15. But to a kid who still lived with their parents and was obsessed with yo-yo's, getting that kind of money + a lot of free product was about as sweet of a gig as you could ask for.",
"Oh man. We had that assembly too. Halfway through the demonstration one of the yo-yo tricks went wrong. The string broke during an “around the world” and hit a girl in the head. This was a k-5 school. Everybody in the assembly was pissed because they didn’t get hit and get a free yo-yo. \n\nI think we got those milk bags you poke with a straw that week too. Those didn’t last long, but yo-yo is forever.",
"I had a yomega lmao",
"Yeah, that album IS 9th grade for me",
"I think there was a lot of nostalgia that these types of places were banking on. Our parents' generation had Duncan yo-yo reps come to their playground, and maybe that's why they allowed it. For the record, I never was asked to perform at schools--most of my gigs were at malls, festivals, at game stores, etc.\n\nA Fireball was a decent yo-yo, because it was one of the first to have ball bearings around the axle. The next step up, the Raider, was my preferred all-around yo-yo. Since most competitions only let you use a single yo-yo rather than switching between them for different tricks, I used the Raider a lot...won a lot of competitions with them.",
"Coffee? Tea? SEGA!",
"Not anymore, but back when cargo pants were more common than cell phones, I used to carry around a yo-yo or two to entertain myself. Still have most of my yo-yos and I do take them out occasionally, but I haven't actively tried to impress people with them in a long time.",
"The cool kids here had either superyo tires or like fucking Coke yoyos for some reason.",
"At least back then we did! The two most common competition-grade yo-yos back then were the Yomega Raider (very good as an all-around yo-yo), and the Henry Viper (very good for string tricks). They tended to request that I demo the entry-level products when I was on tour, the X-Brain and the Firestorm most commonly. But I really loved my Raider...I think back then it cost like $20-25.",
"Lucky for you, Yomega is still in business: https://yomega.com",
"I think this unlocked a deep seeded memory in the back of my brain",
"Went to school in the 90s. YoHo diablo quickly replaced the yo yo craze of 95.",
"My first full time job at the age of 22 as a copier technician in 2006 started me at $9",
"I remember having the a Yomega Fireball and lubricating the bearing in the middle. Thought it was the coolest thing in the world.",
"Logan from Veronica Mars?",
"[the 90's] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyd51lvu3xw)",
"Same. I was in primary school at the time and thought I'd automatically be amazing with a yoyo once I bought one. I was shit. It was disheartening.",
"Hah, I believe it! I prolly did it because one of the other kids told me too",
"My Blue fireball was confiscated…damn you vp, I don’t even remember your name.",
"in the early 60's we had the Duncan yo-yo. But better than that in the school yard were those nifty spinning tops. LOL The more things change etc...",
"Eric Andre vibes",
"Hey man, do whatever makes you happy. We spend so much time and energy just to buy the essentials that it's awesome when you find a cheap hobby that makes you enjoy your time off.",
"As much as I hate to admit it, with hindsight I can see why so many boomers were afraid of the media shown to kids. The \"extreme\" and \"badboy\" image that commercials sold to preteens in my childhood had to have been terrifying. We were unstoppable, insufferable, and terribly spikey.",
"My kids may never know what a yoyo is. Man, that hits hard.",
"*big inhale*\n\nI NEEEEEEEEEED IIIIIIITTTTTTTTT!!!",
"YO!!!",
"Just skip on to the second episode. It gets so much better than the pilot episode lets on.",
"Crap I remember that one. Was never very good with a yo-yo.",
"The website is still there and they're still selling yoyos!",
"I had one these!! i could never get it to work as advertised and ended up breaking the gyro.",
"Was this on Yo Gabba Gabba? Use to use this for my sone when he was around 3 or 4.",
"Those sunglasses are crazy nineties.",
"I think this was a capri sun lampoon. Iirc, there was a capri sun that did the terminator liquid metal thing.\n\n​\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1eJ-I2CwHE",
"Same I got the fireball and the brain from a school assembly. The kid demoing it was the state champ at the time.",
"People that weren’t alive in the nineties, I’m guessing.",
"There was a frisbee style yo-yo advertised in the early 90's. A friend had one and we never figured out how it worked.",
"How long before yo yo’s make a come back?",
"Dear god, I *hated* this style of video in the 90s. Obnoxious then, odious now.",
"It gets so much better. It took me a 3-4 episodes but well worth it.",
"Team Bumblebee!",
"Oh yeah, that one is a classic. Right up there with the Meow Mix jingle.",
"Yep, I had both of those. Oh the memories.",
"I have one in a drawer in my garage right now.",
"That's a good living as an adult in the 90s. Though I imagine it wasn't super steady work.",
"i had one, clear so you could see the contraption spin apart and then close down and clamp on the string so it would come back up.",
"9th?!\n\nFuck.\n\nMy baby sister graduated high school in 1998! WE'RE FOUR YEARS APART.\n\n*cries in old*",
"its a bit, he is a comedian. He is a great comedian who can pull off stuff like this, so that if one didnt know him, they'd think it was real",
"That actually really helps a lot, thanks.",
"He's great in On Cinema At The Cinema, too",
"My god I had a fireball. This makes me hurt that I thought these guys were sooooo coooool",
"company still around, they still have some of these models",
"Same in Ohio. Maybe it just picked up in “O” states haha",
"Me too and later the one that lit up. I remember we had an assembly and a fucking yo yo salesman came to the school and did a demo and shit.",
"I'm pretty sure I remember this commercial from TV! This shit gets me debilitatingly nostalgic. One time, I almost paid $75 for a used Sears Canada Christmas catalogue from 1998 since I vividly remember the cover.\n\nLuckily I got it for $74",
"If you didn't have a yo-yo and JNCO jeans then did you even really grow up in the 90s?",
"I remember the craze when Coca Cola started making them. All the drinks they own on the side",
"I am loving this too. So many other people remembering the traveling yo yo salesman who did the assemblies then sold us these things lol.\n\nI remember they were all the rage for a while.",
"Oh I know lol. Just painful",
"I asked for a Fireball and was also presented with a Butterfly for Christmas one year. I totally forgot about that until now. Thanks for reminding me how little my parents wanted to invest in my hobbies as a kid 😢",
">The \"s\" is plural, not possessive (as in all the years of that decade). \n\nAh, you must have not been around for them, the '90's were a very [possessive](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=itydwcyywBc) decade.",
"Correct. I was like 11-12yo, so most gigs were limited to weekends, and my mom was leery about letting me go off with a bunch of \"yo-yo weirdos\" on overnight trips or out of state. So in terms of hours probably more like a side hustle than a full-time job.",
"yo",
"Man, the amount of time I wasted trying to practice cool tricks. Never could make them work, but whatever. I guess I just didn't have the knack for them. Still, this throwback makes me want to get some yo-yos.",
"Thought so. \"90s\" to me is grunge, Jagged Little Pill, and SNES. Hell, maybe even encyclopedia Britannica.\n\nLate 90s feels completely different to me cause of how popular the internet was becoming, the jump to 32-bit gaming, and how much MTV shifted. 90s were pretty distinctly different in the first and second half.",
"Yo-yos were huge in 5th grade after the yo-yo guy came to our school.",
"Thanks for that, but I still don't understand who paid to make it happen.",
"Fireball was my shit.",
"Anybody else a fan of [K-Strass, the Yo-Yo Master?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj9VF7LyffU)\n\nYou might know him as Mark Proksch from What We Do in the Shadows, The Office, or On Cinema At The Cinema. But to Yo-Yo fans, he'll *always* be K-Strass!",
"Before I clicked on the video, I thought to myself that if it didn't start with some guy screaming the word \"YO\" it was not worth watching. I was not disappointed",
"Came to the comments to see if anyone had already posted this…what a wild video",
"I remember watching a kid with a brain do a motorcycle/panties trick and tried to put it around his neck and it auto recalled into his teeth and I can still hear that sound",
"Boy if you like Colin Robinson from What We Do In The Shadows [you have something to see!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj9VF7LyffU)",
"We would always trade one half with a buddy who had the same yo-yo but a different color.",
"Same. Fireball was IT in like 3rd grade. Big moment getting one. Whew this took me back.",
"Yo yo I remember this commercial!",
"I had one of those aluminum butterfly yo-yos, and while I never got good I could see why they were so amazing versus novelty yo-yos. I just had fun flinging it around and letting it spin forever. Now I want one again lol. \n\nNothing against fidget spinners, they have a purpose, but yo-yos have a much wider range of capabilities, though not something you can do in your pocket or at a desk.",
"I still have an x-brain yoyo got bored so I put a kevlar string on it",
"Our schools nutrition program revolved around General Mills marketing to get 12 servings of grain a day. It’s amazing how schools will accept marketing if it’s branded as free educational material.",
"I had like 3 yomegas in the 90s and could barely do cats cradle lol. Then in high school everyone switched to hackysacks.",
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"Yeah fair enough. The early 2000s were similarly distinctly different from the late 90s (though people like to say they're interchangeable, but 9/11 changed a lot in North America), and I'd argue that the late 2000s were yet more different still, with the rise of Facebook.",
"If you had the Brain, the yo yo would basically \"sleep\" automatically. It was seen as the cheating yo yo. I hadn't thought about this shit in decades.",
"I only watched 18 seconds then went immediately to eBay and bought a 1999 X-brain\n\nCan’t freakin wait to get it",
"Why would it be painful if you know it's a joke? Unless it hits close to home...",
"Was not an expecting an Aquabat to show up there.",
"I died laughing at the zoom in on the empty chair :D",
"We used to have yo mega salesmen come to our school in 2nd and 3rd grade and sell us these. My parents would never buy the yo mega x brain. I always got the piece of shit Duncan Yo-Yo’s and couldn’t make those bastards sleep.",
"\"each sold separately\" is a phrase I forgot about",
"This is like late 90s man, more like 2000. There was a website listed!",
"I knew it was a Fireball commercial before I even clicked.\n\nSource: I had the red one in the 90s.",
"We sprayed wd40 on ours",
"r/nocontext",
"Oh my god I had like 3 of these things",
"Don’t let your dreams be dreams! I’m older than that and I still wear skate shoes because I think they’re dope and affordable. I don’t care how I look I refuse to wear trainers casually. New Balance used to be for grandpas so don’t judge me.",
"Still have my Fireball.",
"Wait, the school took class time to have an assembly for yo-yo that they then used to sell the yo-yos to kids?",
"Hence the oft used phrase “Reddit did it first!”",
"I hear ya bro. I still have my fireball too.",
"I had the fireball when I was a kid and my brother had the brain… I was so mad for falling for the cool name when my brother got the superior yo-yo! He still has that thing",
"It was an ugly, ugly decade.",
"yoo, i had the fireball. good times",
"My first job I worked was summer 99 and I started at 6.75 but they bumped everyone to 7.50 after a month due to competition. Wasn't bad, when I got to college I had some spending money.",
"Ya hook us up with the link my dude",
"I just had two Duncan Yo-Yos\n\nOne was the standard imperial and the other was the butterfly.",
"Throw in some umbro shorts and slap braclets and you'll have my entire elementary school experience.",
"Is that a very young Chris Diamantopoulos?",
"This thread is going to get so many 30 somethings buy a yo yo.",
"Sounds like it was a real icebreaker and good way to meet people. I want a yoyo too!",
"Jagged Little Pill is such a fucking masterpiece, if it didnt get beat to death with radio play i would have appreciated it more at the time. And yeah anything after 97 might as well be 00s.",
"This is what you show your children so that they know, at one time, you were truly free.",
"Am very jelly",
"Woah.. are yo- are you draining me right now? I think you’re getting me a little bit.",
">I had a yomega fireball\n\nHoly shit everyone it's the coolest kid on the playground!",
"They still won’t let me go.",
"God I miss the 90’s",
"Twice divorced",
"I thought it was real lol",
"That's $62,460 a year (261 working days a year)",
"Have you watched the Netflix show about videogames? There was definitely a part in it where they discussed Sega wanting to appeal to older kids and their whole marketing campaign being about how edgy they were and Nintendo being for kids. High Score is the show, episode 4 is the one that goes into detail and even shows snippets of some of the commercials. I feel like I remember that one being in there.",
"Doesn’t get along with his brother because of his wife",
"No wonder I was not popular in middle school. I was on the yo-yo team. I’m sure that’s why my stepdad has never said he is proud of me.",
"Hey, that's what I call it, too!",
"OMFG THE BRAIN!!!! I had a purple one - I can still throw it down, sleep and rock the cradle before bringing it back up. Muscle memory is such a crazy thing my dudes.",
"Do me Yo-Yo master.",
"We had the same thing happen. I remember going home and begging my parents for a yo-yo and then being surprised when they actually let me get one (probably because I was asking for something besides a video game for once). \n\nI actually still have it, and found and was messing with it just a few weeks ago. But the string has like 4 knots in it, is too short for me, and the loop is way too small to fit on my finger, so... can't really do much with it.",
"Oh they knew. They most likely got a cut out of it.",
"I can’t tell you how many times I thought I’d broken a finger when these things snapped up with a vengeance. Excruciating pain. But I could do like 5 yo-yo tricks so it was worth it.",
"Hell yeah I had a Fireball!",
"The true Yo-Bros",
"My left ear hates this, and my right ear doesn't know what's going on.",
"do it, join us @ /r/Throwers",
"My left ear really enjoyed that trip to nostalgia.",
"it's so 90s that only one of my ears has the taste required to hear it",
"I loved Yomega, I had a Brain and this hybrid model called like Hyper Wing Brain or something. So cool the Brain when you do the sleeper it automatically comes back up by itself when the spin gets low. There were another competing yoyo called Duncan, fuck Duncan.",
"This station was genuinely fooled into thinking he was legit though. They put Mark Porksch on with a straight face.",
"Mark Prosch for anyone guessing.",
"The 90s were truly a great decade.",
"I was personally more of a Yo-Yo ball kid https://youtu.be/EvgOCYsoekU",
">Nothing against fidget spinners, they have a purpose,\n\nActually, I don't think they do.",
"The 90s. When we were all Guy Fieri.",
"I remember this one. I bought a cheap xbrain competitor for $7. I also remember how every commerical always said \"each sold separately\" and \"no purchase necessary\" randomly at the end of the commercial.",
"Dude, they sold these at McDonald's. \n\nWe got Fireball and the Brain one as kids.",
"Please don't yo me",
"These chants just make me think of scenario by a tribe called quest",
"I know it's crossfire without even clicking it lol",
"Nope, it really was just for YouTube. RocketJump was created by freddiew and has a long history of being one of the YouTube channels with the best SFX and production value.",
"I had one of these!",
"Man that voice actor was in everything.\n\n\nBut also this is a pretty weak example of 90s.\n\nGotta go straight for that bubble Tape commercial\n\nhttps://youtu.be/iF07mccxIWM",
"Human evolution reached its peak in the 90s. Realizing we had nowhere further to go, we collectively elected to forget and to begin a regression to our base animal forms. This commercial is an artifact of a golden time when we walked as gods.",
"I was forced to wear that flowery vest for my senior year yearbook photo in 1995. All the girls had to wear the same blouse and vest provided by the school. We all looked like moms.",
"I remember learning how to walk the dog and thinking I was the shit lol",
"Yeah haha. I went to a charter school from kindergarten through 8th grade, and we had all kinds of weird assemblies at that school. We had former NASA employees come talk about space travel, we had a raptor rescue group come and show us a bunch of birds of prey, and we of course had the D.A.R.E. assemblies. I actually seem to recall the yoyo guy coming around more than one year too. I've heard other people in completely different cities talk about a yoyo assembly they had as well, so I don't think it was unique to my school, just a weird late 90s, early 2000s thing that happened at various schools.",
"I've always kept a yo yo around. Even to this day I have one at the office. I just like to spin it while I'm thinking.",
"Seriously. Everyone would walk around with tubs of petroleum jelly in their backpacks. We'd be playing with our yo-yos one minute and then doing a huge circle jerk in the bathroom the next. God I miss the 90s.",
"There’s an app for that.",
"Jesus Christ I had one of these and I'd completely repressed it",
"I remember this commercial! I want to get a yo-yo now",
"got one at Christmas one year. these things were awesome.",
"\"The past is a foreign country.\"",
"Makes me want to watch power rangers again",
"I had the brain haha. Definitely one of the most stand out things in my childhood during that time along with pokemon and crazy bones",
"Omg so many memories brought back. These were awesome and we all had one at school",
"I saw a fireball in a store 2 years ago and nostalgia kicked in. Now I’ve got 20 yo-yos in the house. Modern yoyo has changed a lot but it’s a great hobby. You should grab one and throw it around. R/throwers is a pretty awesome sub that shows a ton of new style tricks, etc.",
"Fruit by the foot commercials have something to say about that",
"The peak style of any decade is at the end of it. 1998 is pretty much peak 90s.",
"“Saber” was more about the shape of the yo-yo. The body was tapered inward, like the tip of a saber. Otherwise known as the “Butterfly” shape.",
"Is the base ball card guy in Better Call Saul based of this guy?",
"That’s too bad! I’d love it it if I saw someone whip out yo-yo tricks at a brewery or something. I can see how it would feel weird to carry it around just in case you get a good opportunity though, lol.",
"I had a really nice yo-yo in my teens that I was very proud of. I didn't get laid *a ton*.",
"Idk man, I think that guy was on to something. I never really did tricks with it, it was just super satisfying sleeping it whenever I was bored, rolling it off the ground, and just repeating whenever I had spare time.\n\nDefinitely fell under fidget spinner for me. I knew hardly any kids who could do real tricks with them. It was almost like smoking in college, just something to do with your hands between classes.",
"Specifically 97-99.",
"It was like a year, maybe two in my memory, but time is a funny thing when you’re a kid.",
"I want this now",
"What was the name of Yomega’s most expensive yo-yo? It’s on the top of my",
"I had a couple of those and it was fucking dope. my favorite was this semi transparent orange one with a decal that would make crazy patterns while it was spinning.\n\ngood times...",
"\"yo, you wanna ride the string?\" Gets the ladies every time.",
"I’m gonna Betelgeuse the shit outta this post.",
"Hahaha so true. I ordered one a few hours ago after commenting and reminiscing this morning. We'll see next week when it arrives if I can remember how to do any of the stuff I knew how to do at age 12.",
"i acted in commercials growing up in the 90’s and this is so accurate lol. \n\njust last week i had some vhs tapes digitized, and wow.",
"Had the Brain, the Fireball, butterflies and a bunch of other random duncans, but the fireball was the GOAT for sure. I don't think anyone under 25/26 here on reddit know how fucking big yo-yo's were in the late 90's. They were banned from my school after kids were smacking themselves and others in the face while doing tricks.",
"It's very similar to his character on What We Do In The Shadows (the tv show), she's true character's name is Colin Robinson.it is very good, I recommend.",
"Brings back middle school memories. I had a Bumblebee that glowed in the dark and a Fireball. Seemed like everyone at school had them and they were getting confiscated in classes.",
"Hah! toy stores!",
"They have one purpose, and that purpose is to spin, and they do that well. I still think it's hilarious how much hate fidget spinners got at their peak popularity. They are just like any other useless toy fad that came and went when I was a kid, so I'm not sure why society latched onto that fad specifically to hurl hatred towards, but it did, and it cracked me up to watch everyone melt down over something so benign.",
"Same. My dad thought I wouldn't enjoy it, and got me the butterfly. He then saw me spend hours on it every day, and bought me a yomega bumble bee. That was such an amazing day.",
"For everyone reminiscing about yoyos.. hit up r/throwers and find some videos of \"modern\" stuff, things have chanted a lot in the last 20+ years.",
"Yup, when they still always had to say www. to start of the website, when later on it was just dropped.",
"Yeah! I remember getting a fireball too. I had to save up and buy it with my birthday money if I'm remembering correctly. I still have it in a box somewhere",
"They did. The PTA was usually responsible for booking the Yomega rep and it was always a successful fundraiser.",
"They were no better or worse than those \"executive office toys\" that seemed to be everywhere for the longest time. What cracked *me* up were the shops trying to sell \"high end\" fidget spinners for up around $100. They were like metal and had jewels and such",
"I remember this commercial! Got a fireball for Christmas that year lol.",
"Am I the only one that got a Raider instead of a Fireball? Knowing my gramps it was probably the more expensive one, and most likely got it from Zany Brainy.",
"I think it was the opposite (Brain had auto-return, not auto-sleep), bc I had both the Brain and the Fireball back in the day - both yo-yos would sleep easily, but the Brain had some sort of spring system that would automatically return it to your hand from sleeping when the spin slowed down enough. \n\nThe Fireball was the \"pro\" one because you could sleep it way longer and not worry about it returning early while you did string tricks and stuff, but to get it to return you had to flick your wrist again to get the string to catch and spool back up.",
"20 years ago, I woulda asked you to autograph my yo yo.",
"Young man, in this house we use a little word called *please*!",
"I already know what this is without clicking the link lmao.",
"I can confirm. I had like 4 different yo-yos around 4th-6th grade out of nowhere it was super popular. Then faded away again",
"Where do you rank the Black Mamba? That was the gold standard at my elementary school. Maybe we weren't good enough to know better but I think our tierlist was something like:\n\nBlack Mamba>Fireball>Blackbird>Butterfly",
"Yo sick dude. I’m 30 and lanky, work a job, fuckin gonna be out here playing with my yo-yo too.",
"I swear I know this commercial but I was born in ‘97. They must’ve played this in the 2000’s as well? I swear I remember that “yo-yo with a brain part”",
"haha I still have my green Fireball. That thing is ace.",
"And then yugioh was next",
"I hear ya buddy, but man did I have a heck of a time with that butterfly!!",
"Yeah I remember. It was crazy how hard they hit and then how fast they vanished. I know my school ended up banning them so that accounts for it a bit there but if it ended so soon everywhere else too I dunno. \n\nWhat's even funnier is this is another case of \"the simpsons did it\". I mean I'm not sure of the timeframe of that episode, maybe it was during the craze but it's funny to see the same situation on the simpsons which happened IRL to me.",
"I think we all did.\nGreat times being a 3rd grader.",
"Ey I was just about to do this! \n\nONE OF US ONE OF US",
"Brutal.",
"Damn, what part of the country? My HS job at Petsmart as a grooming assistant in 2006 was $9.25, but that was also in a pretty rich area.",
"I totally remember that commercial!",
"Spin to win",
"Fuck yea!",
"JNCOs are coming back.. watch",
"The 90's were actually from 1993 to 2004, everybody knows that. Jurassic Park kicked it off, and Anchorman ushered in the 2000's.",
"Lmao had one",
"Ummmmm, Wendy's Hot drinks? https://youtu.be/_ZXeFPpPJeI",
"A genius?",
"/r/fellow90skids",
"The dream of the 90s is alive in this video",
"Right at home",
"Oh hey look, my childhood",
"I remember when baggy jeans were really popular'\n\nFuck I'm old",
"I loved the raider.",
"Do it. Yo-yos have come on leaps and bounds since the '90s. You can get some really impressive ones for not too much money, that will perform infinitely better than the old Viper or Raiders etc..",
"This reminds of [Astrojax](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wca33gukqKs).",
"I was really into Yo-Yos at one point. I had a fireball, a brain, and a raider. And several Dunkins, too.",
"I want a yoyo now. Any recommendations?",
"I miss the 90s.",
"He’s come out in Breaking Bad, plays a nerd selling pills to Nacho.\n\nEdit. Better call Saul.",
"I had the x-brain. Can admit I wanted the fireball, or something else. Also had a Duncan butterfly.",
"The one they strikes me most as buzz are is [Mr. Bucket commercial](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iBBLxX6ovy8). “I’m Mr. Bucket, the BALLS POP OUT OF MY MOUTH”, what the $&@??",
"Brb, gotta buy a yomega now. \nI'm 34.",
"How did you not drown to death in pussy?",
"I had a fireball, and I was shit with it. I also had Devil Stix... Equally as shit with those too.",
"Join us..It's addicting r/throwers",
"Nah, they were small, about the size of your palm.",
"I had a Yo Yo Ball.",
"Same dude.",
"The News anchor guy, Jeff, dude had some small hands",
"Coulda been a contender!!",
"You might be right. I don't remember anyone else in the fad time getting anywhere past like 2 tricks other than me. I guess at least there's potential there lol. A fidget spinner... spins",
"Have a fireball still laying around some where",
"Yoyos were huge in 97 or 98\n\nThey were banned at my middle school",
"It is not.",
"Where were these kids who were into this? I never saw them.",
"this thread kind of makes me want to go buy a new one.",
"E bumpin’",
"The throw monkeys were sick Duncan hugely!",
"This just brought back the bizarre memory of elementary school in the 90s. When people from these yo yo companies came to our school and did an assembly to get everyone to buy one. How weird that they bought off the schools to sell their crap haha. I hit the fireball by the way haha",
"There's dozens of us....DOZENS!",
"They came to my school for an assembly to sell them in like 98 or 99 this was in Colorado. I bet they did it all over the country. I still remember we got off an hour from class to watch some guy do tricks. I believe I got a fireball haha",
"I've not seen someone using one in years, i want one now too. I'm 43.",
"1991 was 30 years ago",
"The yoyo fad used to come back around every few years, go big for about 3 months, then disappear again. Pretty sure it happened before and after The Simpsons in my parts. Always started with one kid learning some sweet tricks, making it cool again.",
"You have chosen a three-wood, may I suggest a putter?\n\nThree-wood.",
"We had a professional yo-yoer come to our elementary one day\n\nI owed the Yomega Brain about a week later lol",
"Yo these things were awesome back then.",
"WRROOOOOOOOONG",
"It's still plenty of money, getting paid to sleep is boss",
"The fireball and the bumblebee quickly became the standard. Man things have changed big time now though",
"Head over to /r/throwers. I think that's the sub anyway. There are way cooler yoyos now than that plastic yomega crap.",
"I don't know what kind I had but I was shit with it, too. Couldn't even do the basic yo-yo action of extending and retracting it, much less any tricks.",
"[No…](https://tenor.com/be6ww.gif)",
"Ah yes, my eyebrow feels this. my brother whirled this around horizontally and gave me a pretty nasty scar from it.",
"Wow impressive work with the gag reel",
"It was in Arkansas. Cost of living is very low there, so pay just about matches that.",
"Oh my goodness.",
"Someone who doesn't know this routine, now I feel old as hell.",
"I had 2 of these bad boys",
"It was tight when McDonalds had yoyos for kids toys.",
"Christ allmighty…that was brilliant cringe.",
"WELCOME\nTHRILLHO",
"33 here and just ordered another Fireball off of Amazon. Nostalgia hit me hard but can't wait to show the wife what a 7th degree Imperial yoyo master looks like.",
"The first commercial Christmas gift I wanted, and actually got!",
"I remember the same thing, all the cool kids with the Fireballs and me with my stupid orange Butterfly. Never did get my Fireball.",
"Oh my god I remember watching this commercial I am getting old",
"I had forgotten that this existed! Thanks for the nostalgia trip. :)",
"Pick it up! Pick it up! Pick it up!",
"I notice that is kinda returning, in a way. I keep seeing ads that instead of giving a website address they just say \"Search for arsecream\" or whatever.\n\nI guess it works.",
"[Simpsons made me get into Yo-Yos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-da-rJhbXI)",
"I still have my Yomega Fireball! 😁 \n\nThe only yo-yo I could do better tricks with was a later model butterfly style that used ball-bearings instead of a normal axle.",
"I wanted one of these so bad as kid and never could afford it :( maybe I should buy one now that I’m 34 lol",
"Me too! Some yo-yo dude came to my school, and the next day all the boys had money for a yo-yo. I also had a butterfly.",
"Fun fact: the 90s were over 20 years ago",
"Oof my childhood....",
"Y’all laugh but this shit was life or death. I had a fireball and an X-brain. YoYos got banned from my elementary school after a fistfight over them.",
"Remember the bop it commercial ?",
"If we’re thinking of the same thing, I remember a commercial where the parents go to the store to pick up a Sega for Christmas, and they’re trying to remember the name of the console, so they keep repeating it on their way there. They go from “Sega Genesis or Game Gear” to asking the sales clerk for “Mega-pegasus for reindeer”",
"I saved up for months to be able to buy the 'silver bullet':\n\nhttps://www.tomkuhn.com/shop/silver-bullet-2-sb2-polished-aluminum-yo-yo/\n\nCool as shit, but I still loved the yomega models with 'the brain'. Such a consistent yo-yo.",
"Better Call Saul actually, but yeah, BB universe",
"I fully expected this to be a Yo-Yo-Ball commercial. \nDon't even remember the yo-yo in the link.",
"I'm sorry it's not 100% '90s it's missing a popped collar",
"All the kids that got the Brain thought they were so cool until they realized you couldn't walk the dog as long! haha",
"This ad really paid dividends",
"That's not the lead singer of blink 182?",
"God almighty - I would love to have a fireball again!",
"[No](https://youtu.be/yzwKWBKVf_A)",
"r/throwers there are dozens of us that'll say go buy a yo yo they're still just fun to play with.",
"I don't know either.\n\nEDIT: Maybe ask this guy - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Throwers/comments/qwrme1/quick\\_5a\\_combo\\_art\\_grail\\_x\\_chunkeez\\_life\\_cube/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Throwers/comments/qwrme1/quick_5a_combo_art_grail_x_chunkeez_life_cube/)",
"Shit I might have seen you! \n\nI don't remember much but I do have a memory of watching yoyo'ers in the mall on a small stage doing all kinds of ticks with them. Its what made me want a yoyo as a kid. Who knows maybe that was you up there.",
"This is that episode of WandaVision that apes Malcom in the Middle",
"I remember being at Disney World on Tower of Terror in April 1998 and a group of college kids in front of me and my parents held their arms up together just before the first drop and shouted in unison “Spring Break 98!”\n\nI thought they were the coolest people I had ever seen and they all looked like quintessential 90s teens.",
"Ahhhh maybe you're right!",
"$10 says this is a growth hacking nostalgia post and yo-yos see a resurgence like the fidget spinner nonsense.\n\nNICE TRY, YOMEGA MARKETING",
"is the audio only in the left channel?",
"...are you me?",
"I had one and it was amazing. Best toy ever.",
"That park had me cracking up. He kind of trails off on it.",
"I think the 80s and 90s are probably tied. The world really started catering to kids but actually, it was the world still catering to boomers by marketing shit to their children.",
"So did I. Did you get the belt pouches for them too?",
"Eh, doesn’t hold a candle to [crossfire](https://youtu.be/rCwn1NTK-50)",
"I don’t know why but the kids who had the Brain yo-yo at my elementary school were made fun of. It was just a random consensus that we reached one day.",
"Ah yup that makes sense then. I was in the northern Virginia DC suburbs, so essentially the richest counties in the country haha.",
"Break out the tribal tattoos and the “fear this” bumper stickers",
"Is it a Z shirt?",
"yomega was the shit. I won a fireball at a tournament at my mall once.",
"The price points were also pretty solid. You could buy a total entry level yo-yo for $5 and then get one that could sleep for $20. Upper tier ones were around $50-$75 and I think the Lamborghini of yo-yos was the Cold Fusion which was like $300. They were all just really cool looking, well marketed pieces of plastic sold at massive margins. I wouldn’t be surprised if they make a comeback at some point.",
"I'm pretty sure one of those little people in the Sega commercial was in Twin Peaks, the backwards-talking dude in the Black Lodge.",
"The Fireballs were great yoyos. I even traded halves with a friend so we both had multi-colored ones which I thought was pretty cool!",
"Was this my first elementary school. This exact thing happened, and i totally bought it.\n\nRandom, but we had the communal style mailboxes at the time. The post carrier put the box into out mailbox, but due to how the doors worked i couldnt get it out of thr front of the mailbox. I ended up spending like an hour throughly destroying that box it get it out of the tiny front slot.\n\nNo memories of actually playing with the yo-yo just it being a major hassle to get it out of the mailbox.",
"Dude, thats an early episode of the simpsons, season 3 episode 6, what was your teachers name, it wasnt Edna by any chance?",
"What's interesting is that back in December 1998 (several months after the date in the ad splash screen), [the homepage](https://web.archive.org/web/19981202202459/http://www.yomega.com/) was pointing to \"Meganet Communications\" (maybe a placeholder). I'm guessing they probably didn't roll the ad until after they had finished the design and launched the website. [By January 1999 though, it was live](https://web.archive.org/web/19990125104912/http://yomega.com/). So I'm betting this commercial probably didn't air until maybe 1999.",
"Haha yes! I forgot about that. Don't think I used it lol",
"I still remember my first fireball. Cherished that thing.",
"[I still have mine!](https://imgur.com/a/9WMErlP)",
"Doctor Dreadful Food Lab.",
"I had the yoyo-matic black mamba...i remember buying for like $50 at a spencers when i was 15...holy shit lol",
"It don't get played every time but I always feel like my best nights with friends at the clubs included the DJ playing this at some point",
"REDIT VIDEO PLAYER SUCKS",
"Did you know Ska came before Reggae?",
"IIRC it was a skit made by a creative arts company.",
"I was a turbo bumblebee kinda kid",
"I fucking loved HyperColor shirts.",
"I have no way of proving it but I started the yo-yo fad in the 90s in grade school and then it spread everywhere. Don’t bother disagreeing I won’t believe you.",
"As the sitting Minnesota state yoyo champ… this thread is all I needed today. Go find your old yoyos, they’re still fun even when you get older!",
"Also had the Butterfly! I remember mine could sleep for like a minute.",
"This commercial made me want that yo-yo so badly that I bought one and learned a lot about yo-yos. Fun times.",
"Man, you were king shit if you were walking around with a Fireball.",
"I still have my Raider. Replaced the stock ABEC 5 bearing with a Teflon sealed ABEC 7 (from a RC car). Damned thing will spin for a fucking minute!",
"When I saw the liquid metal I was thinking \"I thought that was Capri Sun, maybe I'm mistaken.\" As the video continued I realized it was a parody.",
"I forgot about Yo mega I had the blue one with the atom on it I pretty sure. I always wanted to do that fire ball trick, but was only able to walk the dog.",
"I respect shooting your shot without actually clicking to see if you’re right at least",
"I good yoyo is really fun tbh.",
"I paid the $5 for one of these when McDonalds (Or BK? Cant remember) had them as add ons for the kids meal. I thought it was the coolest thing ever until it broke a week later.",
"🎵 Take me back to the years I'm missing",
"I did a lot of begging back in the day to get my grandma to give me the money to buy a Turbo Bumblebee. \n\nI thought that thing was pretty fly. I even wore it on the little belt clip I got with it for a while.",
"Hahaha. In my school the Brain was the most popular one because it was noob friendly.",
"Man I spent way too much time YoYoing. I should pick it up again.",
"The day I got my X-brain wing at Toys R Us with the free carrying case was definitely one of the highlights of my childhood. I may have to dig that out again and see if I can pull any tricks still.",
"Haha! I'm 32 and just didn't grow up with the Simpsons. I've probably seen like ten episodes. Lots of stuff I haven't seen cos I didn't have anything but a dvd player until I was 19. No internet, nothing.",
"They need to make smart phones that you can throw like a yo yo.",
"I still have my raider!",
"You're an adult; get some nun-chucks instead.",
"yoyos are cool and all but I fucking LOVED astrojax. Who else has those?",
"It was all about that Viper though. Shit was unreal in comparison.",
"You’re taking me right back…\n\nYo-yos were probably the first hobby/interest I got really in to on my own that wasn’t a popular school yard thing like Pokémon or something. \n\nI was obsessed with yo-yos, and no one else I knew cared about them at all. My neighbour gifted me my first yo-yo, because I always played with theirs any time I had a chance. Then, I may have had the exact same experience as you - purchasing a fireball with my dad hahaha\n\nI wasn’t very good, but wow… I LOVED that yo-yo.\n\nI can remember opening it, and how cool I thought the colours and plastic were. So fun!",
"I had the fireball.",
"This is much more 2000’s than 90’s.",
"bruh the fast-motion fish-eye black and white with overly-large accessories shot slam-dunked my ass back to 2nd grade",
"This commercial is definitely from the late 90s.",
"Its a bit but the station interviewing him thought it was real",
"for anyone reading this, check out /r/throwers and look into what's new in the yoyo community",
"well the claims for most 90s has been raised a lot... you sure about that claim shit head ?",
"The 90s: Brought to you by Mountain Dew",
"I was there, 3000 years ago",
"I had one of these in like 97ish. I don't remember when this commercial aired but it comes off strong with late 90s vibes.",
"I loved these shits",
"I bought one the last time a yoyo post made it big. Still have it. Been like 8 months. So glad I bought the extra strings.",
"They must be millionaires",
"I had the brain! It was the number one toy in Sydney, Australia at the time!",
"I bought a blue metal one a few months back. Love it. I think you'll be stoked too. And honestly, I'm better now than I was in first grade believe it or not.",
"I'm pretty sure I had a Fireball. Born 1987.",
"Yeah I'm watching that video he linked, this looks exactly how my classmates looked back then. Probably just depends on what state/city/area you grew up in.",
"At my middle school they brought in this professional yo-yo guy once. The entire school had fireball yo-yos the next day. Everyone was trying to be that dude for like 3 months, until the school had to ban them. \n\nThen the school brought the yo-yo guy back thr next year, and we all did it again. \n\nWe used to trade sides with our friends so we'd have multi colored fireballs, and we'd get special grease to make the bearings spin longer, kids would have bandaids on their fingers to keep the strings from hurting. \n\nThis was about 2 years after pogs, so we were desperate for something for our ADHD addled brains to obsess over. \n\nI'm sure I still have a couple fireballs tucked away somewhere.",
"Yep when fidget spinners blew up and there was a fuss about teachers taking them up I was instantly reminded of the yo-yo days",
"Ah yes, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.",
"Freddiew also used to be a guitar hero god",
"I was there and it was when I was in 4th grade in 1998.",
"Yeah but the yomega fireball did rock",
"Yoyos and pokemon cards",
"LOL I remember trying to like do some of the tricks with my generic ass yo-yo. It was so hard to convince my parents that like, no it's not just a regular yo-yo. I remember finally getting the Fireball! So nostalgic... I think the fact that we didn't just immediately get a yomega made it that much more special.",
"We tried petroleum jelly, but it ended up collecting dirt and stuff, some kid found another type of grease/lube that didn't and that's what we all used. \n\nThe only place near us that carried them was a small toy store, AirTraffic, at the Mall of America. We'd get our parents to bring us down there daily until we were able to get them cause they were always out of stock. \n\nMan....I totally forgot all about that craze until just now.",
"The 90s was the DOPEST decade in history!",
"I had the Butterfly and the Bumblebee, then I saved up and bought the machined aluminum $80 yoyo out of the Klutz catalog. Total waste of money. The Butterfly was where it's at.",
"The butterfly!! Man yo-yos we’re so cool.",
"left ear gang",
"I'm nearly 40, and a few weeks ago I found a hacky sack on the sidewalk, and spent the next 20 minutes kicking that thing around. I feel like I'm better at it now than I was in my teens.",
"Everybody in my middle school had a fireball. The brain was okay. You could spin it forever at the end of the line, and even just a slight finger lift would bring it back up. It was super easy to use.\n\nWhen I was much younger, I even had a yo-yo ball, which automatically came back to you.",
"Ugh, I used to sell those",
"I never left. I keep a DV888 in my bag at all times. I have some 20 yoyos... Fireball, Brain, Black Mamba, Wing Force, Bumblebee, Butterbee... My dad and I were super into it. I got an unresponsive somewhere along the lines but I'm not sure where it went. It's pretty neat learning the unresponsive tricks.",
"The actual name of this song is Be Faithful, btw.",
"I wanted the brain so bad.. couldn’t find one",
"I'm 100% sure that the guy at the beginning of the ad is bald now",
"So much nostalgia:)",
"Oh snap! You want to ride the string!",
"I feel like I could probably still do Rock the Cradle with a fireball. Those things slept forever.",
"I was all about the baby oil with my yo yos.",
"Mondos",
"Man those things were like gold at one point, especially the ones that came in a hard plastic case",
"Do me, yo-yo master!",
"I can still hear the sound the Brain made before it came back up.",
"Duuuuddeeee I had a Fireball and a Brain! Used to love the buzz the Brain would make when it was about to come back",
"That voice at 0:09 sounds so familiar...but I can't place it.",
"Is that a young Ben Foster?",
"I just handed mine down to my son last week!",
"This happened to me with Tech Decks. May be happening here as well. Lol",
"I wonder where my Pro Yo is...\n\nI remember them indorsing some Yo Yo World Champion at one point",
"I was gonna say so this is why everyone in my school was obsessed with this stuff. I never saw this commercial",
"Simpsons had an episode about this 90s fad, it was hilarious.",
"In the 90s we didn’t need fidget spinners or some other crap. We had this crap!",
"I used to have hair like that in the 90s.",
"Holy fuck I knew it lmaoo I was like \"there's no way!\"",
". . . . I had the classic Duncan, the butterfly, the fireball and my favorite - the Brain. Sure I learned like 4 tricks and the fad passed after a few years but god damn was the fireball satisfying - with that bearing in the middle it could spin for DAYS!",
"I had a green one haha",
"I had them Duncan’s",
"Or commercials in that era in general…SURGEEEEEEE!",
"I rocked a Black mamba",
"Yo-yos need to make a come back.",
"Yo, I rocked the Duncan Butterfly.",
"> We had an assembly where a guy did yo-yo tricks and sold them to kids afterwards\n\nWut. You had an assembly intended to sell kids things..? That's weird.\n\nAlso on the other side of the spectrum, I genuinely love that you changed your mind on getting another Yo yo",
"I rocked a fireball. Loved it",
"On I finally get to share this in some context. \n\n\n[every 90’s commercial ever](https://youtu.be/eyd51lvu3xw)\n\n\nNSFW, watch til the end.",
"Sadly, I can only think of doughnuts when I hear \"Duncan\". But not actual Dunkin Donuts, those suck.",
"“Yo sick dude. I’m 30 and lanky, work a job fuckin, gonna be out here playing with my yo-yo”\n\nJust thought I’d move the comma so it makes you sound you’re a male prostitute.",
"Dang, literally just got back in from seeing Offspring tonight.",
"<3",
"The Xbrain was the one to have. Still got 2 somewhere, along with my ProYo 3.",
"I don't know when this ad happened but I remember working tech support in a call center and a lot of us had yo yos in our cubes. It helped pass the monotony of having to troubleshoot Windows 95 and consumer grade Gateway PCs.\n\nThis was circa 1997.",
"And the tacky fedoras",
"God fucking dammit I was about to comment the exact same thing, I wonder if Colin Robinson is based off this guy\n\nEdit: god dammit it actually is mark proksch. It's r[ight there on his Wikipedia page](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Proksch) lmao",
"Gonna push some little girls tonight!",
"I got 3rd at the National Yoyo Contest doing a routine to that band lol",
"Dudeeeee totally forgot I had a fireball! Wasn’t that good but could stall, walk the dog, whatever that cradle thing was called lol good times",
"That powder was pretty sour",
"Bumblebees are worth a lot of money now! Like $100+ on eBay.",
"Mine got taken by my 6th grade teacher so I stole it back from his desk at the end of the year. 😂",
"[About once every three years I think about buying a yo-yo.](https://youtu.be/FtSb6PoFRDs)",
"That is how Mark Proksch got his start in comedy.",
"I thought the xbrain was so hard to learn on cause it just came up on its own whenever the hell it wanted to",
"And/or /r/whitewhale",
"They were well built though, I mean they weren’t overpriced junk or anything. I put my Brain through the ringer and other than losing the little logo side faceplate and a bunch of scratches all over it, it held up!\n\nYou can’t say that about many fad toys…actually being quality products.",
"You should. I bought a cheap butterfly one recently for like five bucks and really enjoyed it. When they were popular my dad who was a manager at a company that used to be famous for printers, would walk around yo-yoing. He was the only one. He's embarrassed about it now but I'm honestly proud of him for it. Yo yo dad yo yo",
"Late 90’s. Had a distinct flavor from early 90’s. I think Y2K nostalgia is starting to hit.",
"7 year old me thought I was the absolute shit when I rolled into school after getting a Fireball. I didn’t know what I was doing and immediately smashed it against the wall.",
"Me being Terrible at this sort of activity I would have loved a brain. I never learned to use a yoyo or ride a skateboard.",
"Yes! Are you me because I did the same thing with my dad going to the Brookstone at the mall to get a Fireball!",
"Holy shit, I had a fireball. I was so happy the day I got it.\n\nThen the cool kids moved onto HENRY'S Vipers and you had to find a friend with a good complimentary colour to you and swap half your yoyo with them.\n\nI think mine was green and purple.",
"Love the www.yomega.com on there. I remember back in 95-96 when websites started popping up in commercials.",
"The Brain was THE yoyo for mid-90s kids here. I am not kidding that everyone had one. The toy store would be packed with kids to pick up the new order of Brain yoyos that had came in. Mine was red and blue.",
"Was it the [HAG commercials?](https://youtu.be/-m1CE8IhBHM)",
"For some reason yo-yo was big for my friends and I too. \n\nThen it went to hacky-sack, and then tech-decks. \n\nOnce GTA came out for PS2 though it was all over. At one point I had saved the memo the school sent out regarding GTA.",
"Wow, that's crazy. I've loved this song for literally half my life and never knew the real name. That's a reminder of the old days of getting music from Limewire",
"Yep, 2002 and 2003 had (late) 90s vibes from what I remember. Even 2004 did to a lesser extent.",
"I'll bring the 99 bananas.",
"[Most '90s Commercial Ever](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyd51lvu3xw)",
"This commercial is **very** late 90s looking!",
"I still have a yomega fireball.",
"r/90s",
"Ah yes ... my yo-yo phase...",
"Haha I had one of these too. It used to hurt like hell if you let it return too soon, and sadly walking the dog would damage the aluminum.",
"Fireball was the tits. Only lamos had brains.",
"I had both as a kid. I still have the fireball. The brain was made so if you snapped it down hard enough it stay spinning and did not return until the springs released. It was a challenge to do a trick before it shot back at you, but there were a few tricks you could do only with the brain.",
"r/throwers",
"Buy one, the whole hobby is completely different now. I got back into it back in June for the first time since the 90s and the landscape’s really changed. The cool yo-yos are unresponsive now, it’s awesome!",
"Yo-yo was your pocket a big ass baggy pants pocket? Haha. Yo-yos are big",
"Take me back",
"Theres a difference between a responsive yoyo just going up and down and doing tricks on an unresponsive yoyo. Both of you are right thought.",
"How was it?????",
"They definitely got popular again! I can only imagine because the late 80s-90s kids grew up, had kids in this modern shitversion of the world, and are getting back into their old hobbies in a desperate, last ditch effort to recapture their lost youth. \n\nSource: late 80s baby, currently doing all of the aforementioned things.",
"what's the bit \"with a brain\"? what did that actually do that a regular yoyo doesn't?",
"[Whatever you do it comes back to you!](https://youtu.be/yEEQ2FmWQQk?t=118)",
"I had a fireball. We would grease the bearings to make it spin even longer. That brain one would fuck your hand up because it would catch when it was spinning full speed sometimes and come up like a rocket ship.",
"Now there's a yo-yo name I remember!",
"SPIKE SPIEGEL!",
"WOOOW!\n\nI went to school for 10 years with the main guy in that commercial. It was a huge thing at our school, but for some reason, I never caught the commercial. \n\nSo, this is a huge thing for me to see 26 years later. Amazing. Thanks for sharing!",
"Lol. I remember this! What ever happened to yo yos? Do kids even use them anymore?",
"I had the firestorm when getting an actual yomega was a big deal on the playground.",
"For us, Yo-yos were after marbles and pogs, but before crazybones and Pokémon cards.",
"Ball is in *parking lot*",
"Actually fidget spinners/toys are used to help kids with several processing disorders focus in the classroom.",
"I don’t trust anything on Amazon any more, it’s not a knock on the manufacturer, Amazon just seems to have crappy processes that mix them in with the knock offs. If they can be ordered direct I’d have more faith.",
"Ah yes, the old yo-yo fad in the 90's. The whole dam school had them at one point.\n\n Then there were the pogs/tazos\n\n Then along came pokemon cards.",
"I remember these! And I always wanted one.",
"Our school did this, and also sold contracts to coca-cola to provide all beverages other than milk and the water fountains, plus (reheated) dominos pizzas and Taco Bell burritos in the lunch line. We had reps occasionally come by to give out soda (free Surge day!)\n\nYo-yo day was the least sketchy of those tbh. The 90s were strange.",
"The funny thing is, the Duncan Butterfly is the more legit yoyo.",
"SaaayyGaaahhh...",
"Yeah I had the one with the brain! These were awesome!",
"https://youtu.be/ZLW3R9xDYZg",
"But then it got dark and you had to [pack it up pack it in](https://youtu.be/XhzpxjuwZy0?t=49)",
"damn I never knew Sonic the Hedgehog was such a rebel",
"wow it's shocking that was allowed",
"Thanks Reddit, you unlocked this memory in my brain. \n\nWhat a decade.",
"Fuuuuuuuuuuucccckkkkkkk this caused me physical pain-",
"Damn, minimum wage around that time in my area was 5.25/hr.\nMy first job at 15, gas pump attendant.",
"Ahhh the good years. Yo-yos, scooters, pokemon red/blue...",
"Yep, a yo-yo company came to my elementary school to try and sell them. I somehow got chosen to act along for them on the school's stage and got a free yo-yo as a prize. Suddenly, everyone thought I was cool. The experience was awesome. Those were happy times. Yo-yo's were fun. Now I need to go buy one.",
"i was this many years old when i realized yoyos and fidgit spinners fill the exact same niche",
"[Actually, those claims are all marketing](https://time.com/4775458/shoddy-science-behind-fidget-spinners/) and [there is not much evidence to support their effectiveness](https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/fidget-toys-for-anxiety)",
"Thanks, I just ordered a yoyo",
"Op were you born after 2005?",
"I used to be the school champion until my yoyo broke the string and went through a classroom window. 50 years later picked one up and could still do rocking the baby. Like riding a bike?",
"Remember how much your finger hurt? Or when those springs would make that yoyo unexpectedly rocket into your hand? Ah the good old days.",
"Get a Duncan!",
"These were all the rage in my middle school",
"I still have my fireball",
"I still have my yomega from highschool",
"I wanted one of these so bad when I was kid and my parents only ever got me Duncan yo-yos. I never understood why until I realized they were $20 and a Duncan was less than 5",
"I think that's the same backdrop from Blink-182's \"What's my Age Again?\" with the dancers in the background",
"Ok so it’s not all fake then. That actually matters lol",
"I don’t have mine anymore, but I got a Fireball and Brain with yo-yo books at my schools Scholastic Fair. \n\nFor anyone younger than about 26 this is a very 90’s sentence. Haha",
"I haven’t seen this commercial since I was in elementary school. And now I started playing with yo-yos again last year.",
"I did last year and don’t regret it at all. I take it everywhere I go.",
"I was so good I could walk the dog and do the elevator I was a pro at least i thought so",
"‘90s marketing was so (record scratch) *extreme* (air guitar)",
"Coffee? \nTea? \nSEGA!",
"while us 40 somethings smirk as we still own our yo-yo's",
"I think I just came to this advertisement.",
"I am a fan of the crossfire ad. https://youtu.be/rCwn1NTK-50\n\n\nAlso anything information super highway.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/s1_yx_Eg9v4. Omg this one is cringe.",
"I remember we hd this in the netherlands too… good times",
"I’m old… I HAD a Fireball… and the Brain",
"Don't need to. Still got my good ol coke one from the 80's",
"Those yoyos we're sick tbh",
"I just ordered fireball on Amazon. 13 bucks fuck it",
"Now I'm imagining an overly serious 90s movie about yo-yos with a Hackers kind of vibe.\n\nIt stars Nicholas Cage.",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qv83s7/before_he_was_known_for_roles_on_the_office/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf",
"All its missing is the record scratch",
"*record scratch*\n\n\"Yup, this is me\"",
"It's kind of hilarious how parents gaslight their kids into how 'expensive' relatively cheap toys are. My parents did fine for money but asking them for a pack of yugioh cards was like asking for a new car.",
"I remember having a Viper yoyo but I was never any good with it. \n\nI think the brother had an X-brain or whatever it was called. Those were the days.",
"/r/Throwers",
"There was a post in reddit somewhere that was a link to a web page, where you enter text into a searchbar and it finds you a video on youtube with those exact words spoken. Maybe it was on /r/InternetIsBeautiful.\n\nIf that ad of yours is on youtube, it could probably find it. Sorry I can't find the link, but maybe somebody here knows what I am talking about.",
"What is nutty putty? Sounded like the silly putty that came in a peanut shaped container but Google returns nothing except similar searches. No related results. Like it's deleted.",
"How could you possibly break a yoyo that you need to buy a new one as opposed to fix it lol unless it's some gimmicky kind",
"The hell people?! Stop downvoting this!\n\nThe public NEEDS TO KNOW!",
"This brings me back. I remember the excitement of getting a new Proyo every once in a while. Mostly Proyo II and a Turbo Bumblebee. Digimon, Pokemon cards, rollerblades, Beast Wars transformer toys and morning cartoons. I miss those times!",
"My brother in law’s family started this company. As a kid he used to separate yo yo springs in their basement after dinner on weeknights.",
"I have one in my desk drawer next to a Duncan butterfly and a few professional unresponsive ones as well. If you liked playing with them as a kid give it a try again. I am sure you eye hand coordination has improved with time and it will be easier to learn.",
"That's hilarious",
"I recently tried to find one. Hard to buy for less then 50 now. But they still make the fireballs",
"We're having a serious discussion about the consequences here\n\nhttps://old.reddit.com/r/WestSubEver/comments/qxk6ne/kanye_can_see_into_and_interact_into_another/",
"Easy as hell. You give it to a kid to play with. They’ll find a way. We absolutely did. \nBut seriously, it has moving parts (the brain). It’s not just a solid piece of plastic.",
"Yeah the version that comes in the peanut was branded like that where as any other container was silly.",
"Oh not a regular yoyo then. A self return makes sense.",
"Thought so. Can't find a single picture online though. Same with splat. Was that like a nick thing?",
"Yup. This was a massive deal! I had to settle for fakes sold at the bodegas though. Parents were super strict and focused on education so saving money here and there got me a trip to the bodega after school to get a fake. The toys r us was just too far away :(",
"Can confirm this is a very 90s commercial. \n\nSource: 90s kid who had a Yomega Brain and a bunch of other cool yo yos.",
"Could have been, though what you're describing honestly sounds more like a local competition. Watching the same thing at my local mall is what got me hooked on yo-yoing as well.",
"I would have loved that. I even had special paint pens that I used to sign autographs...thst I used like twice in my entire career.",
"I think that hierarchy is about right. I might put the fireball one rank higher. That said, I never used any of those yo-yos in competition.",
"I'm not sure I could say. Most yoyos tend to be less than about $30. Maybe you're thinking of the Yomega Glide?",
"Both of these were the coolest fucking things you could have for that particular 6-12 mo period.",
"It was yomega and it did cost around $30….. I don’t think it was the glide. I think sometimes it had red caps on the side instead of black.... damn it. This is going to bother me",
"This is correct.",
"We had a yoyo presentation during elementary school. I think it was 4th grade. A professional came and did all these tricks and then you could buy a yoyo. Over the next month or so everyone got yoyo's and recess was just a bunch of kids standing around trying to do tricks. I think a kid ended up getting hit in the face with one and then they banned them soon after. I thought that pro was so cool. Now I realize he was like some 20-30 year old doing a yoyo exhibition for 9 year olds.",
"Well I know what’s being added to my Christmas list this year",
"I had a Raider back then, our school was all about them for like 3 months. \n\n\nIf you look at Yomega's website they don't seem to have changed any aspect of their business since. Kind of cool.",
"Do you remember anything else about it? Was it made of plastic or metal? Were the sides translucent or opaque? Shape \"normal\" or \"butterfly\" (wedged)?",
"It was plastic, clear sides. I think I remember both black and red sided versions…. Maybe a green too? Normal shape. Henstlynit looked like the fireball with a different caps and it had better bearings. I remember you had to look fairly close to distinguish from a fireball",
"Sounds like a [Yomega Raider](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/JBQAAOSwkbVcy8AX/s-l300.jpg).",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMwoZ-BttRU",
"Fixed!",
"I had the fireball. That thing was sweet. All the bitches loved me.",
"It doesn't sit well with me that the 90s are no longer a few short years away",
"Damn. I haven't thought about crazybones in ages. I loved my egg guy.\n\nEdut: Autocorrect doesn't like crazybones",
"He probably got busted for rocking the cradle.",
"Miss those days when it was safe to be home when the street lights came on",
"Just in case your mind hasn't been blown enough already, he also plays the nerd guy (with the baseball cards and the stupid car) in Better Call Saul.",
"Well there are several studies that show they do help,and leading professionals who recommend them. Most kids do not need them obviously. My partner is also a teacher and has observed that they do help certain students stay calm and focused during class.",
"Not trying to call you out or anything, but could you link to those studies? If I'm wrong I'm wrong, and I don't want to repeat bad info. I've only seen evidence that it is just a marketing claim",
"Yeah I did learn that, several years too late",
"Yomega yoyos hit my school pretty hard, we even had one of our kids go to nationals. Yomega yoyos were made one city over from where we were."
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"Lol reminds me of [this](https://youtu.be/5CaMUfxVJVQ) old Wendy’s commercial",
"Hopefully they won the \"best use of wipes in a TV ad\" award because they used them all!",
"This has a real Mitchell and Webb vibe to it.",
"Say what you want about their political system, those reds had **style**!",
"I am most impressed about those match cuts. they got back into exactly the same position",
"r/nottimanderic",
"Can't be real... did enough Soviet citizens own televisions and have disposable money for fashion to make TV ads worth it? Or maybe this was some kind of attempt to copy the west?",
"that song slaps",
"Looks like a great way to promote any future Justice album",
"Heard stories from older USSR peeps, you are on point with this comment. I recently started asking older people that I know to pick up a notebook and start writing this stuff down, because once they are gone so are many wonderful stories.",
"You too can have that KGB look...",
"Some Soviet citizens were more equal than others",
"I was thinking Tim and Eric - it's a bit too surreal for M&W.",
"Is there a hidden pocket for your poison dart pen?",
"Get that \"Secret Police\" look this fall.",
"Just seems like the early 80s to me",
"looking fresh fellas..",
"That's just it every Russian guy on the street that looks like this if just suspect are KGB",
"I wondered what OK Go had been up too.",
"The company's logo looks like Men in Black.",
"God, this is even funnier if you listen to the voiceover \"Suits from cloth 'Companion' will allow you to create different looks\". All while showing four slightly different grey suits.",
"That music instantly transports me back to the 1990s when I was a teenager, trying to watch the scrambled porn channel on cable t.v.",
"I can't find any nation wide statistics, but apparently by the late 70s about 80% of Leningrad families had a TV.",
"If you dropped those guys on the streets of downtown New York in 1985 nobody would've given them a second glance...at least until they spoke.",
"Couldn't agree more, it must have taken a while getting all 3 of them to do that, must have use a still frame superimposed over the live view, very impressive.",
"This ad is from 2015",
"almost as cringy as the United States at that time.",
"Star wipe into the next scene, then star wipe, and in the next frame, star wipe.",
"Music makes me miss Gunbound.",
"No ADIDAS?",
"Clothing is fine.",
"\"With new colors in gray, dark gray, and light gray.\""
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"This guy would be fun at parties,\nHey gurl, ever been clapped? I can do it 13 times in a second",
"Those are some Saiyan fast hands...",
"Something something something masturbation joke.",
"That's not even his final form!",
"The hands don’t even look connected to him when he gets into it—like they’re just floating out there in front of him.",
"The sounds after November 30th",
"👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏",
"That was so friggen cool!!!",
"What a sex mosheen!",
"That is fucking amazing.",
"I remember when this was the most popular video on the internet",
"If you think that is fast, you should see him clap cheeks...",
"why does he look like a goober lmao",
"When you hear the garage door opening so you gotta switch it to turbo mode.",
"I thought that was Chief Tyrol from Battlestar Galactica at first. Even sounds like him.",
"Great Job!....start slow clap..",
"He would have made the Friends Theme Song so much more efficient.",
"IIRC, the dude is not a douche IRL, he just looks like one.",
"\"What do you want to do when you grow up?\"",
"The close up face shot during this skeeved me the fuck out lmao. More power to him but that is some creepy ass guitar face when he is focusing. 'I'm clapping, but really I'm plotting to murder'",
"Dude sounds like an engine.",
"Looks like bad CGI almost. I know it isn't, just looks like it",
"I can't imagine how fast the lights are turning on and off.",
"I’d be afraid of ripping it off at that speed",
"He is so passionate about something I am impressed by but care nothing about.\n\nAlso, he just hopes its 14/s? How does he guage that?",
"I don't understand. Is he somehow getting multiple claps per hands coming together?",
"Also worlds fastest fapper",
"I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought he could use a clapper for a strobe effect.",
"This guy is just way too ridiculous but it’s a cool skill props to him I would be shocked if he isn’t doing either audiobooks, sports casting, or some other voice acting job. He reminds me of…Dan akroyd? I don’t know but he has some sort of 80s actor voice.",
"I would have enjoyed the camera drooping over the course of the video to reveal they were a clapping machine's hands clapping",
"\"One more gear!\"",
"I want to see this in ultra-slow-mo!",
"Same. Now I have this useless skill I’ve been practicing for no reason.",
"This is considered slow as shit nowadays, apparently.\n\nCurrent record is 1,103 and this guy could only do 721.",
"It would be better if we could see the whole arms",
"Coincidentally I just watched the 'Ovation' episode of Twilight Zone last night. Can you imagine hundreds of people clapping this fast in your direction?",
"Did I just watch gay porn?",
"Clap on! Clap of... on. Clap also on. Clap on and on. Oh and more claps. Here it comes! Clap off! The Clapper!",
"those movements require some strong upper arm and shoulder muscles..",
"Please. Self harm is no joke.",
"I would love to see Toast Vs. [The Clapper](https://youtu.be/sRWtFVFSx5I).\n\nGrab a couple lamps with different colored bulbs and you could have a dance party!",
"\"Kent, honey, what are you doing in there?\" \n\"Just clapping, Mom!\"",
"This is what you see when you die 🙏",
"HAMBONE",
"I went down a rabbit hole last time i saw this, turns out he got beat \"handily\" by a 13 year old, and hasn't been the worlds fastest clapper in a long time.",
"He really does! Like his pic should be next to the word douchebag in an encyclopedia.",
"If you're a musician you WANT this guy in your audience.",
"Bro has total pr0n face",
"Yeah, when I saw his plaque said 2003 I had a feeling he wasn't still the world fastest.",
"Roy Clark is that you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrcNtH5pu8",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJF3pAFzOwY",
"Record. Slow down video.",
"I wish I could care about anything as much as this guy cares about slapping his hands together.",
"I usually hear that same sound coming from the bathroom. So, that's what's going on in there.",
"Near the end it kinda looks like he's getting slapped in the face repeatedly.",
"This is the kind of shit that breaks you out of the matrix!",
"I cracked myself up thinking about paying this guy to sit front row of your stand up performance and have him just going off after the show.",
"He lives in a castle in southern Spain nowadays performing with the most acclaimed flamenco performers, drinking bottomless sherry.",
"Yep it looks like he's holding fake forearms and slapping them together.",
"Lights in grandma's house lookin like a rave when he's practicing",
"The combination of his hands seeming to float/morph in front of him and his facial expression is something I would like to forget.",
"Charles Xavier is on cerebro right now trying to figure out how to get this guy a scholarship.",
"Peanut butter Tuesday",
"This dude has the worst case of the Clap I've ever seen.",
"This guy thinks he’s such a badass lmfao",
"It was the style at the time.",
"Real funny I used to work for this guy he would always walk around clapping in the back of the kitchen, he used to manage the local red lobster dont know what he is up to nower days tho.\n\n(Edit Grammar)",
"Each and every time this pops up, I ask myself….\n\nWho tf cares\n\nAlthough this, ofc after I’ve watched it 20 times",
"Here is what it sounds like at 14bps, or 840bpm (14x60). \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoMRMh44kno",
"\\*fap\\* \\*fap\\* \\*fap\\*",
"I heard this dude started a fire last time he wacked-off. Burned down his whole house. Sad story.",
"Thought I was on /r/DeepIntoYouTube",
"Imagine hearing this from your roommates bedroom",
"If the old disco ball stops working, a disco could buy clapper lights and hire him.",
"I went to school with his daughter. He also had two twin boys who were in the suite life on deck in an episode about twins. Pretty funny",
"Hi girls, I've got The Clap Record...girls...come back",
"he actually did the clapper ads for a bit",
"Haven't heard that name in forever",
"sounds like a chipmunk orgy",
"Why did I think of this video: (kinda loud) \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6T6R6Oscpw",
"Yeah I think he's getting no where near it. Maybe 4 or 6, just from counting and listening of course.",
"Also the world’s clastest fapper.",
"I wanted to try for some World Records at one point... then I noticed that holding a World Record often makes you look *this awesome* to all who marvel at your *talent*... /s",
"The sound you hear from every mans bedroom (or bush, no judgement) when no nut November ends.",
"Actually [this is the oldest video on the internet](https://youtu.be/tc-L9_4jGc4).",
"I want to applaud him but I'm suddenly insecure.",
"You can tell by the onion on his belt. It’s a big yellow one, on account of the war.",
"At one point that sounded exactly like my anus the day after eating beans.",
"[His hands vs this guys fingers.](https://youtu.be/lmEhCDRvQKA?t=70)\n\nI think the fingers might be faster.",
"Hamboning could save your life someday!",
"Save some pussy for the rest of us",
"Barry Allen??",
"Technically correct",
"Luffy taking it to gear 4",
"[ **Jump to 00:50 @** Roy Clark - 12th Street Rag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrcNtH5pu8&t=0h0m50s)\n \n ^(Channel Name: When The Cowboy Sings, Video Popularity: 99.17%, Video Length: [02:28])^, [^Jump ^5 ^secs ^earlier ^for ^context ^@00:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrcNtH5pu8&t=0h0m45s) \n \n----------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n \n ^^Downvote ^^me ^^to ^^delete ^^malformed ^^comments. [^^Source ^^Code](https://github.com/ankitgyawali/reddit-timestamp-bot) ^^| [^^Suggestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/timestamp_bot)",
"Clapper catches fire",
"FYI his world record has been broken, and is currently held by Eli Bishop.",
"Sounds like some poops I've had.",
"This video is so old, it came out when George Bush was still president",
"E Honda lives.",
"\"What are you *doing* up there, son? Dinner is ready and I'm not going to call you down here again!\"",
"Lmao thank you for the clarification",
"Dude looks like a young Chris Bauer",
"K now let's see how fast he masturbates.",
"that made me nauseous",
"Amazing thing is, if he could just speed it up by half as many claps per second again, to 21 claps per second, we will start to perceive the repeated sound as a sustained, very low pitch (21 Hz), which is close to an F just a couple of notes lower than the lowest note (A) on a piano, rather than as a rhythm.",
"*Hambone intensifies*",
"His warm up makes me wonder if this guy is a drummer.",
"I watched a guy clapping. For 2 minutes. It’s better than 5 minutes but still… what happened to my life?",
"I am so supremely disappointed this wasn’t a Rick Roll... was perfectly set up.",
"I get about 8 claps/second, using Audacity Beat Finder (at 1:35)",
"What a cool dude",
"Thought about it, decided to go in other direction",
"Me gusta",
"His gf won’t need a vibrator. She calls him FingerBlaster 9000!!!",
"Aka how it sounds when your mum visits me",
"It's like you've read my mind!",
"If you want to see this effect in action, [go here](https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/) and start off around 10 hz or so and slowly increase. You can observe the threshold from distinct pulses to tones yourself! It's fun. Works best if you select the sawtooth wave instead of sine wave.",
"This is the most mundane sports achievement I have ever witnessed.",
"> How does he guage that?\n\nGet a microphone and count the peaks of the soundwaves. Or have a computer do it.\n\nThere was an interesting video a while back on how to do stop motion animation. You don't need to stop what you're doing and press the camera shutter every time, just have a dog training clicker and press it every time you position a frame. You then use software to analyze the video and extract the individual frames right before the click is heard.",
"So do you.",
"[ **Jump to 01:35 @** Kent \"Toast\" French, The World's Fastest Clapper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNXElmEUIJo&t=0h1m35s)\n \n ^(Channel Name: Kent French, Video Popularity: 93.99%, Video Length: [01:49])^, [^Jump ^5 ^secs ^earlier ^for ^context ^@01:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNXElmEUIJo&t=0h1m30s) \n \n----------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n \n ^^Downvote ^^me ^^to ^^delete ^^malformed ^^comments. [^^Source ^^Code](https://github.com/ankitgyawali/reddit-timestamp-bot) ^^| [^^Suggestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/timestamp_bot)",
"Oh my god this is messing with me. Feels like I'm going to blow my speakers. Holding the forward button on Sawtooth starting around 10hz is stressful.",
"Sound of me and OPs mom last night",
"Fun fact, blue whales can sing around 10 hz. I wonder if they hear it as separate clicks or as a sustained note?",
"He... he made it clap.",
"HAMBONINGGGGGGGG",
"How many people watched this and immediately sprained a finger flapping their hands about wildly in a horrible attempt to imitate this? Just me?",
"Named after a county AND a country",
"I was in the same kindergarten class as his daughter and he came to our class once",
"It would have made the three vs four claps debate much more interesting",
"This guy claps 👏🏻",
"I really didn’t think I would enjoy that as much as I did. That was awesome",
"Clapper!!! i thought you said slapper",
"This video is a certified Youtube Classic",
"theres a debate?",
"Sounds like a fart after you've waxed your crack",
"Interesting and noteworthy skill, however, there’s no way this jackass “turned out” to be the world’s fastest clapper.",
"This guy claps",
"Imagine this is your dad clapping at your recital.",
"The facial expressions too.",
"Wtf did I just watch",
"At one point he looks like...oh shit it's out of control...",
"Where are the slowmo guys when you need them",
"He was my boss when I worked at red lobster. Can confirm he’s a solid dude.",
"That is amazing. Most claps in a reply record is broken.",
"5 claps a second is slow in his world but very hard for most people",
"On a serious note it would be interesting to see the guy who could masturbate the fastest. Its hard to come up with rules though.\n\nBut for people with foreskin It could be. Going from tip being completely hidden in in foreskin to completely visible and then back again. That would be a cycle. Now who can do the most nr of cycles in 10 seconds. This is not a joke. The races is on. Someone create a subreddit and then start postning videos. Someone needs to win this. Upvotes will decide the winner. The price is glory.",
"Your sacrifice is appreciated.",
"Lol when he blasts off it looks like hes furiously slapping himself in the face",
"Get the micro machines guy to sing, the whole theme could be done in under 5 seconds.",
"I don’t know, this is impressive but it made me laugh so much.",
"His hands look like a Dragon Ball Z fight",
"What a legend",
"Wonder if this guy plays drums",
"Hambone!",
"Oh wow, that's so cool! Though more cool uh oh than cool haha, because now I can definitely see at what ranges I'm going deaf at.\n\nI can't really hear anything between 9,400-10,000 Hz then it comes back again before dropping off for good at 11,200 Hz.\n\nWhee?",
"You're still likely to get a headache if it flickers that visibly",
"It's two claps tho",
"The video could also use some more frames per second for this kind of stuff",
"sort of unrelated, but remember waiting like 20 mins for this to download in the early 2000s\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybXrrTX3LuI\n\nalso this, speaking of ebaumsworld. dude used a camcorder\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg1ACpmgWVo",
"He is happy, and he knows it.",
"It sounds like a computer lockup when a sound is playing. Not so common these days, back when we used windows 95 and 98 it was daily. ;)",
"If you close your eyes you're basically standing in the center of an orgy.",
"Has to be top of the list for most usless talents",
"👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏",
"He jizzes at 1:36",
"Thanks rigby",
"It looks like he's giving someone an insanely fast back massage!",
"I don't understand why we can hear this, I thought 14hz was below the audible range for humans.",
"Toast. Women want him, men, want to be him.",
"Imagine the heat from friction",
"Well, at 14Hz it sounds vaguely like a brown note. So by power of deduction, I can confirm that you are correct.",
"I WANNA CLAP!",
"Better than the job I was thinking of hiring him for... paint mixer in a hardware store XD",
"Reminds me of kristin wigg's character with the fake lil hands",
"You called?",
"Who can wave the fastest? Who can blink the fastest? Who can snap the fastest? Who can say bless you the fastest. Sometimes I feel like the world's fastest cumming champ but it's meaningless. I just counted 10 paperclips faster than anyone ever. Give me a medal.",
"Him: okay, that’s the warm up \nME: THATS JUST THE WARM UP?!\n\nThat looks very unnatural and it makes me uncomfortable.",
"Get him and that whistling guy from that 80's talk show.",
"It reminds me of those tiny hands that people use in joke videos",
"I am not convinced there were only one pair of hands in this video lol",
"BURN THE DEVILS WORK!",
"Naruto irl",
"Serious Randy Daytona vibes",
"Where are the slo mo guys when you need them?! That would make a sick video. I realize this is old though, get who ever is the fastest.",
"If you are like me you tried that and gave up after 3 seconds. Two quick takeaways. 1. Ouch 2, Fuck that",
"Do not let this guy fuck your wife",
"Clap Barry Allen. Clap!",
"holy shit fredryk phox, jesus christ thats a THORWBACK. Dude was such an underappreciated innovator.",
"So 1 slap to the face equals 14 for him???",
"Fucking badass",
"[ **Jump to 01:36 @** Kent \"Toast\" French, The World's Fastest Clapper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNXElmEUIJo&t=0h1m36s)\n \n ^(Channel Name: Kent French, Video Popularity: 93.99%, Video Length: [01:49])^, [^Jump ^5 ^secs ^earlier ^for ^context ^@01:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNXElmEUIJo&t=0h1m31s) \n \n----------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n \n ^^Downvote ^^me ^^to ^^delete ^^malformed ^^comments. [^^Source ^^Code](https://github.com/ankitgyawali/reddit-timestamp-bot) ^^| [^^Suggestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/timestamp_bot)",
"he died doing what he loved",
"How do you even discover that you have this talent?",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQTWzFP5qEU\n\nCome for the juba, stay for the orgasmic moaning.",
"He figured out end-to-end compression. Each down stroke is also an upstroke.",
"Oh shit, he do be clapping fast tho",
"This guy seems lonelier than the Ice King.",
"His double slaps always hit 5 times",
"Ripping his dick off?",
"i guarantee like at least 50 of your tired to this yourself..",
"Fastest Fapper?",
"How can he clap?",
"It could save your life some day.",
"Kinda sounds like an airplane",
"I’m horny",
"Ya!! It looks like someone just below the camera waving rubber hands around.",
"This guy seems like an odd duck but I'd invite him to a party.",
"I clicked on this but went and did something else and came back to it with audio off... and it looked like a bunch of hands slapping him really fast.",
"What a stupid superpower",
"I very enjoyed this session",
"[Looks like he's been beat since '14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORp2nzwHXN0)",
"I’m cracking up at imagining this",
"If it helps, you cracked me up too.",
"Counting up to four is hard for some people.",
"Reminds me of the agents from *The Matrix.*",
"Leave some pussy for the rest of us guy.",
"The real question is what record can he set masterbating with that speed.",
"He should clap for blind street performers. They'd think they have a crowd.",
"Everybody's gotta be doing something...",
"\"Toast\"?",
"I've literally never heard of this it wasnt *that* popular dude.",
"I really want to see this video with the sound and his hands edited out. I think it would be pretty funny to just see the way his head and face moves.",
"I'm at my grandma's house and her lights just keep flickering during this video.",
"Not my tempo...",
"He'll clap your dick off.",
"He looks like jyp",
"Now I have back pain 👴🏼",
"sounds like me and your mom",
"Yes, exactly.",
"That beat slaps",
"Now we're going for 14 faps per second",
"This dude claps cheeks.",
"Everybody, please give Toast a hand would you.",
"My favourite part of this comment is insinuating this video is not RL.",
"I know you are thinking what I’m thinking.",
"Well. Actually. Guess how many children he has",
"This dude was able to crank it anytime he wanted without raising suspicion.\n\n\"What's that noise honey?\"\n\n\"OH, that's just toast having a slap in his bedroom...\"\n\n\" OK. Cool cool cool.\"",
"he looks like a straight up psychopath",
"How fast can he clap them cheeks doe",
"Someone should edit out the hands and just leave the facial expressions and clapping noises.",
"*claps in MG42*",
"I clicked and wasn't disappointed. God bless you!",
"I bet this guy gives great handjobs",
"Hey guys! Check it out! It's u/hugebluestrapon ! The authority of everything ever posted on the internet!",
"His dick must hate him",
"I think the debate is four or five.",
"I'll raise you with the fastest honker (15sec video)\nhttps://youtu.be/4KigFRmr8qM",
"This guy slaps your Gfs ass, what do you do?",
"Looked like he was watching a couple of arms he’d stuffed in a garbage disposal.",
"Yeah, I'm also pretty sure there are 5 claps.",
"Ladies..",
"Not sure if trolling or not, but what I said wasn’t hyperbole",
"5 bees for a quarter they used to say…",
"ONE.MORE.GEAR",
"Camera’s frame rate can’t catch up",
"imagine an entire audience clapping like this haha i cant stop laughing!",
"I heard he got the Nickname “Toast” when his dick mysteriously caught fire at the age of 12.",
"/r/redditmoment",
"Netflix “are you still there” me drilling my gf 😏",
"No, I think this is my title... oh CLAPPER! Carry on.",
"legendary",
"Nope, Chuck Testa.",
"So smug about such a pointless feat!",
"What it sounds like in your mom’s room on Friday night.",
"Who else wanted to see it even faster and played in 1.25 speed?",
"Imagine the surprise your in for when your letting him hit from behind and he starts slapping your ass like that.",
"No cheeks are safe",
"Why did I watch this.",
"Actually THIS is the oldest video on the internet. https://youtu.be/6XKFToJ83w4",
"Wow it’s been a while since I seen this video thanks for bringing this classic memory back and when classic YouTube was the best",
"This guy is really feeling himself.",
"This is an OOOOOLLLLD video, so such things were not commonplace at the time.",
"Sounds like me and your mom last night.",
"No one told me life was gonna be this way!\n\n[***BRRRRRRRRRRRRRT***](https://youtu.be/zPs6bbMf5Sw?t=5)\n-",
"I presume he doesn't count each one. The warmup was all rhythmic, so I bet he's really clapping like a drummer does rolls--relying on the bounce back to help keep it going. In those, you don't count the individual hits, either. \n\nOf course, he'd still need a pulse to get started. But he could be looking at a clock or something. And he likely has done it enough times to get an idea of how different speeds sound. Finally, if he was very off, he could always just record another video. \n\nToo bad the video wasn't at a higher framerate and slower shutter speed, BTW. The motion blur is probably the one thing that might lead someone to claim he could be faking.",
"I’m the opposite. I look like a humble dude, but I’m actually a giant douche.",
"This was the zenith of home recording back in the day. The 90’s-2000’s really advanced quickly one we hit the digital tech age.",
"He can make clap on clap off devices strobe. Could be a bars backup strobe when theirs fail.",
"Why are you harassing me?",
"I've literally never seen this before. I was just making a remark of that, not shitting on you, calm down.",
"It’s fine to say you haven’t seen it. It’s not fine to imply it wasn’t popular because you haven’t seen it. Know the difference and understand why people are downvoting you",
"Lol wow calm down.",
"If you want to test your headphones bass response, go to about 20hz and see if you can hear anything. My AirPods kick in around 28hz! Fun!",
"This dude thinks way too fucking highly of himself because he claps fast.",
"Who's got the clap?",
"Dude, what a crazy thing. Also: That link is kind of dangerous. You can damage your hearing and/or your speakers with it.",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvC4TAsMRpQ",
"Put him on a clapper lamp and they'll need a strobe light warning."
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World's fastest clapper.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X82NUyCFzXo
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[
"Dude does not seem super thrilled with his job.",
"I exclusively eat off of plates made from animal leaves.",
"Yep, that kind of bored laxity is going to cost him a finger or three.",
"Awesome! We should all be taking steps to make this kind of industry more popular, cheap, and practical, in order to slowly but surely replace single use plastics.",
"The shit you do.",
"That looks like a great alternative to paper or plastic disposable plates but are they clean enough to eat off? The leaves don't look very clean stacked in big piles like that...",
"Drink some coffee: keep your extremities!",
"you can wash them before you use them, they are very firm. I have a few at home.",
"He's dressed for the after party. That blue tartan wrap is fire.",
"Ehhh. The answer to that is that it really depends. If you then turn around wrap these in plastic packs of 10 or whatever, box them, put them on a container, and ship those all over the world for people to use who could easily use washable stuff, no. \n\nHonestly using (preferably unbleached/uncoated) disposables made locally from nearby renewable resources is the best option for disposables, but reusables are by far the best eco-friendly option even when you factor in the water renewal cycle.",
"The topic is about disposable plates.\n\nSo yes, it's environment friendly. Don't need to create alternate scenarios because disposable plates have their own uses.\n\nYou know what's better than reusables for environment? Not buying it at all.\n\nI hate when a person create innovation for X, people like you would suggest Y instead, even though both of them have different use cases.",
"Looks like a great alternative to plastic and paper",
"Garbage.\n\n^(after only one use.)",
"Didn't seem to be any safeties in place to keep him from losing half a hand in one of those presses ...",
"So your position is that disposable plate uses and reusable plate uses don't cross over? Because grocery stores sell piles of this shit to people that have plates at home. \n\n\"It's convenient\", \"Easy cleanup\", \"Just throw them away\", meets up with \"Eco friendly\" and becomes a huge carbon footprint, that still goes in the landfill. That's not \"Eco-friendly\".\n\n\"Eco-friendly\" is like \"Healthy\" they are words that get tossed around without any concern for the underlying facts to the point that they are often, in action, worse than the alternatives.\n\nBut no one wants to hear that shit. They want to feel good.",
"I think you've missed the point",
"https://cowboyslifeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/plate.png",
"Say what you will about their business plan, but the underpants gnomes had initiative, work ethic and job satisfaction.",
"When I was young we’d eat off fresh banana leaves and eat with our hands. Some of my favorite and most memorable meals ever.",
"You do realize this is just paper right? This particular process only works where they grow an abundance of that type of tree, aka the Tropics.",
"In that case the technology should be applied for other types of trees/leaves. Just imagine how many leaves the trees all over the world shed in the autumn. What if there was a way to utilize them for a useful material like this? We'd never run out of it, and it would only incentivize people to plant more trees everywhere!\n\nToo bad the trees need the leaves for photosynthesis, heh. But maybe there could be a way to grind down the leaves that fall off in autumn to a mulch that could be used for making that material or something.",
"Dude needs to get going with some podcasts. I do similar monotonous factory work 40 hrs a week. I won't say the time always flies, but god damn, it makes it a lot better. A lot lot better. I work and learn/laugh. I'd put my head under that press if I had to do my job for a week without podcasts.",
"No one wants to hear the shit when it's not relevant to the conversation. But you clearly just like stirring shit around. That's your hobby",
"I hope so. I hope this isn't just as bad as styrofoam somehow. Because it looks and sounds great.",
"I was going to say When I travelled around SE Asia I'd have food on a banana leaf. Didn't have to dry it out and put it through a press first.",
"I don't know what conversation you are reading. The conversation was four words, 50% of which I'm replying to. Seems pretty relevant to me, but go off I guess.",
"There's literally a video. But ignore it I guess and push pointless drama",
"Audio books are great too",
"Notice that a minute in, he hides the burnt one he messed up on, by burying it in the middle of the pile.",
"Yea it’s naturally oil and waterproof. We ate a lot of steamed rice over it and the heat and steam on the leaf just added this subtle but amazing flavor to it.",
"I'm replying to a comment. I didn't make a top level comment on the video.",
"No shit Sherlock. You try hard to be daft huh",
"You're the one who doesn't seem to know how comment threads work. But dig in, get mad, scream a little. I'm done with ya.",
"Lmao dork",
"This is awesome 😎",
"It is just a leaf of a particular plant. After it has been used it decays to soil nutrient in a couple of weeks. \n\nIt is even possible to feed the offcuts to animals. There is another video where they chop up the offcuts and feed them to cows and goats.",
"It is possible to do a similar thing with rice straw and wheat straw. The process is a bit more involved and energy dense but the end product is stronger and a lot smoother. It can be used for boxes and item packaging.",
"Sure that all sounds great. I just don't want to learn down the road that they need depleted uranium to fertilize the ground where the plants grow.",
"I'm just surprised to see that it is not some vague future technology that hasn't been out of the lab yet. It is already in the field being used. I was excited to see that.",
"better than throwing the leaves in the compost even before its even been used.",
"The question then is, how far can you transport it, so it's still better than dishwashing. Also that press has probably the footprint of the production of a car. So if it's really better, how long does that guy have to produce plates until the production of the machine is amortized. I would guess centuries.",
"this is not an alternative to proper dishes — it’s a substitute for disposable dishes made of plastic or high quality paper. You’ll only ever find these used in India in public settings like kiosks or events with too many people to adequately provide proper dishes to."
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Making disposable plates from plant leaves
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https://youtu.be/lE9lsThbaQk
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/r/videos/comments/qxgd3u/helicopter_view_of_flooding_in_bc/
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[
"I didn't know they had helicopters BC. Where's the Ark?!",
"the irony of the RV business burning down while completely surrounded by a flood.",
"Very true. I think during a hurricane aftermath a house was burning down in a flooded area. The rescuers were there but no trucks. They did improvise and use a boat motor to spray water on the house. Was great thinking but that had to be hard to watch it go.",
"I read that this area was a dried up lakebed.",
"Thats what the pilot said. They damned the river to make farmland. So this is half predictable.",
"Must have skipped past that part, once every 35 years and it's been 31 years.",
"When you build your cities on a floodplain...",
"do you know which lake? Was looking on the map to try and get an idea of which one would have been dammed.",
"It's near Hope BC",
"Maybe the owner didn't have flood insurance but was insured against fire ;) lol",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumas_Lake"
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Helicopter view of Flooding in BC
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https://youtu.be/ZdVHZwI8pcA
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/r/videos/comments/qxh8ku/beached_whale/
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[
"So beached. So beached.",
"beached az broo!",
"you want a chip?"
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Beached whale
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https://youtu.be/RAGWqfl6ApI
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/r/videos/comments/qxhcpz/pokémon_brilliant_diamond_1/
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[
"How is it so far? Mediocre af?",
"Only really recorded the first hour and a half so far pretty much a faithful remake from what im seeing",
"So with more playtime ill be able to tell ya more but im not really expecting big significant things to be in here since its a remake you know"
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Pokémon Brilliant Diamond #1
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qxi76o/deleted_by_user/
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/r/videos/comments/qxi76o/deleted_by_user/
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[
"Yes it is, it sucks that I'm not 😭",
"Haha. Well practice... Don't get fooled by the video, this is not me like that 24/7 :) I do go with 0 kill and 5 deaths in a row at times.",
"Honestly I REALLY sucked at the game until I watched a vid on which settings to use.\n\nTurn controller vibration off as well as a bunch of visual items you don't need and the game is cleaner to play.\n\nThe controller vibration off is the best though. Night and day difference for me.",
"is this post sarcasm?",
"the level of aim assist that controller provides is absurd",
"I'll try that"
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[deleted by user]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXOJ7DhvGSM&ab_channel=Hendrixia
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/r/videos/comments/qxieqx/an_obscure_indie_documentary_on_a_very_important/
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[
"There are scholarly (and other) articles that also discuss this:\n\n 1. [The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the Overdevelopment of Gangsta Rap](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230101722_13)\n 2. [Hip Hop, the Law, and the Commodified Gangsta](https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1933&context=faculty_scholarship)\n 3. [This 1996 Law Was Meant to Save Radio. Instead, It Decimated Popular Black Music](https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vjqm/this-1996-law-was-meant-to-save-radio-instead-it-decimated-popular-black-music)\n 4. [How the Telecom Act of 1996 impacted Hip-Hop](http://blog.a3cfestival.com/how-the-telecom-act-of-1996-impacted-hip-hop#:~:text=The%20act%20was%20suppose%20to,and%20media%20companies%20at%20will.)\n\nAnd here is the book referenced in the video by Professor Tricia Rose of Brown University: [The Hip Hop Wars](https://www.amazon.com/Hip-Hop-Wars-Hop-Matters/dp/0465008976)",
"GO BLUE",
"Why do Redditors have a hard time believing that people want to hear music about getting drunk, dancing, and shaking asses??\n\nAfter working 40+ hours a week I am in the mood for a fun song, not some deep song about social change.",
"That's exactly the point though. The big media companies produce simple garbage that people want to gobble not artistic expressions. But new stuff comes from the artist producing what he wants not what some suit thinks will sell.\n\nWithout art eventually everything stagnates.",
"If they changed it away from music that focused on social change, then you didn't choose to listen to trashy songs, you are just given trash. Also, the fact that you are so exhausted after working is significant insofar as it ensures that you are too tired to even care.",
"The same big media companies also produce art like Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine and Tool. \n\nYes art IS important but stop thinking that those fun booty shaking songs are not art as well.",
"HAIL",
"Are you into Hip Hop at all? Do you understand the eras of Hip Hop? If you were into Hip Hop, you'd know that Gangster Rap goes back to 86/87, so 10 years before this. Most of the examples chosen to show what mainstream Hip Hop \"used to be like\" avoids this period, funny that. It also doesn't show what Hip Hop was like before 82, e.g. - The Sugarhill Gang rapping about buttering toast and having parties at The Holiday Inn. \n\n\nAlso, in terms of the chosen examples of what's mainstream now, a few artists were small time, one was an established well-known artist, but the only internationally known one was Bobby Shmurda; why not mention Kendrick Lamar or Run the Jewels, two acts internationally revered and celebrated for their uncompromising political Hip Hop? \n\n\nYou've posted this many times now, yet you're not active in any Hip Hop related sub, and you don't have any other posts about Hip Hop, something seems a bit off to me. Do you want people to paint this vast and multifaceted genre with one brush? \n\n\nAnd what's up with the MLK thumbnail with the \"I'm disappointed\" text? Who's he disappointed in, 2Pac? Trying to make it seem like he said this about Hip Hop is fucking weird. \n\n\nI think you need to do some deep research into Hip Hop and stop posting this in every sub you can think of. \n\n\nDoes the video make some valid points? Yes.\n\n\nIs the fact you post this everywhere you can weird, despite the fact you don't seem to give a shit about Hip Hop? Also yes.\n\n\n**EDIT:** OP is also the person who made the video, quelle surprise.",
"This guy posts this same dumb doc over and over again. It's so fucking ignorant and arrogant, it's frustrating.",
"BIG YUP!\n\nWhen you are tired you are more likely to just throw on whatever. Whether that is trashy television that inspires 12 years old to be insta famous, music that degrades men and women to thugs and hos, or news that presents the side of the story that drives fear.\n\nPeople need to be shaken awake not put to sleep and accept low grade non thinking sheep mentality.",
"I agree. As I said, the video raises some valid points, but to oversimplify a genre like Hip Hop so quickly, and with this one particular video, is strange. Also the fact he has 4 links that touch on the same topic shows OP has them ready to go right away.\n\nOP, go listen to some Kendrick Lamar and relax.",
"Wow, I did not know this. I've even commented before how I like only old school hop hop, and anything after 1996 is garbage outside of a few exceptions. If you scrolled for an hour through my comments youd find it haha",
"STOP POSTING THIS VIDEO. IT'S NOT TRUE AND YOU'RE AN IDIOT FFS",
"He's a dumbfuck who has nothing better to do all day",
">stop thinking that those fun booty shaking songs are not art as well\n\nThis kind of trivializes what \"art\" is though, right? I don't think it's worth arguing semantics over, but there's clearly a difference between any given song from RAtM and a fun, booty shaking song, and that difference seems to be encapsulated by the notion of \"art.\" Like, if you're definition of \"art\" puts a Radiohead song and a recording of someone farting for 5 minutes in the same category, then it's a pretty useless definition in this context.\n\nIt'd be like arguing that your grandma's Sunday cooking and McDonalds are both cuisine. Like, technically, on the most general level they are the same. But there are differences between them, and those differences are pretty important when you're discussing something like the effects of these things have on society at large.\n\nAnd don't get me wrong: sometimes you do want to listen to some fun, mindless songs the same way you sometimes want to eat McDonalds. But maybe there's something to be said about how much garbage is pushed on the public, and how many people go their whole lives without experiencing something that *isn't* garbage.",
"I wouldn't even say that OP is dumb, if anything this seems targeted and cunning. Play on the stereotype that Hip Hop is music for \"thugs\" and make those people who don't listen to it or only listen to \"real Hip Hop\" feel better about themselves.",
"you sound smart.",
"You made an account just to post this nonsense? Go touch some grass.",
"Just because we live in a \"free society\", even though it's really not. However, the trash that's put forth in the music industry that influences people and culture, builds egos, social engineers the dumb, all that needs to be gone. Glorification of the degradation of society, it's unacceptable and they hide behind the social justice banners and whatever other special interest while society at large gets looted through corruption.",
"Honestly yes. I’m 32 and I’m pretty sure I’m not the target audience anymore for mainstream music. \n\nBut yes this entire thing wreaks of an OP who is an old jaded dickhead who thinks young kids are worse now than they’ve ever been.\n\nspoiler alert: they are not. Everyone gets old and does this. Even me. I just don’t have “wink wink”docs locked and loaded to prove my “superiority”\n\nThis is old man screams at the sky type shit",
"Gr8 B8 M8 8/8",
"all of this is conspiracy horseshit.",
"What a pile of trash. You don't think that there was \"party\" music before big media companies? You don't think that people have any ability to choose their own media consumption? ...especially in the time of the internet???",
"I love the current use of the word leftist. Nothing so perfectly encapsulates the right wings desire to turn a disparate group of people who can't even trip over their own dick in unison into an monolithic enemy that is both unfathomably powerful and completely incompetent at the same time. It would be hilarious if it was not so effective with the ignorant.",
"Most notably NWA's Straight Outta Compton came out in 1988.",
"And Ice-T's *Rhyme Pays* came out the year before, and Schoolly D's song *P.S.K.* came out in 85, and that's considered the first Gangsta Rap song. \n\n*Rapper's Delight* was the first Hip Hop to chart and they're rapping about buttering toast, the genre started as a party genre, shifted with the culture, just like Rock did from the 50s into the 60s and so on. \n\nMusic blossoms downstream from culture, it will constantly shift.",
"I mostly like that period too but that doesn't mean all of it before 1996 was conscious and artistic. There was nothing conscious/artistic about Snoop Dogg's first album for example. It's still an entertaining album but it easily disproves whatever OP is trying to say. A lot of hip-hop that went under the radar was also copycats and hardly artistic, with generic lyrics/beats for some money.",
"Lol, well, the first one to do it will always be breaking new ground ¯\\\\\\_(ツ)\\_/¯",
"Pwnage",
"You will die alone.",
"Or wind, in this case",
"Read the top comment",
"Not everything is about your political views",
"The first two links are by a law professor (the second is from the university at which she teaches). Then, from the video, there is Professor Tricia Rose (African American studies) from Brown University, an Ivy League school, and Professor Jerry Kroth, professor of psychology of Santa Clara University, who say the exact same thing.\n\nIt's not like these professors are studying physics or geology, they are studying the relevant fields to this issue, and they are professors, so you know their research is thorough. To say this is \"conspiracy bullshit\" is a bit of a stretch.",
"You're so full of shit. The top comment in this thread explains why.",
"The video is a lie. It's a conspiracy theory with no credibility",
"In 1989, 2 Live Crew's *Me So Horny* went Number 1 in many countries, and was in the top 30 of the Billboard 100. \n\nThe group had obscenity charges pressed against them for the lyrics, such as *\"I won't tell your mama if you don't tell your dad / I know he'll be disgusted when he sees your pussy busted / Won't your mama be so mad if she knew I got that ass?\"*.\n\nThere were times where the group would literally have people fucking on stage. \n\nDo you reckon if Tik Tok was around then, people would be dancing to 2 Live Crew on there? Or would they be dancing to Public Enemy's *Fight the Power*, which you mention in your video, and came out the same year? \n\nI think we both know the answer. When trying to create an argument about a multifaceted and nuanced genre, make sure your argument is both of those things too.",
"I find it hard to believe they love someone as loathsome as you. Your death will most likely be a sigh of relief to them.",
"I've replied to the top comment. No one seems to be reading it.",
"No credibility...except by university professors (including Ivy League) who have spent their professional lives researching exactly this.",
"This dumb video rightly gets shit on every time it’s posted here.",
">Or what would you like me to call you instead, murican? Wokeist?\n\nI'd prefer you not categorize groups of people at your whim. But it seems to really mean something to you, good luck with that.",
"That's weird, I don't see it",
"I read it, and the articles you linked, and I disagree. You do bring up an interesting conversation, but the position of your video and those articles are honestly out of touch. Gangsta rap lost dominance on Sept. 11, 2007.",
"He deleted his reply when I blew him out of the water for the 2nd time. \n\nI love Hip Hop, from 1977 to 2021, East Coast, West Coast, Dirty South, Trap, Gangsta, Conscious, Industrial, and Esoteric. If you're gonna talk shit on it, I'm ready to argue.",
"Can you fit any more buzz words in there? Capable of your own thoughts?",
"I know from the mention of that date you know what the deal is.",
"It’s absolutely not that black and white, and to suggest that powerful music labels have no influence on culture and content is just as silly as suggesting that they are solely responsible for creating/destroying it.\n\nThis same line of reasoning could be used to write off anything: upset about Nestle or Walmart business practices? They didn’t invent greed, there have always been shady merchants, and people can shop wherever they want!",
"> If you were into Hip Hop, you'd know that Gangster Rap goes back to 86/87, so 10 years before this\n\nAnd?\n\nMost things that are stolen and corrupted for profit by... greedy people... start out as genuine grass roots communities.",
"It absolutely is dumb, especially since so many rappers, famous ones at that do have a clear and concise message.\n\n* J Cole is an amazing rapped and about all his songs have a meaningful message. He's talking about loving your girlfriend and being the change you and to see in your community,\n* Lupe Fiasco is also an amazing example of a rapper with integrity. He made \"Alan Forever\", a whole song about a little migrant Syrian kid who drowned on the coast of Greece (that one truly hurts to listen to every time).\n* Kendrik is rapping about discrimination and the struggle of black communities on a daily.\n* Hell, even fucking Drake has dope ass lyrics with a messages. \"God's plan\" is about loving one another and being supportive, while \"Nice for what\" is about the importance of letting loose some times and that's ok.\n\nThere are so many examples of rappers with a message. The person who made this video is listening to trash and thinks that's all rap is about now a days.",
"what?",
"I don't have a horse in this race. Out of the top 20 highest grossing rap artists right now, how many are write songs that are \"trash\" as you would call it? Just wondering. I know nothing about rap or hip hop.",
"Genuinely curious, what’s important about that date in 2007?",
"I think ghetto boys toned it down around 96.",
"Haha awesome",
"Because many redditors are pseudo-intellectuals who feel better about themselves listening to \"real music\"... there's really nothing wrong with listening to Drake, Cardi B, or Ariana Grande.",
"Kanye and 50 Cent released on the same day, so it was the last hurrah of Gangster/Street Rap as the dominant subgenre in the charts (for the next few years) when Graduation won the sales battle. It set the ground work for the likes of J. Cole, Drake etc. \n\nhttps://www.hotnewhiphop.com/50-cents-curtis-vs-kanye-wests-graduation-a-historic-hip-hop-moment-news.90494.html",
"I lost valuable brain cells watching this dreck. This kind of thing bums me out about the amount of dumb people trying to make sense of the world.",
"I'll take your word on that I don't have any of their albums past 1993.",
"Wow you got a token professor to support it, big whoop.",
"The fact that this terrible video always gets upvoted here makes me convinced that this subreddit is either for sale or filled with ignoramuses.",
"the telecommunications act is arguably one of the most important events in mass media yet people always choose to focus on this hack angle of it.",
"I was waiting for some genius to find a way to blame Whitey. This is stupid.",
"Uh, Run the Jewels? Rage Against the Machine?",
"> to suggest that powerful music labels have no influence on culture \n\nNobody claimed that. That's a strawman. The fact is that major music labels have less power now than they ever did. Anybody can easily self-publish their own music for free, no matter how amateur it is. There are a bunch of successful indie labels, and a number of successful artists have chosen to go without a label.",
"Literally every problem in society is caused by government.",
"Mos def , Immortal Technique , Childish Gambino ([really good cover by falz this is nigeria](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW_xEqCWrm0))",
"It's not Redditors, it's self-promoting douchenozzles with a divisive agenda to promote, because clicks earn money.",
"The reason you didn't know this is because it isn't true. Ruthless Records put out 'Straight Outta Compton' in 1988. West Coast gangsta rap was charting nearly a decade before 1996 and the Telecommunications act.",
"Yeah, and you wonder why sociologists struggle for credibility when they promote drivel like this.",
"Big L, Nas, Eminem?",
"Honestly dude just give it up. You don't know hip-hop, you don't know the history of hip-hop. The antisemitic dog-whistling in this video is just the icing on the shit cake.",
"Yeah, this whole thing is like some Qanon level conspiracy theory. People want fucking jams. In the late 80s and 90s people wanted jams from Bushwick Bill (RIP), NWA, Ice Cube, and the ghetto boyz. Gansta rap sold well because people fucking liked it for the same reason Goodfellas was such a hit. It's a world most of us are intrigued by and have no access to. No corporate conspiracy necessary. Also, are they just going to pretend that WIll Smith's candy ass music wasn't also super successful and corporate during the same period? Get the fuck outta here.",
"What was some of its major changes of the culture?",
"basically just deregulated a ton by removing limits on how many/what forms of media they can own. it's the reason we have these media megacorps now like Comcast (now AT&T)",
"The thing I usually see reference about this, was in 1992 a party in Hollywood where a bunch of record producers got together and supposedly agreed to only promoting music that was about violence and crime. Which has trained the youth to value violence and crime.\n\nSimilar argument to why it was such a big deal that a white rapper is getting lots of white kids into rap. They didnt want the white kids similarly indoctrinated.",
"And it's already been shit out on the front page in the last month. \n\nI' finna refute this video real quick, Dr dre in the late 80s / early 90s.",
"Read thread title and I knew this was BS without even having to watch the shitty video.",
"My fav rap band is Blackalicious. Every song I've heard from them has been artistic and clever, especially [Deception.](https://youtu.be/1A0BmbiM53Q)",
"Stop spamming your shit video already.",
"It’s too bad this rap argument is the focus. The deregulation of the telecom industry was bad in a lot of ways and that stuff should get talked about.",
"*ObScuRE InDiE DoCuMEntArY*",
"It would be the latter",
"Big L rip",
"Look at all these slavemasters posing on your dollar bill",
"Dead Prez was formed in 1996",
"> there's clearly a difference between any given song from RAtM and a fun, booty shaking song\n\nNot necessarily. Some pop is really catchy, but actually quite subversive.",
"All you redditors are trash in terms of intellectual integrity, devoid of all wisdom, ignorant in your understanding, and are the reason human society is falling into the debauchery described in the video. You all enjoy racism, enjoy violence, enjoy drama and chaos and enjoy seeing it perpetuated in the mass music available so you can zone out into your own devoid mindset and get drunk and shake your ass. \n\nMusic is poetry, some poetry is good and admired long into the future, and some poetry is trash that is forgotten like a fart in the wind. There's no escaping the objective facts based upon those who study poetry and its complexity that modern day rap which recycles the same garbage rhymes and themes are so trash they make an intellectual's ear's bleed. This music is destroying the minds of adults and children. Kids are more materialistic, uneducated, and gross because of how this music is forced upon the masses. Music is used as a means of controlling the masses. You rap about Hennessy and surprise surprise people start drinking it. You would think that those in control of the music would want rappers to rap about smoothies and fruit juice so that it's public would be healthy, but sadly those in control know that the most addictive and dangerous lifestyles, including death, can lead to the mass profit of these companies.",
"To name just a few more with either a clear and concise message or who uplift the culture/community..... Danny Brown, Snoop Dog (this dude is like the Dolly Parton of rappers), Kid Cudi, Kanye West (less so the past few years lol but he really did pave a positive path for so many people of color), Tyler the Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Mac Miller, Noname, Black Thought, Griselda, Vince Staples, Brockhampton, Crip Mac, Pop Smoke, Nipsey Hustle, Killer Mike, Common, Pharell, Lil B, shit, even DMX in his own weird way. \n\nBut I gotta disagree with you on Drake cuz FUCK DRAKE. That piece of shit watched 10 people die in front of him along with Travis Scott. Then went to a strip club and threw a million dollars on the floor the next day. And God's Plan was just a PR stunt to get ahead of his upcoming 'hidden child' scandal, and the money he gave in that video was given to him by the label and wasn't even his.",
"The thing with this is that type of rap is just as easily monetized and marketed as super commercial stuff. I think that's why acts like rage against the machine and system of a down called it quits and why punk just turned into a clothing brand.... they saw the folly"
] | 104 |
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An obscure indie documentary on a very important topic: The Telecommunications Act of 1996. After its passing, 4 media conglomerates bought out all the successful indie hip hop labels, who eventually gradually made hip hop less about art and social change and more about crime, in the name of profit
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https://youtu.be/efjlF3M372w
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/r/videos/comments/qxiwx6/jan_6th_2020_capitol_hill_riot/
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[
"Looks like one giant shit stain on our nation.",
"\"tourists.\"",
"Jan 6th 2021",
"I’m still waiting for “proof” that this election was “rigged”.",
"Jan 6th 2021 INSERECTION",
"What are you talking about? There were only peaceful protests that day /s",
"Lol, nah. The giant shit stain is in your pants and the BLM riots.",
"The thing that has always bothered me with this is the logical contradiction.\n\nHow is it that the Dems, with the support of the Chinese or whoever, were such ninjas that they managed to rig thousands of county level elections to give Biden the presidency, leaving no evidence , and yet were so incompetent that they ended up with the most right sitting senator in the country holding the power in the Senate. If they had gotten their ninjas to give them one more senator, everything would be sweet.\n\nAdd to that the question of why, if they were capable of that, why the left ol' Moscow Mitch his seat.\n\nNever made sense to me."
] | 7 |
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Jan 6th 2020 Capitol Hill Riot
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https://youtu.be/roBkg-iPrbw
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/r/videos/comments/qxje2b/ahoy_trackers_the_sound_of_16bit/
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[
"Been too damn long since the last Ahoy video, hope he continues to get some stuff out",
"The intro music is forever ingrained in my brain as the Sony Vegas keygen song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9STiQ8cCIo0",
"Ahoy is Quality over Quantity",
"Composing with a tracker is surprisingly intuitive, it is fast way to edit patterns. My choice of weapon was OctaMED. It was MIDI compatible and worked nicely as a slave, something that is not at all guaranteed even today.. The coder lived couple hundred km's so that was a bonus, if but just to know that it was compatriot.\n\nI used action replay to halt the machine after loading a game and the ripped the samples directly from RAM. That is how i built my default sample library. Then a lot of vinyls and CDs from driftstore and libraries were the \"feeding stock\", serving as inspiration and keeping things fresh. Alesis MMT-8 was the midi sequencer and together they made quite a powerful pairing. I even switched to PC based sequencer that had some audio capabilities but still used Amiga for its raw sound and weird sound generator \"apps\".",
"Ages ago I downloaded an SNES ROM that was actually a soundtrack and I loved it so much I burned it off onto a cassette tape so I could listen to it in my car. The only problem now is that I've lost both the tape and the ROM and I probably will never be able to find it again.\n\nIt was such good music though!",
"That might be an interesting challenge for /r/tipofmyjoystick",
"sweet. i love trackers",
"Oh I'm sure he will. The man is pure talent when it comes to production and storytelling; his channel has a special place in my subscription list.",
"playing fasttracker2 nibbles and listening to mods oh sweet memories",
"Man, I do feel a bit bad for Karsten Obarski in this story. But damn, you're telling me that [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOV5WXISM24) was produced with tracker software? That's nuts.",
"https://www.pouet.net/\n\nhttps://demozoo.org/",
"Same! What a blast from the past!",
"I have OpenMPT installed and a handful of music mods I've held onto for literally 20-25 years now.",
"Oh God Protracker. Easily pushed my puberty back a year, but my imaginary music career strategy was simply more important.",
"I was so excited to see an Ahoy video on notifications, then saw it was on a subject I really enjoy too. Flipping awesome. We had 8-bit Guy cover some Pirate demo's recently too, though Ahoy has significantly better production values.",
"1:28 ah.. Alley Cat",
"There is NO way I just watched a 40 minute video on the history of trackers and it didn't mention the M8 Tracker!! Chiptune musicians using Famitracker and LSDJ have carried the torch as companies like Teenage Engineering bring portable, low spec synth hardware into the mainstream. The union of these trends is the M8 Tracker and JUST LISTEN TO IT\n\n[https://youtu.be/5Vc76tbOFqk](https://youtu.be/5Vc76tbOFqk)\n\n[https://twitter.com/10kfreemen/status/1451086941961682945](https://twitter.com/10kfreemen/status/1451086941961682945) \n\n[https://twitter.com/mikey3O3/status/1443449084606509056](https://twitter.com/mikey3O3/status/1443449084606509056)",
"[ **Jump to 01:28 @** Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw&t=0h1m28s)\n \n ^(Channel Name: Ahoy, Video Popularity: 99.74%, Video Length: [41:12])^, [^Jump ^5 ^secs ^earlier ^for ^context ^@01:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw&t=0h1m23s) \n \n----------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n \n ^^Downvote ^^me ^^to ^^delete ^^malformed ^^comments. [^^Source ^^Code](https://github.com/ankitgyawali/reddit-timestamp-bot) ^^| [^^Suggestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/timestamp_bot)",
"Christ, right in the nostalgia. I loved collecting MOD (and later S3M, and XM) files. I couldn't compose, but Fast Tracker II was my main player until I came across Cubic Player.\n\nYamaha then released a MIDI player and would use the Gravis Ultrasound MIDI soundbank for playback, even if you were on a SoundBlaster. I managed to find the disks (downloaded from our Technology lab on Netscape 3) and so instead of trying to download multi-100k tracker files down a 2400 baud modem (limited by the UNIX server's modem at University that I would dial into), I'd hang out on alt.music.midi and grab whatever I could - most were less than 50k and in some cases sound no different from the studio recordings (Smooth Operator was a notable example).",
"When Crystal Hammer came on I felt some brief vertigo. It was like traveling decades back in time. It must have been over twenty years since I last heard it, but it was instantly familiar.",
"Well, I was supposed to play D&D tonight, but my DM didn't show...so I guess I'll watch some shit on some music I've never heard of.",
"FastTracker II mixes every file I try to play to mono. It can play stereo but everything that is stereo on other players is panned to mono. Annoying because I otherwise like it. Always get memory errors with Impulse Tracker. What else for 386s I should I try? Don't think I've tried ScreamTracker. Anything that will work on a 286? (which I don't have, just curious.)",
"Good news everyone! Someone has been extracting and archiving music from keygens and similar applications for years. You can download all 5000+ songs here: http://keygenmusic.net/?page=pack/packlist\n\nIf you don't feel like doing this, I have two players on my website\n\n- [a minimalistic one that will work on your mobile device](https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp) (Tested in Firefox)\n\n- one that [simulates the view of a tracker](https://cable.ayra.ch/modplayer/) but requires a fairly big screen.\n\nThe second one allows you to search for files, which are named after the tool they're extracted from, in other words, search for the programm the keygen was for.",
"I don't really understand the problem here, are you talking about .mods (not .xm files)? So, mod files are playing back in mono? (and in other players they are hard panned). For some reason I have always seen that as a good feature.. hah.",
"Back when I was happy but didn't knew I was.",
"Yeah, was definitely expecting a mention of the M8. I'm gonna get around to building a headless one at some point. No experience with trackers but I've been intrigued for a while and the history was super interesting to learn about.",
"I just totally zoned out for 41 minutes",
"The Action Replay cart was amazing, although I mainly used mine for cheats and ripping graphics.\n\nOne thing that was quite cool about the mod scene was that you could easily pull the samples out of other peoples songs to use in your own.",
"It's so crazy funky, thanks for the nostalgia trip",
"Sounds like you've an Adlib. I had that problem. Try a Soundblaster 16, and make sure you've enabled 16 bit DMA.",
"All mod-like files, I think. I assume they were authored that way.",
"Sound Blaster Pro 2. The program works in stereo because I can pan manually, but everything that plays in stereo in Winamp is all panned to mono.",
"Who the hell are these people? \n\nComputers are powerful and change the game. But the open source-ish collaborative culture about them from early on can not be understated as a co-factor to how fast these things grew. \n\nWho the fuck are these people? Those who put in more time, effort and passion and have more to show from their side projects than most people's lifetime careers. Thank you, you fucking freak dork beautiful weirdos. I need to do something to help others. It has really inspired me to want to do something with computers either directly or at least make enough extra money with a job to help. Back to my python tutorial attempting to create a form letter mail merge for my buddy's small business. \n\nYou don't realize how big the mountain really is until you try to get close to it."
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Ahoy - Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qxjn32/deleted_by_user/
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/r/videos/comments/qxjn32/deleted_by_user/
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[
"Is it dirty or something? What makes it so silly?",
"Unable to understand what makes it funny. The subtitles are all over the place.",
"The contradictions and being always 1 step behind with the assumptions makes this funny.\nHeartwarming to think that the couple would be quoting lines from this day in years to come as an inside joke.\nThe Krillin part had me crying",
"Perhaps I'm too cynical, but I assume the laughing couple are in on it too."
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[deleted by user]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyncZauw17s
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/r/videos/comments/qxkgpu/pingu_roasts_franklin/
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[
"Holy fuck that got a good laugh out of me.",
"NOOT NOOT!",
"Fucking lmao. I love these [heres spongebob](https://youtu.be/Tu6Va3lyJgU)",
"He called Franklin the N word. NOOT NOOT",
"This is the funniest fucking thing I've seen in a long time.",
"hahahahahahaha!\n\nThat was what I needed today! Thank you for the laugh!",
"I would love to play a mod that replaced Lamar and his voice lines with Pingu",
"Uff, definitely a hard N—hurt to watch.",
"Wit yo nootnoot-ass haircut",
"Dude, you can’t just say the n-word like that.",
"[This was always my fav version of this meme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSQ2cZrhnsQ)",
"piola el pingüino",
"Genuine lol at the noot noot",
"blessed mod",
"The maker of that one is def the king of the Lamar roasts meme, but he has other videos that equally amazing.\n\n[This, for example, is cinematically gorgeous enough to be at the Cannes Film Festival](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GED50FVP0g)",
"[Kermits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXT10wkafzg) was always my favorite",
"Hard to come back from a diss like that",
"I literally just laughed way too hard at this. Stripped my throat and now wheezing like a dog's chew toy.",
"When you watch something you never knew you needed in your life. Deadset fucking gold.",
"NOOT NOOT",
"Bro did you just drop a hard oot",
"The LOD on this model has flipped normals on half the body. A pretty common mistake when mirroring symmetrical parts of a 3d model. Now you can't unsee it.",
"best one of these \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8hqVBVFU7M",
"my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU0oHq9Y6Ws",
"I never knew Pingu is so good at roasting someone..",
"Yee yee ass penguin",
"Except that was the worst Kermit impression I’ve heard in my life"
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Pingu roasts Franklin
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO-LXRWSAvw
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/r/videos/comments/qxki3c/hoverboats_can_climb_skyscrapers_in_battlefield/
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[
"Must just flip the suck/blow button",
"Lmao is this really battlefield?\n\nLooks janky as fuck.",
"You're saying... Gotta put it to wumbo?",
"Hovercraft? What part of the world calls them hoverboats?",
"i do. they look like boats so hover boats",
"Seriously this game looks like an absolute shitshow.",
"24% positive rating on Steam.",
"i need a moment alone with the boat"
] | 8 |
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Hoverboats can Climb Skyscrapers in Battlefield 2042
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObFDS2bTrk8
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/r/videos/comments/qxl5pg/the_barenaked_ladies_hit_song_if_i_had_1000000/
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[
"Not just a house but 10 minutes closer to work.",
"but in a suburb that smells like feet",
"I guess they've never heard of a mortgage",
"I think they still could afford fancy Dijon ketchup and Kraft dinner though.",
"Nailed the Ed cut-in.",
"that band was 1000x better when steven page was still in it. the ed era fucking sucks.",
"So I looked some things up: \n\nThe song came out in 1992. Mortgage rates were a little over 8% that year the S&P returns were only 4% and were below mortgage rates the next couple of years. So if you were a pessimist you might have paid cash for a house. Historically though you are right it would be better to get a mortgage and invest the rest.",
"Not in Vancouver they wouldn't.",
"Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave.",
"Look for the future update (adjusted for accuracy)\n“I’m lying in bed just like Brian Wilson’s dead.”",
"he said a million dollars not a stable career",
"Ed was the levity, Steven was the soul. But oddly Steven’s solo stuff isn’t all that great either. It was something about the four of them together that made them special",
"Bingo. The balance of levity and darkness was the whole point. You're listening to this poppy song and you're realizing it's dark as hell. \"wait, he shot a kid?\"",
"Property tax is due. It was a fun year.",
"Well, maybe a down payment on one, considering single detached home prices here in their hometown of Toronto are well over $1 million",
"Was really hoping this would be dubbed to say \"If I had two-million one-hundred eighty-seven thousand seven-hundred and fifty-seven dollars\"",
"*laughs in Pacific Northwest*",
"BNL post Page was the most boring show I ever saw. They just stood there and played, didn't even smile.",
"Nice research! I wonder how much house $1M could afford today with a 20% down payment and the rest in a S&P 500 ETF to pay the mortgage.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nEdit: I figured it out. Assuming a 8% return on stocks, 3% mortgage APR, 20% down, 30% buffer on monthly costs, and no additional income or expenses then you could buy a $875,000 house. That has 175,000 down payment with 825,000 invested. \n\n&#x200B;\n\nEdit2: If you bought the average home at 374,900 then you'd only have to invest $460,000 giving you a remaining $465,000 to go buy more stuff like a nice ottoman.",
"That's tragic. Before that they were amazing live. I saw the tour where they did the Devo bit and it was great.",
"Really sad to hear that. I am so happy to have seen them live all together. They really looked like they were having fun. It was my favorite concert ever.",
"## $1000000 in 1992 has the same purchasing power as $1,901,725.54 in 2021.\n\nyou're welcome",
"What an absolutely fucking terrible band.",
"That late night record shop is BOOMING!",
"I'd buy you a house, but not a real house, that's cruel.",
"tell us how you really feel",
"What an absolutely fucking terrible take",
"Yeah, but sadly the cost of housing has increased faster than inflation since 1992, and wages have stagnated, so in a real sense even this number's a strech.",
"Wow I didn't realize this song was that old!",
"But not a real fur house, that's cruel",
"* Average Price of a home in the U.S. in 1992 was $144,500.\n\n* Average price of a home in the U.S. as of this quarter is $453,300.\n\n* In 1992, you'd spend ~14.5% of your $1,000,000 on a home.\n\n* Today, you'd spend ~23.8% of your, what was $1,000,000 in 1992 but now adjusted for inflation ($1,901,726), on a home.",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtkL5Ldpk-g",
"1br condo?",
"He doesn't care for it. But he exaggerated for internet dramatic effect.",
"I could use narration like this IRL.",
"down payment maybe",
"In my country/city you could have bought 10 3 bedroom houses for $1,000,000 now you could buy 1. If you went back another 10 years, you could have bought 22. Back in the 70's you probably could have bought an entire beach front worth of batches (cheaply made beach houses usually on the beach front) on a really nice beach.\n\nI have a friend whose family bought their batch back in the 70s for $3,000. The land it's on would be worth well over a $1,000,000 as it's beach front on a popular beach.",
"I think this is the premise to light up my room",
"“This is where it ends”",
"Purchasing power is actually a terrible metric for inflation because it relies on consumer goods. Consumer goods stay relatively cheap or suffer from invisible “shrinkflation.” Less material, lower quality, worse warranty, same price for smaller package, etc. electronic goods get dirt cheap over time. But housing, education, medicine, and investment securities balloon to 10x while a Coca-Cola slowly creeps to 2x (but now uses corn syrup not sugar).",
"I still use this joke.\n\n\"Can you buy some ketchup? But not real ketchup that's cruel.\"",
"I think that adjustment needs a readjustment.\n\n*If I had a million dollars, I'd buy you a garage...*",
"There's a pretty significant gap between average home price increases in desirable areas vs less desirable ones. San Francisco for example went from ~$250k in '92 to $1.4 million today.",
"This is a confusing way of saying this. You mean you’d spend 23.8% of your 1.9 million in today dollars? It’d be 45% of your literal 1,000,000 today",
"All the fanciest ketchups; dijon ketchup!",
"Daniel?",
"How is nearly half a million dollars 23.8% of a million dollars?",
"Wages are irrelevant for the OP but I get your point",
"And maybe a few Garfunkels.",
"But not a real Garfunkel, that's cruel.",
"Pass! Hard Pass!",
"It isn't. But nearly half a million dollars *is* 23.8% of $1,901,724.54, which is what $1,000,000 *now adjusted for inflation* is.",
"In Squamish with no parking included.",
"Crunch those numbers again",
"Henrik. It's easy to get the two confused.",
"Ah. It’s definitely confusing when you *think* you found your uni suitemate on Reddit!",
"Wasn't either Canada or Vancouver specifically trying to fix the foreign buyer issue? Either they would have a tax on vacant properties or require owners to live in them 6mos of the year?",
"The intent of that comment appears to be a comparison of the relative inflation of housing prices relative to the value of the dollar, and for that purpose, it makes sense.",
"My folks bought their house for $50,000 in the late 50’s early 60’s.\n\nAdjusted for inflation I make more than my father did.\n\nTheir house is worth 2mil (at least the houses nearby are selling for that, cash, no inspections or anything)",
"Adjusted in capitalist math: “*YOU JUST NEED ALL TO GET JERBS AND WORK HARDER LIKE I DID TRICKLEDOWN TRICKLEDOWN TRICKLEDOWN BLARBGHFFFFPOOOHTTTT FLOOEEY”*",
"My mom and brother would walk around the house singing this randomly. \nThanks for unlocking that memory",
"A million in my country will barely get you the average home. Inflation from our stupid Prime minister.",
"To be fair, they didn't specify where the recipient's new house would be",
"Not for houses, college tuition, or medications.\n\n\nMaybe for Big Macs.",
"It's a consistent theme during all of Canadian elections lol",
"this is nothing compared to Seattle and [Sir Mix-A-Lot's brilliant real estate investments.](https://youtu.be/hjXn8JylB_U?t=87)",
"$1,900,000 definitely can't buy the house here in East Toronto Steven Page had for many years. In 1992, 1,000,000 probably bought you 5-6 of them.",
"Putz even those.... 20 years ago were consistently .99 USD.",
"Mmmmmmmmm\n Mmmmmmmm",
"I'll sell you my house for $500,000.",
"Here in San Diego, you can get a nice 2 br 1 ba 1950s prefab shithole with termites and foundation damage for a cool $800k.",
"This just means OP did it perfectly. $1M of 1992 dollars will, in fact, \\*just\\* net you an average house in Toronto now.",
"They edited it to add the 1.9 mill in parenthesis haha, now it’s more clear for sure.",
"Yeah they brought out a big mac the size of the original in the UK called a grand mac and it was absolutely ridiculous to see how much it had shrunk. Chocolate bars are now the size of the fun size chocolate bars you used to get for kids birthday parties.",
"Oh, okay, they're BNL now. We need a shorthand for the Barenaked Ladies? That's how fundamental they are?",
"I'll be your suitemate now if it costs me less than $700/mo",
"I miss BNL",
"In a couple of years, when we can unlock some equity, I’d buy you Ikea furniture..",
"Poupon ketchup",
"Nope, just a 3 bed 2 1/2 bath in a now very VERY expensive area.",
"What recording is this from?\n\n I can't find this version anywhere",
"But you get bragging rights that you live in California. So that's neat.",
"I don't think you're supposed to adjust both sides of the equation for inflation.",
"Hey, welcome to the Briar Street Theatre! Here's a fruit rollup. Aren't you gonna eat it? Oh, for Christ's sake!",
"UofT is hefty I’ll tell ya that",
"Love BNL, hate this song…",
"The Red Poupon",
"This isn't a new thing",
"Yupp my grandma bought our house and property for $20,000. Now just the back 1/2 acre (a flat field) is worth $300,000. The entire property with the house is worth about $2,000,000. The house is a small 1 story farmhouse.",
"> We need a shorthand for the Barenaked Ladies?\n\n3 charwcters instead if 14. Saves a lot of typing and still gets the meaning across.\n\nIt ain't about keeping *church lady* happy.",
"I never realized the band had two singers.",
"Have fun sitting in your empty house, Stacy",
"Who else though it was going to be the song, but them saying, \"If I had 2.4 million dollars...\"? Just me? Ok.",
"Keep in mind BN is Canadian, dunno if that changes your outcome.",
"WELL?!",
"That’s the opposite of this joke\n\n**$1,000,000 in 2021 has the same purchasing power as $522,739 in 1992**\n\nYou’re welcome",
"ok for real i thought ill play this song havnt heard it in ages. missing around on another window screen and i wondered did i some how fast forward the song.\n\nI didnt read title just saw the song.",
"I love I'm silicon valley. A decent house with a yard would cost that.",
"Funny haha the 1% are raping us and hoping we won't all rise up against them funny haha.",
"They're quoting a line from Community",
"Cool.\n\nCool cool cool.",
"Yet people are still gettting fatter than ever.",
"There's a store near me that now sells pre-wrapped bacon.",
"this guy gets it",
"This is the studio version! It's just missing a couple of repeats here and there",
"Houses in my country have just hit an average of a million dollars. \nI make like 48K a year LMFAO I'll never have a place to call my own. \n\n\nFeels totally cool and normal.",
"Auckland checking in, no single detached home in my suburb either",
"Yea I have to eat the whole multipack now",
"W H Y",
"I feel like I'm missing something...",
"Much of the Bay Area averages around $1000/ft\\^2 these days, so $2 million would get you about 2,000 square feet",
"Lyrics of the song include...\n\n>If I had a million dollars (If I had a million dollars) \nWell I'd buy you a fur a coat \nBut not a real fur coat that's cruel\n\nand then a little later...\n\n>If I had a million dollars (If I had a million dollars) \nWell I'd buy you a green dress \nBut not a real green dress that's cruel",
"THIS. \nIS A FIGHT.\nWE.\nARE FIGHTING.",
"It's Uncle Elwin!",
"Ahhh.. maybe a car parking space here in Sydney :P",
"/r/boise",
">Average price of a home in the U.S. as of this quarter is $453,300.\n\n*Cries in Canadian*",
"Absolutely brilliant",
"You can buy a large home in Oklahoma City for $120,000, the problem is no one wants to live in a rat infested hell hole like OKC.",
"Haha, my house gonna be worth trillions when I retire!",
"My boss does every year, so why not",
"I was kinda curious, so I decided to run it back too. \n\nAverage price of a home in the U.S. in 1960 was $11,900. \n\nIn 1960, you'd spend ~5.64% of your, what was $1,000,000 in 1992 but adjusted for inflation ($210,976.48), on a home. \n\nPretty drastic shift over the last 60 years in terms of home costs relative to inflation. It hurts.",
"That was their first album I remember listening to and for a while I thought the Grade 9 intro was actually part of If I Had a Million Dollars",
"In all fairness I remember thinking that they couldn't buy all that shit with only a million dollars back in '92.",
"What is Bitcoin?\nhttps://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information.html",
"not in the Bay Area",
"I think you are!\n\nIn Toronto in 1992, $1M would buy a house, a fur\\* coat, a green\\* dress, and a lot of Kraft dinners.\n\nIn Toronto in 2021, the equivalent amount of wealth according to inflation will buy you a house.",
"They personally created upward inflationary pressure?",
"> You must have grew up in a mansion\n\nJust a nice urban area probably.",
"Shut up and eat your Kraft Dinner.",
"People always go \"Well then just move or don't live there then.\"\n\nWhat if it's someone's home asshole?",
"My grandfather bought his house in 56 I believe it was for $5000 or just under. Two story with an attic 2500ish sq ft. They passed away last year and now nobody in the family knows what to do because it's smack in the middle of my dad and uncle's homes and they don't want to sell it but it's worth like $250-300k\n\nHe made $55 a week working for GM and my grandmother made like $15 a week cleaning.",
"You're just upset they aren't ACTUAL bare naked ladies.",
"hire a builder, get a builders mortgage, develop on it and rent it out. \nGrandma's $20,000 will provide income for multiple people for the foreseeable future ✌️",
"Everyone thinks this and everyone is wrong. Yes, your house price has increased but no one buys a house with cash. Everyone takes a mortgage.\n\nYour mortgage as a percentage of your income has actually **decreased**. Here is the proof. All values unadjusted for inflation to understand how life was back then.\n\nhttps://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS\n\nMedian sales price of house is $404,700 in Q3 2021\n\nMedian sales price of house is $120,000 in Q3 1992\n\nhttps://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US\n\nMortgage rate in Nov 2021 is 3.10%\n\nMortgage rate in Nov 1992 is 8.32%\n\nhttps://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA646N\n\nMedian Income in 2020 is $67,521\n\nMedian income in 1992 is $30,636\n\nYour 30 yr mortgage of $404,700 @ 3.10% is $1,806 or 32.1% of your monthly income of $5,626.75\n\nYour 1992 30 yr mortgage of $120,000 @ 8.32% is $907 or 35.5% of your monthly income of $2,553\n\n\nHouses are CHEAPER now as a percentage of income than they were in 1992.",
"yeah you don't adjust both sides if you want to eat the rich",
"Haha money printer go brrr",
"Through horrible choices and extreme taxes yes our PM and his party have to take accountability for this.",
"Fun fact this song was the opening song to the Ashton Kutcher movie My Boss's Daughter",
"Vegetable oils and other shitty inflammation causing foods",
"Great post, very salient point.",
">Yeah, but sadly the cost of housing has increased faster than inflation since 1992, and wages have stagnated, so in a real sense even this number's a strech\n\nFTFY $1,000,000 in 1992 has the same purchasing power as $1,901,725 in 2021."
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"Don't put us in charge of saving your wife\n\nEdit: hey thanks",
"Our buy a life vac. Straight up worth every penny.",
"Glassy eyes, blue face, \"what's wrong\" - no response, \"can i perform heimlich?\" -nod and on it. Still happy to still have her alive. Please learn basic stuff.",
"I had to watch these videos for some licensing. They're pretty good.",
"Just wow mate",
"At a restaurant, wouldn't have helped unfortunately, but a great help at home",
"I actually have the travel kit. Two - one in each vehicle.",
"Watched it. Thanks.",
"Wait, is the heimlick still recommended? I did my first aid course a year ago and they were teaching the “pound the person’s back with your hand” technique instead.",
"Had to use the heimlich to save my brothers life one night, definitely worth knowing how to perform it.",
"Next time you’ll pay more attention when she taps your leg",
"AHA teaches the heimlich, Red Cross teaches back slaps.",
"Watched! Thanks for sharing!",
"Username checks out.",
"My partner saved me from choking on a sunflower seed shell (I laughed in the middle of cracking it and it opened and got stuck in my throat) using the Heimlich, and let me tell you, it is NOT fun. Thank goodness for his quick thinking, I was seeing stars and my vision was going black and everything.",
"Sunflowers are not just part of your garden, they’re part of a nation! The Ukraine use the sunflower as their national flower. Whilst in Kansas they chose the sunflower to represent their state.",
"Gonna drop a big 'go fuck yourself' to everyone shitting on OP in the comments.",
"So I guess you're down for it.",
"I bought a “dechoker” for my family in adult and child size. It really is necessary to learn proper heimlich technique but if you’re alone with kids that are old enough to rescue you but not big or strong enough to do it, that could be a lifesaver for you. \n\nI have partial paralysis in my throat on the right side so choking is always a concern, if I eat the wrong types of food. Seeing it in ads got me to buy one after how many children it’s already saved alone.",
"Learn methods on how to assist yourself as well. \n\nI almost choked on a pickled egg once. Got a phone call and swallowed it too soon while I was picking up the call. That was a terrifying moment. Tried to get it out/down/loose then just thought for a couple seconds \"shit this is it\" before giving it one more go.",
"Just watched it with my wife and shared with my best friend",
"I seen a news clip of a family that had a choking baby at a eatery. Everybody got up and was consoling parents as they smacked on the baby. A guy just pops up from his chair runs outside runs back in and has one of those CHILD SIZE vacs in his vehicle and popped the pancake right out of that babies face. The man didn’t even have kids. Said he had in 5 years in his trunk. Said same thing you did. It’s so much easier to be proactive than play lotto with a room full of people that you happen to be eating with.",
"Wow",
"Will buy one now.",
"No idea. Will check the video asap",
"Thanks. It's not like I care. My wife's ok and jokes are just shit. Shame on people",
"Seriously again",
"She said her brain stopped working. Don't ever want to have this moment again.",
"Apparently you go lie on a floor on 4 and drop down. There's videos of that technique\n\nHere: https://youtu.be/Iz8M0UTkvSU",
"Thank you. All it takes is a few minutes and you're gone.",
"So appreciate people like you",
"Thank you mate",
"Good move. When tested on cadavers they were 98% effective on the first try and 100% effective on the second try.",
"Not sure if joking, but will still buy one",
"Well I aint up for chokes either I'll NEVER touch your wife",
"Lol, not joking. The can’t exactly test these on live subjects. The point is that they’ve been empirically proven to work better than the Heimlich. Best of luck my friend.",
"Cheers. Definitely will buy one for car. It was literally outside the restaurant all time",
"Please have respect. Reported",
"Read back as sack at first... mildly concerning.",
"How did you manage to assist yourself if you dont mind my asking?",
"I was taught 5 back blows, 5 abdominal thrusts, repeat",
"Smack your sternum against a chair back or a table",
"Here we go: get it in your brain memory https://youtu.be/SwJlZnu05Cw",
"https://youtu.be/Iz8M0UTkvSU",
"i tried to perform the Heimlich on myself but it wasn't helping much, so I resorted to punching myself in the throat where it was stuck. It managed to dislodge it.\n\nNow I'm not saying that's a good idea. But I quite literally was out of em and legit thought I was going to die.",
"I didn't know this was a technique. Thanks.",
"Weird bot",
"I thought back slaps cause whatever it is to be lodged further?",
"This happened to me too, but with pizza. I thought I was going to die. \n\nI ran across the hall to my neighbors apartment. He was a super stoner and once he finally figured out what was going on, he said he didn't know how to \"do the thing.\" I had to pantomime it for him. Thankfully, it worked. Scary shit.",
"Yeah it's a terrifying experience. Especially that moment where you just feel like it's over.",
"Saw it on Reddit just now. Thanks for that guy",
"Why’s he chewing you out like that?",
"I took CPR through the Canadian Red Cross a month ago.\n\nThe Heimlich is still very much recommended and trained. You're supposed to combine it with back blows to help dislodge anything that's ready to come out. It's 5 Heimlich thrusts and then 5 back slaps. Rinse and repeat.",
"I’m so happy your family is okay, take some time off together and make sure you both speak to someone if it’s impacting your mental health. We all experience traumatic situations differently.",
"My wife choked on food long before I met her. Luckily someone in the restaurant knew what to do. Everyone else took a while to realize what was happening, sat and stared in shock, and then opted to call an ambulance, which it would have been too late for.\n\nLike drowning, choking often doesn't look how you'd expect it to.\n\nIf you have little ones, there's a special [technique](https://youtu.be/gHZdBY-CkGw) for that as well that you should know. I had a neighbor come running over to my house in a panic because her baby was choking and she didn't know what to do. Luckily the bouncing from running dislodged whatever it was though.\n\nIt's so so common. This is definitely something everyone should know.",
"\"Heh-\" *wheeze* *gulp* \"-LO?\"",
"Someone did actually die today and all you can talk about is your very alive wife. Have some respect.",
"Tried that, now I have two kids.",
"I've always imagined it being like and inflated balloon with a pebble lodged in the neck. You're just trying to squeeze the balloon so the air forces the pebble out.",
"That’s insane but honestly impressive. Definitely something to be proud of. I always have a fear of my bestfriend choking bc he eats like a human\nGarbage disposal. So this video really was a sign. Thx OP",
"Additionally: If someone seems like they are choking, ACT. I've seen a full restaurant sit dumb founded (myself included) while a mom was pleading for someone to help her choking son, fortunately someone acted and it was fine.\n\nSometime after that, I was at a restaurant with a dozen or so friends at a table, and a girl was (seemingly) choking. She ended up being fine. But in those 5-10 seconds of uncertainty, I was the only one to start moving her way. Even my friend, who I consider braver and a stronger leader, just kinda froze. So it's very much a normal thing to not know what to do or be afraid to act, and you gotta fight it immediately.\n\nSo, for me, I have to keep it as a mental thought that if someone is in an emergency I will not hesitate to help in some way (if possible). Even if I end up looking like an idiot because everything was fine and I overreacted. Obviously, if you can't directly help without potentially making it worse, start directing and/or asking for help on the victims behalf (ask someone to call 911, ask for someone who knows what to do to step up, etc). If you find more capable people are on the scene then obviously let them take over. But be prepared to be the most capable in the room if it's an emergency like choking where you can't wait even a minute.",
"Everyone always nods no when I offer to hiney lick them.",
"Who nearly died?",
"Heimlich can be used after the back pound and the coughing technique not working",
"Guy looks like Johnny Knoxville from the thumbnail",
"Ya if they want you to keep your pants on when doing something like that they really ought to say so, I'm not a mind reader.",
"Their are other ways as well. Low backed chairs can be used for the Heimlich.",
"I think his sense of humor is a hard pill to swallow.",
"Had to do this for a friend back in the day. We both got high af and started eating a bunch of food when he started choking. I thought he was fucking with me at first but quickly realized this was actually happening. Completely fucked up the vibe but he is still alive so that is good :P",
"Lots of people die every day.",
"As an Ellis lifeguard I was taught Heimlich for children and adults and the back technique for babies.",
"My man.",
"My wife died of brain cancer. I'm cool with brain cancer jokes.",
"Absolutely. We're scanning her tomorrow for anything (she's stubborn). Just had the longest hugs ever in our whole lives. Staying awake all night.",
"Back slaps are actually relatively dangerous. They can lead to the object moving deeper into the windpipe. Good quality heimlichs are your best bet.",
"Upvote for seeing this. Didn't know before",
"Thank you. All help is needed for knowing what to do. Just cried and hugged my wife for a long time.",
"Amazing for saving your friends live",
"No. I'm just saying what to do. I couldn't take it if she'd be dead. I need her 10000000000000000000000000 percent. Please learn to help others",
"Chairs? How? Like slamming yourself into a chair?",
"When people freeze even for a minute, it might cost a life. Please act if you can. I'll have nightmares over this for years. Her look of \"I'm dying\" is the worst i can say. Thanks for being there mate <3",
"I'll save his wife.",
"ngl I was thinking this would be a video of his wife choking. I was like \"Why the fuck would you put this online?\"",
"Sorry Reddit seems to be full of assholes. I totally get how this could be very traumatizing for you. And here you are trying to share info to maybe spare others that same trauma. Wish folks could just be considerate and kind. It's not hard and it's totally free.",
"I went to a pizza parlor every Friday as a kid, and would read a poster about the heimlich manuver while eating. When I was 9 it paid off when my brother was choking on a grape and my mother just called 911.",
"Yeah, you place the top of the back of the chair in the same location then thrust. It isn’t full proof, but if you alone it could potentially save your life.",
"Yeah, I understand that especially given being disabled. Remember always plan for any situation. I am guessing you have a device to initiate a medical emergency??",
"Stop choking your wife",
"That fucking \"I'll die here\" is all i can take. Didn't \"save\" her for an Instagram moment nor reddit shitpoints. She is my life. End of story. I'd kill myself if I would have seen her dead. She's my life and my life only ends with me.\n\nThat look of dying. Never can forget it. Hope this nuisance of a post saves a life.",
"It makes your brain turn white, one of the scariest experiences I've ever had. I'm so glad your wife is okay!",
"Please do not learn the Heimlich manoeuvre. Back slaps and chest thrusts are much more effective, with less risk of causing trauma to the diaphragm.",
"Please be considerate.",
"Did it for an elderly guy who would buy one of our 2/$1 jerky sticks every morning. He had just had back surgery so I was extra scared but honestly it was about the most satisfying thing I've ever done in my life.",
"Oh grow up.",
"Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville, and this is the Heimlich maneuver.",
"Just going to hug her now and sleep. I don't care about jokes, upvotes, nothing.\n\nJust want her smile in the morning plus her scan results",
"Watching this while eating is scary lol",
"I know, she only agreed to scan now. Will do it in the morning after watching sleep. Too stubborn 😔",
"I nearly choked to death on pizza crust when I was a kid, luckily it was during breakfast and my mom was there (who is a nurse) and gave me the Heimlich. That was scariest seconds of my life.",
"I'm glad she's alive for 😊",
"I don't know the current official stance or anything, but I saved my dad's life with the heimlich, so I highly recommend being familiar with it.",
"Very specific.",
"I know one guy you said he threw himself into the back of a chair at the right angle. He was the only one there who knew how to do it.",
"I almost choked to death in the middle of a Chipotle on a piece of stringy steak. No one helped me. Had to make my way outside and basically reach down into my throat to pull it out. Fucking scary.",
"Back slaps need to be directed upwards. Plenty of things are dangerous but in a life threatening situation you weigh the risks.",
"> Like drowning, choking often doesn't look how you'd expect it to.\n\nYou expect a person to be making noise. However if their airway is totally blocked, they will be unable to make any sound at all. If they are making some noise, that's good, because they're managing to get some air in and out.",
"Yes, sorry this is what I meant to say. Not completely dangerous. Just needs to be used in the right context.",
"One time when I was about 14, my mom got a piece of cantaloupe lodged in her airway. I performed abdominal thrusts, cantaloupe shot across shot across the kitchen. I saved her life. Afterwards I asked if she would buy me a CD since my first aid training and quick action had kept her alive. She said no.",
"I thought was going to choke one time too. I was thinking shit is this the way I die ? I punched myself as hard as possible in my chest and the piece of food came flying out . Watching that YouTube video with the technique is good to know for the future .",
"thumping someone on the back works too. The Heimlich thing only rose to prominence because Heimlich was a ruthless self promoter who just wanted to be famous for something.",
"Shoulda let her choke on them for sure.",
"I had to scroll down quite a bit to find this comment. I knew it would be here just not so far down.",
"Had to use it on my dad in the middle of the night once. It was terrifying. Was glad I remembered how to do it since it had been quite a while since I learned.",
"[Unconscious adult choking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyvn52EkuZ4)",
"Interesting, haven't seen this technique. The one I learned, and used when I choked alone once, was the Heimlich with a piece of furniture - make a fist, place below your sternum (as you would in the Heimlich), and use some sturdy furniture (table/back of a chair/couch) to throw your body weight onto your fist to do the abdominal thrusts. Self-Heimlich. I wonder if this one's easier to learn/use, if it's as effective.",
"Don’t you dare do it that’s Caleb Fucking Wendt!!!",
"Ok. Maybe you're saving this thread for me.\n\nI was a lifeguard and learned extra stuff between normal community CPR/first aid and actual medical stuff.\n\nI did learn the infant choking back slap thing, but there's no way that people are now recommending back slaps for adults, right?",
"Paramedic, 5 years.\n\nThe Heimlick is out dated (this video is from 5 years ago too). Our protocols are 5 back blows, followed by 5 chest thrusts, and back and forth until dislodged.\n\nIf that doesn't work you're moving towards the pt passing out and you're getting the Magills and forceps out to manually clear the airway.",
"> My partner saved me from choking on a sunflower seed shell\n\nYou can't choke on a sunflower seed shell. \n\nYou can have throat irritation and coughing fits from a shell stuck in your throat, people who are choking have this response too, but this response doesn't mean your choking.",
"This is the protocol as a Paramedic. You repeat until dislodged, if it doesn't, you're moving towards the patient passing out and needing to manually dislodge with Magills and forceps (and/or CPR).",
"Please be sure to do that back blows its just as important nowadays and is commonly missed because people learn from youtube tutorials that are largely out of date there are reasons why first aid needs to be renewed every 1 - 2 years things in first aid change quite often.",
"keep in mind that OP is a lying karma whore",
"Please for the love of god don't do that, its looks like youll choke on something else or even worse bite down onto your tongue you're suppose to do it like this.\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns5rEbfLl3g&ab\\_channel=InHomeCPR](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns5rEbfLl3g&ab_channel=InHomeCPR)\n\nIts supposed to mimic the chest thrusts you would do on someone where the chair or other stable object will act as the thrust pushing air up and forcing the object out.\n\n[News/talkshow report on the same method.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P4-xbL-kHw&ab_channel=WCBDNEWS2)",
"In Germany it’s the following order: \n\n- encourage person to lean forward and cough as strongly as they can as long as they are still coughing\n\n- if there is no effective coughing, deliver five back blows between the shoulder blades (up to 3 rounds)\n\n- if back blows fail, do Heimlich/ abdominal thrusts 5x\n\nAlternate back blows and Heimlich 5:5\n\n- When person becomes unresponsive, start CPR with extra strong rescue breaths, aiming at pushing the foreign object down. \n\nStart with five strong breaths, then switch to 30:2 compressions : rescue breaths. It seems counter intuitive in the first moment, but considering that we have two lungs and the trachea splits into two main bronchi, the idea of pushing the foreign object into one main bronchus would still leave the other lung free for ventilation, which is better than when both are obstructed. Also consider that you did everything you could to expel the foreign body, and if that fails, the only other solution is to push it down.\n\nI believe Heimlich still counts as ultima ratio here, because you risk internal injuries and the person should get checked up afterwards to check for free fluid in the abdomen. Even if you don’t have internal injuries, you might have bruised ribs for weeks. It is without doubt an effective method, but the back blows are also effective, especially with children, and come with less collateral risks.\n\n\nI know that in the US, rescue breaths have been taken out of the equation, because it led to many laypeople hesitating or not starting CPR at all. In Germany you can also forego the rescue breaths if you really can’t or don’t want to do them for fear of infection or out of disgust, but it’s a good thing to do and especially children need the oxygen.\n\n- With babies, never do Heimlich. Alternate back blows and chest compressions (5:5). \n\nPeople who don’t have children should make sure not to hit too low, you will find shoulder blades and sternum around the area where the arms are attached/nipple height.\n\nIn the end, everything you do will be better than doing nothing, even if the order or technique might not be the textbook response! The better your technique, the less stress for you and the better outcome for the patient though.\n\n(Source: physician and licensed first aid trainer for corporate first responders and teachers in Germany. I find it fascinating how first aid differs internationally. In Germany our orientation is the ERC/European resuscitation Council, and their sister page, GRC for German resuscitation council. In Germany, everyone has to do first aid (the minimum would be approaching the person in distress and calling for help/911/112), regardless of training.)\n\nhttps://cprguidelines.eu",
"https://findahelpline.com/i/iasp",
"Had something similar with strawberry laces. Got one stuck in my throat for a good 2 minutes before I finally managed to grab the tip of it at the back of my mouth and pull it out. \n\nEven though I could breathe, it was still fucking terrifying. Mainly because I was all alone and freaking out that it could have been something bigger.",
"THIS SHOULD BE HIGHER. OP EDIT YOUR ANSWER Jesus Christ. \nYou should be doing the technique that mimics the heimlich but on yourself.",
"https://youtu.be/jQuImEBi0MA",
"Fun tip: it's no longer called the Heimlich maneuver, [the Heimlich family would like the procedure to be referred to as \"abdominal thrusts\"](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69482/dr-henry-heimlichs-long-battle-red-cross-over-his-namesake-maneuver)",
"Also teach your kids to slow down while eating and chew their food properly, so they dont turn into adults who kill themselves because they dont know how to eat properly.",
"My best bud had to do this to me and then about 3 months later his wife had to on him. Saved both of our lives! This was about 3 years ago.",
"Please also learn the difference between Heimlich and CPR and when to appropriately use each. Call a local fire house or hospital, they may offer classes. I tried searching on the internet to show someone else and found a lot of horrible misinformation.",
"When I was a kid I would drink water when it felt like I was choking on too much bread or something. It would push everything down. Does that work for you guys as well? I haven't had that experience as an adult so I don't know if my airway was completely blocked or not.",
"I choked on roast beef at a buffet with my parents and friends. They all looked at me in shock and stared as I finally got it down. Im still salty about it. Not even a slap on the back. Choking is no joke. Lol its funny now that I look back but seriously people...help a guy out",
"The comments are a crackup in that video. First comment says \"attention if you are choking now fast forward to 1:15\" and the comments underneath are people who were literally choking while watching the video and were panicking as they couldnt find the right moment in the video. Weird world we live in. \n\n\nNow I am just thinking of how many people died watching this video while choking, waiting a whole 1minute and 15 seconds to find the correct timestamp, and never commented. Fuck",
"Use a chair not that video, run at it and have your stomach slammed against it",
"Excellent point .One thing that many people do regardless of culture is that they point to their throat or airway or make any kind of gestures towards the airway.",
"That’s a good instruction video, I remember using it as a reference when I had to look something up some time ago.",
"Yeah, I was thinking that it doesn’t seem big enough to block your airway.",
"And glad all is now well with you all!",
"Copied from my reply 8 months ago..\n\nalmost choked and died on a lunchables butterfinger in kindergarten. Everyone including the staff just stared and didn't help. It worked itself out in the end somehow.\n\nNow that I think about it that's really fucking scary how nobody helped.",
"Ram yourself into a table or chair like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEIiEAn7b-U), as hard as [this](https://youtu.be/lCKQMRTlhQg?t=162)\n\nA broken rib (or two or three) will be a nuisance for a few weeks. A dead you will be a nuisance for eternity.",
"as someone from england, i feel that if you are choking you'd want and ambulance asap, but as soon as someone does this life saving maneuvers for free, your and if you dont wanna want to spend 12,000 dollars whatever it is for a taxi to the hospital, you are gonna say NOPE",
"The back of a chair if you can get to it works as well.",
"The history behind the [Heimlich Maneuver](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLreMVNBSY8)",
"Were you choking or gagging on it?",
"Our first responder class was a bit different. You put your leg between theirs to provide stability, clasp your hands right under their ribs and the jerk the shit out of them going in an upwards motion. Also taught us the chair technique incase we are the one choking and no one is around.",
"Man Reddit has lost its edge,",
"I watched the same video and bought it asap. My son is nearly two and just the other day choked on food. I got it out but he bawled and I cried because it was so scary.",
"If it's moving into the esophagus that's a good thing. The windpipe is where you don't want it to be.",
"My bad, misspoke again, edited to fix it. Sorry, been a long day!",
"For 8 minutes every year, that guy teaches me how to take off gloves properly",
"Don't choke up on us now",
"Thanks! I have thought for a long time that I knew how to perform the maneuver for choking victims. But this was a great teaching video, and it encouraged me to watch other videos about performing this on infants and myself, in case of emergency. I hope it sticks!\nP.S. I'm glad your wife is still alive!",
"In Australian First Aid (St John Western Australia) classes they say to not do the Heimlich and recommend firm “back blows” which is basically hitting the persons back fairly hard. And then obviously calling emergency services.\nEveryone should really do a First Aid course if it accessible to them.",
"22 years ago I saved my dad with a Heimlich. Couldn’t save him from the cancer though 🤬",
"In all honesty: what the hell?\n\nThis guy's wife just about died in front of him. What the fuck is wrong with you people?\n\nHave even, like...a single shred of human decency or compassion.",
"Don't tell me what to do! *dies of choking*",
"I too choose this guy's almost dead wife",
"[I prefer the Robert Downey Jr. method] (https://youtu.be/FOigiazkd9A)",
"On the D?",
"This too. \n\nUnfortunately in my specific case we have stools at the counter only.",
"Teach ol’ girl to chew and not talk with her mouth full.",
"Dude it's a forum full of random people. We all make jokes because we like to laugh because life is harsh and cruel. Comedy helps make light of that. They are corny ass puns, not ill wishes towards someone.",
"It's just a silly joke. His wife lived, there's nothing to be sad about here. \n\nThe tone of reddit is not super serious and formal.",
"Terrifying. My neighbor's husband died that way. Right in front of her at dinner. I can't even imagine how awful that would be.",
"Did you see that “under the breast” motion.. dudes imagining some big ole Titties!",
"We were taught this in school, along with how to use the 3 seashells.",
"Had this moment when I choked on an undercooked sweet potato. I always thought I’d be scared in a moment like that but I just remember being so mad that everything I had worked for was going down the drain over a sweet potato.",
"I had the same reaction. \"A pickled egg is taking me out? Really?!\"",
"Thank god you thought to capitalize on it with fake internet doots!",
"Use your fist in the same position as the Heimlich and slam THAT onto the chair. Less likely to fuck your ribs up that way.",
"> Comedy helps make light of that.\n\nFor some people, that's true. Hell, even most.\n\nGenerally, that's not true *on the literal day it happened*.\n\nI joke about shit like this all the time; believe me, I get.\n\nSometimes though, the right thing to do, as a person, is just understand that someone went through something really shitty and be compassionate about that.",
"Here you go first link I could find, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljL9JcK6RnM \n\nThe method is very simple, find a chair that the back is the same hight as your belly button lean yourself over the chair back where the back would press in the same area as the person fist in the video above and press into it over and over till the food gets unstuck.",
"> It's just a silly joke. His wife lived\n\nI mean, yes, she did.\n\nBut that happened today.\n\nHe nearly watched his wife die in front of him within the last 24 hours.\n\nDo you think he sees it as a silly joke?\n\nHave some compassion for the people on the other end of your computer screen. They're human and they feel things. Just because *you* can laugh at it doesn't mean they're ready to.",
"Hope you and your wife are doing okay 👍 thanks for the public service!",
"Just hit your head with a hammer, simple",
"Hoocha hoocha hoocha, lobster",
"Consider yourself reported.",
">choking often doesn't look how you'd expect it to\n\nIt's also very common for a choking victim to quietly leave the room without alerting anyone. They may feel embarrassed or impolite, think they can handle it themselves, and only realize they need help when it's too late.",
"That applies as long as the person can still breathe. If they can cough, even weakly, then you encourage them to cough and can pound their back to assist. Once their airway becomes obstructed, then you start adding in abdominal thrusts.",
"Reddit edgelords are gonna edgelord",
"> Now let's cover the highly effective and very important skill called conscious adult choking.\n\nSo why does he not teach us how to choke a conscious adult?",
"My mother in law just passed in April from a choking event at her 10 year anniversary dinner, it’s completely wrecked our family, one pice of shrimp changed all our lives forever this is important",
"Works like a charm. Did it twice on my mom.",
"They certainly will. So it goes.\n\nCompassion is a learned thing, sadly, it seems.\n\nMaybe someday something shitty will happen to them and suddenly they'll understand why it's not so funny to everyone else when bad things happen to other people.",
"Do you just lay on your stomach on the back part and Heimlich maneuver?",
"Unless your in Australia where they don’t recommend it. Upward Back blows",
"That was the one I did. Makes sense now!",
"I think the point is more-so that he could’ve ignored the replies altogether, rather than replying to every person who offended him.",
"What about a fat guy?",
"This is pretty timely given that Thanksgiving is the around the corner in the US and many families will be gathered together.",
"took an FA course by the ARC handful of months ago, and turned around to get the teacher's cert. heimlich still recommended and part of the digital aspect of the training. \n\nit's combined with back blows, and furthermore it was recommended that if someone can cough, to encourage them to continue doing so, and only start the heimlich process when the airway is fully obscured.",
"I live alone. This is my greatest fear. Taking a risky bite of steak might do me in",
"If you saved her, then you're a HERO! Good job!",
"This thread is doing very little to instill any hope that any lessons would be learned on Reddit today. Why people continue to try, I have no idea.",
"I couldn't breathe so I'd say that's choking",
"I used this on my friend when we were both 17. It blew my mind that there were no sounds coming from him since you see choking victims in movies coughing. I gave him the Heimlich and that thing popped out with an audible \"pop\". It is incredibly easy as shown in this video and I'm sure it saves many lives.",
"Reddit of full of people joking around, and if you can't handle it you just shouldn't post or read the comments, because nothing you say will change it, and it will only make you angry",
"That's a totally valid point, but I doubt that OP sees it that way.\n\nYou know...because his wife just almost died.\n\nI'd put good money on him just being in a super-emotional and raw state and not being able to see anything other than people piling onto him for not thinking it's funny.",
">If you can't handle it\n\nI mean, I don't think it is ridiculous for someone to be sensitive about this considering it just happened to them. And I don't see why they should be downvoted into oblivion for having a very reasonable reaction to it. \"You just can't handle jokes\" is the go to defense of assholes who can't be bothers to just be considerate towards others. Just, like, don't be a dick? As a general rule...",
"For some stupid reason they don’t teach you in Australia to do the Heimlich- in fact they scare you into not doing it. Not sure why is there is so much evidence for it.",
"Yeah in hindsight he should have shown the method in the first two seconds of the video and then go back and explain the background.",
"The Heimlich (also known as chest thrusts) are actually more important than the back blows. In fact, back blows disappeared from the algorithm for a couple years before re-emerging two or three updates ago.\n\nSome first aid/CPR companies are better than others. Many courses are taught by people who don’t know what they are talking about and go off script. I’ve been taught CPR incorrectly before as a teenager, which scares me now as a paramedic.",
"Happened to me with a piece of steak that was kind of tough that I didn’t chew enough… I ended up pulling it out of my throat. It was rly scary, worst part was it was at a party and nobody realized it was happening",
"Is it no longer called the Heimlich Manuever?",
"As a 4 year old kid, stealing a bit of french baguette and scarfing it down, no other reason than it was close to lunch and I was hungry and my dad was busy elsewhere. I got lucky. I managed to pull it out myself.\n\nThen I was eating something alone, no one else around, and started to choke. I again got lucky and figured if I was going to die, I needed to calm down to see if I could help myself. I realised that when I was much calmer there was a teeny gap to breathe through. Rather than inhale vast deep lungfulls and potentially inhale it fully, I did small little pressure breaths and eventually it disolved enough to give me enough of a gap to do a larger lung full and then cough it up. \n\nThen just last week my dad was eating a mint in the back seat of a car. I was sat next to him, and I realised he was struggling. I asked loudly if he was choking and he couldn't even talk, was just trying to shift it. I asked if he could breath and he kinda shook his head no. So I demanded he sit forward enough so I could try and side slap (we were both belted too, and Car was going around a super busy roundabout where we simply could not stop). I managed a decent slap on the right back area, and I think it was enough for it to shift for him so he could breathe a bit, and I told him to calm down and just let it disolve if he could breath more.\n\nLearn self solving methods, as well as heimlich for adults and kids, and most of all, stay calm in all situations.",
"Damn it, you're just trying to be serious and all you got from those typical clowns on reddit with puns and jokes. Just another usual day on reddit.",
"Heimlich has specifically requested his name not be used for the abdominal thrust manoeuvr any longer and 5 hard slaps to the back should be attempted befire abdominal thrusts as they are very damaging to a person.\n\nThe red cross has had this policy since 2006 but everyone is watching videos on reddit instead of sharing actual medical advice",
"Most threads of popular subreddits are filled with jokes and puns. Sad reality.",
"My cousin did this once with a marshmallow when he was like 6",
"Abdominal thrusts ate a last resort.\n\nHeimlich has requested his name be removed from the manoeuvr",
"Most important skill I haven't learnt in my life was to cough from the bottom of my lungs. You have to force your stomach in to make your diaphram push up. A good way to practice this is to learn how to fill your lungs from the bottom up. When breathing in, gentle push out your stomach as you take a breath through your nose, this should be a controlled, gentle intake, not rapid. Then release starting from the bottom of your lungs. Pushing your stomach in and force the diaphram up. Eventually you'll learn to slowly collapse the top of your rib cage into your lungs for that extra breath.",
"I think you slam your stomach into the back of the chair but I’ve never done it",
"I would never touch your wife.",
"Well, it's funny to you because you've never seen in such serious situation.",
"Ima go choke and try, brb.",
"o7",
"100% have thrown myself into a kitchen counter. To dislodge a damn banana",
"I've had this done to me. Saved my life I think.",
"Here’s another version for you metal fans:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/g3q6lmZm33U",
";)",
"Ah another excuse about life should not be taken serious. Comedy exists but doesn't have to be forced into every circumstance.",
"It's been that way for a while in Australia. Before that, it was back blows and side thrusts. In fact, I don't think I was ever officially taught Heimlich, and I became a medic in the mid 90s.",
"I inhaled coffee and spat it on my plate not long after reading this thread. Thanks",
"I now know the heimlich. Thank you.",
"People tend to panic when they are choking and consequently continue to try and breathe through their mouths. If this ever happens to you, do your best to relax and redirect your breath intake through your nose. With this, you'll be able to fill your lungs with air and cough out the obstruction. I've experienced it a few times because I eat too damn fast.",
"Can you explain why you would do rescue breaths on an unconscious choking victim? It seems like that would push the obstruction further down.",
"I mean, that's normally just fine.\n\nDon't get me wrong: I'm definitely Mr. Joke-About-The-Inappropriate.\n\nBut that's almost always in a third-party capacity where I'm not talking directly to the people involved in `the-really-hard-thing`.\n\nIt's completely heartless to pile onto a guy who just about watched his wife die in front of him, *today*.",
"I saved a class mate from choking using the Heimlich procedure. Everyone should know how to do this.",
"You just made me chew my food more thoroughly. Well done OP.",
"> \"can i perform heimlich?\"\n\n*mimicks \"I don't know, can you?\" and continues choking*",
"What the fuck? No..\n\nGrasp your fist, place slightly above naval, use a chair or counter to help drive your fist inward and upward - *under* the sternum\n\nBruh honestly delete this, it's pissing me off that \"smack your sternum against shit\" is being upvoted lol, you gonna kill someone",
"Thank you actually. Idk how I haven’t learned this sooner. Thanks public school!",
"Choke on something else?",
"Your wife looks like Balki Bartokamous",
"I too want to shave this guys wife.",
"There is a technique for doing this to yourself using a chair, table, or other sturdy implement.",
"Ahhh shit he’s dead.",
"Stop talking and help the man!",
"I was by myself in my apartment and ate a potato that perfectly lodged in my windpipe. I tried jumping against a chair and it didn't work and I thought I was going to die. Right before I passed out I reached out and grabbed a pen. I slammed it has hard as I could into my throat and managed to perform a tracheotomy on myself.",
"Thanks for asking! \n\nThe trachea is forked\n- any blockage above the fork will obstruct the complete airway \n- any blockage below the fork would only affect one side/lung, assuming a single foreign body that got stuck/aspirated.\n\nOur main goal is to get the foreign body out the way the way it came in, but if that fails and the person becomes unresponsive, we need to act. \n\nWhen the airway is completely obstructed, there is eventually no more oxygen reaching the brain. Think of it this way, the victim cannot get more dead than dead. \n\nBy ventilating with higher pressure, we purposefully aim to push the foreign object down the trachea. \n\nSince the right bronchus is a little bit more steep, there is a good chance the foreign body will end up there, leaving the other side free for ventilation.\n\nAlways avert the bigger evil, whatever results in survival is good.\n\nRemoving the foreign body once the patient survives is manageable (endoscopy/bronchoscopy/surgery). I hope that answers your question.",
"Order a LifeVac Kit for your family! They’re worth the $120 to save lives.",
"My wife, but at the time girlfriend, on our first real date, had to save her life with the ol' Heimlich. I guess she figured I couldn't be too bad then, right?",
"Like, we get it, he has a huge dick.",
"That's some real Life Hack shit, right there.",
"So, were you really choking, or just had the thing jammed in your esophagus and freaked out from the pain?\n\nWhen I was younger, I was lying on my back and had a butterscotch hard candy in my mouth. It slipped off my tongue and into my throat. I swallowed it and instantly panicked from the pain of swallowing the thing. Took a second to realize I was breathing and not choking.",
"I bought a set and convinced my parents to buy a set too. Great product 👌",
"Protip, don't go too high or you can easily kill someone.",
"Step 1 is definitely Don’t Panic.\n\nSource: I panicked and tried lesser methods. I’m still here to type this, but could’ve saved myself a lot of trouble by shoving myself into the side of a table or something instead. At least I wasn’t fully plugged, so I was able to get it down with water. Yeah, remember when I said Step 1 is Don’t Panic? I fucking DRANK WATER when I was choking. Apparently I wanted to see if I could drown myself at the same time.",
"I mean I could not breathe or swallow anything. I tried to wash it down with some water and the water went nowhere.",
"The three seashells?",
"I was choking by myself in a hotel room one night. I knew i couldn’t make it to the hotel lobby for help. So I heimliched myself. Saved my life. It was terrifying so please learn how to do it to yourself",
"I just can't take someone getting upset at people making stupid jokes and him getting mad... Then being very like guys come on get learning this and you could save a life... And then spreading a video that is not helpful. Just set the info correctly, it's important instead of wasting time arguing with people.",
"So, we have to act like we are the Genie from Aladdin?\n\nI can save you, friend, but you need to say \" i wish for you to save me from choking to death\". That's the rule.\n\nJokes aside, the video gives good instructions, and heimlich is very useful and effective. Learn it, it could make a big difference, one day.",
"> I fucking DRANK WATER when I was choking. Apparently I wanted to see if I could drown myself at the same time.\n\nLOL, I did this as well first thinking I'd just flush it down. Then went \"oh shit it's not going anywhere\" flipped myself over to let the water \"drain\" out.",
"If you can't breathe, you can't breathe. That's choking.\n\nSide note, acid reflux caused some issues with my esophagus that would cause it to clamp down where it connects to my stomach. A spasm of sorts. Nothing will go down and after not noticing it after a couple bites, my only option is to bring those bites back up. Had to make a few trips to the ER before my Gastro Dr Rx'd me a -prazole that I have to take regularly.",
"you trying to bruise my stomach bro? That's there I store my food.",
"This is so important. I had a friend who was alone, eating, and choked. In his panic, the only thing he could think to do was grab a knife and try and force it down. That was the wrong idea.",
"Yep all Australian courses I've done recommend back blows and front blows. No heimlich.",
"A KNIFE?! Holy shit.",
"When I was in college, the end of a Bic pen (the little thing at the end ) came of and got stuck in my windpipe. I was sitting there trying to convey that I couldn't breathe and no one understood. I almost passed out till a basketball player saw me and ran over and applied the Heimlich to me. He said he had been a life guard during the summer and they had taught them. Dude might have saved my life, I bought the entire team pizza from the place I worked at as a thank you. Scary how quick something like that can happen.",
"Learn it for small children too. I saved my eldest son from choking when he was 1 year old. It terrified my wife because she just saw me suddenly grab my son and apparently beat him (I’m sure that’s what it looked like for the first couple of seconds). But, it didn’t take more than a few seconds to dislodge the fruit. My son was just to bewildered by the experience to cry, but my wife cried a little bit.\n\nAnyway… the technique is quite different for infants, toddlers, and small children. While we aren’t that young for long, we’re considerably more likely to choke on something at that age. Everyone should learn for both kids and adults.",
"You should learn it. It’s a real wife-saver.",
"Thanks! That makes sense",
"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20hindlick%20maneuver",
"once, long long ago, i was at the dinner table with my wife and daughter. my daughter was 4 to 6 at the time. my wife and i were talking when i looked over and noticed my daughter was choking. i got up went behind her and did a quick Heimlich maneuver, popping whatever it was out of her throat and then returned to my seat...**all without stopping the conversation and while maintaining eye contact with my wife**...she was blown away by how casually i did it. as if i simply gone into the kitchen for seconds.\n\ntake the time to learn it...it is not only easy but it can quickly save a life.",
"Right? There’s a whole category of that on pornhub with 1000s of videos",
"Yeah I'm from a country that doesn't use the Heimlich technique. Only back blows and chest thrusts.",
"Yes! Learn. I've saved my dad once. My ex once. My toddler daughter once. And another toddler at a store. And as a preschool teacher back in the day, that always worried me. Kids don't pay attention when eating.",
"My coworker Heimlich'd an older coworker at work. 2 weeks before his retirement. Chocked on chicken skin. 2 others were just stating like terrified goons.",
"And thats why you look away from the comments you dont like",
"No she didn't",
"Thank you for posting. I’ve been meaning to watch a video on this, but it always escapes my mind",
"If you do it really well, you can deliberately slow down your heart rate. I, sadly, am too unfit now and need to get back to exercise to do that again.",
"My kids have instructed me that they are going to etch this on my tombstone ….. “Here lays twintrapped. She knew the Heimlich”. If I hear anyone choking, that’s what I yell. Everyone thought it was funny until I needed to use it on my son who was choking on a piece of carne asada.",
"I have invented... a maneuver! Well really it is more of a gesture...",
"Heimlich isn’t actually taught as a primary method of choking rescue any more. First aid courses encourage backblows (basically smacking someone on the back while leaning forward) especially with obese people or elderly who you either cannot wrap arms around or risk damaging. I think alternating techniques is also encouraged with some.",
"The only difference today is you don't call it that anymore, a firefighter I'm friends with got threatened to be sued for using the term on live television.\n\nNow you are taught \"abdominal thrusts\" they are still recommended, but only if the person is completely unable to breathe.",
"Looks good but it bothers me that he doesn’t tell you to keep your chin up. If you slam your chin into the ground you’re going to need a few dental appointments. Still better than dying, but neither is preferable.",
"Two days ago I did this with my 4 year old step son who was a little overzealous with a fruit snack. The heimlick felt weird due to his size compared to mine. Like it wasn’t working right. I went right to pounding his back and it worked. All this was while I was on the phone with the 911 operator. FD and paramedics still came and said I did the right move by slapping his back.",
"Because they posted about it on Reddit. If you're sensitive about it, don't post about it to millions of anonymous strangers",
"They posted about it to try to be helpful to folks who may unexpectedly find themselves in a life or death situation. I'm not expecting every commenter on the internet to be an upstanding citizen but am surprised to see OP downvoted for simply saying they aren't in a place to joke about it at the moment.",
"While your at it. Learn CPR too, they discuss both in this course. Even for babies too. [cpr and First Aid ](https://nhcps.com/facebook-free/)",
"It’s not recommended in Australia anyway. Back blow and chest thrust.",
"Instructions unclear. Started washing hair first. They choked to death but their hair has great volume.",
"Whatever it was you experienced, it wasn't choking. Choking involves a blockage of the windpipe, not the oesophagus, so you *can't* just breathe through your nose. \n\nAre you gong to suggest people just breathe through a heart attack because \"oh i had some minor chest pains myself, it's not a big deal\"?",
"Does this happen a lot in the US?\nPeople choking on stuff?\nI’m old, and have yet to hear of anyone needing this where I live? Nor can I remember reading about anyone needing it?\nIt just seems like a solution looking for a problem.\n\nThis, to me, seems like quicksand.. I have, in general, been thoroughly disappointed in how seldom the “how to survive quicksand” manoeuvres I fine-tuned as a wee nipper have been needed. \nHalf a century of life with a distinct lack of swallow-distressed people have me thinking my highly tuned Heimlich skills are not in such high demand that I earlier anticipated.",
"I could never choke to death.\nIt is mostly preventable unless you are physically weak",
"Could you share the one you bought pls?",
"I was choking on a pringle when I was a teenager and my older sister saved my life with the heimlich. She's been holding it over my head for 30 freaking years.",
"That \"stupid reason\" is that it's dangerous and not necessarily any more effective than the technique they *do* teach you in first aid classes here, which is to give hard whacks between the shoulderblades.\n\nAmerica loves the Heimlich, but they also love guns and conspiracy theories.",
"Should’ve asked BEFORE performing the technique!",
"This guy doesn't know how to use the three seashells!",
"I’ll also pave this guys wife",
"[Dechoker Amazon Store](https://www.amazon.com/stores/DeChoker/Homepage/page/57B07228-E831-482F-8E36-7688BE58C1AE?channel=Store%20share%20-%20Twitter)\n\nIt’s in 3 sizes. I’ll have to get another for toddler next year for my son. Breaking kids ribs terrifies me squeezing because I panic and can’t tell how hard I do something.",
"nothing scarier. I choked on something alone at like 2 am, really had that moment of \"fuck, am i gonna die?\"",
"Ty - also lol at your username :)",
"A combo of J-thrusts and back blows is what I was most recently taught as opposed to Heimlich",
"Make sure to get permission before you save them. \nThey could be cosplaying as a victim like the rest of society.",
"?",
"i saw the photo before reading the title and thought it was a rear naked choke defense video lol",
"No. We needed to know he was a boxer in the 80s and that his right hand is fucked. Essential to the life saving belly plop.",
"Same but with octopus nigiri. That shit is chewy af, and i was alone. Barely got it out myself. Scary.",
"Amazing how watching a 5min video can save a life. Thanks for sharing!",
" it's not taught in first aid training in Australia.\n\nIt's been discredited by heimlichs own son\n\nhttps://www.the-sidebar.com/2011/04/st-john-amublance-australia-heimlich.html\n\nWhat is taught instead is back blows and chest thrusts https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/choking\n\nTo begin with, reassure the person. Encourage them to breathe and cough. If coughing does not remove the blockage:\n\n • Call triple zero (000).\n\n • Bend the person well forward and give five back blows with the heel of your hand between their shoulderblades – checking if the blockage has been removed after each blow.\n\n • If unsuccessful, give five chest thrusts by placing one hand in the middle of their back for support and the heel of the other hand on the lower part of their breastbone – checking if the blockage has been removed after each thrust.",
"The method I was taught involves using the back of a chair or something similar and dropping your high stomach area on it to mimic someone doing the heimlich. That's probably a terrible explanation.",
"Those recent reviews look very concerning.",
"And learn how to do this for a choking baby, it's totally different\nhttps://youtu.be/IoqfvTl8v8k",
"Maa wiiifffeee",
"I hope she's doing alright, and thank you for sharing this! ❤️",
"First aid certified here. You slam your stomach (diaphragm in particular) into the edge of a chair or counter top. There should be enough concentrated force to push out the obstruction. And yes you have to do it very hard and might bruise yourself, but at least you won’t choke to death.",
"My wife talks about the Hamlisch Maneuver; she says if I ever start choking she'll start singing showtunes. I'm not 100% sure she's kidding.",
"Annnnd I think I’m done with food now, thanks a lot reddit!",
"I, too, choose this guy's almost died wife.",
"You prob killed his buzz real quick hahaaa",
"Dumbass should have thought of it before inventing the heimlich maneuver.",
"I almost choked to death while in heavy rush hour traffic and I was in the far left lane. I had to make it across four lanes to reach break down lane and grassy area. The entire time I was thinking, damn, a chicken and biscuit is going to be what kills me, not all the fucked up shit I have been through and done. Boy, Neal(my husband) is gonna be pissed! This is such bullshit. Well, I made it across, exited my car, tried to puke, unsuccessfully. I thought, hang in there, someone will help. Nope, nobody noticed. Vision was fuzzy, thought I was going to pass out. I knew it was now or never. I rolled down the window and used the car door to give myself the heimlich. I have never been so glad to have a seriously bruised midsection and vomit all over my car. I just sat in my car and thought....well, that was seriously fucked up. You just never know.",
"Heimlich is not recommended in New Zealand. We do back blows and abdominal thrusts as well. It is recommended that something is better than nothing though.",
"Real mfs will cram a vape down they nose hole for an improvised nasal canula breh",
"[I would think that a single women's biggest worry would be choking to death alone in her apartment.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8m4Cg8YTQ)",
"The dechoker folks don't seem entirely legitimate: [Sorry For the Fox News Link](https://www.fox46.com/news/anti-choking-device-business-raided-accused-of-investment-scheme/)",
"Oh.. that's terrifying.",
"Fantastic, more anxiety.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nI already know the Heimlich maneuver and am confident in my ability to use it, but my anxiety goes through the roof with thinking about the (improbable) possibilities. I need medication.",
"Is it still the same? That’s from 2018 and I got mine in 2020 🤷♀️they have knockoffs on amazon too of it.",
"Glad she's alright",
"die*",
"What YouTube video?",
"Same but with fucking spaghetti. And I was a teenager, surrounded by other teenagers and adults at lunch during a weekend exercise designed to demonstrate how well we could use certain skills in real life. Including first aid. \n\nI would have died purple-faced in the dining hall surrounded by my peers laughing at me with the adults taking pictures if I hadn’t managed to grab the attention of my actual friend.\n\nAh, the irony.",
"Cool story unless username checks out",
"Lol it's how it's done check it out",
"So if I'm in a rush I need to watch a 5 minute video to do the heimlich?",
"I kind of remember a thing on how to use a chair back to do the heimlich to yourself, but not 100%.",
"I need a video on the back blows!",
"Thank you for the doing the legwork. Figure it would be at the end of the video... nope.",
"It is AMAZING how fast your brain goes from totally fine to “fuck I’m gonna die” when breathing is impeded at all, but when it’s 100% obstructed… god that’s terrifying",
"She didn't almost die. You're just a drama queen.",
"i did a course a couple months ago and heimlich was not recommended. they taught 100% back blows. from memory they didn't have a problem with the heimlich but back blows were preferable because there's less risk to the first responder or something. obviously recommendations will vary depending on where you are in the world.",
"\"Excuse me kind sir. I do believe that you are showing signs that region around your pharynx is obstructed. And if that is the case, then may I please have your signed consent, so that I may shove my fist into your stomach?\"\n\n\"Is that a nod for yes? I cannot tell. Sir, please, I need an affirmative yes, otherwise my actions may be classified as a form of assault. Let me ask you again kind sir. Are you in need of my assistance?\"",
"Yeah I almost choked on a piece of chicken. Now i just cut everything really small.",
"the paramedic that ran my course a month ago reckons he does the back blows every other week on his son.\n\n\"the boy does not chew his food\"",
"Or, and hear me out here, it's controversial:\n\nAnonymity does not excuse people being enormous fucking assholes.\n\nIt's actually a completely reasonable position to think that people *shouldn't* be giant pieces of shit just because nobody can or will hold them accountable.\n\n*Is* the internet full of heartless edgy shitheads? Without a doubt.\n\nDoes that mean we should just shrug and be like \"well, that makes it okay\". I sure hope not.",
"> Hasn't been news for a lot of people for a while though.\n\nYou come across as a sanctimonious prick, considering all the comments in this thread with people relating how they were choking and nobody did shit to help, or the people relating how somebody only survived because one person in the crowd knew how to respond.",
"Sorry to hear that man. I believe you could use your phone through Siri and they make watches as well as other devices that could help mitigate those fears. They are really reasonably priced as well. Just a heads up and hopefully that helps.",
"THANK YOU so much for this. I watched 4 times, and this is saved in many ways. I have always wanted to truly know how to do this correctly if that day calls upon me, and wow was I so wrong as to how I thought it works. There is a CORRECT and effective way to save a life and I feel empowered\n\nThis is dumb, but I practiced gently on myself as I watched this a few times and I 100% see how effective this is because I almost got sick lol. \n\nIf I ever encounter this I now know what to do to save a life. I feel honored. \n\nEdit: The only thing is the skip of the unresponsive patient process, but I also learned this now as well just in case. Well worth adding this part of the skill",
"What if your are alone choking?",
"Maybe [read their other comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qxlmrm/my_wife_almost_died_today_of_choking_please_learn/hla5afu/) before being a huge piece of shit.",
"Use the counter edge itself.",
"Jump on a couch end, that's why they call it getting the wind knocked out of you",
"Properly",
"Yeah this, if you are alone. Two fears of mine when traveling or home alone are choking and falling. Stairs and the tub are worrisome. The faucets always scared the shit out of me.",
"Hi! CNA whose helped residents choking by providing abdominal thrusts. \n\nThis thread is hilarious! Hope I was qualified enough to provide that confirmation.",
"If someone starts choking right as they finish exhaling all the way so that there is no air in their lungs, are they just out of luck?",
"There’s one called the LifeVac that seems to be more legit than the “dechoker”. Or at least it did to me so that’s what I went with, I actually just ordered one for my parents (who are obese and I don’t think I could do effective Heimlich) last week.",
"I imagine the reviews are inherently biased in favor of positive too. If it doesn't work you won't be around to drop a 1-star",
"Sorry I got a little forceful with your wife :/. Heimlich wasn't necessary though; I just backed off a bit.",
"I mean…I’ll lift up her dress and lick her butt if it saves her life. A little something I like to call the “hindlick maneuver”.",
"Years ago, I woke up around 6am hearing my mother struggling in the kitchen. Immediately, I knew something was wrong and I ran to her. She was choking on a pill, I could see her face changing colors. I was about 15 at the time, and was frozen in fear. Luckily she bent over, beat her chest, and it fell out. \n\nSince then, I rewatch Heimlich videos every few months just to remind myself how to do it. I also watch videos on how to save toddlers and babies if they're choking. This thread had someone introduce me to the LifeVac and Dechoker devices, which I will be buying as well. \n\nI still watch my mother carefully every time she eats and takes a pill. Anytime I hear her cough, I feel my heart rate go up and become alert. Sometimes I think about the incident randomly and it makes me feel panicked and want to cry. I definitely have trauma over this that affects me in my daily life. I know exactly how you feel. \n\nI aim to seek therapy soon to hopefully relieve the trauma. If you feel any amount the same, I encourage you to also seek mental help. \n\nI'm so happy for you being brave, and happy for your wife for having a brave partner. \n\nI hope you rest easy tonight x",
"No one is being an asshole except the guy telling people what they're allowed to joke about",
"I was thinking I'd get to see a real life saving heimlich",
"I'm pretty sure the people telling the guy whose wife almost died to suck it up and laugh at his traumatic experience on the day of are *definitely* assholes.",
"Just watch Mrs. Doubtfire and you’ll be fine",
"A few months back, I popped a sour candy into my mouth right as I sat down and coughed all at the same time... that thing went straight down my windpipe. After trying to work it out myself for a few seconds, I stood up real quick and did the \"I'm choking symbol\" and my buddy grabbed me without hesitating and squeezed. Candy came right out, but I still couldn't breathe for a cool minute. It felt like my pipe was all sticky from the candy and was stuck shut, slowly opening back up. One of the absolute scariest moments of my life, and I'm really, really, really, really, \\*really\\* glad my friend had a good idea of what to do!",
"And then ram that chair into a wall or something iirc.",
"when the pregnant woman just walked away and he pulled out the dummy lmfao. you aint touchin me..",
"You mean the diaphragm (lower) Sternum is a bone over the heart that will break easily into sharp shards near your heart/lungs.",
"Yeah, everyone should know how to help themselves. Buddy came over for a BBQ and started choking on a piece of steak. His GF started to freak out and we watched this guy calmly walk over to our counter and heimlich himself. I had the feeling he had done it before.",
"I wonder if i’d get bitched at for doing something to the stone where I live doing that lol. I already had a stroke when they dumped all the kids on me one day after a death in the family, i’m an outsider in someone else’s home and not a main concern.",
"Did you found it scary just now or is that also from your old reply?",
"Choked on steak working graveyard at IHOP. It was me 1 cook and 1 table. Didn't wanna bother table with my dying so I walked over to the cook. My eyes dark red and drool coming out of my mouth I pointed to my throat. He took one look at me, stepped back and said \"u look messed up dude\". \n\nI was so shocked by him just watching me choke to death I swallowed my food. he saved my life I guess",
"What was she eating?",
"And I'm pretty sure you're overreacting to a joke",
"should've secured the credit card first too",
"Wife and I did this. Bought 3. They are pricy but we have one at home my son can reach and use (he’s 6) and one in each vehicle.",
"I mean, that's your prerogative.\n\nI just don't think it's cool to fuck with someone who almost lost a loved one.\n\nWhy punch down? There are much better targets.",
"My niece told me the other day that she learned in school that it's now called the J thrust. Heimlich doesn't want his name connected to it anymore.\n\nI've done zero research on that, but she said she learned it this way last year.",
"Use the back of a chair. Dude, when I was like 6, I had only learned the day prior how to do that in a video narrated by Leo Huxtable. Choked on a hot dog, my mom was too panicked to do anything and I, unamused, just did it myself.",
"does part of u wish she had?",
"The one with the technique which is good to know for the future.",
"At least he didn't take the first 3 minutes to talk about his sponsors Nord VPN and manscaped while telling you to smash the like and subscribe button. Imagine how many people died choking with trying to click on the subscribe butto",
"It is a weird world. And oddly enough that video is on a channel called weirdworldtv.",
"Oh, so you're a drama queen too. In all seriousness, how many times can you post about an incident you have absolutely no insight into other than what OP has claimed?",
"you find a chair or a table, and use the ledge on the same area shown.",
"At min, know the universal sign of choking (ie overlapped hands at throat)\n\nAlso.. if you are choking and happen to be alone or with people who can't perform this maneuver, you can use a straight backed chair and heimlich yourself by leaning over the chairback and applying the same kind of bodily downward thrust against the stationary chair and into your sternum to forcibly dislodge the blockage\n\nTook lifeguard/cpr/first aid training 15 years ago. Kid's still got it",
"There’s a product called a dechoker you can buy and have with you. You didn’t elaborate on the specifics of your disability, but it requires much less to use than the self heimlich",
"I choked on a piece of food while watching a comedy show. One of my friends jumped up and did the heimlich and saved my life. FYI you start drooling like a Labrador retriever it was disgusting to say the least.",
"Which CD?",
"If you’re in the USA, damn well better cancel that ambulance so as not to succumb to debt by asphyxiation.",
"In this situation I once belly flopped onto the banister by my stairs. Hurt like fuck...but it worked and I'm not dead so I'll call it a win.",
"Thank you 🙏",
"Is the guy literally choking while he’s coaching us?",
"Gotta use lots of oil with octopus!\n\nEdit: downvoters clearly have never eaten 'live' octopus sashimi style.",
"Glad you're ok! My husband was able to use the back of a chair when he was choking on a rare steak. So scary.",
"To me it's scary thinking of possibly relying on something untested/dubious to save your life. It's entirely possible that this product is legit and that article is dealing with different people, but I would Shark Tank myself right out of this one.",
"Oooh, we got a stew baby!\n\nSeriously though. Everyone needs to watch this once a year.",
"I did my first aid certificate with St John in New Zealand - Heinrich is not recommend. Back blows and that thrust thing. I can’t quite remember the reason - potentially the Heinrich is too low to help as effectively as the thrusts.",
"i used to that intentionally as a kid , swallow them down till the tip was in my mouth then pull it back out.\n\nYes I was not a smart kid",
"Not in NZ - back blows and then chest thrust/compression is recommended, and has the same success rate as Heimlich. Problem with Heimlich is that there's quite a large chance of causing abdominal damage and internal bleeding, I believe. People often don't go to hospital after successfully getting Heimlich, think their abdomen is expected to be sore afterwards and so don't get checked out. Can be fatal.",
"I was able to use the CPR training I had when I took the Red Cross's babysitting classes 25 years ago to save someone who was choking. The whole rest of the day, whenever she told the story to everyone about how she choked, she made a point of telling everyone how I hurt her ribs fro squeezing her so hard. Ha!",
"I’ll shave her!",
"You are supposed to use a chair or something similar and push against the diaphragm area via the chairback/end in a similar way to the regular heimlich. I strongly advise watching a short instruction video on YouTube for it. It is harder ti do, obviously but it can save your ass if no one is around.",
"Saw this thread and couldn't find any resources. Ended up down a YouTube rabbit hole and found [this video](https://youtu.be/Iz8M0UTkvSU)\n\nAll the comments are from people who had been choking and whose lives had been saved by the video. To be fair, if it hadn't worked, they wouldn't be there to comment, I guess. Still seems a good thing to know.",
"It was probably the Spice Girls.",
"Silly Australians. You have the instructions upside down!\n\n\n(Sorry, I know you guys have heard a thousand of these but I couldn't resist this opportunity).",
"Roll the ambulance you dolt every time.\n\nThe patient can always refuse service if they are well.\n\nDon’t spread your nonsense.\n\nAsshole",
"Not criticizing you in the slightest but it is REALLY concerning to me how many people in this thread would be absolutely fucked if they started *really* choking with no one around. Did they stop teaching this in school??? We were taught it twice when I was growing up, regular and self heimlich with videos and practice. I am in my 30s now so this wasn't terribly long ago.",
"I'll buy you a CD, you deserve it",
"Aww that's mean. Maybe Gorillaz. Oooh maybe Nas. Illmatic is still fire",
"Dude. You figured it out, makes total sense, the throat punching, causing dis-alignment",
"The abdominal thrust is the Heimlich maneuver. They don't always describe it as such but it's the same.",
"when i was about like 12, i for whatever reason learned about the heimlich maneuver (including the self method or whatever) and like a month later i took a bite of a pickle and it like totally shut my throat. it's a very weird feeling to try to breathe but you literally can't. also nobody was home. i threw myself over a chair and it came out... crazy!",
"I wonder how many other maneuvers he tried before coming to the final maneuver.",
">a dead you will be a nuisance for eternity\n\nI FUCKIN KNEW IT! GHOSTS ARE REAL!",
"As a dad, if I was in that situation you would of got a cd and a McFlurry.",
"I've actually successfully performed the maneuver on someone before. They're alive, and we definitely joked about it afterwards.",
"I had an adult family member die from choking. The people in the restaurant thought she was having a heart attack. They didn't realize what it was until she had been with out air for too long. It was so shocking for our family. It was something I never considered as a way for adults to die. Mostly you here about kids choking, not adults.",
"commenting so I can come back to this later.",
"Come on OP. Tell us what you wanted, what you really really wanted.",
"Heimlich maneuvre carries the risk of breaking the Xyphoid Process (bone in the centre underneath the front of the ribcage), which will only kill the patient in other ways. As such, the maneuvre is not taught at all in Australian First Aid classes anymore. Instead we're taught to slam the patient's upper and middle back with the heel of our hands as hard and solidly as possible (try to break some ribs) 5 times or until the piece is expelled from the lungs. Children should be laid on their front before attempting as they won't be able to tolerate the impacts like adults can.",
"Not as terrifying as a laryngospasm. I had one this last year. Caused by various things, for me it was caused by eating a ton before bed and suffering bad GERD. Woke up at 2pm with throat completely closed and me making the sound of the girl from the Ring. Throat eventually relaxed. As you can imagine, it was hard to go to sleep the next few nights lol",
"Get a dechoker!\n\n[https://www.dechoker.com/](https://www.dechoker.com/)",
"I honestly don't understand how there could be people out there who don't know this. Isn't it taught to you in elementary school?",
"They don’t even teach this anymore in first aid courses",
"Mom sounds like a great person.",
"We got this suction thing that you put over your face and it suctions your airways. Because sometimes the heimlich doesn't work.",
"The real information really is in the comments",
"Maybe it was just an uncomfy sensation caused by swallowing a big piece of a bread and not actual choking?",
"Everyone should lifeguard when they're teens. Get to stay in shape, be a horny teen next to girls in bikinis. Saved a little kids life and his mom probably to this day has no idea her kid almost died. Also got to save another life at a lake. Did I mention you get to just hang out with girls in bikinis?",
"Yeah same.\n\nThen you go from \"I almost died\" to \"I just spat out a piece of gross half chewed steak across the room\" and there's nowhere in between",
"Theres techniques without using heimlich btw. I would recommend that every person takes a first aid course. It is highly highly informative and everything they tell you could save a life",
"Same. I use these sharp ceramic cutting things I found inside my mouth to do that",
"Like how they do it in the Spider-Man trailers",
"Well well well lookswho came crawling back you cheap piece of shit!",
"My wife of 24 years did die in my arms 9 weeks and 5 days ago due to colon cancer. PLEASE GET A COLONOSCOPY.",
"downvote",
"I was actually joking and should make that clear. I think a lot of people in the US who fully understand how fucked up and exploitative the system is have to continually joke about it to stay away from the reality that it could break you financially if you get seriously sick here with limited or no medical insurance.",
"keep in mind that for others to provide aid, they first need to know that you are choking. learn to use the [international sign for choking](https://vimeo.com/7093133)... :P",
"What sucks is that the guy is chocking while the paramedic is talking through out the whole video",
"Yep, learn it. I took the Red Cross training every few years at a previous job, never used it until that one day… a kid was choking and someone ran and got me from my office. I saved a life! The only memory that still rings clear years later was a jolly rancher candy flying out of her throat like a bullet. I was terrified, but I kept calm and did my best. Everyone should learn this.",
"It happened to me with chicken katsu. It slid out of the breading after I bit into it and lodged itself in my throat. \n\nMy father just watched me struggle as I pounded my chest. after about 30 seconds of sheer panic, I calmed down and did a couple of really strong gulps and that somehow dislodged it.\n\nMy father said right after, \"it's best to let the person deal with it themselves.\" Fuck man, I could have died.",
"Thats what I learned too",
"You convinced us to get a LifeVac kit.\n\nSo grateful you still have your world.\n\nI would feel as you do.\n\nThank you for this post.",
"I used it on my step dad about a month after I learned how to do it",
"Bravo",
"Unconscious choking:\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5kmsKNvKAvU",
"I actually saved my mom's life by performing the Heimlich when she choked on a burger about 20 years ago. Such a simple procedure that everyone should know",
"T1000 just got the DNA for a new victim",
"You really think those comments are real?",
"It was probably one of those double CD's.\n\nYou know, the ones where 2 become 1.",
"someone trying to 'do the thing' is better than no one trying to do anything at all! Glad you made it and I hope you bought him a pizza or something haha\n\n(though I would acknowledge that the *best* approach is to dial 911, and attempt Heimlich while on speakerphone with them just in case you can't get it handled.)",
"Holy shit, this mirrors a very similar thing that happened to me! I was working at a steakhouse, woman chokes on steak (bystander effect in a huge way- no one in the restaurant does anything but stare). i think \"ok well... fuck\" and try to remember my Red Cross training. I was able to dislodge the meat (everybodyclapped.jpg). I asked my manager to have the night off and he chuckled politely and said no.",
"> Hurt like fuck...but it worked and I'm not dead so I'll call it a win.\n\n-Evolution",
"I also choose this guys wife",
"First, lean the person forward a bit and give them 3-5 solid punches with open hand between the shoulder blades, if that doesn't work, proceed with the heimlich maneuver.\n\nStill no luck?\n\nStart CPR and call an ambulance, as by now, the person will have lost conscience and is about to die.\n\nIt is better to blow the obstruction down in one lung and keep them alive with CPR until you get to the hospital where they can pull it out.\n\nPlease be aware that this applies to adults only, there is minor differences for the procedures when doing them on kids.",
"Should of asked while she was choking",
"Similar circumstance with me… hard to get past some of the anxiety that comes with it. Strong dislike towards eating in public and the sort",
"Yep for a second I thought I was on /r/DontHelpJustFilm .",
"No. Only as a last resort.",
"Ya'll need to chew your food.",
"Not in the way my first aid course described it",
"ty",
"Starting to wonder if I’d even bother to do it now if the situation ever arose",
"i thought it was a sex position.",
"chair is upright and you slam your diaphragm against it. Just below your ribs.",
"Where can I practice this?\n\nI’ve watched tons of these videos and I think I have the theoretical knowledge.. what is missing now is practice",
"Watched and done, glad your wife was saved.",
"Make me",
"In the UK it's actively discouraged I've done several St Johns Ambulance courses and they say it can cause more harm than good.",
"Also learn to recognize the sign that it is needed!! If someone is pointing at their throat or clutching it do NOT say what? what do you want? Do the heimlich proceedure!!",
"Told me a my last first aid course not taught in Australia anymore.",
"thank you for sharing",
"I’ll tell you what he wanted, what he really really wanted…",
"My brother was choking once when we were kids. I told him to raise his hands and close his eyes. When he did I punched his stomach. That fucking chicken gizzard went flying out of his mouth. I’ll use this now that I’m older and not an idiot.",
"I mean I guess it worked as he was able to live and tell the story.",
"Everyone should just take first aid",
"Also something people may not think of, learn how to self-Heimlich on top of learning how to do it to someone else, in case you choke when you are alone.",
"Happened to me Valentines day a few years ago. Got a bit confident with a giant steak from Ruths Chris and had to heimlich myself on a kitchen counter because my girlfriend didn't know it. Exactly two years before this I shit myself during sex in the same kitchen after a Valentines Day breakfast of shrimp and grits on a champagne hangover. We no longer celebrate valentines day and I haven't shit myself or almost died since.",
"Hey it's Boyle from Brooklyn 99",
"CDeez nuts! Gottem!!!",
"Now thats what I call Music 87",
"I was never shown this in school (90s / 2000s in Germany)",
"Dude.. funny but oh so wrong… thanks.",
"Once as I teenager choked while eating but it was a different thing. Felt like I was choking on a bubble of air. Perhaps my spit or mucus formed a membrane on my esophagus or airway. I suffocated for over 30s until I was crying and it finally popped. What to do in that case?",
"This reminds me of the most annoying thing my throat does occasionally. Clearly there's a design flaw in it. Sometimes, somehow, small pieces of food, typically rice, ends up in my freaking nose. Not the nostril end obviously, I'm not having brief episodes of being a toddler... No, the very very throat-most end of the nose. And it just sits there and tickles and irritates me. The only way to get it out is to do a sharp intake of breath through the nose. And just what might be the expected result of that? That it goes straight down into my lungs, basically. So I'll sit there, be like... *excuse me...* And then *snOOOoOort* *EuuHeUeU COUGh* and I cough the little sucker across the room. Really charming.",
"I feel like this is less effective for slim people..",
"I think my first uneducated move would be to just recklessly throw myself down and land on my back. The kinda fall that leaves you breathless and choking normally. Ought to work right?",
"Same here in the UK - Heimlich (or as it’s called here the abdominal thrust manoeuvre) is BRUTAL so if back slaps will dislodge the obstruction that’s the preferred option. \n\nThe full procedure should be to check for any obstructions in their mouth, then encourage the casualty to cough, then five back slaps between the shoulder blades, then abdominal thrusts, then repeat slaps, then thrusts. After three sets call an ambulance and start CPR since they are likely now unconscious. \n\nThis video shows the UK process: https://youtu.be/SwJlZnu05Cw\n\nAs a note to those not trained in this, back slaps are not little pats but full force leave-a-huge-bruise swings. You hold the casualty because if you don’t they will be stumbling after, if they can stand on their own while you do it you aren’t doing it hard enough.",
"Just chew more.",
"Can say the boy scouts are responsible for me being able to save my mom. We were arguing, young angsty teen with deep seeded depression. She decided to lay on me in the argument that I was an accident. Fuming, watching TV, she's doing her nightly ritual of taking medication to include a horse pill. Big ol pill she needs to break to swallow. They get stuck in her windpipe. She starts slamming the counter. But it's not the \"angry, Jesus Christ, child why are you pissing me off\" type. It was hurried, panicked. So I get up and go into the kitchen, she's clasping her sternoclavicular joint area. Look at her face, \"choking?\" She nods, two good heimlich maneuver thrusts without breaking her ribs, and she spits them out. I go back to watching TV like it's nothing.\n\n\nMess up my food, I loose all semblance of being and threaten death to the infidels who dared disturb my nourishment. \n\n\nSave a life? Meh.\n\n\nLearn the heimlich maneuver. It literally saves lives.",
"You hit a table or the floor with your chest",
"It's the perfect business plan. Everyone who doesn't like your product is dead and everyone else loves it.",
"Thanks for helping your mom <3",
"There's a subscribe and save option on many of those! How many times are people choking??",
"Please just watch the video to maybe save your loved ones life some day and even then downvote me. I really don't care after yesterday.",
"You can do a self-heimlich by throwing your upper stomach onto the back of a chair or something similar.",
"True.",
"Thanks for this. Just couldn't take jokes yesterday",
"Lie or not, probably a good idea to learn what to do.",
"Heimlich is so 1990. Far far better options. Ignore 99% of this rubbish.",
"Shout out to this YT channel. Big help during paramedic school",
"Garbage disposals macerate food in the pipe, if your friend is ever choking just remember to flip their switch and keep your fingers out of their throat.",
"If drinking something helps remove the blockage, it was stuck in your esophagus, not the airway. The esophagus is behind the trachea and the trachea has a soft back wall, so if the food piece is large enough, an obstruction in the esophagus can also affect the airway.",
"You don’t die “of” choking. You die *from* choking. Also it’s “learn *the Heimlich *maneuver.”",
"How do people choke while eating food don't they eat small portions? Don't they take water or something fluid to wash food down the pipe?",
"it's a bit different than the way I learned from TV.",
"The real hero is always in the comments.",
"You can use the back of a chair FYI just for future reference",
"From what I was told by a first aid trainer, he tried to patent the name of the manoeuvre or something. So it got renamed to Abdominal Thrusts to avoid having to pay him a tonne of money.",
"I have many devices to initiate medical emergencies. Take this ordinary screwdriver for instance. Oops, now it's a trip to the ER.",
"Generally babies don't have the upper body strength to perform effective chest compressions.",
"Don't be daft, it was obviously the Bee Gees",
"Dude wtf that hurt.\n\nProtip: maybe only do it if you're choking.",
"Waiting for the ads to end",
"pretty sure the international sign for choking is not saying anything and pointing at your neck. Or vomiting a bit on someone's dick.",
"Lol it's not about not chewing in most cases. It's our bodies being dumb. If a piece of food gets knocked too far back in your mouth, peristalsis automatically takes over. Your throat muscles don't care if it's too big 'well he put it here, guess it's good to go!'",
"How do you deliver the blows to the back? Flat hand?",
"We had a pancake eating contest in college and a stodgy one entirely blocked my airway. \n\nLuckily my friend that I was next to was a paramedic and a few thrusts later it was out. He’s now a general surgeon and I was very lucky to be next to him of all people. \n\nThe feeling of zero airflow in or out is petrifying. I’m CPR certified and have been for years - but I’m not quite sure how I’d have faired with that if I was alone.",
"I had this happen on the way out of an abandoned prison. My friend was in front of me when I took a swig out of a flavored water bottle that had gotten hot. I guess I sucked it in. \nWe’re walking through a cornfield and I think I’m going to die. It was the most terrifying that’s ever happened to me. \nI managed to get his attention and he slapped me on the back a few times. I started coughing and gasping, gasping and coughing. Still wasn’t sure I would live through it but I did.",
"When that guy started talking about conscious adult choking, I wasn't sure if this video would go in a completely different direction.",
"Yes, use your flat hand and make contact in between the shoulder blades. You don’t hit into the body like you would hit into a sand bag, but your power kind of ends under the skin if that makes sense; the goal is to rattle the foreign body loose so it can be coughed up again. \n\nCoughing and abdominal thrusts aim at increasing the pressure to pop the foreign body out like a cork from a bottle.\n\nIf you look at the back blows from the side, it’s like an aeroplane landing, just imagine a slightly diagonal approach to support the direction the foreign body is supposed to move out.\n\nThe choking victim should be leaning forward, so the foreign body doesn’t slip deeper into the trachea and gravity helps with expelling.",
"Oh but this time, it wasnt a cantaloupe.\n\n\n(Queue Sienfield Music)*Badew da do do dewww*",
"For years, like over a decade, whenever I’ve done first aid training it’s been back blows first. 5 attempts then switch to heimlick, repeat. I saved my mum with back blows a few years ago.\n\nMy dad did it for my sister too much longer ago than that. \n\nMaybe a UK training thing. Even my medical professional parents did it this way.",
"I’ve had two family members saved by back blows.",
"I go to first aid courses every other year, but in case of an emergency.\n\nI'm not sure, if I would remember what to do in a stressful situation.",
"https://youtu.be/jQuImEBi0MA\n\nMost first aid courses advise back blows over the Heimlich these days.\nOf course it is still a valid method and learning more procedures that can save a life is a good thing!",
"True, though I’d rather have a broken rib and still be kicking than a pristine donor skeleton.",
"Yeah first responders and first aid in Australia are taught not to use the Heimlich as your more likely to cause worse injuries. Heimlich should only be used as a last resort when all other methods and steps have failed.",
"Positive and and proper 👍",
"My wife *asks* me to do it.",
"I watched those vids many times but I always feel like I wouldn't be able to do it properly 😰",
"Or not...\n\nhttps://www.vice.com/en/article/9km78p/heimlich-maneuver-might-not-be-the-best-way-to-save-a-choking-person",
"Not really. They used to think that though",
"It's complicated\n\nhttps://www.vice.com/en/article/9km78p/heimlich-maneuver-might-not-be-the-best-way-to-save-a-choking-person",
"Humans are clearly still in beta",
"I choke on food maybe twice to three times a year and have developed a system to get things down. Like you, I don't have a full blockage and can still breathe, but every 30-45 seconds I swallow enough saliva that I have to retch it back up, over and over until it either comes up or I swallow it.\n\nI've found that calming myself down, taking a huge breath, and trying to swallow water will have about a 20% change of clearing the obstruction. I also need to be next to a toilet when trying this or else like you said, you're basically drowning yourself.\n\nI've also learned how to pressurize my throat and expand it to try to get it down. The best trick that I've learned (but it hurts like hell) is to literally strangle myself, as the food always gets stuck just below my adams apple. So I grab my trachea just below my adams apple and squeeze until it goes down. Hurts like hell, but 60% of the time it will go down. For the last 20% of the time, I just need to chill out, spit every 30 seconds and wait to eventually swallow it. This can take anywhere from 5 minutes to as long as 3 hours. \n\nYou name it, I've choked on it. Steak, fried rice, eggs, hot dog, sushi, sandwich, burger, etc. For me 99% of the time I choke because I haven't drank anything all day and so my throat is dry, and I'm hungry so I'm eating fast and swallow too big of a bite. If I remember to drink water and lubricate my throat ahead of time and chew more I'm good.",
"A lot of talk about the different methods to save people here. May i be the first to suggest chewing your food?",
"I had sucess at my first attempt. \nMy mom was the one about to run out of air.",
"Slow down and chew, eating has become a race",
"Oh no! Seeing as you are typing now, I assume you were able to get help. Did the kids call emergency services for you?",
"Please don't. The Heimlich Maneuver has been entirely superseded and is considered poor form.\n\nhttps://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/accidents-first-aid-and-treatments/what-should-i-do-if-someone-is-choking/",
"Just slap between the shoulder blades with your flat hand \n\nAfter each slap check if it’s become better",
"i remember eating a piece of candy having a smoke in the window, suddenly I can see people stare at me down below as I’m choking in the window. “what a stupid fucking way to go” I was thinking",
"How hard should I be thrusting? Is it fuck up abdomen hard or just slightly hard.",
"I had to do this once. Peanut butter sandwich with cold peanut butter almost did me in. Luckily I was a lifeguard at the time so the maneuvers were fresh in my mind.",
"Steak is one of\nThe most common choked on foods",
"You really shouldn't need to break a rib. The trick is to get a nice firm hit (maybe more than one) to the diaphragm. \n\nETA: Broken ribs is more of a CPR thing. Also broken ribs are no joke and they take a month or two to heal.",
"More like you wanted attention. No one posts that title and then has nothing on the body of there post. I'm calling bullshit.",
"Another thing which I know isnt taught by medical professionals as maybe its doesnt work as well as the heimlich is making the person drink a fizzy drink. A friend of mine was once choking and another friend just poured lemonade down their throat which worked, I can see on google other people have been saved by this method",
"\"Okay mom, here's the deal...\"",
"We were vacationing last year and I was cooking a steak on the bbq, we were all enjoying it and all of a sudden my 4 year old son starts choking on a peice. I grabbed him from his chair, and not knowing how to preform the heimlich, I remembered reading about what to do if your dog is choking on something. I turn my son upside down and I pat on his back a few times not very hard but forceful enough, and on the 2nd or 3rd pat it came flying out of his mouth. Relieved that this worked, I was happy to prevent this situation from turning fatal. Obviously I don't recommend this, but it worked on a small child.",
"Stop choking your wife",
"My parents have/had a neighbor who just finished up cancer treatment, it was in remission only to choke on a hotdog and die.\n\nHeimlich would have saved her",
"Wish someone would have known the heimlich in the rittenhouse courtroom the prosecutor was choking for days.",
"> lol Im not choking but I tried this and I literally just knocked the wind outta myself 😂 dont do this unless you're choking",
"The back of a chair or bannister post work well as makeshift arms",
"I imagine you punched yourself in the side of your throat and not directly on your wind pipe so that you wouldn't collapse it? Or directly, but just not too hard so as to avoid that? \n\nOr am I underestimating the structural integrity of our wind pipes?",
"I was choking on bacon rind as a kid, my mum at the time was a lifeguard and she just casually walked me over to the sink, lent me over and whacked me on the back. The bacon came flying out and I cried like a little bitch because I thought I was gonna die. \n\nDidn’t eat bacon for well over a decade after that.",
"If the kneeling method doesn't work, stand up and so it from a standing position. At least that's what I learned a long time ago. Might have to worry about a head injury though...",
"I was taught that we no longer call it the Heimlich because the dude went a bit nutso and was recommending it for all sorts of situations and also demanding money anytime his name was used. We had to call it J thrusts haha.\n\nI actually was scrolling to see if I could find any info about that.",
"How do you know it’s a great product? Have you had to use it?",
"Theres conflicting info running around google.",
"My wife almost died from choking last night...but phew...I came to my senses.",
"I've had to do it twice. Once on my ex wife while we were still dating. The next was my step brother about 2 years ago. I threw my back out doing it since he is 6'5 250. It worked both times thank fuck. Learn this shit.",
"I’ve had to perform the Heimlich twice. In both cases it was surprising how a crowded room full of people had no idea someone was in distress. I was also surprised how I performed the procedure without thought or consideration. All the years of drilling this into us as kids worked and I just reacted. Glad OPs wife is safe.",
"The fact that my brain instantly went to “cross dresser” instead of just CD is… concerning. Maybe I need a hobby.",
"*The Dollop* did an episode on Heimlich, and the dude was an egomaniac. Absolutely determined to make himself famous. The anti-choking strategy was only one attempt of many, and it was at least helpful. But I'm pretty sure they closed on saying that it's not the preferred method of choking rescue any more.",
"\"Will you buy me a CD? If you agree just turn your lips blue to confirm!\"",
"You're not the boss of me!",
"# Learn the self abdominal thrust, too. I once nearly died because I was choking on a piece of bacon for about 1:30. A little bit longer and the curtains would have closed for good. Rammed my abdomen with a J-grip on myself into the counter, and bam. MF went flying like 10 feet out of my throat and onto the floor.",
"Before I clicked the link, I knew exactly what it was. And I'm glad I was correct!",
"Lmao he spends most of the video giving his origin story like he’s a recipe blog",
"Outdated techniques",
"Good idea to watch this before a big food holiday too! You never know when you will need to use it.",
"No one loves mom more than her son",
"Please just drink soup then",
"Cool. But what if you dont like your wife?",
"I'll need to buy some water wings, first.",
"If you ain’t got anyone around throw yourself on top of the back rest dolphin style",
"Learned this from Liz Lemon.",
"Ace of Base probs",
"\"ARE YOU CHOKING?\"\n\n\"CAN I HELP YOU?\"\n\n\"WILL YOU BUY ME THIS CD? NO? well okay bitch nice knowing you.\"",
"*Melon*choly and the Infinite Sadness.",
"We spend so much time with her, it’s only fair we take some responsibility.",
"Its our version of Americans = fat\nFrench = cowards \nBritish = bad teeth\nCanadians = apologetic",
"Learn both the adult and child versions (and baby version).\n\nI saved my son from choking twice when he was 18 months and when he was 4.",
"It seems well constructed and sturdy. The ambumask seems exactly like the one my daughter uses for MRIs. But using it, personally, no I have not. \n\nThe closest thing I have is an EMT buddy I know that has (i did not witness the event) and said it was great. And on FB they share rescue stories as they present themselves, almost 200 lives saved (according to manufacturer).",
"Theres a medical device called the dechoker that is handy to keep at home that works really well. You can even use it on yourself if you are alone.",
"It's nice because you don't have to find a suitable piece of furniture in time.",
"What are chest thrusts?",
"Better head injury than dying.",
"That sounds something like that needs to be invented",
"LOL I thought he meant Certificate of Deposit.",
"This is called LifeVac. \n\n[LifeVac Pump Choking Rescue Device](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L9MBLYP/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_82SRNRQH7NG1WN3DD1DR?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1)\n\nThis thing has saved a kid in a restaurant from choking to death as you can see in this video:\n\n[Man Saves Child with LifeVac](https://youtu.be/aQzGPDnJqmc)\n\nPlease consider looking into and possibly purchasing one to have in your car or at home (or both), for just in case!",
"Do you give me permission to save your life? Hahahahha",
"What’s this from?",
"Oh god, this happens to me too. It’s always rice for some reason and the spot stays sore for so long",
"Al? Oh you can't cheat on this one, you have to say I make a wish! \"Genie, I wish for you to perform heimlich.\"",
"Great stuff to know. What do you if someone has a seizure?",
"Last week I had to do the Heimlich on my daughter. It was terrifying and took longer than I was comfortable with. It also took much more force to dislodge the food. Truly a scary experience.",
"Yes, last week it saved my daughters life. Very scary.",
"I get certified in first aid/cpr/aed every 2 years for work, thankfully never had to use any of the skills I've learned but it's so important to get training!",
"But I have never met your wife",
"[think about the kids too! ](https://youtu.be/ZjmbD7aIaf0)\n\n(its the same but you need to be level with the child)",
"That’s how you secure an ass whooping too",
"My family all knows the Heimlich maneuver from Scouting. My Son, an Eagle Scout, started choking at a local resturant. I calmly stood up performed the maneuver and cleared his airway and sat back down. The owner stood frozen by the kitchen not knowing what to do.",
"Don't leave us hanging dude... which CD?",
"Thanks for the honest response. I’ve seen ads on social media but I’ve been skeptical. I’ll have to do more research.",
"And the guys who coined GIF and U.F.O wanted them to be pronounced jif and ufo (one word).",
"Fuck off?",
"> how many times can you post about an incident you have absolutely no insight into other than what OP has claimed?\n\nPlenty of times.\n\nI was bored and tired of people being assholes for no reason.\n\nWhat's your excuse?\n\nJust generally a piece of shit?",
"[It is a pro strat, tbf.](https://youtu.be/ymEIxARriwk)",
"haha. Mom will you buy me some bearer bonds? Perhaps start a Roth IRA for me?\n\nBitcoin's not a thing yet but get me some of that crypto",
"Is that your wife?",
"Please get CPR, AED, First Aid trained if you can. Spending some money to know how to do it properly is worth it. \n\n[Find Red Cross training near you](https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class)",
"I would please ask anyone watching the video to pay attention the the first section ask if they are choking.\n\nI work in a restaurant and last night we had a man have to leave in an ambulance because another patron thought he was choking and heimliched him enough that he nearly lost consciousness.\n\nIm no doctor but I would also add to not go immediately for heimlich but to start with back blows, as they can help dislodge an obstruction without as much risk of injury.",
"I remember seeing a commercial or segment on TV on how to save yourself from choking (basically bashing the back a chair into the part of the chest demonstrated in OP’s video). \n\nNot a week later I choked on something while I was home alone, and while I think I could still breathe a little, it was one of those things where I was completely terrified and shook up for a while",
"Thanks for posting. I was just looking for the unconscious version. \nIf not choking then hands only CPR if no pulse is what is recommended. Call 911 and do CPR until EMS arrives. \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ACYp75mjU",
"The standard is back slaps and compressions with 2 fingers. Not full hands and body weight",
"My life was saved with this technique. Never hesitate to step in and help someone choking.",
"I heard patting on the back is better. Heimlich himself agreed. Reddit told me",
"Lifevac is another option too but they all worked the same principle of a pulling suction force applied to the person choking.\n\nEdit - just went to dechoker.com and saw they are up to 246 saves of various (mostly kids though) ages.",
"It’s a maneuver!!!!",
"Weezer? \nWithout you by Harry Nilsson?\nTake My Breath Away by Berlin?\nThe Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel?\nDied in your Arms by Cutting Crew?\n\n\nI need to at least know the year it was or this could go on for quite a while.",
"I chewed that mofo 30+ times, but I still should have bit it in half with my incisors at some point, just in case bc they can be rubbery/stringy.",
"F",
"LPT for people in the USA. If you do the heimlich maneuver on a stranger, leave immediately afterwards to avoid being sued.",
"I’m sure it would hurt, but at least you wouldn’t be dead",
"Just that face of your loved one dying at the spot now gives me the creeps. I'll never erase that from my mind. Makes me appreciate her more.",
"Officially it’s now called the abdominal thrust because the inventor’s heirs are super litigious. \n\nSource: took first aid training last fall.",
"Just puked up. Yesterday I felt like I'm happy she's only alive. I think we'll need to talk with her as this was more than I bargained for. I wish that no one has to do in the future.",
"Accountant dance of war…ah yes, the unmistakable call to arms of \n\n PC LOAD LETTER",
"Fuck that seems like it’d hurt. I’d rather die",
"this was an mtv sketch comedy show called [The State](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130421/). most of the actors / comedians on it went on to become regulars on tv and movies. i think a chunk of them later appeared together on [Reno 911](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0370194/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0).",
"My dad was really big when I was a kid and my mother being a nurse taught us that. She being rather small had a bunch of techniques for dealing with people much bigger than her.",
"You should teach your wife to chew her food.",
"It's the internet, what's so hard to understand",
"Says the guy going around insulting people who disagree with him",
"You're asserting something",
"You’re not",
"Fuck off",
"Fuck you psycho",
"I'm sorry, OP. You did a good thing and might have saved a lot of people from a lot of pain. Glad it ended up alright.",
"This thread reminded me of when a good friend of my parents had a heart attack on my birthday as a teenager. When we went to visit her, my dad made a \"perfect timing\" joke and everyone had a good chuckle, including the victim of the heart attack.",
"From what I've heard it's common practice for medical professionals, doctors, nurses, etc. to have a loose attitude when it comes to things like death, illness, etc. because of the nature of their jobs, because they deal with that sort of stuff regularly. Is this true? Genuine question, thank you for what you do. (:",
"You need to see an ENT",
"I did about 5 years ago. Did a barium swallow and was told that everything looked good and to take smaller bites.",
"That’s pretty awesome, thanks for the info. I’ll have to buy one. It’s one of those things that is worth to have around for the peace of mind, even if you never have to use it. \n\nI guess I’m just predisposed to not believing things I see on Facebook.",
"\"grow up\" you're a fucking pig my dude. Some of you on here are so tone deaf.",
"We are all closer to\nDying just by being around cars at any point in time. We are all technically always getting closer to death. \n\nMaybe think about death before pronouncing decency or compassion claims. LMAO\n\nSo anachronistic",
"[How are things on the west coast?](https://youtu.be/Ha_bppvZ0a8)",
"Jesus Christ, go back to /r/im14andthisisdeep/",
"What a horrible thing to say.",
"You aren't kind",
"So this is what jealous incels sound like!",
"Thanks!",
"I get what you mean. The internet is unforgiving and thinking otherwise is naive.",
"Its annoying that he shares something online expecting nobody to make a single joke or anything of the type. And then actually responding to all of them telling them to behave. Hes obviously quite naive in what hes doing. And incase hes traumatised or whatever you said it feels inapropriate to just \"My wife just almost died, better post to reddit. And then get mad if anyone says something i dont like.\"",
"Not funny, didn't laugh",
"> Hes obviously quite naive in what hes doing. \n\nSo, let's be clear:\n\nIs a person being naïve a *good* justification for a bunch of people acting like giant assholes?\n\nNo. No it's not.\n\nJust because people *are* pieces of shit doesn't mean you have to excuse their behavior.",
"Oh im clear alright, im not justifying people being assholes. Im saying people are assholes and expecting anything different is being naive. They are not assholes because hes naive, hes naive because they are assholes and he obviousky didnt expect it.",
"Sure, that's all true.\n\nAnd it's not any reason for me to not defend someone who's having a super shitty day yell at other assholes for being *super* assholes.",
"Absolutely. If you don't laugh you cry. Sometimes you do both at the same time.\n\nIf we took everything as internally serious as the situation calls for no one would work these jobs. Of course on the outside and in practice we're taking it just as serious but yeah, you cope some ways.",
"Okay ill have my nurse come comment the same exact thing (walks off and rolls eyes)",
"Well yeah, it is. You dont have to choose the prettier asshole. You can also not engage in the asshole debate. Cause at the end of the day its still an asshole debate had by assholes.",
"What the fuck is wrong with you? OP is clearly not in the mood for “jokes” about his wife nearly dying and yet you tell him to grow up? Jesus Christ",
"> You dont have to choose the prettier asshole.\n\nGuy with a wife who almost died *isn't* an asshole.\n\nHe's a hurting individual who naively believed he could share the advice that people should know how to do the Heimlich because he just about watched his wife die.\n\nI think that's the kind of person that deserves a little defending.",
"Guy almost experiences tragedy. Goes to mainly humorous social media plattform in a group that isnt exclusively serious and says. \"My wife almost choked. Learn the heimlich procedure\" then goes on to lecture any person mildly trying to lighten the mood. Thats being kind of a dick ngl",
">Comedy helps make light of that.\n\nThat literally only works for the specific victims. \n\nIf you, someone completely detached from what happened, start making shitty jokes about a traumatic event, and then someone traumatized by the event tells you that you’re being an unhelpful jackass, you don’t get to just belt out, “BUT COMEDY HEALS!!!!!” \n\nNo it fucking doesn’t. They *just* told you that it doesn’t. It’s not *your* decision how *they* handle their trauma, you socially insert shitlet",
"> Thats being kind of a dick ngl\n\nGuy whose wife just about died isn't in the right headspace to hear jokes about it.\n\nThat's the guy who's being kind of a dick?\n\nGrow a heart.",
"Dont post about it online then. That easy",
"Still not convincing me.\n\nYou sound like the shitheads who say \"she shouldn't have dressed that way\".\n\nThis guy had a hard fucking day. He tried to put a little bit of good will out into the universe and Reddit shat *right down his throat*.\n\nAgain, *grow a heart*. Have even the barest amount of reflection on the fact that this is another person who felt really hard and scary shit.\n\nThere is no excuse for being a giant dick to this guy.",
"Making a slight joke isnt to shit down someones throat. Maybe theres no excuse. I dont think thats what i was saying. I was just saying that hes also a dick. Maybe being an asshole has more meaning to you than it does for me. Since you clearly seem like a very emotional person :I",
"Conscious adult choking. Isn't that just a fancy way of saying a Rear-Naked Choke?",
"You’re trying hard",
"Ok plebbitor let’s see how you react when your wife is dying in front of your arms and don’t know what to do",
"lmao calling shitty ass redditor puns comedy this is why tiktok is better",
"Last time a choking video was posted here the LifeVac was the recommended brand.",
"Did you report them to the cyber police?",
"I have no proof you are real. So no?",
"Snacking someone in the sternum with the base of your palm.",
"Oh lord....am I?!"
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"Awesome! I had no idea about this upcoming album, this is fanastic news. Thanks for the heads up!",
"Oh sweet! I hadn't heard about this. Stoked, love his stuff.",
"Excited, been a long time away.",
"Glad to hear it though this track ain't doin much for me.",
"Nightcall",
"Does anybody know what wrist watch that was? Looks sick",
"This is totally random but the bass sound and rhythm is so incredibly similar to [something I’ve made ](https://soundcloud.com/ekstasis-music/halsey-colors-ekstasis-remix) !\n\n(It’s obviously just a coincidence, and I think Kavinsky’s track is straight up just better lol, but still pretty crazy!)",
"Sick",
"this is so fucking dope >_<",
"The full length version of the song is on Spotify along with an instrumental version. The instrumental at least removes the awful auto tune vocals (I can't stand auto tune). Its half decent without the vocals. Hopefully the rest of the upcoming album will be better.",
"I can't tell you what the model is but look up LED watches from the 70's. It's meant to copy that aesthetic but it's probably a much more recent LCD display version.",
">Night\n\nNightcall",
"Ugh, I don't understand why obvious auto-tune became a style. It's fine when its super subtle, but heavy auto-tune vocals sound like a shit.",
"I think Nixon has some modern red led watch displays.",
"Oh, so they were fembots. I get it.",
"Short and boring. Much better synth music out there than this. \nPopular because of Nightcall. \nAverage track at best, music doesn't even kick in till 30seconds, of 2 min video...",
"I like it, but the fact that we waited eight years for him to release another album and the way he was teasing this would lead us to believe that's what it would be, only for it to be *another* single, will never not piss me off. In fact I'm amazed I haven't seen more people mad about this seemingly anywhere online and how exited everyone is. People no reason to get any more exited about this than they did about Sovereign (which was not very if my memory serves me right).\n\nI guess been that desperate for ANYTHING new for that length of time will plant a lot of denial in people (as a Friendly Fires fan as well I get it - I've done this before. Except at least despite my desperation for new Fires content I didn't try to kid myself that album wasn't a piece of shit). If he'd not given NO hints whatsoever that this was going to be just a single and thus kind of knowingly let people assume this big social media tease-fest signaled a full album was finally finished, I'd not care as much. I'd have accepted it as a single if he'd just once said he was releasing another single - another single he just called an ALBUM in a post-release tweet! But he didn't.\n\nHe did just post his first merch that he's selling for the release though, so that explains everything (💶).\n\nI know fanbases can be demanding, but sometimes they do deserve better. Especially ones that have been relentlessly supportive for years on end despite the artist releasing almost nothing."
] | 18 |
videos
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Kavinsky is back!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ_puCpcNjo
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/r/videos/comments/qxma86/gordon_ramsay_fish_kisser/
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[
"Noted. I don’t have a problem with any of this, but it is fully noted.",
"Lol, amazing.",
"The real question here is does he kiss everything he kills and eats or does he kill and eat everything he kisses?",
"Gordon, you sick fuck. Not once did he ask for consent.",
"It's the kiss of death.",
"The Puffin clip was savage lol",
"Yeah I've also filed this under: things to bring up when Gordon Ramsay is mentioned. With an addendum that it is actually not that interesting to talk about without video evidence on hand, and will actually ironically make me look to be the weird one.",
"Please add the following tags: #kissing #funnystuff #eels. This is for searchability. Thanks in advance.",
"Outside of the livestock, it would make sense to kiss things that you hunt for since you are very excited to have caught them.",
"You make out with a Puffin when you go fishing too?",
"The Scottish version of #metoo? /s",
"Gordon Ramsey kissed his entire family.",
"\"You lucky bastard\"\n\n*here I go eating you again*",
"You only make out with the puffin when you go fishing?",
"Wow, love to see ProZD here",
"Might be a regional thing but my family hosted fishing camps multiple times a year and literally no one did this.",
"I have to be honest here, I had to google Puffin. I have never actually made out with such a thing of beauty.\n\nIn honesty though, yeah I admit it seems odd but I could see Gordon Ramsey as paying respect in such a way. I don't find it odd. Humorous? Yes of course... but respectful and not odd.\n\nEDIT: Missed a word.",
"I have been fishing my whole life and never once have I, or anyone I know, kissed a fish. Wow.",
"I won't leave ya hanging buddy! I've kissed a fish or two in my time. I suppose it is a little weird now that I think about it, but it was definitely a thing. Like if it was a nice fish or the only one caught that day, just give it a lil peck on the head before you drop it in the livewell. Fished with plenty of people that would do the same too.",
"That's impossible.",
"I see it as him having a sense of respect and being grateful that the tables aren't turned.",
"Buddy, I hate to break this to you, but you and the people you associate with might be a little weird.",
"Seriously, imagine a fish pulling you under water, giving you a kiss, then killing you and eating you.\n\nI, too, am grateful.",
"Gordon Ramsay loves fish sticks",
"Peer review board: \"hypothesis checks out\".",
"That was a surprising amount of evidence.",
"His wife and kids must now think they're next",
"I remember my Dad watching Rex Hunt Fishing on tv and Rex would kiss every fish before he set it back to freedom.",
"I watch a lot of catch and cook type videos and almost all of them do this. As weird as it is its like a hunter/gather sign of respect.",
"Hey, lets not start throwing that around now. All we can say is: yes, this person and Gordon Ramsay are in an exclusive club that kisses animals and eats them. Nothing weird about that.",
"Video ends at 3:12 then it turns into a commercial for a horrible food scam company ;) \n\nEven with 50% off or however many free meals it is NOT worth it.",
"[ **Jump to 03:12 @** Gordon Ramsay kissing animals before eating them](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ_puCpcNjo&t=0h3m12s)\n \n ^(Channel Name: ian kung, Video Popularity: 99.24%, Video Length: [04:27])^, [^Jump ^5 ^secs ^earlier ^for ^context ^@03:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ_puCpcNjo&t=0h3m7s) \n \n----------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n \n ^^Downvote ^^me ^^to ^^delete ^^malformed ^^comments. [^^Source ^^Code](https://github.com/ankitgyawali/reddit-timestamp-bot) ^^| [^^Suggestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/timestamp_bot)",
"I think they let that one go for some reason, remember seeing that episode",
"https://sponsor.ajay.app/\n\nDownload it and never watch integrated ads or intros again. Spread the word on Reddit and get downvoted by people complaining that the creators won't make money.\n\nEdit: see?",
"The guy's passionate about food. I'd probably kiss a piece of $500 wagyu before I ate it...",
"Yibida yibida.",
"A modern day King Midas, everything/one he kisses turns into food",
"Hahaha came here for Rex Hunt.",
"Come off it he moved to England when he was five. \n\nEven he calls himself English.",
"[his wife every time he kisses her](https://i.imgur.com/1MAEB0J.png)",
"Isn't Ian Kung Gus Johnson's friend?",
"I mean, it's dangerous from the perspective of transfer of zoonotic diseases. I'm all for showing respect to animals, and I'm a hunter, but it doesn't mean I want their bugs all up in my immune system before I cook them.",
"I've been fishing and hunting hundreds of times and have never seen this.",
"Bro he caught, kissed and ate a puffin? That's fucked.",
"Like Google isn't data mining everything you do online. You are saying don't install software because of privacy, while clicking away on youtube?",
"This guy is awesome lol",
"So we’re saying Gordon Ramsey is going to start COVID 22. Fuck that guy. Fuck that guy in his stupid ass.",
"I’m a fisherman and I always kiss the first fish of the day and any good ones. I make my girlfriend do it too and she hates it but she does it. It’s good luck! \n\nMy grandpa told me that’s what I’m supposed to do as a kid, and I plan to pass it on.\n\nHe also insists on announcing when he’s about to quit fishing to say, out loud, “last casts,” which means 3 more. If you get mossy, it doesn’t count, and if you catch a fish, it starts over.\n\nI’m from Kansas btw",
"You know I've never clocked it but as soon as he said it I thought \"yeah I that sounds about right\"",
"This fish is raw!!",
"...but where's the lamb sauce?",
"They did, if I recall correctly, it's customary to release the first catch of the season.",
"Don't know what you're on. I've been doing hello fresh for years and it has absolutely been worth it. $10 a meal that requires virtually no planning or shopping and I enjoy cooking.",
"And?",
"Do we know that, though?",
"Gonna at least have to kiss him first",
"my grandfather used to do a slightly different version of this, he was a hunter. he would catch a deer or a fish and put his penis on its mouth. I think it was a sign of respect towards the animal ❤️",
"Sorry that didn't apply to you, its true for normal, non super privileged people. If you are paid too much for what you do or have rich parents its probably not even a thought to you to spend 2x as much on produce than grocery store. Not to mention its always old and gross and the recipes suck if you like to cook.\n\nlmao they convinced you it only costs 10$ a meal XD. even if true, huge rip off for what you get.",
"They somehow also managed to convince my bank account that it's only $10 a meal, too. Very sneaky.",
"so now you are going to lie and pretend that they can take out 10$ a time every time you make a meal? no you gotta use their weird math to make it work. you end up spending around 10 but you get way less than a \"full meal.\"\n\nAgain it was not meant for super privileged people like yourself not so true when you have been handed everything your entire life. you just wont get it.",
"Enjoy your $10 McDonalds meal.",
"Hell no that's gross , almost as much of a rip off as those hellofresh scams..."
] | 62 |
videos
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gordon ramsay: fish kisser
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4oCDAXQC34&ab
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/r/videos/comments/qxmvew/good_charlotte_little_things_this_music_video_was/
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[
"I loved this video so much as a kid. Good Charlotte really had some hits.",
"When I went through my middle school pop punk phase, this was literally the only song my boomer dad enjoyed.",
"wowww i have such intense nostalgia for this song, it still occasionally bounces around in my head after all these years\n\n\"All the.... little things...\"",
"I gotta say I used to like this one in middle school when it was hot shit but as a 34 year old man I can't deny the crawling feeling of cringe all over my back...",
"\"When you're young, not much matters, when you find something that you care about, that's all you got, when you go to sleep at night you dream of *music,* when you wake up it's the same thing, it's there in your face, you can't escape it, sometimes when you're young, the only place to go is inside, that's just it, *music,* is what I love. Take that away from me, and I really got nothing.\"",
"Awesome!",
"I forgot how terrible GC was compared to all the other pop punk around at the time.",
"Shake it once, that’s fine",
"Good for you?",
"I enjoy the first comment on that video says “1989 - 2004 had the best music” - pretty fucking big net there, buddy.",
"guh....",
"And he's wrong, because it's 1955-1975.",
"honestly its not that different. i feel that a band could release a shot by shot remake of that video today and it wouldnt look that weird, aside from the genre not being popular anymore.",
"i assumed they were more talking about the 'innocence' of the music and how at least in the US we perceived the world a lot differently before 9/11, before the saturation of internet + social media, etc. not about the actual videography.",
"Shake it twice thats... ok?",
"Project Gotham Racing",
"Nah, it's the 90's for sure. But every single 90's. Because you know people be celebrating at the end of every century.\n\nOr at least since when people knew what a century was.",
"1999 through 2001 was a “micro-generation” in pop culture",
"I saw good charlotte in concert and one of the dudes in the band was wearing a good charlotte t-shirt. I hope it was a mishap that caused him to wear his own merch, but i suspect it wasnt.",
"no this is just the tail end of commercialized post-grunge pop punk that started with Weezer in 94",
"Nope",
"whatever"
] | 22 |
videos
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Good Charlotte - Little Things: This music video was filmed on September 4, 1999. A whole different world.
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https://youtu.be/CvMfKxuPVUY
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/r/videos/comments/qxn8a3/guy_films_himself_in_1976_going_to_the_mall_with/
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[
"_\"A thrilling ride to the mall. Spellbinding every second. A poignant commentary on the over commercialization and urbanization of America. 5/7 stars up!\"_\n\n-tezoatlipoca",
"68 here, too. I miss malls. 😟",
"Do you miss the 70s?",
"So much beautiful cars.",
"So much less traffic back then. I need a time machine",
"This video is older than star wars",
"this is so cool.",
"Modern cars have to be very aerodynamic to be competitive and every car maker can afford simulations. There are not many ways of making a car aerodynamic, designers don't have as much freedom as they used to have.",
"I was really hoping we would get to see inside the mall. Oh well. Still pretty cool. Those cars are huge!",
"Good stuff",
"Other than the cars, it really doesn't look all that different. Just a couple of young guys goofing around with a camera 2 years before I was born. Glad to see few things change.",
"Pretty disappointed there was no Foghat playing on the stereo.",
"The one being driven is nice but all I see are rectangular boats with wheels",
"They’ll get to enjoy the 70s once again in two more years.",
"Man I really wish I could have grown up in that era.",
"As a person that was 23 in 1976 very few 23 year olds drove new Mercedes Benz cars in 1976.",
"23? Damn they look 50",
"more like boats",
"That's how I like 'em. \nI have had two 70's cars. One Chevy and one Buick. Both had suspension that made it feel like driving on clouds.",
"Time to watch Dazed and Confused again..",
"Life sans cell phones was actually better, if a little slower",
"Funny. I live in Nashville and I am about to leave the house and drive this same road.",
"Diesen Mercedes-Jungs sollten sich besser Flügel wachsen lassen oder mit den Armen flattern",
"But they had *just* gotten over the impact of Jaws (1975).",
"I was hoping they would continue into the mall and we'd see the fast-food alternatives from 1976 that aren't around anymore.\n\n\"Squab on a stick! Get your squab on a stick!\"\n\n\"Pizza in a cup! Smokin hot mozzarella!\"\n\n\"Chop Suey balloons! Just put them on a platter and *POP*!\"",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEFQ8aFt96s",
"Over the last couple years it hasn't been a big concern for consumers. My guess is if gas stays up that will change. Anyway. It's still a big concern for car companies. They have to hit fleet efficiency goals and what not.",
"Damn the parking lot was full of vintage cars",
"more like a choice of the meatloaf and mashed potato or pork chop and apple sauce happy meal",
"> people who rem and is\n \n/r/boneappletea",
"I’m guessing those same people would be equally unlikely to own a handheld camcorder as well.",
"Those are the oldest 23 year olds I've ever seen.",
"Chris Evans dad driving?",
"***swoon***",
"Is that the Opry Mills Mall? I was super curious what it looked like in '76",
"It reminds me of just how far cars have come. That was an expensive, high end luxury car. It sounded like a datsun pickup.",
"Man, I would have loved to see what the inside of the mall looked like.",
"Im back! No. That is Woodmont Boulevard to Thompson Lane and 100 oaks mall.",
"I was thinking it must've been heavily renovated, but 35 years is a long time. Haven't been to 100 Oaks",
"It's always interesting how 20 somethings back then looked like 45 year olds with a pension and mortgage",
"This is weird and fascinating to me at the same time. Born in '82, and the 70s seem like some sort of \"before my time\" dark age where home computers and video games didn't exist. I guess that's how zoomers feel about the 90s when smartphones weren't a thing.",
"25 here, still go to malls every now and then. There’s *a lot* more people there than you would think.",
"Could have been dad's ride. Those pagoda top Mercedes are lovely tho.",
"1978 crew! Sup?",
"And just a few months after the Bicentennial. Those tall ships really raised the nation's spirits after Watergate.",
"I always wondered why young adults like them always looked older back then",
"I saw Two(!) AMC Pacers.",
"Imagine being 23 and full of youth in 1976 and then boom, you’re almost 70.",
"I must say, that is a stellar ride for a 23 year old. When I was 23, I had a very well used Chevette and was happy to have that...",
"Yep looks like they parked by where the chipotle is now!",
"it'll happen to yooouuuuuu!",
"The Old 100 Oaks Mall!. Still standing today!",
"What leaded petrol and secondhand cig smoke does to a mf",
"Honestly, pickups have taken any notion of aerodynamics, stomped on it, set it on fire and pissed on it. I was walking by a '21 Chevy the other day, the edge of the hood must be more than 5' off the ground and the front is just absolutely flat. I don't know how much efficiency you'd actually gain by making a truck aerodynamic, but Chevy is just like, \"Screw that!\"",
"Those were pretty common, even into the early 1980s. If you needed a cheap-ass car in the late '70s and were still doing the \"Buy American!\" thing, your options were pretty much Pacer, Gremlin, Pinto or Chevette.",
"Or, as they were known in 1976: cars.",
"45 years. You're ten years older than you think you are. Sorry.",
"I'm right around the second 'o' of that boom. To be honest, it kinda sucks.",
"1976 is a pretty cool time as far as computers and video games go, though. Arcades are a big thing already and getting bigger, there are a zillion home Pong clones you can connect to your TV, the Apple I is just released. \n\nAnd it's right on the cusp of a huge tech explosion. Within just a couple of years, the Atari VCS comes out, Apple II, Space Invaders, Galaxian, Asteroids. It would be kind of amazing to go back and see it all happen in real time. I was there but much too young to really appreciate most of it. Although my fascination with arcade games goes right back to when I was a toddler.",
"I’m 67 and I’d like to visit 1967.",
"Well come 2035 California will have banned the sale of new combustion engine vehicles. That’s a huge market for the auto industry and has a lot of weight. I feel that will be the tipping point for EVs. We already have the Ford 150 lightning coming out soon.",
"Nice to see other 78ers around! Take good care of yourself!",
"Thanks Kearney!",
"Recording sound was additionally expensive too. A lot of home film from the 70s wouldn’t have any sound.",
"except now, we hold both the camera and the video player in our hands on our fucking phone",
"I did it last night, we might be neighbors.",
"Just don't take that Gremlin out in the rain after midnight.",
"Man I really wish I could have grown up in that era.",
"Because they could afford Mercedes sports cars? 🤷♂️",
"And several Vegas still running with their original engines! That’s a moment in time right there.",
"I bet their cadbury creme eggs took up the space of a house.",
"Interesting observation I've seen on these types of comments: It's because people from different eras have retained their style/haircuts as they got older and younger people only know the people when they're 45-50, so we associate that kind of style with being older.",
"And cost a nickle.",
"Higher testosterone and less estrogenic baby fat",
"I wanted to see the inside of the mall 😕",
"Pickup trucks are terribly inefficient.",
"I was 5 years old when this was filmed, I am now 50.\n\nTime goes by way too fast.",
"They didn't open until 1 in the afternoon though.",
"Except for the Early Times billboard.",
"Surprised no one mentioned the Early Times billboard. Won't see those around anymore. Just like the Marlboro Man. Gone forever.",
"Or owned video cameras.\n\nThey were foookin expensive.",
"...and that's what people are gonna say about us 45 years from now.",
"We didn't have camcorders then. This was a movie camera.",
"“Gimme five Bees for a quarter, we’d say.”",
"And the lead paint",
"We're back into the Dickities now, grab your belt onions",
"They were a bitch to drive, extremely dangerous (safer to get thrown from the car then be in it during a crash), wasteful on gas, rusted after two years, and just a pain to upkeep. These cars were hard broke after 50,000 miles.",
"Yet it's infinitely more beautiful than any car on the road today.\n\nThe R107 SL is my achievable dream car (though to me an SL needs to be convertible unless it's the 300SL gullwings). The W113 is my unachievable dream car.",
"I was a child in the 70's and 80's. I remember \"Pong\" and Atari 2600 consoles and our schools first \"personal computers\" were Radio Shack/Tandy TRS-80's. The first color video-games (Pac-Man, Space Invaders) started showing up in the 'game-room' areas of roller-rinks and bowling-alleys (usually they had more pinball, foosball and pool tables) or sometimes there'd just be some random game in the drug-store lobby or the local pizza shop. Shortly after dedicated video-game arcades started opening.\n\nHanging out at the local arcade as a teenager is and always will be one of my fondest memories. It was a truly magical time.",
"Today that Benz will be worth more than that mall.",
"In 1988 my friend video taped himself driving his 1969 Corvette to my house at night, and Bye Bye Miss American Pie started playing when he pulled out of his driveway and ended right when he pulled into mine. It was a super cool video.",
"Sorry, I’m showing my age here. Lol",
"So am I -- in the opposite direction! 😅",
"Do you still have the video?",
"As someone born in the early '90s, it feels so weird that this really wasn't all that long before I was born. I guess we think of the '70s as being so different but I guess it really wasn't.",
"/r/thatsthejoke",
"I saw a few Vegas drive by. I had a '75 Vega. They didn't last long before the engine blocks melted down.",
"Hi all, it's me--the out of focus guy in the passenger seat with the camera. To clear a few things up, I was 23 but the driver, my friend Dave, was I think 28 or 29 at the time. My father had shot home movies which I remembered fondly and so when I could, I got an outfit so I could do that too, but with sound! I paid only $1900 for that car but it was in pretty bad shape when I got it. It was 7 years old when I bought it in 1974 and I \"restored\" it. I still have it. I too wish I could have shot some film in the mall! But the film ran out just as we got there. Those film cartridges were very expensive and I did my best to afford as many as possible. Which wasn't many, I'm sorry to say. You can see all the films (and my dad's too) at www.classichomemovies.com",
"Are you still in touch with your old friend Dave? Where is he now?",
"I was born 76, but you know what, I think the 80s where a little different. To me it feels that way, somehow it was just so over the top. The colours, the vibe, the optimism, the whole everything's quite alright. 90s again set the tone back a notch darker and to some extent we're still on that train. The 70s just has a somewhat similar feel as to the 90s and there after.\n\nI dunno if it's just me and how it coincided with my childhood, but I do wonder if anyone else feels the same.",
"We were out of touch for many years. I contacted him last year when I posted the film of him doing a TV commercial for an imaginary \"Fat Flush\" product. We wrote back and forth a few times. He passed away earlier this year.",
"That was a funny video, the 70s seemed like a great time to live. Sorry to hear about that, he seemed like a cool guy in the videos I saw. I think I saw somewhere on your YouTube channel that you still own that exact same Mercedes?",
"Yes, I still have that Mercedes. It has almost 300,000 miles. I met Dave in 1972 at Music Type Service in Nashville where we both worked. (Music Type Service set the type and musical notation for sheet music and hymnals and songbooks. It was at 2535 Franklin Road in Nashville.) From there, Dave went on to co-found Cherish Records and later was an audio mastering engineer of note.",
"That’s very interesting. The video with you, Dave and Mercedes reminds me of that old song Switchin’ To Glide with that one part that goes “Me and Zero request you in the Mercedes”. Good song about having good times.",
"Yeah, good song is right! You might enjoy the pic of that car and me from 1976 and 2018: https://www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/garage-mercedes.htm"
] | 105 |
videos
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Guy Films Himself In 1976 Going To The Mall With His Friend (He was 23 in the video, 68 now)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Q3i5w6-Ug
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/r/videos/comments/qxnyf1/a_amazing_song_by_dan_avidan_and_twrp_with/
|
[
"Dan Avidan makes great music that makes great animation. Like Night Runner - Magnum Bullets (feat. Dan Avidan) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuHe9lm5vUE",
"Really cool seeing these guys blow up, I still remember the time they played a show at our high school cafeteria. They were always one of the best bands in the local scene, just such good energy all around. Doctor Sung used to wear an actual traffic cone on his head back then, good times.",
"[The Hit](https://youtu.be/uOWWaRbZucE) is also an absolute jam",
"Personally I've preferred some of Dan's [other work](https://youtu.be/dNoafUU4Ikw?t=34), but Starlight Brigade is still awesome.",
"love the hit. so funky",
"yes i know. hence why i posted it"
] | 6 |
videos
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a amazing song by Dan Avidan and TWRP with amazing sick animations. if you have not seen this yet your missing out
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https://youtu.be/6jhEqDFHnRk
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/r/videos/comments/qxoeos/i_have_a_trebuchet_and_im_going_to_use_it/
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[
"r/trebuchetmemes",
"This man did not his memes be dreams. Let",
"let"
] | 3 |
videos
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I have a trebuchet, and I'm going to use it!
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https://youtu.be/W1L1sU0uI0o
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/r/videos/comments/qxoisa/the_jet_that_terrified_the_west_the_mig_25_foxbat/
|
[
"Same principle as applied to some RC aircraft today: strap enough power to it, and you can make even a brick fly.\n\nFascinating stuff. Built to fill a niche and fill it well, only for its prey to never exist.",
"Love the story of this jet and how it was a good example of \"awesome but impractical\" and of something that was supposedly scary to the West.\n\nIts engines tended to overheat and overspeed at Mach 3, so they were limited to Mach 2.83 to preserve engine life.\n\nThe jet's heavy steel alloy body (due to titanium being difficult to mass produce) meant it wasn't as maneuverable as the F-15 Eagle or comparable US fighters of the time.\n\nIt had no look down/shoot down capabilities in its radar, so it couldn't track lower flying aircraft.\n\nIt was a lot of compromises for an interceptor, and the Soviets developed the Mig-31 as sort of a \"lessons learned\" from the Mig-25 as bomber doctrine shifted away from high-altitude to low-altitude fast bombers.",
"Love Mustard's videos",
"Almost as good as the MiG-31 Firefox, but luckily the US had an agent on the inside to handle that one.",
"Gaijin, plz",
"The fact that Russia quickly developed and mass produced a jet to combat a bomber that never went into production leads me to believe the US gave'em the ol Kansas City Shuffle.",
"Actually it wasn't impractical, it was perfect for it's purpose. It just happens that the purpose was very narrow and afterwards changed to make its strengths obsolete.\n\nThe key requirements were to fly fast enough and high enough to catch bombers relying on that to penetrate soviet airspace. It met those requirements. You also needed enough of them to cover the entirety of soviet airspace in sufficient numbers to deter a potential bomber raid. And needed to be available soon enough to meet a coming threat. It did that by being cheap to build and using off the shelf compoents. They sacrificed things like manouverability and engine life in order to increase numbers and focus on speed & ceiling. But all of these drawbacks were not relevant to its core mission.\n\nIt fulfilled its role well. Well enough to force the US to take alternative approaches in low-flying bombers like the B1 and stealth like the B2. Even if you destroyed 10 F-25's, e.g. burning out the engines, per bomber shot down it would've been a worthwhile exchange from the soviet perspective so it has to be seen as a successful design.\n\nCould it take on a F-15 in a dog-fight? No, but again that wasn't its purpose. It should either be shooting the bombers from beyond the range of any F-15 escorts, or turning tail and using its speed & ceiling to get away. A similar argument existed between the Zero and the Wildcat back in WW2. The wildcat couldn't keep up with the zero in manouver, but it had enough strengths, e.g. better armour, that allowed it to fulfil its mission requirements.\n\nIt was perfect for the requirements of the time and the urgency of having *something* to keep the latest american high-flying bombers away from soviet airspace.",
"What this guy said.",
"He could think in Russian.",
"MiG 25 prompted the book and later movie Fire Fox.\n\nEdit: NATO intelligence knew about the MiG 25, but they just didn't know the engineering. It made a huge uproar for intelligence (my father was intelligence during that time). And once the defection took place, they realized the level of engineering the Soviets had during that time, and it wasn't much. And the Soviets knew this.\n\nIt sparked all kinds of theories into what the USSR was doing, which prompted the book. It goes to show you the level of craziness that enveloped NATO intelligence during the cold war.",
"Yeah, what that guy above you said. But seriously, the one thing the Russians have always been good at is fulfilling very specific niche roles on a shoestring budget with lots of constraints. The downside of the US Military Industrial Complex is, that while it's good for our economy, and we can build massive amounts of ___(Fill in the blank)___ and we maintain our overall superiority and our lift capacity to go wherever we want for our operational needs, we tend toward VERY expensive and sometimes overpriced options. I have a strong feeling that learning from the frugality of our rivals would benefit our society in the future. What with global warming, supply chain problems and our national push for stronger safety nets and the need to revive a civilian infrastructure that needs a lot of money to fix up, we may be forced to work with less and do more with our military one day."
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The jet that terrified the west: The mig 25 foxbat.
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https://youtu.be/KpkmbfISfbA
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/r/videos/comments/qxomrh/this_guy_fell_into_a_crevasse_and_lived/
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"Have your seen \"touching the void\"?",
"Came here to say this. That movie is insane and I high recommend it to anyone.",
"As long as it’s consensual",
"Ahhh, the infamous [french wedge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAtzN_ScKXY)",
"I trust Steve Climber's endorsements.",
"Crevices are tight!",
"I read the book too. Equally riveting. He has another story about him surviving multiple nights on a mountain top during a blizzard. Also riveting.",
"Falling deep into a crevasse to the point it gets so small that you can barely breathe is one of the scariest ways to die I can possibly think of.",
"[https://www.documentarymania.com/player.php?title=Touching%20the%20Void](https://www.documentarymania.com/player.php?title=Touching%20the%20Void)",
"Man, the part where they got picked up by the chopper was way more exciting to me! I couldn't understand them but I'm assuming it was an injury meaning they couldn't continue after he got out? Messed up ankle or something from the fall?\n\nEither way was super interesting to see the rescue.",
"This is terrifying but equally euphoric to watch. Skiing in unchartered areas (anybody know where this is?) has been in the back of mind ever since I started skiing when I was 6 years old",
"Yeah he mentions that either his ligament is fucked up or he dislocated his knee. My question is: does the guy who originally dropped down from the helicopter just ski down on his equipment or do they pick him back up? Lol",
"Give backcountry skiing a try. Just make sure you invest in the education (AAIRE Level 1), Beacon, shovel, probe, and good equipment like touring skis w touring bindings or a split board. It can be invest to get all the gear and learn the basics but it's worth it if you live in a good mountainous area like CO, UT, MT, WA, AK, etc",
"Somewhere there is a video of a guy who had this happen to him but he was alone. Right down into the hole he went. Landed on a little ledge, busted up his arm or something and then had to, very painfully climb his way out. \n\n[Found it](https://youtu.be/l-LmuBc8lWc).",
"\"I have no rope.\" Dude had a whole bunch on his carabiner?",
"Crevasses are basically just huge crevices",
"Video has subtitels you can turn on",
"Thank you for showing me an awesome website",
"Neat",
"Why do the titles of so many posts remind me of my ex?",
"You know, saving my gear would probably be the last thing on my mind. I'd rather try and stick them in the snow beneath me as some sort of last line of support in case things go wrong.",
"action starts a [2:19](https://youtu.be/KpkmbfISfbA?t=138)\n\nDetails from Edouard Bozon\n\n> This day we made many mistakes, that's why I posted this video. When we reached the top another group came and asked to use our rope. We said yes because the rappel was pretty hard to install, then our group (of four) accessed the couloir. The platform at the beginning of the couloir was relatively sketchy, so we both decided to start the descent without the rope while our two other friends were waiting the second group to take back the rope. At this moment I was thinking that agglutinate 6 peoples at the top of the couloir was more dangerous than splitting the group, here was my first mistake. So with my friend, we started to get down together without a real analyze of the terrain. Here again another mistake because we were excited to ski, instead we should have to ski smaller section one by one before regrouping on a secure point. Then I arrived at the bottom part of the couloir, I stopped in front of the crevasse, in the middle of the couloir to wait my friend to cross the crevasse. This is my biggest mistake because it was too exposed with all the snow... My friend came just above me with too much speed, the snow took me and caused the fall. I broke my knee ligament but it's a pretty low price, these places are serious and not always give you a second chance. I would add a final note, my family is heavily engaged in mountain rescuing. I grew up with their stories in mind and this time it was my own experience. I take it as a lesson.",
"What a beautiful location to almost die though right?",
"I live in Hoboken New Jersey",
"Where's Charlie? \n\nHe's in the crevasse again."
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This guy fell into a crevasse and lived
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RRE2rDw4k
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/r/videos/comments/qxp37b/why_the_netherlands_is_the_best_country_for/
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"It has one of the most dense and advanced highway networks in Europe??? \n\nThey built enough lanes for their highways and didn't fall for the \"induced demand\" lie? \n\nThey built a vast and extensive mass transit network that costs more than the highways to maintain?",
"Maybe just watch the video.",
"Induced demand is true when driving is more convenient than the alternatives.",
"Advanced yes. More lanes, no. \n\nOf course you could just watch the video you are commenting on. But I'll tell you anyways that the single biggest reason driving is easier in the Netherlands is that they have fewer cars on the road. Since a car/truck needs something like 10x+ the space of a cyclist or public transport per rider, the simplest and most efficient way to create space for cars is to get more drivers to switch to cycling and public transport.\n\nI am personally pretty skeptical of this induced demand concept but to have enough space to accommodate everyone driving would require something like eight or twelve lanes per road, and it just isn't worth it to demolish that much of a city. Better to create space by having alternatives that don't use up so much space and having fewer cars.",
"Transit is more expensive to maintain as a line item because highways fop the costs of the vehicles onto the users, almost entirely. You can't use the highway unless you own your own car or rent one. I don't have to carry my own rolling stock to the metro station.",
"> It has one of the most dense and advanced highway networks in Europe???\n\nIt's also densely populated.",
"> More lanes, no.\n\nActually, yes. The last decade many more lanes were added and more are being planned as well as not-by-the-book-but-actually-basically-car-dependent neighbourhoods. That's a right wing government for ya.",
"More lanes than they had before, okay. That's not the comparison I was making.",
"I'm super critical of NJB but I liked this video. I think it's because normally he sounds so condescending and prick-like, but in this video he's really toned that down. \n\nAlso structure-wise, normally in his videos, NJB shits on car infrastructure without real justification. Like who actually thinks you can take things from a country half the size of Virginia and copy-paste them to all of North America? That 1:1 relationship doesn't exist.\n\nBut in this video, NJB is like 'well I don't like car infrastructure but even then the Netherlands does it so much better than North America'.\n\nAnd that's a way better approach to take because it's actually highlighting problems with the implementation of infrastructure itself, when things are actually comparable 1:1.\n\nGood work on this one, NJB.",
"industry can't take a bus",
"I did. I also built a train station. This dickhead makes videos.",
"Amazon doesn't take the bus. Meaning packages still need roads to delivery all that Amazon",
"Who are you talking to? Did I ever propose to abolish roads?",
"I’m not sure where I implied it could.",
"> Like who actually thinks you can take things from a country half the size of Virginia and copy-paste them to all of North America?\n\nWhile I agree sometimes he can go too far with the idea that even like, bumfuck North Dakota could have bustling high-speed trains, there isn't really any reason relevant-sized portions of the country couldn't have great transit. \n\nIf you take Japan and compare it to the west coast, for example, similar in size Japan has way better infrastructure per capita, even in less populated parts of the country. There isn't really any reason why a trip via train between LA and Portland should take almost 2 days while a similar trip in Japan takes only 5 hours. Or LA having a quarter of the subway system that London does despite having a third more people. \n\nI think the ultimate point of a lot of these videos (even if they're smarmy douches about it) is \"The US is going to need to think about public transit because its cities are growing and constructing additional highways is no longer keeping congestion down\" which is 100% correct and also very much something most Americans are unwilling to admit.",
"And this dude has been a civil engineer for like a decade. Disagree with his opinions if you want but he has the credentials to be making claims.",
"\"Oh you want to build other supporting infrastructure? Well that must mean you want to destroy people's homes and make us all live on a train. I saw it on a documentary.\"",
"Damn, I bet OP can't even see your post through all that straw.",
"Industry uses a lot of public and mass transport systems. What are you even talking about?",
"Haha also sounds more like you just don't like what he has to say, easy to get pissed if you're in the wrong audience and you're the one he is making fun of.",
"> Like who actually thinks you can take things from a country half the size of Virginia and copy-paste them to all of North America? That 1:1 relationship doesn't exist.\n\nalmost everything people talk about as \"the US is too big for that\" is actually better suited to the US than Europe. \n\nlike High-Speed Rail. You know there are only 3 segments in the German rail network where the ICEs can actually get up to full speed, because they have to keep starting and stopping all the time, because Germany is such a densely populated country?\n\nNow imagine the ICEs in the US. We have literally thousands of miles of routes where they can stretch their legs! We have so much empty space! Imagine being able to hop on a train in Boston (or even Montreal across the border), and going Boston -> NY -> Baltimore -> DC -> RVA -> Raleigh -> Charlotte -> Atlanta -> Jacksonville -> Orlando -> Miami in 6-7 hours. Or the same thing down the west coast! How awesome would a high-speed rail route from Vancounver -> Seattle -> Portland -> Sacramento -> San Francisco -> San Jose -> Bakersfield -> LA -> San Diego -> Tijuana be? And cross-country, there could be a NY -> Columbus -> Indianapolis -> Chicago -> Minneapolis -> Cheyenne -> Boise -> Portland, and in the South ATL -> Birmingham -> Memphis -> Dallas -> Albequerque -> Vegas and/or Phoenix -> LA. We've honestly already done most of this once with the Interstate system -- it's not like it's impossible. \n\nOr car infrastructure in cities. No shit, American cities are sprawlier than European ones. That doesn't mean we can't have trams, buses, and bikes in the city centers. (Actually, sprawlier cities is exactly the reason we need those things, since so many cities are too big to walk if you don't own a car!). Obviously cars will still be necessary in city outskirts and rural areas. But that doesn't mean they have to be polluting the city centers where things actually are in walkable and bikeable distances!",
">Also structure-wise, normally in his videos, NJB shits on car infrastructure without real justification. Like who actually thinks you can take things from a country half the size of Virginia and copy-paste them to all of North America? That 1:1 relationship doesn't exist.\n\nI don't think he does that. It's more of a metro to metro comparison. He's not talking about the vast rural areas.",
"That's true. We were all dirty peasants and there was no such thing as industry until freeways were invented in the 1950s. /s",
"Wait he toned down being a prick in this video?\n\nI am super interested in his insights on transportation design but couldn’t take it.",
"I fail to see how the size of the country really factors into it, that doesn't mean that cities should be designed plain wrong. If the country is really large, to go on long trips, you need fewer lanes, not more, when the distance is greater, since more cars can occupy the same lanes on a longer distance.",
"\"While I agree sometimes he can go too far with the idea that even like, bumfuck North Dakota could have bustling high-speed trains, there isn't really any reason relevant-sized portions of the country couldn't have great transit.\"\n\nSure in terms of space maybe North Dakota can have high speed trains but how many places in the US have the population density to warrant high speed rail?",
"[A lot of it, actually.](https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/03/22/high-speed-rail-followup/) What's noteworthy about this map is that it was not eyeballed, it was built around a [population and distance formula.](https://pedestrianobservations.com/2020/02/13/metcalfes-law-for-high-speed-rail/) That model has also been [sanity checked](https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/04/25/sanity-checking-my-hsr-ridership-model/)\n\nBut if your unconvinced by \"complex modeling says it's true,\" then lets talk geography:\n\n[11 US states](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population_density) are more densely populated than [Spain,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain) who has the most HSR per-capita in the world, or the second most after China if not measuring per-capita (though that's mostly because they are extremely good at keeping construction costs down).\n\nThe US has a geographic advantage in that, generally, more people live in fewer, bigger cities compared to Europe. That means fewer points to connect (per-capita).",
"**[Spain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain)** \n \n >Spain (Spanish: España, [esˈpaɲa] (listen)), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a country in Southwestern Europe with some pockets of territory in the Mediterranean Sea, offshore in the Atlantic Ocean and across the Strait of Gibraltar. Its continental European territory is situated on the Iberian Peninsula, and its insular territory includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, several small islands in the Alboran Sea and the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The Spanish territory also includes the African semi-exclaves of Ceuta, Melilla and Peñon de Vélez across the Strait of Gibraltar.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)",
">Like who actually thinks you can take things from a country half the size of Virginia\n\nCountry size doesn't really matter tho. It would mean there are more cities/villages connected by ROADs which if you watched any of his videos he supports. \n\nAlso I will never forgive the cocksucking capitalists that maimed our urban design to force people to own cars.",
"This is ridiculous because it doesn't account for large cities like Atlanta, Dallas, LA etc. The list goes on and on. Netherlands is the size of one of these cities....",
"> While I agree sometimes he can go too far with the idea that even like, bumfuck North Dakota could have bustling high-speed trains, there isn't really any reason relevant-sized portions of the country couldn't have great transit.\n\nThat's just not true. He would never suggest high-speed rail for random small towns because it would be dumb.\n\nBut a shocking amount of [random Americans cities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_streetcar_systems_in_the_United_States) pre-1930 had some sort of streetcar system. \nI picked out Caldwell Idaho from that list since I'd never heard of it. In 1910 it had a population of 3,543 and it had a streetcar system.",
"Those routes are far too long to be viable. You can't just ignore the existence of planes. High speed rail makes sense for routes like Boston -> NY -> DC, SF -> LA -> SD, Dallas -> Houston. But for cross continent trips people are going to take a plane as they do in Europe.",
"Stop, I can only get so erect.",
"We also can’t ignore the carbon output of planes.",
"The Netherlands has an area of about 16,000 square miles. This puts it at about the size of Massachusetts and Connecticut *combined*. It is orders of magnitude larger than any of the cities you listed...",
"This guy just hates bicycles.",
"Considering I never said Massachusetts or Connecticut I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.\n\nHere is data to prove you wrong.\n\nAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Los Angeles–Anaheim–Riverside combined statistical area covers 33,954 square miles (87,940 km2), \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Los_Angeles\n\nhttps://www.google.com/search?q=los+angeles+metroplex+square+miles&oq=los+angeles+metroplex+square+miles&aqs=chrome..69i57.1745j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8",
"**[Greater Los Angeles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Los_Angeles)** \n \n >Greater Los Angeles, with a 2019 population of 18,710,563, is the second-largest urban region area in the United States, encompassing five counties in southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the east, with Los Angeles County in the center and Orange County to the southeast. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Los Angeles–Anaheim–Riverside combined statistical area covers 33,954 square miles (87,940 km2), making it the largest metropolitan region in the United States by land area.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)",
"Ahh, there is your problem right there. You got a streetcar, what you need is a road car. I'll go see if I got any in the back. /s",
"So America needs almost 34.000 square miles for 18 million people... In a metro area. While the Netherlands can fit 17 million people into 16.000 and have enough room left over to be the second largest food exporter in the world.\n\nI think you just proved his point.",
"How does it not account for that? The greater LA area has about the same number of people as the Netherlands yet is a worse place to drive.",
"Wow that is strange logic. Many other places in US are much more dense than Netherlands. Does that make them more efficient?",
"Add some Floridians over there and it won't matter how efficient your drivable infrastructure is.",
"Their workers could. \n\nAnd highways aren't backed up because of freight transport. \n\nIn fact being stuck in traffic is very expensive for every industry. Fewer cars on the road means fewer delays in shipping, means industry saves money.",
"How does country size factor into city design? Seriously, what are you even arguing here?",
"of course it does",
"How.\n\nHow does that excuse the poor design and complete lack of any alternatives for the car within the city. You can't even walk anywhere. In a city!",
"Planes exist but some people still drive cross-country. High-speed rail is the same thing, just faster, safer, cleaner, quieter, and less stressful.\n\nAnd the great thing about the way trains work is that cross-country routes aren't just for people who want to go from Atlanta to LA -- it might be the case that everybody who boarded in Atlanta has got off by Dallas, and that the last leg is mostly made up of people trying to get from Dallas to Vegas to LA, or people boarding in Vegas for LA or whatever. Unlike planes, trains are more than A -> B.",
"Dude driving the car at 3.17 just failed his driving exam (for not seeing the pedestrian trying to cross the road on a zebra crossing)",
"You built a train station?",
"this is an excellent comment.",
"You're interpreting my comment the wrong way around.\n\nthe Netherlands can make a more efficient transport network (including roads) for about the same number of people, in a lot less area, with room to spare.\n\nWhen roads and parking don't take up, up to 60% of the total area of a city, they become a lot more dense, more pleasant to be in, and a lot more usable for people not in a car.",
"They wouldn't be able to get their license.",
"The sprawl is the main problem here.",
"lol, twice the area for the same amount of people living there. Tell me how the traffic is in LA? [6th time the world's worst traffic in the world back in 2018](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2FyItES2WM). Y'all spend on average 100h in bumper to bumper traffic and the [Netherlands averages just under 40h (question 3 in the link)](https://www-kimnet-nl.translate.goog/actueel/nieuws/2020/01/21/zes-vragen-over-de-file?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=nui). So yea, twice the area just to have the same amount of people live there but more than 2x the time spent stuck in traffic lmao.",
"Yeah but americans are convinced car dependency is better somehow, due to personal freedom. Then they go and vacation every year in disneyland and love it, not realizing it was built to be pedestrian friendly with lots of public transport...",
"Yeas, What are your policies, what do you want to do? These are good question that are often not asked about any governmental topic.",
"All I saw:\n\n>Fake London, Canada",
"Our weekly 'Netherlands has better infrastructure than the US' video is here folks, everyone stand in a circle and get your dicks out.",
"This guy has such a boner for The Netherlands, lol. \n\nRoad deaths per billion kilometres travelled in UK: 3.4 \n\nRoad deaths per billion kilometres travelled in Netherlands: 4.7\n\nDunno about you lot, but I reckon it's better to drive in a country where you're less likely to kill, or less likely to be killed, while driving.\n\n\n(Norway is the absolute winner, for what it's worth. Just 3 deaths per billion km travelled..)",
"It also helps that the Netherlands is this big: https://i.imgur.com/71DfLYL.png",
"I can't stand these videos. 90% of viewers and comments are from Dutch people. How self-congratulatory can you get?",
"I'd prefer to watch from a safe distance, with a bucket of pop-corn.\n\n\nI dont have the confidence to whip it out in front of strangers.",
"Alright, sure, I was wrong in that fact. But now what is your point?\n\nIs the Netherlands able to establish good road design because it's smaller? That doesn't follow, because the US also has regions and cities that are smaller than LA and smaller than the Netherlands. You bring up LA, but it sucks to drive in the entire state of Massachusetts, too. Shitty stroads and car dependency are a constant in the country no matter where you go. \n\nThere's nothing uniquely special about the Netherlands, other than that they happened to make some smarter decisions a few decades when it came to city and road planning. There's nothing unique about the US that would prevent us from making similar changes, if we only had the political will to do so.",
"To be fair, this probably has a lot to do with population density. Norwegian road safety is great, but the fact that so many road miles will be through unpopulated areas will play into this.",
"This is about urban planning, not country-side planning.\n\nCountry size is irrelevant, if you want to do any \"applicability comparison\", you need to look at urban centers (cities, towns+) individually.\n\nYou're saying he's advocating copy-pasting, but then I think you're missing his point.\n\nAnd he justifies nearly everything? He even refers back to Strong Towns etc, it's not just him ranting his opinion.",
"As far as I know, he hasn't, he's *just* a software engineer who got highly invested after traveling the world. He does however refer to Strong Towns, which is founded and run by a real traffic engineer.",
"Half the time he makes a really interesting unique video. \n\nThe other half is just the same video regurgitated on how X is bad and how the Netherlands does Y which is so much better.",
"I try to put myself in the shoes of a person who dislikes driving culture so much he moves his family to Amsterdam ... and still continues to find time to lambast American driving culture because of, ya know, fervent vitriol.",
"USA #1 yes we know, lol just take some criticism so we can all get better.",
"I dont think America is bad, but lets be honest there is a lot of room for improvement in terms of road design.",
"Existing policies say what is, not what ought to be.",
"I love how defensive people in this thread get toward their clearly worse car dominant car culture... \n\nLike, welcome to free shills for the car industry...",
"Why are you going by CSA? [Urban Areas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas) would be more appropriate.",
"He is talking about cars in this video. Over half of Dutch road deaths are not from cars, while this is very different in most other countries. Cycling is a lot slower and covers smaller distances, so their risk rate per driven kilometer is way higher. So if you want to compare overall road deaths per kilometer, you should adjust to the risk rates of the transport method, or just compare road deaths per kilometer per transportation method.",
"How does that excuse poor city design in the US exactly?",
"Comparing any European country to the entirety of the US is a bit unfair, I think. (I'm in Sweden by the way).",
"Road deaths per 100.000 motor vehicles:\n\nUK 5.7\n\nNL 6\n\nSo, pretty equal.\n\nUS 14.2\n\nAnd what i think is going on with the billion kilometers travelled is that that's car km's (the source report talks about vehicles km's but doesn't clarify), so doesn't include km's traveled on bike or on foot, (both things the Netherlands stimulates) but any fatalities in that group are included in the deaths part of the equation, giving a skewed result.\n\nAlso, the UK's figure is exceptionally low, while the Netherlands is still well below the European average (just under half in fact) and Europe is the safest region in the world. So in no way does the Netherlands score poorly here.\n\nEdit: Yes this seems to be what's going on, it's only motor vehicles km's.\n\n2018 figures: 678 traffic deaths (a 9 year high btw, in case you think i'm cherry picking)\n\n121 billion km travel by cars which is 87% of total motorized vehicle km's.\n\n678 deaths \\\\ so 155 billion total motorized vehicles km's = 4.374 deaths per 1 billion km's.\n\nWith many more km's being travel through other modes of transport not being accounted for, but they are included in traffic death statics, skewing the results.",
"or, you know, because he's a urban planner and these are education video's that show that there are better ways of doing things and that the US should change its urban planning to improve the lives of everyone living there.",
"Or you could, you know, not see it as a personal attack and instead see it as something the US could learn from.",
"Actually about 12 if you count projects I impacted. We really wanted to make the stations ADA compliant. It's important when you get old you don't face two stories of steps so a rail line can cross a roadway. So you plan an elevator.",
"Huh? You going to carry the steel ingots onto a train for them?",
"yes your family probably carries potatoes from a ship to a train for $1 an hour and lived in tenement homes. But no, fuck trucks and cranes and containerized shipping. Let's go back to me hand doing that shit. -You",
"Nope, just the cult that wants to end up stuck in a village in a city. Enjoy being house poor and trapped in a dense tower. It's your dream.",
"Watch more YouTube then you will be smarter right?",
"a zealot. He went against his training like an antivaxxer. You need highways to remove traffic from streets kids play on.",
"Eh never made anything. He's a software guy, guy. I bet you think Vox is a valid source as well.",
"no the taxpayer pays your fare on mass transit. You are subsidized, that thing you claim road users are doing.",
" Bruh I said no such thing\n\nI’m sure you felt like you won this in your head. Good for you. Go touch grass.",
"No one said anything about banning farm trucks, shipping containers, or cranes. Do you think the Netherlands doesn't have these things?",
"he isn't an urban planner though, he's a financial analyst (or was)",
"Nah, I just know that \"improved public transit improves the lives of everyone including drivers\" isn't the same as \"We ShOuLd ElImInAtE AlL RoAdS.\" Unlike some mentally handicapped dumbasses I know.",
"This \"*diCkHEaD*\" was a wage slave for some train station building company. That is a pathetic life achievement to be proud of. No one cares. Amazing that you can get to your age with so much hate for the world and so little wisdom. What a waste.",
"You are so full of yourself. Haha.",
"Well some youtube videos are informative. Get with the times old man.",
"But he's comparing mainly city design."
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Why the Netherlands is the Best Country for Drivers
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"Nice! What software did you use?",
"lol you back to posting this video again? Well at least u waited a few days this time instead of like last time when you were posting it literally everyday for like a week straight.",
"This sounds a lot better than what I was expecting.",
"Awful"
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"I totally expected them to talk about it's speed.\n\nI mean a number of miles per hour could've helped the story.",
"Its probably the only talking point they have. Everybody knows electric equates to speed these days, but in a prop plane it just might not sound super fast to lay ears.\n\nI'd be more impressed if they innovated on the battery tech for long-distance efficiency.",
"I still have no idea what they did",
">623 kilometers per hour (a little over 387 miles per hour)\n>\n>To this end, it will be submitting three claims for world records to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. These are: the aircraft hitting a top speed of 555.9 km/h over 3 kilometers; reaching 532.1 km/h across 15 kilometers; and climbing to 3,000 meters in 202 seconds.\n>\n>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/19/rolls-royce-says-its-electric-aircraft-hit-a-top-speed-of-387-mph.html\n\nSo not particularly fast by the standards of aviation."
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Rolls-Royce | Spirit of Innovation - the world's fastest all-electric aircraft
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https://clips.twitch.tv/CrepuscularDepressedAxeSoonerLater-nFwuSOE-zJzI0jyL
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"So happy for her :)",
"I'm not someone to typically comment when it's something I feel negatively but... really, who cares? There's nothing even slightly interesting about this video, and no back story at all.",
"She's using a colossal rod for a fish that size, and she doesn't even pick the rod up out of the holder to properly fight it. Might as well just use a winch."
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Finally Catching a Fish when it Really Counts
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CR8u-2TKb0
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"He was right.",
"RIP Norm. One of the greatest to ever do it.",
"Such a shame the legal system is still just as broken today",
"Naw. Just like capitalism our justice system isn’t broken, it’s working exactly as intended. For the benefit of the ruling class and the wealthy.",
"Self defense is completely different from murder.",
"I'm not talking about a specific case...nor am I using the word 'today' literally",
"I know you're trying to draw a correlation between OJ and rittenhouse, OP."
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"Good shit right here. The song still holds up tbh.",
"I know, right?",
"this is the greatest thing ive heard in a loooong time. thanks bud"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8trkgFX6wI
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"[ **Jump to 05:16 @** 4x4 Recovery Goes Seriously Wrong PART 2 - What Happens Next?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8trkgFX6wI&t=0h5m16s)\n \n ^(Channel Name: All 4 Adventure, Video Popularity: 92.57%, Video Length: [10:42])^, [^Jump ^5 ^secs ^earlier ^for ^context ^@05:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8trkgFX6wI&t=0h5m11s) \n \n----------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n \n ^^Downvote ^^me ^^to ^^delete ^^malformed ^^comments. [^^Source ^^Code](https://github.com/ankitgyawali/reddit-timestamp-bot) ^^| [^^Suggestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/timestamp_bot)",
"that was exciting to watch, great post",
"Shoulda called Matt",
"Like an ant lion pit. The more you try and climb out the harder you fall back",
"Isn't the big problem here that they have far less traction in reverse, and the truck has a tendency to just bury itself?\n\nAnd is that proper use of a tow rope? Shouldn't you slowly get up to taut, then pull?",
"We'll get 'em out.",
"That isn't true, what if your goal is \"send a metal hook flying through your back window at 200mph?\"",
"It's a snatch strap (or it better be). A little bit stretchy, helps yank the vehicle out of the mud/snow/whatever.",
"It's a snatch strap - elasticated so it stretches to cushion the shock then contracts to help break the stuck car free. Normal tow ropes don't have the elasticity so you use them as you described.",
"Thanks",
"> a strap could easily have broken when they are trying to use them like that\n\nThat would be the wrong way to use a tow strap, yes. Snatch straps, however, are a different thing... and this is exactly how they're meant to be used (except the rolling over part, obvs). They're similar to kinetic ropes.",
"Why couldn't they hook the winch up to the tree while the two trucks were strapped together and just pull it out? Also, did he forget to turn his 4wd on until the last pull? I don't see any mud being flung off them the first couple pulls...",
"I'm more surprised at them being in Austrailia (I guess that's where they are) and just waltzing into tall grass in shorts all willy nilly. There are insanely poisonous snakes and shit out there lol",
"I was wondering they were doing that, because it went against everything I thought you were supposed to do, but it sounds like they have the specialized equipment. Do you know why they didn't attach a strap to the first truck, then use the wench on the second truck to pull them both?",
"Bit of a guess here - I imagine the mud is creating a pretty strong suction effect so it's possible than a sharp tug is more effective than a gradual pull. Could be way off here though, I'd be interested to know too.",
"I think it's because the winch isn't rated high enough to pull the weight of both 4x4s, especially in that much mud. You can see how the guy pulling with the snap strap has to get the car up to speed to use the momentum to wrench the other guy out, that thing was bogged past the axles lmao",
"Public service announcement; NEVER stand anywhere near a snatch strap /snap strap while it's being used. If you have a damper, use it.\n\nAt my work we used to move a skip bin on skids by dragging it behind a forklift with a snap strap either side. One day one of the snap straps shackle bolt sheered, sending the strap and the shackle directly toward the forklift that my work mate was on. \nThere was a huge bang but nothing seemed damaged so we didnt think too much about it and replaced the straps and go on working. \nA week or two later we all get asked if anyone knows what happened to the back of the forklift, we have no idea.\nI go check it out with said workmate and find a chunk the size of my thumb gouged out of the solid steel weight on the fork.\n\nThose things can fucking kill you",
"Tat was awesome",
"Given the amount of noise / vibrations they are making, most Aussie snakes would probably have slithered away from the area long before they ran into the grass.",
"\"Hey, its Destin from Smarter Every Day, Snatch-block!\"",
"> snap straps shackle bolt sheered\n\nFound a new tongue twister",
"I ended up watching something similar happen in an off roading video. Someone was trying to pull another vehicle up a slope, the strap broke and launched a hunk of metal into a bystanders skull. He was dead instantly. \n\nKinda wish I had never seen that video."
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4x4 Recovery Goes Seriously Wrong
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"That was it",
"Upvoted because this made me go listen to faith no more’s “epic”.",
"That's it?"
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NO TIME TO DIE Clip - "This is it" (2021) James Bond
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AC4FeuFVXY&t=5191s
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"Nation guard is not under the control of the federal government. They are not U.S. military. Each state’s national guard troops are commanded by the governor of the state. Riots, natural disasters, and the like are exactly what they are meant for.",
"U.S. Army National Guard.",
"As a former National Guard member…. We are US Military.\n\nWe are under the control of the federal government with special permission granted to state governors to activate them. The National Guard Soldiers on the Mexico border patrolling…. Federally activated.\n\nMy Afghanistan and Iraq tours…. Federal service."
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U.S. Military operations on American soil 2020-2021. National Guard Riots, Lockdown, COVID response.
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"I used to play a drinking game in college where you picked a random page out of this book, then another person picked a random page, and whoever's page was most sickening had to drink.",
"That’s the most …beautiful, amazing, and down right insane thing I’ve ever heard. World needs more people like you.",
"Such a great adaptation of an insane book. \n\nIn real life, William S. Burroughs killed his wife during a game of William Tell where he attempted to shoot an apple balanced on top of her head. She was shot in the head. He later went on to debate with himself whether it was an \"accident\" at all. Many drugs were involved. After the incident, he fled to Turkey where he wrote Naked Lunch under the influence of various substances. The transcripts were sent to his friends in the US, including Allen Ginsberg, who edited/composed the book. It's a wild read.\n\nCities of The Red Night is my favorite Burroughs book. \n\nDuring the filming of the movie, they asked Burroughs what he thought of the adaptation and he gave a more or less hands off opinion. The book is one piece of art and the movie another. Completely disconnected from each other. Whatever happens, happens. \n\nThat's my recollection regarding those events. If you like weird literary shit, read his stuff!!!\n\nNothing is allowed, everything is permitted.",
"One of my favorite authors, this is a beautiful introduction and write up! Much love!",
"Probably my favorite Siskel and Ebert review was for this movie. They both had almost the same reaction where they really admired there artistry and the filmmaking yet couldn’t help but hate the movie.",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sL102pyaLg",
"One of my favorite episodes and moments!\n\n“I can think of at least two things wrong with that title!”",
"This is a better Cowboy Bebop adaptation",
"I always loved his hands off approach from book to movie adaptation. IIRC he said that his books \"are already in the library, do whatever you want with them.\" Wild guy. An unhinged Lewis Carroll.",
"I remember reading the William Tell thing was a “party trick” they would do that went bad. She would put the glass she was drinking out of on top of her head and he would shoot it off from across the room. I believe she was a reluctant participant in the routine typically",
"Still an all-time favorite film of mine, in my top 5. People forget it's not a straight adaptation of the actual novel for some reason & so they write it off (no pun intended). I can't think of anyone other than Cronenberg to create a film within Burroughs's strange world. Maybe Lynch could've done something, but Cronenberg did it right for sure.",
"Cronenberg was perfect for this film, it’s a weird home to me…life lived and dreams gone. The fact Cronenberg actually pieced together some type of narrative, is beautiful. I’d love if Cronenberg did Journey to the End of the Night by Celine…but that would never happen."
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Naked Lunch (talking asshole)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qxsizf/deleted_by_user/
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"Read the fucking rules of the subreddit before posting political bullshit.",
"This is history",
"It's not political bullshit. We got fucked. We've been fucked. We will continue to be fucked until we stand up together.",
"The right: “idk sounds like socialism”",
"When you're dependent on one corporation to give you a job (who is in charge of deciding whether it's decent?), education (who decides what bias the education has?), and health care (who decides what constitutes health care and who gets what limited tests available?), how do you expect to be free from despotism? All it takes is one despot to have control of your income, what you believe, and whether you can get a medical procedure that you might have been able to afford if you were able to buy it. Even if the corporation allows voting, who decides what gets voted on, who counts the votes, and who decides on what the results of the votes mean? Do you really trust mass voting systems?",
"I wish that had happened",
"***You're*** political bullshit.",
"Are you just unaware of the existence of multiple countries that have a higher standard of living than the US, a lower political corruption index, better pre-university education, and better + free healthcare? Or are you really stuck that deep in Aristotle's cave?",
"Wow... you guys would be in a much better place if you had implemented these basic measures.",
"I don't know if you know this but FDR is dead",
"It's Plato's cave, Kozha.\nWhy did you ignore the questions I asked first? Are the answers too uncomfortable for you?",
"Fuck off boot licker.",
"oooo triggered! have a drink on me, buddy!",
"Kinda. Just bewildered that you defend billionaires who don't pay their fair share when odds are neither you or I will become millionaires. But I'll drink if you're buying.",
"ooof maybe you've had too much! at no point did I defend any billionaire. it's time for you to see a shrink; no more to drink!\n\nyour delusion cuts so deeply that you believe billionaires get rich without using the force of gubmint whether through regulatory capture (preventing competition), subsidies of their shipping or payroll costs, or bribing courts and police. you also think that they will dutifully pay any tax you think they owe rather than getting the loophole treatment while you get stuck paying the tax. \n\nit's all a big club, and you ain't in it, sunshine. in fact, every time you cry about \"faaair shaaare,\" you just made a billionaire a little bit richer. they love when you give them more excuses to capitalize on your outrage so an alphabet agency can pass more regulations to give the billionaire more market share. each regulation increases the cost of doing business, so smaller competitors can't compete. ouch. you played yourself."
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"My guess is he can simply feel which side is heads and which is tails, then uses sleight of hand to flip it as he's pointing around or putting it onto his hand if he needs to. Then he just has to pay attention to whatever the chosen person calls and make sure that he flips it if necessary.\n\nedit: bc people seem to be having a hard time believing that you can just feel which side is which: [here's what a half dollar looks like](https://www.coinweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1964kennedy1-1.jpg). C'mon. And keep in mind he holds the coin in a way so that his fingertips touch it which was so strange I noticed before I figured out what was going on.\n\nedit 2: Other people seem to think the audience member was a plant, absolutely not, there's no need. He just needs to pick a person that is going to be visible/identifiable, write a description them on a piece of paper backstage, and then make sure to flip the coin in his hand to match their choice each time. Each round he spends time pointing around the audience so he can just glance to see if the person's arm is up or not.",
"Oh, I loved everything about that! Beautiful trick.",
"Don’t know how it’s done but always fascinates me when it is.",
"The way he pauses with it in his hand and points and then slaps it down the same weird way every time is pretty sus. Those rings are also sus. He's a married guy with a wedding ring on his left hand like normal, but he's also wearing two, similar, plain, metal rings on the pinky and ring finger of his right hand. You can hear them clink when he slaps down the coin. Maybe there are magnets involved? I dunno exactly what all counts as a \"gaffed coin\" in Penn's question. Like, I don't know if they meant any gimmicked coin or a specific type of trick coin.",
"Incredible how one can hand wave away the complexity of the explanation by using the word simply. true NEET",
"Is this the same Wes Iseli from the Chris Chan extended universe?",
"This is my guess, as well. He looks at the audience to see how they voted before he drops the coin. And so he drops it in such a way that the one guy always wins.\n\nI used to do something almost identical to this trick in high school to win lunch money.",
"I think he chooses someone distinctive in the audience and writes it down. Then when he flips the coin he rotates it in the closed hand to match whatever the audience member is indicating (if necessary).\n\nFor Penn at the end, he can just rotate it to be opposite to what Penn chose.\n\nHe could rough up one side and smooth the other so that it’s just enough to notice when you’re aware but not if you aren’t looking for it.",
"I think that might count as a gaffed coin but I don't know for sure.\n\nEdit: [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zwhG00lAWc) video seems to imply any alteration to the coin would make it a gaffed coin, I'm assuming that's why the didn't ask to examine it because if he says it isn't gaffed then it's a normal coin.",
"Fair enough!",
"right but how can he feel the orientation without seeing it?",
"So u can guess that and they can’t? Nah",
"Without going back to the video to really zoom in on the coin, if its a Kennedy half dollar, Kennedy's head is dramatically more raised than the inverse. Obviously \"dramatically\" being to the standards of a coin, but you can feel a bulge vs not.",
"Pick up a quarter and feel the texture difference between the heads and tails side. It's really easy to tell which side is which on a quarter. It's even easier on a Kennedy Half Dollar. There will be a very discernable ridge at the bottom of Kennedys neck on the heads side, and the tails side has a lot more texture to it, with more lettering to it and the ring of stars. You don't even need to rough up the surface.",
"With practice I think could tell the difference between a face and a crest pretty quickly. There is also writing on different parts of the coin. He wraps his fingertips underneath the coin when he catches it",
"I imagine it's a \"normal\" coin, but he's chosen a type of coin where each side is very distinctive.",
"that wrapping around is how he feels the coin, and also how he flips it to whatever side he wants when he slams it on the back of his other hand.\n\nWith a Kennedy half-dollar, as noted, it's easy to feel the difference with the fingertips. But with any coin (like say a quarter) you can rub one side in circles on concrete. It'll flatten that outer rim but not detectable unless you know what you're looking for. You can feel the difference between the flattened side and the non flattened side super easily.",
"Pick up any US coin between your thumb and forefinger. You can easily tell which side is which. \n\nClearly this trick takes a bunch of practice, but in principal, it'd not that hard.",
"“I’m the app ideas guy. Now I just need someone to code it”",
"I just tried this, yeah, if you use your ring/pinkie you can feel the difference, especially if you buy a few seconds time.",
"half dollar is pretty big. The head side is going to be relatively smooth feeling with the bird on the other side being very rough in comparison.",
"I think there were two ways he could switched the coin, before or after he placed it on his hand. It’s why pen raised his hand quick when he did. Thought the time for flip had past.",
"If that's what he's doing he's a fucking wizard. Neat trick.",
"Damn dirty trolls",
"Yea, this is so stupid. Penn & Teller have been in the business for how long? And they're acting like a couple of rubes that can't even fathom someone training on a half dollar coin to detect the sides? And they try to demonstrate complete lack of that fathom by showing their vote BEFORE the coin is even flat on the receiving arm? What a joke. \n \nThe audience member is clearly a plant. The first couple votes are noisy enough, no one notices that guy continues standing through each (not that it matters). And towards the end, the guy just sleights of hand the coin to the side he wants. It's so simple and basic that it's not even impressive. \n \nEdit: I have absolutely zero skills in this area, sleight of hand, anything. I just grabbed a normal quarter. I felt it on both sides a few times for maybe a minute to train myself. I flipped it, felt the top side for 2 seconds, and guessed the side. I got it correct. I just did this 4 times in a row, and got it correct all 4 times. A larger half dollar coin would be even easier. Train for a few hours, instead of the 20 seconds I did, and you can guess in 1 second. Practice sleight of hand, and you can do it with 1 hand.",
"The one biggest rule of this show is they are not allowed to have planted audience members. This has been attested to endlessly by Penn, the magicians who work as adjutants behind the scenes, and those who have competed on it.",
"A gaff coin isn't even necessary. \n \nI am not into this stuff at all - I'm a complete noob. I just grabbed a normal quarter. I felt it on both sides a few times to train myself. I flipped it, felt the top side for 2 seconds, and guessed the side. I got it correct. I just did this 4 times in a row, and got it correct all 4 times. \n \nA larger half dollar coin would be even easier. Train for a few hours, instead of the 20 seconds I did, and you can guess in 1 second. Practice sleight of hand, and you can do it with 1 hand. \n \nPenn and Teller are acting like complete rubes if they're saying this one \"fooled them\". It's so dumb.",
"Ok, so no plant. Plant really isn't required, just makes the writing part easier. Just look out the curtain and pick a random person, write down their info. Plant isn't even required. Or, even if you can't do that, write down some generic stuff, and find the audience member that matches it closest.",
"Penn should've gotten to vote by hidden ballot... or hiding behind something so Alyson could see him, but the fooler could not.",
"It can be deduced that since they are the last two left they had to have had the same choices up to that point, otherwise they both wouldn't be there.",
"I assume you are joking? Everyone still standing, in any given round, has made the exact same choices up until that point. If they hadn't had the same choices, they would have been out.",
"So part of this is some clever process of elimination.\n\nHe has *already picked a mark*.\n\nSo he just has to make sure his mark _isn't_ eliminated every round, until it's all over.\n\nAs long as he keeps an eye on that person's choice and controls the outcome (slight of hand on the flip and reveal to Alyson), he can reduce the pool round over round until his mark is all that is left.\n\nThis could have taken literally 1 round (unlikely, but if he was the only guy who voted tails), this could have taken a number of rounds where the pool was reduced by half every single time (realistically), and it could have even taken (number of people - 1) rounds.\n\nIt's not about the people in the crowd, they're just props to make his stunt look more impressive.",
"He's not switching the coin, he's rotating it in his palm based on some feature (feel, maybe) that keeps in line with his plant permutation his plant in the audience has memorized. Watch it again and see how long he takes between the flip and the call - he's taking that time to rotate the coin to the side he needs it to be upon the reveal.\n\nEdit: Apparently Penn Jillette attests that they cannot have plants in the audience. That seems hard to verify, but it's worth taking into account. If that's factual, I'd love to see how this trick is pieced apart by the community.\n\nEdit 2: There's no plant - he's just rotating the coin in his palm to align with whomever his pre-selected mark is. He basically picked a winner beforehand without collusion and is aligning the coin's faces to their answers via sleight of hand.",
"The audience member doesn't need to be in on it. He just has to pick one person, write down a description of them on the paper backstage, and flip the coin to match their guess each time.",
"You must be fun at parties",
"If there aren't plants, I think this is it. Basically the act is that he finds someone in the audience, documents their appearance before the trick and then watches whatever their movements are as the act progresses- heads or tails. Based on this individual's selection, while he's working the audience between the flip and reveal he's rotating the coin in his palm to the correct alignment that needs to be there upon the reveal. Notice how there's several seconds between the flip and the reveal - he's using that time to feel the face of the coin to rotate it to the proper side for the reveal. \n\nEssentially, there's no forethought or collusion - just reaction to his chosen individual's selections, subsequent manipulation of the coin and working the number of participants down via sleight of hand until his mark is the \"winner\".",
"I mean, he literally explained the concept. I don't see how practicing the sleight of hand to realize the concept is at all comparable to not knowing how to code. He literally knows exactly how to do it, all he has to do is practice.",
"A poster above detailed that Penn Jillette has attested that marks in the audience are not allowed. While it's difficult to validate that attestation, I think the simpler explanation is that he feels out the coin after the flip and rotates to the proper side prior to the reveal in order to align with a person he pre-selects and documents the appearance of immediately before the trick.",
"There's a difference between a plant and a mark.\n\nA plant is someone in on the trick. This is what's not allowed.\n\nA mark is someone you're picking in particular to con. That's magic, baby.",
"You’re completely right. I misused the term there on accident - good catch.",
"makes sense why he doesn't have a name for the guy then, just a description.",
"Two ways this could work both rely on him being able to determine whether it's heads or tails. One thing I will say though is that the person in the audience does not need to be a plant. He could be watching to see how they vote before deciding which way the coin comes up. This *would* rely though on a person actually participating and there will always be that one person who just doesn't participate.\n\n1) The coin has some sort of distinct marking on one or both sides that he can feel and determine which way to rotate the coin at the last second.\n\n2) His rings and coin are magnetic and they can influence which way the coin is caught and which way he needs to slap the coin down to determine which way it comes up.",
"> The guy in the audience was in on the trick.\n\nThe thing about Fool Us is the magicians explicitly *cannot* have audience plants. \n\nThey can have audience participants, and production knows ahead of time how many audience members are needed (as the magician has to show production the performance in detail such that they can dictate if P&T get fooled) so that production can mic up several people in the audience, but production is the one in the end randomly picking who gets to participate. \n\nPrimarily because it's way, way too easy to have an audience plant make for a simple but boring trick.",
"Everyones collective desperate attempts to disprove magic in here are adorable LOL.\n\nIn all seriousness though, I think this is just about the worst fooling I've seen in all of the series, there are so many WAYYYY better (and more entertaining) tricks than this one. Penn and Teller should have just told him they got it and made him walk, why/how is this even fool worthy?",
"good call, I'll bet that's how he does it.",
"You have never created anything of value.",
"Incidentally, the *practice* part is 99.999999999% of the effort, which you NEET love to equate to the *ideas* part.",
"Your mom has never created anything of value.",
"The answer is that he's manipulating what side the coin shows but what they couldn't figure out what exactly how he was doing it. Feel is a good guess but even that's just saying how he knows which side to flip it to it still doesn't explain how he does it without them seeing right in front of them. He asks if it's a gaffed coin because that would be the easiest way to flip it but that's apparently not what he's doing.",
"Said no one before on Reddit. You’re the first. Lol",
"Cause he is watching when they walk in, or has someone provide him a description, and then he just matches the call to that person. They would also have to be close enough to see - so he would choose someone in an aisle seat close to the front.",
"> I dunno exactly what all counts as a \"gaffed coin\" in Penn's question. Like, I don't know if they meant any gimmicked coin. \n\nA gaffed coin would be any type of coin that has been modified in some way by the magician. \n\nSo you could make a gaffed coin yourself at home and do this trick. Get some pva glue or something similar that dries clear and even some sand. On one side of the coin have a very, very small amount of sand/glue that would not be noticeable when inspecting the coin, but when feeling it with your fingers you could tell which side was which. So there would be a normal side and a rough side. Or just using glue you could have a normal side and a smooth side, etc.. Those would be examples of 'gaffed' coins. \n\nAs the commented above said, I think he can just tell the difference himself after lots of practice.",
"This is not the worst. The worst was the USB charger. \n\nI can accept foolers like this, Kostya Kimlat, etc.. where it might be simple or obvious to some, but it just shows that P&T do have a few weaknesses. In the past their weaknesses have included technology, sponge balls, engineering like Helen Coghlan, etc.. \n\nIt wouldn't be entertaining if they were never fooled. There are also all the card guys who perform flawlessly and P&T don't catch any of their moves, but they aren't foolers because P&T know how it's done.",
"I like your answer, but to me, it's still r/blackmagicfuckery",
"Gotta love that the trophè he gets says F U in big letters.",
"just imagine the horror if the person you picked went to the toilet during your performance",
"I think its probably because its an actual skill and showmanship. isn't it similar to the counting thing Penn does with the gun? The trick is basically to not fuck up- its all on him, not chance, nor the participating audience.",
"Just came back to this and I’m sorry your being downvoted. It was a good guess and just intended to clarify why that couldn’t be the explanation. I’d guess your third explanation is likely right.",
"Fool Us contestants have to demonstrate their trick and reveal the method to the producers before they can perform. Certain techniques are prohibited. These include using audience stooges, pre-show work for mentalists, and any act that incorporates real danger to the performer.",
"Penn had already lost. The show rules that they get one guess. He knew that the contestant could manipulate the outcome of the coin flip and that he was going to lose. He was just playing up the theatrics.",
"Not since No Country for Old Men have I been that engrossed in a simple coin toss.",
"for anyone that wants more info here is [Penn talking about it on his podcast afterwards](https://youtu.be/HwUcpr42--U)",
"A lot of arguing / discussion in this thread.\n\nI don't think purple shirt guy is a plant. I *do* think he was chosen because he stands out and he was seated near the front.\n\nI think the magician can feel the coin and determine how it's sitting in his palm after catching it. If this show has taught me anything, it's that sleight of hand masters can do amazing things, quickly, without being seen, or in a way that only fellow masters would recognize.\n\nHe tosses the coin and makes sure the coin won't disqualify his forced-result audience member, by feeling the coin and flipping it to how he wants it.",
"What is a gaft coin?",
"I think you’re right but I don’t know anything about magic tricks.",
"It is actually, the world truly is a stage and we are its players",
"I think they're \"fooled\" because their guess is a gaff coin and not \"sleight of hand\". \n \nI mean they could have guessed \"sleight of hand\" but that's not very specific at all, iirc there was one where they knew the general concept of how a trick was done but not exact method used so they were \"fooled\". I think they were just a fan of the trick and couldn't spot him rotating the coin in his fist.",
"A gaff coin, it would mean some sort of special coin made just to be used in magic tricks. Like a coin that's weighted to always land how you want or a coin you can fold in half.",
"Problem is they have to see him actually flip/manipulate the coin, so them not actually catching him doing it qualifies him for a \"fool\" award. \n\n&#x200B;\n\nI can THINK I know exactly how you did something, but if I watch you do it 10 times in a row and never put enough evidence down to prove that, you've fooled me. \n\n&#x200B;\n\nThat's how the game works.",
"Yeah, if Penn really thought that there was any chance of the outcome being random then he would not have proposed that game.",
"“It’s an illusion Michael!”",
"They don’t allow plants for Fool Us. Is against the rules and the judges are told exactly how the trick works. So you couldn’t really slip one in. \n\nHe picks someone distinctive in the audience at the start to make the prediction seem more impressive. \n\nHe might actually be able to see which side it is when he catches it. I have known a few pool players/gamblers who could do that. Knew one that could do that while slapping the coin on the back of his hand. He would then let people call it for a small wager and reveal the coin. He never lost. He eventually showed me the trick. He could manipulate the bones in the top of his hand to flip the coin while it was covered. Never seen anything like it.",
"It's a normal coin but the Kennedy half dollar is large enough and the embossing distinctive enough that you can easily tell which side is which by feel alone.\n\nThe heads side is raised further than tails, with large areas of smooth. The tails side has a lot of intricate detail, so it feels \"rough\".",
"Watch at the end when he’s playing only with Penn. Look at how he holds the coin above his other hand before he drops it; that’s not how you normally hold a coin you just flipped. Normally you’d just make a fist, he’s keeping the coin quite flat in his palm with his fingertips. And he chose a half dollar in particular to use because it’s larger and you can more easily distinguish its features compared to say, a penny. These two things combined make it easy for him to tell which face of the coin is facing downward and can drop it in whatever orientation he chooses.",
"“What’s the most you ever lost on a coin flip?”",
"Think about holding a coin 90 degrees to yout palm, you push forward it's one side, you pull back it's the other, feeling the face of the coin to know it's orientation isn't that hard.",
"I have nearly zero skills, and a pedestrian interest in magic at most, yet called the feeling side detection and side selection instantly, then grabbed a quarter and proved it to myself in a few minutes. This is Penn and Teller's life profession. How could they not call the same thing as me?"
] | 80 |
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Wes Iseli tries to fool Penn & Teller with a half dollar coin
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A4PlXD560w
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/r/videos/comments/qxskty/sexual_identity_psas_of_the_future_2021/
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[
"That was gay",
"I walked past my elderly babysitter changing her even older live-in mother and saw her saggy titties hangin down like empty socks. Pretty sure that's what made me love cock.\n\nedit- Not literally, obviously, but it did leave quite the mental image burned into my memory. I'm sure I'm gay for other reasons.",
"The kind of titties you tuck into your belt."
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Sexual Identity: PSAs of the Future (2021)
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https://youtu.be/EO49qi9VoH8
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/r/videos/comments/qxsr9l/my_drone_was_stolen_while_traveling_20_mph_at_200/
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[
"That bird scared the shit out of me",
"Startled me like the bird in Citizen Kane",
"\n Seriously. Have someone watch this with the volume up and it would be like one of those \"jump scare\" videos with the monster guy screaming at you out of nowhere. Holy shit!",
"Did you edit the video to scare the shit out of people? If so, job well done",
"Yes, thank you! It was too boring without audio.",
"Ummm.\n\nA volume warning would have been nice.\n\nYou may have deserved that drone stealing.",
"Drone on drone violence.",
"r/birdsarentreal",
"is the bird ok? Id have thought the propellers would hurt it",
"What an asshole",
"have you seen hawk feet they are weapons",
"That sound effect is added in post... why would you do that.",
"The fact that you edited that bullshit in is why the bird doesn’t think you should have access to your technology lmao",
"Birds diving into yoink something while making that traditional screech is one of those old school cartoon comedy bits I'll always find funny.",
"Curious if you recovered the drone. Perhaps just an owl pellet? 😳",
"That screech made my cats and dogs jump lol",
">City Things 1 subscriber \n> \n>A few days ago, I was just enjoying the fall colors and performing a quick flyby of my house when my brand new DJI Mini 2 was stolen by a hawk at over 200+ ft high and 20+ mph! \n> \n>He bent the motor arm and flipped it sideways pretty quickly (automatic shutoff) and then glided away deep into the North Carolina woods. \n> \n>I was unable to reconnect to the drone and 'find my drone' only showed the last connected spot. \n> \n>There's no audio in this video. This is just from the lower quality video controller feed. However, I did add a nice little sound effect that I hope you enjoy! \n> \n>I saw the hawk flying high today, so he seems to be in good spirits. I never noticed him before, but now I hear his screech all the time. \n> \n>I'm replacing my drone, but will probably not fly around the house anymore!\n\nThis is from the description on the boobtube video webpage",
"There are birds that are [trained to take down drones](https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-35750816)",
"It literally reminded me of [this classic.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqGsT6VM8Vg)",
"[This one lol?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqGsT6VM8Vg)",
"How dare you sir! How absolutely dare you!!",
"Scared the shit out of me.",
"Interesting how the use the red tailed hawk call sound for pretty much all falcons / eagles / other large birds in media / pop culture.",
"I think it's hilarious tbh"
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My drone was stolen while traveling 20+ mph at 200+ feet high.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qxsyli/deleted_by_user/
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[
"the man's surprised face is hilarious.",
"Lol that \"partner\" thing was right on the money",
"so good",
"That was terrific.",
"I remember when this was first posted and people were wondering who the comedian was he mentioned making $20mil. Only thing I could think of was one of the redneck comedy guys like Foxworthy or Larry the Cable Guy.",
"The hearing aid guy!",
"I think he might be talking about Josh Blue.",
"Wow, this was definitely one of the funniest stand ups. This guy was great.\r.",
"For some reason every time I hear this bit Gabriel Iglesias comes to mind.",
"He dead?",
"The answer is Russell Peters, by the way.",
"Cool",
"But i don’t think he’d make that much money",
"I don't mean this as an attack or anything, just interested for someone else's point of view. Is this an American humour vs British humour kind of thing because I didn't find this funny at all. The \"because I found out I'm gay\" line gave me a mild smile but that was it.",
"Hilarious!!! Great finish as well! Not one to normally laugh out loud but that got me!",
"Eh, I don't think he's that funny. I've seen bad stand up and this guy isn't bad, but he wouldn't be a closing act",
"Deaf/hard-of-hearing individuals or ASL signers are often very expressive with their faces as that’s how they usually interpret feelings and emotions.",
"I don't think so. American here and I didn't find it very funny either.\n\nIf you can judge anything by the number of upvotes on the video, it's probably not an uncommon opinion.",
"I dont think it's British vs American at all. There are probably hundreds of thousands of comedians in the world and no one finds them all funny. Different people like different things. A Kevin Hart fan may not find Gabriel Englasias funny or vice versa. That dosen't mean either of thoes 2 are not funny it just means they are not funny to you.",
"Its weird seeing people you went to high school with on TV.",
"No, he's deaf",
"Funny in hs too?",
"Honestly, I really didn't know him that we'll, he was a year younger than me and it was a big school. Everyone knew who he was though, because, well, he was the only kid with hearing aids.",
"Fluffy",
"Back then he was just the hearing aid *boy*",
"Brilliant!!\n\nThank you so much for scooching up and exposing me to your delightful pigeonhole.",
"What did you say?",
"shitty racial humor and a face that can pass for arab. he made stadiums in india and he perform for the saudi family that pay him so much it is disgusting. he know kings and sheikhs all cause he had one of those canned specials with a generic public on google videos and became the to go comedian for working hours indians. his life is a dream come true he has to perform for such simpletons he probably doesn't even think when he is on stage.\n\nby the way i am such an ass the other day i was in my pizzeria and a guy came and he was clearly italian to me (we often talk in english in public i guess to look fancy) so as i made the pizza i said \"i will not cut it\" and he goes \"i am not italian i am indian\" and i litterally went \"indiano????\" and i proceed to share with him the famous joke about indian being italian in italy and of course he know very well russel peters and we had a huge laugh. so i retract my whole argument i am though but fair. russel can sometimes bring people together. true story happened like a month ago",
"I don't think I ever saw anyone calling him that or making fun of him or anything (although kids are ass-holes so it probably happened). It just stood out enough that 20 years later when I saw him on reddit it made think that I knew him from somewhere.",
"Very cool",
"Love this comment for some reason. Thank you!"
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[deleted by user]
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https://youtu.be/NsUXtZauY68
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/r/videos/comments/qxtb8z/90s_commercial_for_yoyo_ball_for_those_of_us_with/
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[
"maan these were banned when we were kids in our house. Soo many times we used them as makeshift Maces",
"Thanks for this dose of nostalgia! I had one of these and forgot about it.",
"This thing was such a piece o shit. It didn’t hang so you couldn’t like do any tricks with it, and after a while it stopped coming all the way back up.",
"I had one of these and still managed to fuck it up.",
"This took no skill at all and I would still hit myself in the nuts with it.",
"I loved my yoyo ball... \n\nI think it was in a genre all its own though. You couldn't really do tricks with it. It was more like what fidget spinners are for kids today. Throw it and it always comes back!",
"Do you mean flail or perhaps bola?",
"Maybe they glued nails to it and attached it to the end of a stick. It would explain why they were banned."
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90s commercial for YoYo BALL - For those of us with zero skill using a real yoyo...
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https://youtu.be/xMy0BDCRgac
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/r/videos/comments/qxtsee/femboy_physics_ep4_simple_harmonic_motion_basics/
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[
"Creepy AF",
"Hmmm",
"22k subs what the absolute fuck",
"Femboy physics",
"cringe af",
"Smart and hot. What a catch."
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Femboy Physics ep4 Simple Harmonic Motion Basics
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmWQ2i3WwIM
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/r/videos/comments/qxu5pn/gotta_love_finnish_rally_fans_video_from/
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[
"It's comforting to know that Finnish rally fans would go that far to help make sure that the drivers were safe, the car is in a safe position to avoid the next car up the circuit, and check on the driver and navigator. \n\nIf I were Finnish, this is exactly where I'd be.",
"Maybe moving the giant marshmallows would help.",
"Yep, I love them, I also want them there for me in other countries..They look reliable."
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Gotta love Finnish rally fans! Video from Ikaalisten Harrasteralli 2020 ( Crash & Action )
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https://youtu.be/PitNOsRGtec
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/r/videos/comments/qxui4d/penn_teller_get_fooled_by_a_sponge_ball_routine/
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[
"Here I go down the Fool Us rabbit hole again, not a bad way to spend a Friday",
"Same here, my friend...",
"I refuse to click on any of these which reveal the result in the title."
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Penn & Teller get fooled by a sponge ball routine.
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https://youtu.be/zAupLdX8Wd4
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/r/videos/comments/qxul9r/nhl_hot_mics/
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[
"This really makes me want to play NHL '94 on my Genesis.",
"How do they get such clear sound? Are they actually mic up or is the ice side stuff that sensitive.",
"So a lot of these are clips from back when arenas didn't have any people. There's a lot less random noise from people talking. Now, all the mics that are up on the edges of the glass that pick up noise from the game (skates, hockey sticks, etc..) are picking up what they usually wouldn't.",
"r/accidentalbroadcast",
"That would be a great theory had not most of the videos been clipped from pre-pandemic games.",
"There are mics placed around the rink specifically to pick up the game sounds (sticks hitting pucks, skates digging into ice, crashing into boards). Once in awhile someone will yell fuck when they are close to one of these mics and there you have it.\n\nThey also will sometimes mic up a player for a game but I think all of these clips are from the ice mics.",
"I get that feeling from this one: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MNA0\\_n32Hc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MNA0_n32Hc)",
"Puck!"
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NHL Hot Mics
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https://youtu.be/g-0CF_Ch0DI
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/r/videos/comments/qxuqxn/netflix_cowboy_bebop_ed_reveal/
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[
"This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen",
"i was mildly interested in this show but that just completely turned me off.",
"Do networks even read scripts before greenlighting projects anymore? This scene alone is **abysmally terrible**",
"Settle down. Out of 10 episodes Ed is in the entire show for about 2 minutes.",
"Ok"
] | 5 |
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Netflix Cowboy Bebop: Ed reveal
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zw69BQxd0X0&feature=share
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/r/videos/comments/qxurn5/that_new_home_alone_movie_is_worse_than_you_could/
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[
"https://youtu.be/jpKoLJ5vc7E",
"the same reason every contestant on Ninja Warrior or any reality show needs a sob story. \n Or any time you want to watch a pre show for football on ESPN they have to tell a story about a kid with cancer....women.",
"bro what lmaoooooooooo. WOMEN? women taking away your man sport time ???? 😭",
"We need more villains you love to hate. Not villains we hate to hate.",
"what?",
"To be fair Cruella and Joker are fucking great so clearly there is something to be found in exploring different incarnations of characters.",
"The host of the video is loud and obnoxious. I couldn't make thru more than 1 minute.",
"The movie cannot possibly be worse than this review.",
"hey askreddit, which villain was actually right?\n\naskreddit: almost every. single. one.",
"Host is worse than the clips.",
"I'm just surprised Aisling Bea is in this tbh"
] | 11 |
videos
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that new Home Alone movie is worse than you could possibly imagine...
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https://hiphopnowtv.com/bank-truck-drops-all-the-money-on-the-freeway-in-san-diego/
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/r/videos/comments/qxuxf0/bank_truck_drops_all_the_money_on_the_freeway_in/
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[
"2 arrests I guess for people hopping out to grab what all was on the floor",
"Clueless people posing with the cash, do they really think the bank's going to be like \"oh finders keepers I suppose\"",
"why the hell would you video yourself taking it and put it on the internet? pick some up, shove it in your pocket, and get the fuck out of there",
" “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”",
"Chaotic Good: stop and post a selfie with wads of cash. Drop it all and drive off.",
"Half the people are stupider than the _median_ person.",
"So, that's a lot of money, and going to fuck up some traffic.",
"good point. they even showed what type of car they were in and everything. i wouldnt doubt multiple plates were recorded in that clip. from what i read, two people have already been arrested in regards to the whole situation. nothing specific about the people in this video tho",
"This man statistics.",
"News articles:\n\n\\- [https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2021-11-19/free-floating-bills-all-over-the-freeway-in-carlsbad-and-drivers-stopped-to-scoop-it-up](https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2021-11-19/free-floating-bills-all-over-the-freeway-in-carlsbad-and-drivers-stopped-to-scoop-it-up)\n\n\\- [https://ktla.com/news/california/2-arrested-after-drivers-stop-to-grab-loose-cash-on-5-fwy-in-carlsbad/](https://ktla.com/news/california/2-arrested-after-drivers-stop-to-grab-loose-cash-on-5-fwy-in-carlsbad/)\n\n\\-[https://www.kusi.com/bags-of-cash-fall-out-of-armored-truck-on-i-5-in-carlsbad-traffic-comes-to-a-halt/](https://www.kusi.com/bags-of-cash-fall-out-of-armored-truck-on-i-5-in-carlsbad-traffic-comes-to-a-halt/)",
"I saw a comment that it’s too much of a coincidence that a social media influencer just happen to be there.\n\nPeople have done stunts like this filming on the Golden Gate Bridge or that freeway on Florida. So I won’t be surprised if it being a stunt is true.",
"I didn't see any Covid-19 masks. The reporter was wearing a bulky jacket so he could have stuffed a few bills in his pocket.",
"We've been waiting so long for GTA 6 that GTA 6 is just becoming reality.",
"Don't worry about it... you're in the bottom half regardless if you think the median of 9, 9, 9, 1 is 5",
"you calling me stoopid?",
"Intelligence is generally accepted to be a gaussian distribution so technically the mean is the median.",
"\"Literally\" ......",
"Aren’t those bills marked?",
"Study shows that most Americans’ retirement plan consists of finding a bag of money.",
"Joey Coyle pick up two bags of cash that fell out of an armor car..\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Coyle",
"They’re gonna have to do community service cleaning up litter on the highway for cleaning up litter on the highway.",
"That's chaotic neutral. Chaotic good would be taking it and silently giving it to food banks.",
"LOL. They got out of their car to pick up cash, but l locked themselves out!",
"Fuck off nerd, we got street cash!",
"I miss George.",
"What is sweep it into a pile and burn it.",
"Don’t think the bank should have claim. That’s a public road. Shouldn’t let your cash out.",
"depends on where you burn it i guess.",
"Money makes me sick. Oh look cash I gotta have it no matter the cost. It’s dangled in front of you all the time just enough to keep you chasing for more. It’s garbage strewn along the road and we can’t leave it, even if we wanted to.",
"The influencer’s handle is @demibagby and she’s got 2.6m followers so she’s a pretty legit influencer. However, this doesn’t seem like her style. She lives in San Diego and she’s always driving everywhere so it doesn’t seem that unlikely to me.",
"A median is a type of average.",
"Well that had a depressing ending. Dude had to forfeit most of the cash, had bad drug problems and hung himself",
"Chaotic Chaotic",
"Stupid people wearing shirts that say \"I'm an influencer\".",
"Every time I'm behind armored car, I say open sesame. Finally happens near me. Darn.",
"Imagine finding $3 million (in today's money), easily enough to never work again and live a relatively cush life, and then having to go back to your old life, doing whatever you were doing before like it never happened. Working til you're 65. Trying to make ends meet. That would probably destroy my soul.",
"Why are you getting downvoted?",
"Spoiler alert!",
"[Feel Better](https://youtu.be/Sff7Kc77QAY)",
"No it's not. It's the middle score.",
"> easily enough to never work again and live a relatively cush life\n\nI'm not sure where you live but that's a house where I am, not really \"fuck you\" money as it's frequently called",
"So if I leave my car parked on a public road, fair game? If I drop my wallet on a public sidewalk, it's up for grabs?",
"That's why you get out and pick up all you can, say $10,000 and then immediately turn in the $9000 you found.",
"Maybe a stupid question but what could possibly happen to them? The news article states that they could face charges if they choose to keep the money. But how do you prove with any accuracy how much was taken by each individual? Innocent until proven guilty. And I'm just not seeing how any lawyer is going to prove these people stole any certain amount. B/c as far as I know you can't just say \"they stole some money\". You have to give a number or at least a ballpark. Then you have to have some sort of counter argument when these people just say they returned the money after the video or after the photos.",
"Good job lady you posted a video of you technically robbing a transport truck better fbi finna be on everybody’s ass like its the capital hill siege all over again",
"Guess they don’t have to pay anyone to clean it up",
"Comparing your parked car to a bunch of cash scattered on the freeway is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard",
"Nah I wouldn’t say millionaires have fuck you money. 3m tho I’d say is easily enough to retire in most places on earth bar the super expensive cities.",
"Marked with what? A serial number?",
"I want to cry with jealousy",
"Average price in Auckland is 1.2 nzd, 3 mil usd is about 4.4 mil nzd. You could buy a normal house and invest the rest in index funds and pull about 100k a year and live a pretty cushy life.",
"Really glad those good people turned in that 5000 dollars they picked up on the freeway",
"Why? That money is NOT YOUR PROPERTY the exact same as my car. That money belongs to a bank. My car belongs to me. If the money should be up for grabs, so should every other item that belongs to someone else. It's literally no different.",
"Civil asset forfeiture. They can literally make anything up and steal your property without charging you with a crime.",
"If someone leaves car parts scattered on the side of the highway do you really look at that and say \"see those car parts? Somebody owns those car parts.\"? \n\n\nOne large, lockable item is way different then individual bills scattered about.",
"People are just salty they didnt get this chance... So many counter arguments that you could use in court.. shits crazy",
"3m is fuck you money if you're living in a city in the us with less than 100k.",
"I always thought of fuck you money being like fuck you imma go take my helicopter and land on my yacht and not deal with any BS. Enough money to last generations or buy an island. 3m is just really wealthy and that’s the difference imo.",
"Street cash homie",
"You're exactly the kind of person locks were designed for. Being protected behind a lock is not the only means of ownership...",
"So you must be the one leaving all those car parts on the sides of roads. So everyone should just leave junk everywhere because someone might own it?",
"Yea, for me fuck you money is when you're too rich for the law to touch you, so you can pretty much do anything you want.",
">kusi.com\n\n#\n\n>KUSI News\n\n:DDD",
"You most definitely could not, if you try and put that money into a bank you gonna have a *real* fun time explaining where it came from to a lot of scary people.\n\nGood luck trying to buy a house with cash, this money can only be used to buy shit from stores, you can have a lot of nice clothes and all the expensive electronics you could ask for though. It'd also be nice to know that you eat for free for the rest of your life.",
"I just know at some point I'll trip over a big box of it!",
"If you drop your wallet then obviously everyone is going to swipe the money before returning the wallet",
"That's not how that works. Civil asset forfeiture is what police can do if they believe you're using something CURRENTLY in order to commit a crime. It's not something that can be done after the fact.",
"This is what I consider fuck you money https://youtu.be/rJjKP8vYjpQ?t=108",
"Not by stupid people its not!",
"😂",
"This is so stupid. Don't stop next to the truck. Drive for a km and stop there. Walk back. Wear a mask. Don't record yourself. If you see someone record you, take their camera and smash it on the ground. If they protest, pick up a few bills and pay them the cost of the camera. I can't believe I have to teach people how to crime successfully!",
"3 mil invested with 5-10% annual return is between $150k - 300k/yr. That’s retirement money for sure. Definitely wouldn’t be immediately buying a 3m house in a HCoL area.",
"Hey look at this guy, he thinks cops care about breaking the law!",
"Nah the move is move to a country with a great exchange rate. 3m suddenly triples. I'd say 9m is fuck you money. Pay only your initial bills with card and just never come back. So what you have to spend a grand to visit? \n\nYes you're effectively a criminal... You were when you picked the money up too. 🤷🏼♂️",
"How would that work considering this was a cash transfer with a bank, they just mark all cash? How would you distinguish it?",
"Crisis alert!",
"That microchip strip inside that we used to rip the bill and slide out, everyone in the whole school knows that's how it works duh",
"No they were arrested for getting out of the car on the freeway, getting locked out of their car and having it towed. You can't leave a car on the freeway...",
"This right here folks is one of the saddest shortcomings of humanity. These mental gymnastics people pull when there's something beneficial that seems to just be on the table, up for grabs, regardless of ownership. This is your brain on capitalism.",
"That's not really how that works, though. 9 million in a different currency isn't 3x the actual value. It's still the same value. What matters is cost of living. You could move somewhere with a super low cost of living, and live like a king, but you can't just triple your buying power by exchanging the money.",
"You mean like an exchange rate?",
"So replace exchange rate with cost of living. Did you understand my comment?",
"I’d immediately invest into something with high interest. When they bank comes to collect, I give them their money back but keep the gains",
"Literally cringy...",
"No. The exchange rate between two currencies doesn't necessarily match up with cost of living of the countries those currencies belong to.\n\nFor instance, cost of living in Denmark is higher than the US, but the Danish Krone is worth significantly less than the US Dollar. The exchange rate is 1 Danish Krone for every .15 US Dollars. So if you exchanged 3 million USD for Krone, you'd receive nearly 20 million Krone, but your actual purchasing power would have decreased.",
"That's definitely not the case where I live. Depends on the person. I would expect more people to return it than not.\n\nYou also answered with practice to a question of moral and expectation. Nobody follows every law 100% of the time. Doesn't make it right, and doesn't make every instance the same significance.",
"It's killing me.\n\nWhich Onion video is this from?",
"Yeah, I understood it. Just clarifying.",
"Theft is not robbing. There's no immediate pressure or danger.",
"I mean when you take into consideration that countries with poor households often get cost adjustments it is kind of like an exchange rate. 🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️",
"High interest usually means high risk. So you might as well loose a buch of money and be in debt.",
"People dumb",
"I've been training a flock of crows to find cash money for me.\n\nThere's a murder of exhausted crows passed out all over my yard, but my porch looks like the storage rental scene from Breaking Bad.",
"Is it though? It's not like there was enough there to buy a car or anything. Using your logic, if you're walking behind me and I drop my car keys without realizing it, as soon as I move a made up distance away, the keys and car are yours.",
"The difference is, no one just throws out money. They do throw out junked car parts though.",
"literally?",
"So... All countries have the same cost of living is what you think?",
"Here is a quote from an article about a similar incident from 2019 which could shed some light:\n\n> \"In Lewis’s case, he may have avoided a felony. Under Georgia law, retrieving money from the highway constitutes “theft of mislaid property,” which makes it a misdemeanor to keep lost items “without first taking reasonable measures to restore the property to the owner. Keeping more than $1,500 could lead to a felony charge, Parsons explained.\n\nWhile the quote is relevant only to GA, There's always a law out there that's more of a catch-all in its language. I wouldn't count on acquittal. The amount you make would have to be substantial to take the risk, you'd have to hide it and spend it sparingly, and then there's lawyer fees.",
"It warms my soul to see people that would just turn in that 3000 dollars like it was nothing!",
"Absolutely not. Just like someone already told you. And you cannot simply take your money and exchange into a different currency and magically become richer. You have the same net worth.",
"Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. \n\nWhere I come from, three million dollars is enough to buy a nice house. Not enough to retire and never work another day in your life.",
"Someone clearly owns the money and will fight to retrieve it. Nor would money lay there long, like junk can. There's zero plausible deniability like there would be with junk. You're getting your specious logic owned, just stop.",
"Meh- yes that would sting but those of us with more rational minds would not breathe easy, would not feel \"yes I'm going to get away with this\" until a good bit of time went by. To me it would hurt a lot more to lose a dream girl after momentarily thinking I got her, based on a misunderstanding or some other parallel situation. If the money was not mine, I could handle losing any amount.",
"I recognize her, she's an influencer gymnast/bodybuilder, she'll probably make more money from the exposure than if she picked it up. Plus she would risk a charge/fine/negative exposure if she took the money. I'm certain they didn't keep it, it's just for the video.",
"The money was just resting in my account!",
"That doesn't make any sense, but even if it did, we aren't talking about poor households now, are we? We're talking about a rich household. 3 million USD is quite a bit of purchasing power in almost any country.",
"Was joke",
"Great video player... can't even fullscreen.",
"Good on them for returning that 1000 dollars, really restores my hope in humanity!",
"Right just everything costs less",
"So your money goes farther... Like a difference in first of living?",
"And armored doesn't carry a bundle of cash. They're kept in 'cassettes' for each pickup or dropoff. There's no free-floating money in a truck.",
"Same thing [happened in Pittsburgh in 2011](https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2011/12/01/bank-courier-vehicle-loses-cash-on-route-19/). They only recovered a couple hundred bucks and reportedly lost over $200k.\n\n>Upper Saint Clair Police say they’re giving the people who scooped up the cash a little time to come to their senses, but after that, someone could be charged with theft if they don’t come forward.\n\nDon't they have insurance for just these types of random events?\n\nAnd, as it should be:\n\n>By the time the driver turned around, all of the money except $400 had been scooped up.",
"Except you can't just invest $1M dollars. Even if you could, you'd last a few days at most until the police come knocking wondering how you got $1M, when that's exactly the amount they were looking for, and they're able to see your car on the highway at the scene of the crime with all the traffic cams.",
"r/whoosh",
"$999,999, duh.\n\nI'm unstoppable",
"Those assholes turned in -1000 dollars!",
"My apologies, Lord Travis Scott",
"Damn it I was just in San Diego on vacation",
"Capital Insurrectionists have entered the chat",
"Idiot. You could invest another $0.99!",
"Onion video??? I know they have them, but are they not still primarily known for articles?",
"That may be how it is suppose to work, but what the other guy said is true. They stop people find money take it, never charge guy with crime. It happens over and over and over",
"Like most genetic processes that's only for people who are relatively normal; many genetic conditions cause intellectual disability including fragile x and downs while I'm not sure there's a similar cause for someone to fall far to the right of the curve. I don't know if there are enough people in those categories to really move the needle but it would suggest to me that the average is somewhat below the median.",
"This is why George Carlin is considered one of the greatest comedians of all time...and you don't get invited to parties. Sure , the joke is technically correct your way, but it loses all humour.",
"5 second rule, and finders keepers.. Does the law know NOTHING?",
"Can’t remember the last time a Reddit comment made me actually lol",
"That's still too complicated and risky. Take as much as you can. Return 10% of it later. How do you prove how much someone took?",
"But why would he think that it was 'free money'? jus because its lying in a public place, doesn't mean it doesn't still belong to someone - especially such an outrageously huge amount",
"No no no, when you find money you can't retire (unless you're willing to trust someone in another country to accept a transfer like that lol). It basically becomes pocket cash that you can only use on little purchases.",
"The Onion is very well known for its videos. There are loads of them.",
"Ah…my idol, George Carlin.",
"[Rent Moneyyy](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/4a899705-8a26-465d-b900-f2441f5b2456)",
"I get that. I’ve seen a number of them. But my instinct was to ask which article did this come from and seeing “video” made my brain short circuit. Maybe I’m just getting old.",
"You totally avoided the question here..\n\nThe question was \n\n>But how do you prove with any accuracy how much was taken by each individual?\n\nBut sure we can pretend that you quoting laws makes us all look like fucking morons. Jesus christ. Pay the fuck attention and have a tiny modicum of respect for the rest of us. Imagine being in a real life conversation, someone says something to you, and you just fucking go off on your own little rant. You'd be talked down to and ridiculed for being a jerk to the person you were talking to.",
"I can’t remember. I guess I’ll just have to watch them all again!",
"Actually, they can take your money if they believe that it was suspected to be **obtained from previous crime, currently being used in a crime, or will be used in a FUTURE CRIME.** Shit is absolutely absurd",
"Wtf is *your* problem?",
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"Wow. Literally every comment the other guy who replied to you posts is pretending he can talk down to random people on the internet just like that. That’s a special level of pathetic.",
"Don’t think he was an asshole from his response\n\nSure think you are one though, based off your response",
"You probably don’t people think laughing at you is the response you’d get from this comment of yours. It is, and you should expect it by now.",
"Have you never heard about a certain legal concept called 'finders keepers - losers weepers'?",
"Movie set",
"Jesus dude, go take a walk. No need for such vitriol.",
"Look at his username, he made a novelty account just to be a dick.",
"You sound like a loser.",
"Deflation",
"Payday 3 music starts playing",
"I can’t believe they turned in that $500 they found!",
"I think they did not, amateurs.",
"Is this a Father Ted reference?",
"Did he answer the question? No? Shut the fuck up.\n\nPS. I am an asshole because I'm willing to challenge people when they act like fuckheads. :) Sorry if that offends you, no wait, actually I'm not and I don't fucking care. Act right or shut the fuck up. \n\nPSS. I love that you thought insulting me when the only insult I laid was \"pay the fuck attention and have a tiny modicum of respect\". I didn't insult the poster I replied to, I just implied that they didn't respect others (in emotionally charged language) but sure, I'm the asshole for showing emotion and you fucking scumfucks who insulted me as an \"asshole\" because I was too emotional for you somehow are better. :) Yep, so much better.",
"I mean if peeps gonna be like “ye lol just raided the Capitol, wut they gonna do” this is like nothing compared to that",
"Assholes who think talking at others when asked a question then acting mightier than others is ok? I'm an asshole too but whne you fucking talk AT someone to be \"correct\" you don't get to call another person out for it.\n\nFuck all of you for your dumb bullshit. Dude literally avoids a question and shits on someone and you're on my shit for calling them out because I used charged language? LOL. Go the fuck away. :D",
"And you probably think it's ok to be a condescending dickhead when someone calls you out, but it's not and you should expect to be treated like shit when you do.",
"AKA Chaotic Neutral. Here's my proposal for an alignment chart of this event.\n\nLawful Good - Help clean up and give the money back to the bank.\n\nNeutral Good - Write an article about the interesting event after it's been resolved.\n\nChaotic Good - Take money and give it to charity.\n\n\nLawful Neutral - Stay in the car.\n\nTrue Neutral - Take a bit of money when nobody's looking and don't say anything.\n\nChaotic Neutral - Burn as much money as you can.\n\n\nLawful Evil - Be a lawyer who successfully defends these people in court and charge them so much you end up with most of what they stole anyway.\n\nNeutral Evil - Record other people taking money and post it on the internet.\n\nChaotic Evil - Tell as many people as possible about the cash spill so they rush over and make the problem worse.\n\n\nBonus:\n\nChaotic Stupid - Record *yourself* taking money and post it on the internet.",
"Jesus dude, go fuck yourself. I don't need your condescending bullshit. People like that who fucking disrespect others need to be called out and you fucking wimpy assholes need to stop getting on people's shit for doing it. Why do you think he acts like such a dickhead? Because people like you let him get away with it because confrontation is sooooo hard. I don't wanna hear it. Fuck off.",
">>That would probably destroy my soul.\n\nOutlier opinion- but “free money” isn’t. \n\nMost lottery winners end up bankrupt or worse after five years, and finding millions of dollars in the street - to me anyways- is a down payment for future headaches. Someone owns that money, and they’ll scour the earth to get it back on general principle. \n\n Best case I get hunted down by a bank with enough money to buy a country. Worst case, a John Wick rank sicario shows up instead of a process server.\n\nWorse than being sued or unexpectedly shot full of holes, suddenly coming into large sums of money is a great way to see how evil your family and friends can become.",
"Oh good one! You wound me. You insulted me for calling someone out for shitty behavior. Oh no what am I ever going to do?!!?!?!?!?",
"That's not what chaotic good is, lol",
"I'm 41.\n\nI just specifically remember this being like a \"next segment\" at the end of an Onion video.",
"The answer would obviously be the tracking numbers on the bills that were spent and or recovered. Use your head.",
"You old people and your videos. Get with the times, old man! Articles are what’s hip.",
"Ah yes, the landmark Finders v. Keepers.",
"Arrests? For what? Cleaning up litter? These trucks are insured.",
"r/yourjokebutworse",
"I think that wouldn't help either. I assume most of the bills are tracked",
"*\\*gives Sigh a hug\\**",
"Finders v. Losers would be more accurate.",
"JFK Jr revival cultists have entered the chat",
"The joke is already correct. What is a median other than an average? He's not even technically correct, it's just failed pedantry.",
"What?",
"$3m in cash would be kinda tricky to invest, of course you have to do it, but have to do it in a way that you don’t get flagged. You’d almost have to launder it even though you didn’t do anything illegal per se.",
"Laundering large amounts of cash ain't hard, I'm not going to tell you how to do it, but the internet is a great tool.\n\nPay your taxes on it and you will be fine.",
"Awhile ago there was another money truck and police were arresting people on video unless they returned the money.. \n\nIf I was there and I picked up say $500 I'd go and return like $100. I feel like they can't tell from the video exactly how much I picked up",
"Listening to George narrating Thomas the Tank Engine with my 2y/o right now!",
"Hopefully you own a house before hand, then you renovate and pay all the contractors in cash, add value to your house and either enjoy it or sell it and live off the proceeds. Essentially what we are talking about is money laundering lol",
"It would be great if there was a sub dedicated to this sort of thing!",
">2 arrests I guess for people hopping out to grab what all was on the floor\n\nWhen it's outside, it's called the \"ground.\"",
"perfect idea. at least you are returning something haha",
"If you can't believe that, maybe you will believe the entire $250 were returned.",
"I bet you yell at service industry workers.",
"Taking something you know to belong to someone else is def illegal per se.",
"Nah, there are investment firms that handle that much. Index funds. And live off the gains. If you assume 3% of the principle, you have $90k/ year that grows with inflation (minus the capital gains tax). If you want to \"play the stock market\" then play from the 90k/year, not your principle.",
"There there sweety. Let it all out. It’s okay to have a tantrum. Try breathing in and then out, son.",
"Pshh that's what you think. I just traded a fresh $100 bill from the USA for $100billion Zimbabwe. Do you realize just how fucking rich i am now?",
"Insurance companies aren’t exactly cool with this type of thing either.",
"I would say this is a \"pot calling the kettle black\" comment, but it isnt. You are the only person being disrespectful in this comment chain.",
"Quit being a wimpy asshole and stop bullying people on the internet.",
"Yes just like all the drug money we spend is tracked /s",
"Giving the money back to the bank is definitely lawful evil.",
"Fuck you money is when you don't need a job.",
"Apparently you think it's okay to be a condescending dickhead when someone calls you out.",
"It's an episode of in the know with Juliana filling in for Clifford Baines",
"This happened to my cousin, but to be fair he was running a dispensary and not paying taxes. Apparently he had it worked out with local law enforcement they would just raid him twice a year and take what they find, call it good. I wish I was making that up.",
"How do they know it was all taken? There’s a thing wind too.",
"How much do you think would still be there? $400",
"Do the crows have eyes?",
"You're totally right that we assume that's true, which is very strange to me. IQ tests and similar don't return a normal distribution without manipulation - they weight the questions and adjust difficulty until they get a normal distribution.",
"I'm sure you've never kept something you've found in your life. Get off your virtuous high horse.",
"Median and average are not the same. Let's say we have three people with the ages of 10, 12, and 90.\n\nThe average age is 37, the median age is 12.",
"What part of his response is even close to an attack?\n\nIf you think because he didn't respond to the question specifically and gave a quote that essentially shows that there are laws that could get people in trouble for what they did is insulting, you're going to have a bad time in life.\n\nYou probably get mad at customer service representatives for reading a script.",
"Dude you could invest hundreds of millions, you’re missing the point. The point is, if you walked into an institution with $3M cash it would be flagged then you’d have to report it. What I’m saying is, you have to figure out a way to “clean” it then invest it.",
"Fucking modders",
"Well I think it’s a whole different situation when the sample size it 7 billion instead of 3. Probably less significant outliers if I had to guess",
"This would have been a cool plot twist in a heist movie. The armored truck robbery used just to clear the highway for something else.",
"there's also a really good chance that the armored truck has cameras as well. and the actual millions of dopes that would film this to put on their tik tok. yea it's incredibly tempting but its extremely high risk/high reward",
"Not necessarily. For example a lot of western countries have an average age that is substantially higher than the median age due to the babyboom in the 50's (so there are simply much more older people than younger people which affects the average age but not the median).\n\nI'm not sure how the distribution of intelligence is among people, but I'm just saying that the median does not equal average and taking a bigger sample size doesn't necessarily change that, because the median isn't affected by the size of the group, only by the amount of different numbers within that group.",
"I prefer keepers v weepers",
"When you’re outside it’s called the ground",
"I had no idea that existed. Does he insert a few F bombs?",
"It fell and got damaged, so maybe they'll get it for half-off.",
"The median is an average. I can't believe you made it out of third grade without learning that. You think average and mean are the same thing, but not in math or in this context.",
"Yeah dude, that cash was on the ground, it's absolutely filthy. Coated in tar, oil, grime, gravel. Almost as bad as bra cash, no respectable banker is going to touch that.",
"It's called \"Finder's Keepers\".",
">I can't believe you made it out of third grade without learning that.\n\nJesus you didn't have to immediately turn into an asshole ...",
"Hah nope but his voice is amazing.",
"Since you have a kid, [this](https://youtu.be/h6wOt2iXdc4) is one of my favourite clips filmed the same year he died. Sharp as a tack right until the end.",
"I didn't have to, you're right. I didn't not have to either. I assumed that you were going to being the asshole since between that and your other reply, you're confidently incorrect, a big asshole trait, about statistical averages and pushing it like it's truth. Median not affected by the size of a set? Even when removing a single number can wildly change the median?",
"Funny part is the money is insured and the bank or whoever *probably* wouldn’t pursue it that heavily but when you film yourself with your face clear as day, you make it too easy.",
"I believe I said \"not necessarily\" which is not equal to \"not\". Also I don't see why being wrong about something is an asshole-trait, I don't think I ever got offensive about it.",
"Cringe",
"That's not the George Carlin quote. The median is the mean for gaussian distributions, which intelligence is.",
"> Imagine being in a real life conversation, someone says something to you, and you just fucking go off on your own little rant.\n\nThe sheer irony here makes me think it's trolling.",
"[You really need to watch this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Iwvu-j7BuY&t=63s)\n\nThere's a whole series of them, and they are as funny as you think they will be.",
"Insane!",
"Exactly, not without telling on you",
"🥱 speak about stuff you actually know about and you'll be alright. Don't be so hurt people get mad that you try to 'correct' them with misinformation. If it were a statement, you'd get a different reaction. I expect corrections to be correct.",
"Maybe with a pair of long rubber gloves and wet wipes nearby.",
"Did you know people sometimes turn out to be wrong on a subject they actually know about? I'm sure you're never wrong about anything though. And the best way to continue on a subject when someone doesn't realize he is wrong, is to mention how they should still be in 3rd grade, because that is a mature way to talk about things.",
"*hiphopnowtv.com*\n\nNo thanks",
"3 million is not enough to retire. Unless you're old or good at investing.",
"sounds pretty racist 🤷🏽♂️",
"That is much better",
"Sounds like ads and malware.",
"Then you have my sincerest apology. Perhaps I'm just in a bad mood. I can't find anything to disagree with you on here. One could say I was acting like the third grader this entire time.",
"If Hollywood has taught me anything it’s that while this diversion was happening, someone was stealing a large diamond on the other side of town.",
"ok if u say so lol….why cause it says hiphop….ok guy not racist at all",
"Very fucking stupid. Expect the 3 letter people knocking or should I say crashing thru your door. Morons.",
"You are correct, my mistake.",
"Everything you don't like isn't racist.",
"Haha. From Succession. They were telling that to Greg about $5M. Great show.",
"you never even gave it a chance or visited it to know if you liked it or not clearly lol….u based you assumption soley off the name alone….but ok ur right lol",
"It’s more than enough to not work ever again. Even if you’re 20 years old. \n\nMost people make what, 50k a year? And it would take 60 years for that to equal 3 million. Also that 50k is probably before taxes so its closer to 38k or less take home.\n\nSo tell me again how could you not retire off 3 million when the average person takes home 38k a year after working 2000 hours a year?\n\nSure if you didnt invest ANY of it you'd start to spend it down over the years, but even if you invested none of it, if you lived sensibly you can go to 99.9 percent of the places on this earth and be comfortable. Inflation and cost of living considered.",
"If you don’t think your first post was insulting you should take a step back and re evaluate your life\n\nIt’s also no ones responsibility here to answer your questions, this isn’t your 10th grade history class",
"Finders keepers. \n\nOh wait, just normal, poor people? 20 years jail time.",
"> They can literally make anything up and steal your property without charging you with a crime.\n\nWell, yes because the police are a criminal gang defended by the government. And you are a normal person who happens to be poor.",
"Good, I'm glad we could agree. Continue spending all your time spamming your failed video website on reddit.",
"Fair enough",
"Pretty good movie and the real joe c was a consultant on it.",
"Wouldn’t the insurance company be able to subpoena cell phone records to find people lingering in this location, at this particular time?",
"Is it illegal to pick up a lost nickle off the ground? Is it illegal to pick up a $10 bill? What about $3 million? Where do we draw the line?",
"Like the sign on the highways says, “$1000 Fine for Littering”.\n\nIt’s totally fine to throw a thousand bucks out the window.",
"It's a thorny legal issue all right. I'll need to refer to the case of Finders v. Keepers.",
"um, legally its 10k",
"I think it was Shaq’s financial advisor who told him he’d be a bankrupt former NBA player like all the others if he didn’t learn finance. So Shaq went to college for finance and business and is doing extremely well for himself",
"No they are not, but if it's in the contract, they must pay out.",
"YOU are what's wrong with society. Fabricated (knee-jerk, assumptipn based) racism claims devalue actual racism claims. Some people such as yourself milk it for all its worth nowadays, which is far too much attention at best. Go fuck yourself, fake victim",
"Not that I can think of. I was raised right. And if I did I didn't kid myself and justify why I'm entitled to it.",
"Well that answers my question, lol",
"It was a headline that said most Americans' retirement plan is finding a briefcase full of money on a park bench.",
"The act of trying to get it deposited itself would likely be money laundering.",
"Sure. \"Oops, forgot about that one!\"",
"As far fetched as that sounds, I'm so proud of humanity for doing the right thing and turning in that $150",
"Yo! Pass me some of that sweet sweet street cash, baby baby!!!!",
">Maybe a stupid question but what could possibly happen to them?\n\nThis was the first question and they answered it you dumb ass piece of shit.",
"Literally insane!",
"You've never sat and done the math including cost living, inflation, etc. I have, deeply. You need well over $10M to retire at 30.",
"So many won’t even make a million in their life and you can’t retire with 3 million? at any age if you can’t do this you’re doing it way wrong.",
"Alas, it sounds as it was fetched from afar, my ears have heard and my eyes have seen the totality of the $75 come back to its original possesor",
"Is it really possible to actually know statistics and not know median is a form of average? The three averages are the most basic element of statistics.",
"When it’s to you, it’s okay. The sooner you recognize that, the sooner you can stop being a problem to people. You only have yourself to blame. Hope you take care of that soon. 😘",
"You and I, together we can rule the criminal world!",
"I’ll bet his mom told him it wasn’t his fault every girlfriend he’s ever had broke up with him.",
"That’s the funny thing, he didn’t ask a question. The original question was asked by someone else. Home boy came out swinging at nobody who’s interested *on behalf* of someone else.",
"I do know about the three averages but I just think that when people talk about \"the average of X\" they generally aren't talking about the median, unless specified.",
"You suck at math then",
"> Fuck you money is when you don't need a job.\n\nIt varies person to person, it seems.\n\nI'm mostly with you that it's \"I can collect passive income on this until I die\".\n\nBut for some, it appears to be \"I can kill your family and get away with it because I have good lawyers\".",
"Soon this will be worthless paper",
"> Not enough to retire and never work another day in your life.\n\nEven at a *super* low return of 2.5%, if you sock $3MM away into index funds, you're collecting $75K/year passive income.\n\nThat is *definitely* \"don't have to work another day in your life\" territory. It's also a *very* low return.\n\nWould you maybe have to move somewhere a little cheaper than the East or West coast? Sure, it's possible.\n\nBut $3MM is definitely in the \"don't have to if you don't want to\" category.",
"You can put $3MM into index funds and collect a passive income that's *at a minimum* $75K/year (at 2.5% returns, which are crazy low on the average).\n\nHow is a $75K/year fixed income not enough to retire?",
"guy obviously doesnt have enough life experience to understand money is my guess. I think youre responding to the wrong person.",
"Oh, whoops, you're totally right.",
"You can put $3MM into index funds and collect a passive income that's at a minimum $75K/year (at 2.5% returns, which are crazy low on the average).\n\nHow is a $75K/year fixed income not enough to retire?",
"Bro I was agreeing with you",
"This. 1k or so would be good enough for me as it's 1k more than I had 10 minutes ago. People are stupid. If I picked up 10k, even it'd still just buy me a couple days off work and maybe a zero balance on a bill and nothing more. It'd sit in my house and be pinched off slowly over time. Or I'd buy weed and other untraceable shit. The point being, if you find a stack of money don't buy anything big. Just live comfortable and pinch off of it for a while.",
"shit sorry I replied to you, I thought you were the OP. The avatar colors are the same",
"If I was there and saw her filming, I can't say I wouldn't press her to delete footage of me and my car.",
"If you took an entire million out of the 3 million and set it aside for just whatever you want, house 300k, cars 140k, and other living expenses which totaled 40k a year, **it would take you 14 years to spend that first million (440k + 14yr(40,000))=1 million.**\n\nIf you left the other 2 million invested at **a modest 6% thats 120k annually.** (2,000,000(0.06))=120,000\n\nYoure only spending 40k a year which is a good amount for living expenses when your house/cars are paid. In those 14 years **you would have made 1.68MM based on 6%, plus the compound interest, while you ONLY SPENT 1MM during that time**\n\nIf you didnt increase your lifestyle, **you'd literally never go broke and actually make 80k a year** based on spending 40, and more if you let it compound.\n\nYes inflation and cost of living goes up, but not enough to offset, barring a black swan event.",
"Do the math, prove me wrong. Plus most folks don't have the discipline to live on a budget while also being a millionaire. Fancy house and car people definitely won't survive for the rest of their lives on $3m.",
"I just did dude, scroll down. In the future when you make a claim, you need to prove your claim, not tell everyone else to make you wrong. Sure you can come up with anecdotes about how someone might blow a bunch of money and it won't last, but thats not the point. Its about what is reasonably possible and what isn't. You point blank dont know WTF youre talking about.",
"$75K is still low for a family. And do you think you'll really be able to live a $75K lifestyle while also being a millionaire? Most people can't. \n\nAnd in your plan do you account for buying a house, car, inflation, college, life events, health expenses, taxes, etc? No, you're not. Buying a decent 4 bedroom will eat up half your money right there.",
"You're high. Why the fuck would you spend $140K on cars and only $300K on a house? Where do you live? Try $850K for a house and more like $100K in cars. Plus you gotta upgrade cars every 5 years or so. Inflation, cost of living, etc. Living on $40K a year is utterly laughable. You don't think your $140K cars are ever going to break down? College?\n\nYou haven't seriously thought this through.",
"Living on 40k a year disposable income with no house payment and no car payment is crazy? and 2-3 cars totaled 140k is insane to you?\n\nDid you miss the part where your other 2 million is going to make you 80k over that 40k youre spending on living expenses? I think you did.\n\nYoure either a kid or a broke person. goodbye.",
"Prove me wrong. What is your budget where you can live 70 years on $3M. Give it a try.",
"I'm a 40 yr old multimillionaire whose job is Excel. I know more about this subject than most.\n\nIf you go to any accountant at age 40 and say \"I'm rich I have $3M and want to retire\" they're going to tell you, that's not enough. \n\nIt's obviously not enough.",
"Only a broke person would think $40k is enough. Sure you can retire on $3M if you live in an ass place. You wanna live anywhere near a coast then you're way off.",
"Youre not. Youre fucking stupid and an imposter. \"my job is excel\" lol.",
"Two people were arrested because they locked themselves out of their cars, to pick up $1s and $20s.",
"then adjust the numbers in my example for a 600k-1MM house, or 80k a year living expenses. It will always still work out to having enough to retire.\n\nAlso, who says you have to buy a new expensive house and several cars when you retire? Barely anybody would do that. Its just something I added in to the example to give you even more evidence that its possible.",
"Living expenses go up about 6% a year. You will be paying capital gains passed $80K .\n\nFor a family you'd look to start taking out $134K on the first year and each year would increase by 6% in cost of living. Your remaining money is hopefully making around 6% annually. Then 2X college, house, cars, health expenses, etc, etc. You'll maybe get 30-40 years on $3M if you can live on a budget. But if you retire you don't want to have to go back to work at age 60 or 70.",
"Don't even bother, dude. That guy's just a fucking idiot.",
"> And do you think you'll really be able to live a $75K lifestyle while also being a millionaire? Most people can't.\n\nYes? That's a silly question. How the do you think most successful retirees live?\n\n> And in your plan do you account for buying a house, car, inflation, college, life events, health expenses, taxes, etc? No, you're not. Buying a decent 4 bedroom will eat up half your money right there.\n\nAll of those are eminently affordable on $75K/year. How clueless are you?\n\nMost retirees live on a *much* smaller fixed income.",
"So this guy did all the actual math and all you have is basically, \"nuh-uh.\" You either live somewhere with a ridiculous cost of living or you're an idiot. If you've \"deeply\" done the math, then post it. Otherwise stop being a dumbass.",
"(3 million)*(1 dollar) = Able to retire",
"No, this is legit Thomas the Tank Engine episodes that aired on TV for children, narrated by George Carlin; not Carlin doing a parody. \n\nBut since you asked, lookup his skit about words you cannot say, he sets a list of them to a very specifically familiar theme song. ;)",
"Are you talking about his signature \"7 words you can't say on T.V.\" ? I am quite familiar with that, but don't remember a song.",
"Thats the one. He doesn't really \"sing\" it, as much as rap or scat it, but its set to the same cadence and 2 minutes with an app and it syncs with the Thomas theme perfectly. I remember him making a sly comment about setting his 7 words to a \"helpful mnemonic\" or something, I will have to go back and look when the Nyquil wears off and I have more than 1 brain cell functioning.",
"I need to watch that again too. My favourite part is when he talks about \"cocksucker.\" He asks, \"What does that mean? It means bad man....but that's not a bad man, it's a good woman!\"",
"No, Mean and Median are not the same thing fundamentally. They CAN be the same value practically if your dataset allows for it, but its possible for a dataset to be skewed heavily by a repeating variable at the front or back. \n\nIn school we are taught Mean, Median, and Mode. \n\nMean: The average. The sum of the listed values divided by the number of listed values.\n\nMedian: The middle listed value were you to list the values sequentially\n\nMode: the most often occuring value. \n\nAnd because I am running on cold medicine, I double checked myself. [You can too!](https://www.britannica.com/science/mean-median-and-mode)\n\nAnyway, we are gettinf off topic. The moral pf the story is that *peeple r dum*",
"I never said mean and median were the same thing. Quote me. Go ahead.\n\n What I did say was the median is an average. The median is literally one form of statistical average. You literally mentioned the mean median and mode, were you not taught that those were the statistical averages along with the range? In elementary? Context.\n\nIt's right there for you on Britannica... Did you even read that before linking it?\n\n> **the three principal ways of designating the average** value of a list of numbers.\n\nSlow down on the cough syrup. You could have saved yourself a whole lot of encyclopedia diving if you had just reread my statements a single time. When the hell did I say mean=median 🤣",
"But sometimes the cost of living goes up, not down. So exchange rate has absolutely nothing to do with it.",
"Shaq now plays EDM festivals with stage name DJ Diesel",
"\nMean= Average. \n\nYou said Median is an average. Er go, you are stating Median is the same thing as mean. \n\nMedian is NOT an average. It is literally the middle number in a range. It CAN be the same as the median. It CAN be symptomatic of the average middle ground of whatever set of data you are pulling. But it does NOT HAVE to be because it IS the middle number of the sample pool. Any example of that happening is *likely* to be coincidence or anecdotal evidence. Pull the reference I gave you.\n\nIf your set of data is exponentially increasing on one side of the median, then the Mean is likely to be higher because the sum of all data, including those significantly larger numbers, divided by sample pool size is going to be influenced by those larger numbers.\n\nif you are collecting a sample pool on people's ages, then yes, your mean and median, or your words: average and median, will likely be very close because the data is very close, but just because your middle entry is 37 and your average entry is 39.5 does not mean that the median is an average. It only means that your median matches the average.",
"> Mean= Average. \n\nColloquially.\n\n> You said Median is an average.\n\nBecause the median *is* an average. This is a fact. It's literally one of the statistical averages for a given set of numbers. \n Your link from Britannica says that as well. There is no argument here, You either accept facts or you deny them.\n\n> Median is NOT an average.\n\nFactually incorrect.\n\n> It is literally the middle number in a range.\n\nYou need to define your terms better before you start swapping things all willy-nilly. The range too is a statistical average. You mean it's the middle number of an ordered set.\n\n> It CAN be the same as the median.\n\nOkay. The mean and median can be the same. Two different statistical averages being the same isn't news to me.\n\n> But it does NOT HAVE to be\n\nI never said it did have to be the same. Where did I say that? I didn't. I said the median is an average. \n\nYou're conflating \"average\" with \"mean\" because apparently you don't know words have more than one definition, you don't know that context matters, and you think the way you understand colloquial terms are the way people in the field would use those terms.\n Next you'll start telling me about scientific \"proofs\" or how gravity is just a \"theory\" and how \"theory\" and \"hypothesis\" are synonyms.\n\nNo. The median is an average. You're simply using the wrong definition for the word average given the current context.\n\nEverything else you said is completely pointless. You're missing my point. I don't need somebody who doesn't even understand that the median is one of the statistical averages to try to educate me on what a median is. I can absolutely assure you if you don't know the basics, you definitely don't know enough to teach me anything on this matter."
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"That is a \"trip\"",
"That was super cool! I definitely want to see more stuff like that",
"Incredibly cool! I'd love to see an explainer video showing how you do it. (What AI libraries your using, how you set it up, the process overall)",
"It nailed the subtler environmental hallucinations. The perception of inanimate objects breathing or writhing was a consistent part of my trips back in the day.",
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"*shakes head*",
"I see why they didnt put this in the marketing at all.\n\nAnd it aint because it happens at the end.",
"And this has killed my desire to watch the adaptation. Good god.",
"That confirms it. I'm skipping it entirely.",
"Wow… I didn’t make it through the first 10 minutes of the first episode.. was thinking ok maybe keep an open mind maybe come back to it.. but after seeing this.. I’m good",
"People thinking this is cringe forget just how cringe this character is in the anime. \n\nEd is the embodiment of *holds up spork* subculture rife within jap animation. As someone not engrossed with the form of media, but familiar with it this imitation is spot on and no less annoying than it is animated.",
"its more annoying live action in my opinion.",
"Did they hire a tiktok cosplayer for this role?!?!",
"Oooof. This would have been good for Liquid Television on mtv 25 years ago.",
"This feels like when I would go to anime conventions in the early 2000's and see other kids dressed up as anime characters who'd run around the con talking to strangers while in-character because they're being \"quirky\" in a room full of socially awkward teenagers (me included). \n\nYou know. Early 2000's weeb. That was this clip, run-on sentence and all.",
"worst adaptation of an anime to live action",
"It's a swing and a miss but good luck getting Ed right in a live action",
"You think Ed is cringe in the anime?\n\nI've literally never heard anyone say that.\n\nThis just looks like bad cosplay and maybe a miscast of the actress.",
"Ed in the animation is such a cartoon character that she borders on having a different art style than everyone else. I found it okay there, but this clip made me like, actually physically react to its strangeness.",
"But that's the point, I think. In an animated form, this type of odd, eccentric behaviour is viewed as less \"cringe\" because of the medium. In live action, that same odd, eccentric behaviour is not communicated as smoothly.\n\nSeeing Ed with noodle wavy arms is normal in a cartoon, because it's a cartoon. It's a visual representation of how weird and mad Ed is as a character, especially contrast to the rest of the crew. But in a live action adaptation, you can't make her arms noodly and wavy, because it's an actual person with bones and joints. If you make her arms wavy, it will be out of place and odd (unless they embrace that sort of approach, which they didn't. See Who Framed Roger Rabbit or Scott Pilgrim for examples of better approaches).\n\nNot everything should be adapted into a live action. Ed and Cowboy Bebop as a whole is an example of such.",
"Yes. Now you've heard it twice.",
"I'm not the target audience of anime. A lot of popular anime is really, really cringe to me. That being said, I'm really glad that it has become more acceptable and mainstream bc anime lovers were much more socially outcast when I was in HS and college, and just I'm happy people can enjoy their odd and quirky hobbies in the open without ridicule. Happy that mainstream avenues of distribution are adapting and trying to further popularize the content.",
"Like turning *Planet Earth* into an animated series lol",
"I didn't expect much.\n\nBut Jesus H Christ in a KFC bucket.",
"And here, kids, is where we learn some of the differences between animation and live action.",
"No.\n\nEdit: Gave it a few more seconds. Fuck no. Thank you for posting this.. I was on the fence about watching it, and this just saved me some time.",
"You know, a lot of anime is made because you just CAN'T make something live action. You can't or just shouldn't. This is a great example of why you shouldn't.",
"Spoilers. What the fuck.",
"As if she walked right out the cartoon and into the real world.",
"I love Radical Edward; I think she's like a cartoon within a cartoon. This is a terrible medium for the character. Hate it. Can barely finish the short clip.\n\nEdit: realized that it reminds me of a child's show on Nickelodeon. Same over-the-top voice and motions.",
"What's sad is the other characters seem pretty spot on. The ships, the cities the outfits, the intro are all great. \n\nThere are times you should take a different approach though. Some characters can't be directly translated into live action.",
"Yep, certain exaggerated movements or over-stylized things just go over better in animation because of the medium. I know a lot of people get annoyed because it sounds like folks are implying animation is just always “better” by default, but it definitely has distinct advantages.\n\nIf you’re depicting some over the top fight scene or something and people and objects go flying that tends to just go over better when animated for example, as in live action it tends to turn into jarringly unrealistic crazy wire-fighting or lends it a cheesy low budget action feel.\n\nI feel like keeping it animated would offset some of that. While I did enjoy Alice in Borderland almost all these anime adaptations tend to feel like a step backwards, even if the actors involved are talented and delivering their lines well and everything it just feels “weird”.\n\nTBH I’d love to see like an open world video game that lets you explore more of BeBop’s setting way more than a live action adaptation. Even a 3D animation like what they did with Arcane for example would probably have gone over better.\n\nThere seems to just be this bizarre uncanny valley type response when you go from Anime->Live Action that doesn’t seem to be an issue going the other way",
"I agree. The video is pretty close to how Ed acted in the anime, it just translates even worse to live action.",
"they should just do a live action/animation thing. you never go full actiontard.",
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"I'd watch that tho",
"It's difficult, but not impossible. Of course Netflix being Netflix...",
"Aww, this is actually a pretty accurate portrayal of Ed, it just doesn't translate very well to live action. Hopefully the actress doesn't get any hate for it.",
"This is what happens when you try to emulate a cartoon character 1:1.",
"If they changed all the characters or somehow took an \"ultra gritty\" take on them, people would complain they changed the spirit of the show. If they did a shot-for-shot remake, people would still complain because it would have no point. It was in a medium that most people find more easy to suspend their disbelief for a moment, so even if they copied it exactly into a live-action version, it wouldn't go over well. Ed's a very animated character, almost out of place amongst the more sullen adults of the show that are dealing with the uncertainty of their lives after major shifts. As weird as this is, it kind of is in the right vein with how over-the-top Ed is compared to the \"grounded\" adults.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nI'm not completely defending it, I haven't watched the live action series, so I can't chime in on that, but while I love the original series, if this is at least *entertaining*, then it's still a win to me.",
"Ed in the anime has more of a sing songy voice, not a cringe tiktok preteen trying too hard voice, and her movements always seemed casual and having a flow, not like these hammy Spy Kids 3 movements \n\nI don't think she was as impossible to do in live action as people think. This was just the WORST way to do it",
"Shot for shot and narrated by sir Attenborough? Fiyah up the bong.",
"If it's shot for shot, might as well keep the original narration :)",
"You could almost compare it to uncanny valley, that girl just ain't right.",
"I'm only a few episodes in and he's honestly the worst part. It's not a Spike vibe at all.",
"Ed was always gonna be impossible to translate into live action... BUT, this is probably the best cast character in the show so far.",
"Just clicking to confirm that this show is terrible. Wow, exceeding expectations for how bad I thought it would be.",
"Let's be fair, a rando tiktok cosplayer might have been a better casting decision.",
"Only positive is loving how much hate this \"thing\" is getting.",
"I said the exact same thing to my husband this morning.",
"Yikes",
"Anime spike is pretty depressed...",
"Anybody want to come over and watch Dragon Ball evolution with me?",
"Past memories of war",
"Am I the only one who thought *Spike* should of been played by a white actor of some sort?",
"The issues:\n- she’s way older here than the anime\n- they didn’t take her core character and translate it, they took the outward anime expression of her character instead.\n\nYes in the anime she’s quirky and weird but that needs translating to quirky and weird in live action, they even try striking anime poses when she’s talking 🤮, suuuuuuuuch a let down.",
"Yup, watch the first two episodes and thought it was a \nlittle too silly. Now with seeing this, hard pass. You guys should have taken the Bebop universe in another direction with the same characters, but original stores. In the episodes that I watched, the depth was either weak or lacked any grit. What made Bebop engaging for me, was the futurist western world and how even though it’s the future, it’s a lazy dirty dystopia crossing endless planets.",
"I disagree. The show knows exactly what its doing, mimicking as much as the original as it can. They just missed it.",
"Nail on head. No matter the approach, people would still bitch and moan about it compared to the anime. It's like there is only so much one can do in real life or something? IDK. \n\nI loved the anime. One of the few animes I've ever watched and truly enjoyed. When I heard they were doing a live action version, I had a feeling it'd be a let down if they tried to go shot for shot. They needed a different approach. They needed to be a prequel or a son of Spike type thing. But whatever. I never had any intention of watching it. Watching this, only confirms its. Some characters just can't be recreated in Live Action.",
"Yeah, people don't let live action get away with such low standards for writing quality.",
"Hmmm.\n\nHmmmmmmm.\n\nNo sir, I don't like it.",
"A little off topic, but this is what I imagine the live action Tiny Tina is going to be like in the new Borderlands movie, and its terrifying.",
"Love bebop but god this hurt to watch and felt so… cringe I guess is the word",
"Thanks, bot. I really needed this.",
"Not going to spoil it but the last episode actually made me hate the show. And that’s before Ed shows up. Most of it wasn’t good but watchable at least once. What they changed imo is pretty pretty bad.",
"Woof... That was terrible. A kid can't act Edward, they have to *be* them. And spike looks like a schlub.",
"I'm sure there's a way to make a live action Cowboy Bebop incredible, but this isn't it.",
"I found Ed to be endearing and even believable in the world they'd set up by the time he was introduced.",
"Yeah, I agree to an extent. Like I mentioned, if they approached it like Who Framed Roger Rabbit or Scott Pilgrim— campy and really stepping into the stylistic, animated role that the original source material excelled in, it could have been good. \nFrom the start, I had hoped they made it more campy. Like Speed Racer live action! They kind of blended that over the top feel and didn’t take itself seriously. \n \nTrying to do the whole, equal parts serious and comedic, doesn’t work. They tried and it fell— and felt— flat.",
"They really should not reveal the actors name who plays Ed. Poor kid is gonna get so much shit.",
"Shitty American shows wish they had tenth of the quality of writing and acting Anime has",
"Nope. IMO the proper way to translate this character to live action would be to play her like a more energetic Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter that has a tech obsession. Also, something about the hair/wardrobe is off and giving me \"uncanny valley\" vibes.",
"In the anime, this character was irritating. In live action she’s unwatchable",
"Wow I hope you two work it out. <3 \n^^^^^^^/s",
"She would have worked fine without dialogue.",
"Jesus fucking christ, this was a mistake.",
"Ed walks a tightrope between endearing and irritating in the anime and the animators and voice actors do such an incredible job. This is just awful. \n\nWhat made cowboy bebop really special is the animation style was part of the experience. You can't recreate the cool classy crisp vibe of the show in live action. Or maybe you can but this has none of that vibe.",
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"Live action anime is such an awful idea",
"The show is awesome. Just finished it. Makes you care about all 3 leads, retains the style and the fights are great. 100% impressed. It is great as a remake of the anime, and at the same time stands on its own for people new to it.\n\nBut omg Ed would have broken everything. So glad they chose to leave Ed out and hopefully Ed will remain just a closer/opener between seasons.",
"No worries, Ed is only there for about 2 minutes.",
"Everyone flipping out saying they will not watch the show because of this. \n\nEd has about 2 minutes of screen time, otherwise only has a single mention in all 10 episodes.",
"Oh well duck it’s worse than I thought… I had hopes for this series. The anime is in my top 10 animes of all time… I mean holy fucking shit this is fucking bad kkkkkkk",
"It's all casting.... but honestly they'd have to audition a million times to actually find a good Edward that would work in this format",
"Yeah I realized that when I was flicking through the episode descriptions. \n\nTerrible terrible way to set up another season. Hopefully if another season comes, they get someone else or go in a less...direct adaptation of Ed. That one reallllllllly doesn't work.",
"On vacation and binged the show. I doubt Ed will be anything more than a throwback to fans and a bridge between seasons. Ed does not fit in at all with how they did the adaptation... Blood, violence, sex and nudity. Adaptation is aimed at adults and I think they left out Ed for that reason.",
"Yeah I'll give it a go tomorrow now that I know Ed is just a next season teaser.",
"You wanna try to retake this with a *younger* actress?\n\nIt's one of many reasons Ed is virtually impossible to transition over to live action.",
"Lol what anime you talking about because most of it is shōnen trash that doesn't at all hold up against western kids shows.",
"There are a lot. Such as... Cowboy Bebop...",
"Avatar the last airbender has far better writing than Cowboy Bebop and it doesn't even come close. Cowboy Bebop has amazing animation, however, I'll give it that. But that's a rarity among anime especially anime TV shows.",
"Avatar is an exception.",
"The costume design is abysmal. That doesn't even look like their hair.",
"For some reason It's damn near impossible to do a zany, loud character in live action. \n\nRuby Rod and Harley Quinn comes to mind. Some people love these characters, a lot of people hate them. \n\nImagine how cringy this would be without the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGfYLRCJZ1c",
"Yeah this is terrible sorry to all who worked so hard on it too ambitious",
"I'd love to see a live-action *Planetes*. That's the only one though.",
"Call me when you guys get to the parts with Jamie Chung...",
"Is it true that they limited the casting call to that, or are you just basing this off of the fact that the actor is non-binary?\n\nGoogled this, and could not find anything about the casting call being specific to non-binary.",
"yeah but hes just got a way different vibe. this guy has the depressed vibe of like a 40 year old man who's sick of his wife and kids, walking through life like a slug, and everything bad that happens is another tragedy.\n\nspikes was more of an aloof \"I dont care about this world anymore and thats why I can treat this like a joke\" vibe. hard to put words to but you can sense a big difference.",
"> The costume design is abysmal. That doesn't even look like their hair.\n\nLooks like someone overinterpreted the tufts from unkempt hair into stupid hairsprayed horns, but the rest is a straight copy\n\n \nhttps://cowboybebop.fandom.com/wiki/Edward?file=9\\_EdFlyBebop2.png",
"I quite liked the first episode tbf, it's like a reimagining of Bebop rather than shot for shot to make it work in a different medium. Like, I can get it. But this, it looks like Ed was based off of a child's drawing of Ed and they didn't actually watch the show at all.",
"I'm guessing there is no really good way to do Ed in live action, \"we'll just give the audience a taste of what it would be like so no one complains when they don't show up again.\"",
"So, as someone who's pretty informed with anime in general, what *was* the purpose of adding Ed into the show? Comedic relief of sorts to break up some of the more seriousness of the show? I started watching cowboy bepop when I was younger on adult swim, and even then I disliked Ed. As I got older, I still never really *got* why they added Ed.\n\nI mean, obviously I'm not the target audience for Ed, but was wonder what purpose Ed serves in the show.",
"I haven't seen cowboy bepop in forever, but from my opinion it sorta matches Ed pretty well. Obviously not perfect, but I would have recognized that as Spike/Ed any time. They really tried to capture the anime-style of movement Ed had as well.\n\nI think directly adapting an anime 1:1 into live action just... doesn't work with some anime. Some styles might just end up looking weird when done live action. I don't know, could be wrong too.",
"They lost me in the casino when the hole opens up and everything is getting sucked out for like 5 minutes and Jet holding onto the bar is like where’s the emergency stop and then literally swoops into the bar like he wasn’t being sucked out and pulls the lever.\n\nNow I get it.. I do it just wasn’t for me. I didn’t mind the changes in character design and actor choices up to this point. It’s the actual directing. Was gonna go back until I saw Ed. I don’t think I can handle that",
"As far as the original, it was just part of the oddity that is anime. The main characters were more serious as you said and Ed takes the edge off.\n\nFor the new show, I couldn't say without spoilers for the last episode. You can just watch the 10th episode ending and see why Ed may be needed to bridge the seasons.",
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA",
"Well... as much as I loved Cowboy Bebop I can say this has completely killed any interest I ever had in seeing this live reboot. That was just... really awful. I'm not just mad at the time spent watching it but I'm mad because I might actually like Cowboy Bebop *less* for having seen this abomination.",
"> I was making a charitable assumption that they must have limited their candidates purely to a small pool of non-binary actors, because that was the only reasonable explanation I could come up with for the acting ability the actor displayed. That there just wasn't enough people who fit Netflix's narrow criteria and they were the best of the bunch. Because there is no way this was the best candidate if they were willing to cast female-identifying actresses in the role.\n\nAh, so you made some shit up",
"That's....not how Occam's Razor works. \n\nOccam's razor would be something like, the show runners just have a limited view of Ed's character or that the director just told the actor to be zany. Those are the simplest answers. Not a highly unusual casting restriction. \n\nOh and it's not on other people to provide evidence to disprove your claim. It's on YOU to provide evidence that the casting call was exclusively for non-binary actors. Feel free to toss me a link if you discover that.",
"tiny tina and all *holds up spork* characters in media are obnoxious",
"I think a lot of the charm of ed in the anime is the voice as well. Not only will our familiarity with the original material already bias our opinions on the new stuff, but if the performance doesn't match the same vibes vocally then it gets thrown off even worse. While I don't think visually it feels like the ed I know from the anime if you look at the [Japanese dub of the live action clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKhnoJyT8_A) it feels a LOT more like the original. The English version just doesn't have the right feel to it, be it cadence or tone. Like ed in the anime is androgynous but sounds distinctly feminine, whereas this live action sounds like sid from toy story 1 (and honestly kinda looks like sid in an ed costume ordered from wish.com) It also feels like instead of Ed just being a super smart kid on the spectrum who enjoys rhyming they just went with a 'lol so randum t3h penguin of d00m *holds up spork*\" which is seen as very cringe these days.\n\nI don't mean to sound like its the actors fault here, but the director seems to have a very different idea of Ed than I do.",
"Mugging into a wide angle lens is my pet peeve. This is so cringe.",
"the intro video appears unpolished. like in one of the cuts [of spike running in front of a red background](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yq2N-9EmedA&t=13s) what the fuck were they doing? he isnt running! its like they told the actor to pretend-run badly. is that supposed to be a reference to shitty old detective series from the 60s thst just wasnt there in the anime?\n\ncompare that [to the anime intro](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EL-D9LrFJd4&t=13s) where the hasty movement of spike running even gets exaggerated by the background text rushing past.\n\ni noticed a couple of other issues like that. its not shit, they nailed immitating and modernizing the gridding style and the animated shots for example. thats quite the contrast to the unpolished live action details.",
"**/CRINGE**",
"I binged it yesterday. It was all around aggressively average.",
"I never like Ed. Even in the cartoon. Just so obnoxious.",
"Yeah, I finished it last night. Had some good qualities, but overall it wasn't that good. I liked spike, Jet, and Flo. Felt they did a decent job in the show, but Vicious just got on my nerves. Then this shit popped up and that sealed that I won't watch season 2. Whole time I kept thinking \"Wonder why they haven't introduced Ed yet?\". I understand.",
"It feels she needs to be just a tad more serious. Not necessarily less weird and outrageous, but this Ed seems a little too much like she's deliberately playing up the kooky angle for her own amusement, rather than just being awkward like that and never considering it anything other than perfectly normal.",
"Yeesh I feel bad for the actress, I wonder if she knows how unholy awful this performance is.",
"I don't anyone would have been happy no matter what you would do.",
"I’m having trouble seeing the issue here. I grew up on the anime like the rest of you and I feel like this person does Ed pretty well. Is it perfect? Nah. But it isn’t a dealbreaker like a lot of you are saying",
"Ed is a complex character to do live action with. Cool that they are at least trying.",
"There is literally no way to portray that character without it being full retard cringe. It kind of works in animation, but in live action, its impossible. I defy you to try and think of anyone who could have done a good job as Ed.",
"Anime fans: \"If you don't make this adaptation of my favourite anime a 1:1 recreation, I will kill you and then myself!\"\n\n[[adaptation is a 1:1 recreation]](https://xpressenglish.com/wp-content/gallery/header/monkeys-paw.jpg)",
"OMG you're totally right. The \"I'm so random!\" girls would sometimes cosplay as Ed. Around the mid-2010s they all began cosplaying as Harley Quinn. Harley Quinns everywhere.",
"It was a virtually impossible task.",
"This would be less bad if she had pitched her voice up.",
"Some fans are just looking for reasons to hate the show and have been since the start. I've watched the first 3 episodes and personally, I'm enjoying the show a lot so far. Some things don't quite work but none of them are dealbreakers.",
"Damn, you got me. Well played.",
"The goggles are one of the main features but are way too big in the Netflix version. They made Ed look more cartoony in real life then in animation.",
"It's an extreme close up with a slight fisheye view, they just look larger, they're really normal goggles.",
"It's actually not the worst adaption. But it's a bit all over the place in quality. Some things are really good, and some things are really bad. You can check out /r/cowboybebop for the general reception.\n\nMy spoiler free review so far.\n\nPros:\n\n1. Setting and set designs are great, though you can tell they needed a bit more budget in some places. The CGI could be better at times but you have to appreciate their focus on accuracy when depicting the world.\n2. Spike. John Cho gives a solid performance and has an interesting take on the character. The show would be terrible without him.\n3. Jet. Though it sometimes feels like he's doing an impression of his character it works well against Cho.\n4. Music is amazing as always. Yoko Kanno doing the soundtrack really helps. The music really adds to the experience and you can tell Yoko really delivered.\n5. The action is great. The fight choreography seems well handled and has really fun creative moments.\n6. The show really starts to shine around ep 4\n\nCons:\n\n1. You miss some of the quiet moments the original had. The original had scenes that soaked in the atmosphere and that made the action sequences much better because of it.\n2. Dutch shots everywhere!\n3. The side characters are really bad sometimes. Vicious has a much more expanded role but it makes the character worse from it.\n4. Extremely cringey writing at some places. And it's very noticeable with the side characters. The main characters mostly seem to be spared. Or maybe they're just better at delivering.\n5. Directing is all over the place in quality. Sometimes it seems well done, but at other times you can tell the actors really needed some direction and were just left out to dry.\n6. There's some changes to characters in order to make the story more serialized. But it seems unnecessary and doesn't improve the story one bit.\n\nOverall: It's a solid 'B-'. Let's face it, this was never going to be as good as the original. But it manages to somehow not be a complete train wreck of the source. The bad really weighs it down, but the amount of good there is ends up evening it out. You have to really appreciate the actors who seem to be trying their best despite the direction and writing. If you're a purist you'll probably hate it, but if you go in with the right mindset or like campy sci-fi adventures you'll really enjoy it.",
"Ed is somewhere between comedic relief and being the \"anime animal\". Yes, Cowboy Bebop has an actual dog main character, \"Ein\", but Ein *is not* an anime animal, Ein is *just an animal*. Ed is like Momo or Pabu from the Avatar series - capable of pantomiming and communicating at a human-level of intellect while being something other-than-human. (Ed *is* human, but is not really subject to the same rules and restrictions of a human within the series).",
"It seems pretty good so far from the clips I’ve seen. Haven’t had the chance to really sit and watch it yet but I’m failing to see the hate coming from this unless people are just nitpicking every detail they can think of. Not everything is going to work and there’s never going to be a perfect adaptation.\n\nLike right now I’m terrified of the incoming One Piece series that Netflix is making but they are making that along side Eiichiro Oda himself and each episode is getting like $10 million per episode AND the cast looks like they were cast perfectly imo so I feel better. I know a lot of the series just won’t work in live action but I’m looking forward to seeing how they try if that makes sense lol",
"The first episodes aren't that great but it does get better",
"I'd rather just remember the cartoon. The live-action version isn't going to add anything that the cartoon didn't have.",
"I feel like Ed was the one character they shouldn't have done a 1:1 accurate portrayal of. Even the original fans are split on loving/hating the character. I do feel bad for the girl they have playing her who's probably going to get bullied online over this.",
"> people are just nitpicking every detail they can think of. \n\nthis is exactly what's happening",
"It's pretty well known that fans of the anime are split 50/50 on Ed.",
"I'm actually enjoying the slightly different interpretation. I think people are more upset that it's different rather than it being bad. A bit more human and moody than laissez-faire but not too far off. At least he doesn't sound like he's doing an impression like some of the other characters.",
"LOL YES, EXACTLY! Man, I love me a good weekend of being able to just nerd out with friends and admire awesome cosplay or meet famous actors/VAs, but boy... those types of people really stand out in my mind lol. The \"I'm so quirky!\" girls and the \"what's deodorant?\" boys. They *make* NA conventions. \n\n \n\nThem, and that one vendor who just screams, \"YAOI. GET YOUR YAOI HERE!\"",
"This is just 2 mins at the very end of the season",
"Has reddit finally been overrun by bots? How can real humans defend this travesty?",
"It's not bad -- especially if you just think of it as a stand-alone thing. Ed is extremely cringe, but it's the last scene of the last episode. But jesus christ yeah she's terrible. I feel sorry for the actress, but they should not have cast her. She is NOT Ed...",
"It's really not bad -- just this scene.",
"yea actually a number of ppl say so. I might have to give it a go",
"Should be exaggerated emotion instead exaggerated annoyance \n\nPretty good that it's toned way down in j dub. Mannerisms are good match. Maybe should have done a redub on the American version by a professional voice actor would have pushed this character up in likeability\n\nBut overall it's a kids show. So hopefully they think it's fun.",
"Ed was fine in the anime, but WHY THE FUCK would you make that live action? It's really disappointing. I didn't miss that character AT ALL in the new series.",
"Why are people treating it like a 1:1 reproduction?\n\nOriginal Ed just seemed like an energetic little girl without much social experience, while Live Action Ed... seems more like she has a tub of gravy in her mom's basement and really likes buttered toast, Eddy. \n\nAre we sure they weren't writing the wrong Ed?",
"Litteraly she was on for 2 minutes and you're complaining?",
"If you like the fifth element style of sfx, action, and quirkiness it's actually pretty entertaining. You just have to step back off the expectation of it being a 1:1 live action version of the anime, because it absolutely is not that. It is however enjoyable from an SFX perspective and the acting isn't so awful that you can't get some enjoyment from watching it through once when you're looking for background noise or something to pass out to at the end of the day.",
"Faye was a huge miscast. The actress played her as one of the boys/girl next door and completely negated the mystery and allure of the original.",
"Well they did change her character quite a bit from what I've heard. I was more referring looks wise. It was really on Ed that made my eyes wanna bleed.",
"Yeah, I will probably get around to watching the anime again at some point then put it on just to see how it was.",
"I had faith that they would find someone good based on the rest of the casting of the series. That was the cringiest thing I've ever seen. I like to believe they could make the character work with a different approach and actor, but we will probably never know"
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"He's so funny he would've been hilarious in the 70's",
"Cake or death?",
"Such a huge fan of this particular special. \n\n\"Do you have a flag?\"",
"I'll have the chicken!\n\n(And you know a comedian hit your funny bone when you see a quote from them and don't know which silly thing to say in response, because I also really wanted to go with \"tea and cake or death, tea and cake or death, little red cookbook, little red cookbook\")"
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Heimlich maneuver - Eddie Izzard
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https://youtu.be/kwCQDbzBerI
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/r/videos/comments/qxxbfx/italian_restaurant_snl_feat_ryan_gosling/
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"Recycling from the skit Chris Farley did.",
"SNL has had some really great sketches. And Ryan Gosling has done some great parts.\n\nBut this was really bad. So why post it?\n\nI don't get it.",
"Man, Gosling's last four lines was just 'Imma beat you to death'",
"Funny thing about comedy is…\n\nIdk his sketches make me crack up at times lol, I love his unprofessionalism in how he breaks during the sketches so much, makes it a much more enjoyable experience in my opinion. \nNot everyone’s cup of tea but ya kno…",
"Even said “why you son of a bitch exactly. RIP Mr Farley."
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Italian Restaurant - SNL Feat. Ryan Gosling!
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=WcEylCwkSxE
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"I hate the Chevrolet commercial when the husband buys himself and his wife an SUV for each of them. Easily a total of $80,000 in gifts! C’mon, that is just dumb.",
"https://youtu.be/cNQ3sxvslhQ\n\n\"Frank can't poop\"",
"What they don’t tell you is his DTI is stretched thin and he financed at 12% to make the deal work.",
"This gave my anxiety even though I know I would never do something this stupid....",
"It's funny because it;'s actually a Lexus commercial masquerading as a funny skit.",
"mirror https://streamable.com/c94kir",
"You’re doing the Lords work, my friend. Go in peace",
"Can anyone show me a single example - just one single *recent* example - of an SNL skit or a real commercial, where the man is smart and the woman is dumb (and the woman isn't a caricature of a right-wing politician)?\n\nI'm just curious if those exist at all.",
"[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o\\_rwJwqkDc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o_rwJwqkDc)",
"I was underwhelmed with the comedy here, but that's a good example.",
"I have a friend whose father bought a new Mercedes for his wife for xmas…incredibly materialistic and vain family. It never made sense to me how someone could afford something like that. He was a retired cop with some consulting work…I make a very good salary and would never think this was a good idea.",
"hmm. I guess so.",
"It worked on me! I for sure won't be buying a lexus. They did a great job.",
"https://youtu.be/5F1q1y0mfRg",
"I don't think that one counts",
"I got a car for Christmas once. My husband (ex-husband now) bought me a used Cadillac SRX which he hid at his office. Our 16-year-old daughter begged for Gatorade of all things on Christmas morning so he took her and \"went to Walgreens\" and came back with the Gatorade and a small gift wrapped box. He gave it to me and inside was a key. I had no idea. They put a bow on it in the driveway. It was the best gift I ever received. \n\nBut yeah, those commericals are stupid.",
"And he financed the negative equity of his trade into the vehicles",
"It is exactly what you asked for.",
"I'm there with you. Makes me cringe every time I see it.",
"Why’s that?\n\n>\tJoan Pendek: That is correct. I did. And this next question is a picture. Okay, we got Michael in front of the Eiffel Tower. He’s pointing right to the tower and his caption says “Eiffel Tower”. The question is about Linda over there. What did Linda comment on that photo?\n\n>\tMichael: Looks fun, where is this?\n\n>\tLinda: I could not figure it out!\n\nIt’s literally making fun of a woman for being dumb in a sketch, with the man guessing the dumb thing that she said.",
"It’s a great example of a conservative victim complex in action. \n\nAsks for evidence, is given evidence, ignores evidence, continues to complain.",
"r/HailCorporate",
"[She gives him a car? Fuck rich people.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxtjwFp7fRE)",
"Found the Cadillac dealership.",
"LOL I drive a Ford Edge now but it was kinda cool at the time. Too bad he's a cheater and an asshole. And he's a CRNA, not a used Cadillac dealer. In fact, I think he bought it at carmax.",
"So can you drool and do things at the same time or do you have to stop and wipe it off before you commit to anything?",
"The premise of the joke is funny, but it drags on way too long. Yes, we get it, it's an exageration, no need to talk about it for almost 3 minutes.",
"But that's not for a while right? https://youtu.be/su_3x4jsv6w",
"Aw really? That actually made me laugh out loud",
"But it was a December to remember babe.",
"$80K does not buy you two brand-new GMC trucks these days. More like $110K. Those things are optioned-out.",
"SNL is boomer garbage",
"Probably stole money as a cop. They all do",
"They gotta fill 90 minutes. I have thought for a couple of decades the show would be better if were just an hour and they cut each skit back a bit.",
"Not if you're rich.",
"Anyone else see the thumbnail and think it was Brian David Gilbert?",
"Thus is very unrealistic. For you.",
"and she's totally like, \"i want the other one, thanks.\" what a turd.",
"And a stocking full of condoms.",
"My dad bought my mom a car for Christmas years ago but she really needed a new(er) car and they could afford it. Also it was a Nissan, so nothing crazy. He also has cars for work so never needs his own car and they paid it off years ago and she's still driving it 15 years later.",
"I bought my wife a car also for XMas, but I'm \"in charge\" of all the bills and car stuff already. It was to replace a Hyundai with a leaking fuel line that would have been more to repair than it was worth. I asked he what kind of car she would want and she just said \"green\" lol.\n\nI found a used Camry in the XLE top trim with leather and heated seats and all that. She also says it's the best XMas gift she's ever gotten. Only thing I worry about now is setting the precedent of that level of trim, I'm going to have to go up to Lexus for the next car.",
"Retired cops have insane pensions.",
"Serious question. Are these SNL ads actually paid for by sponsors with a sense of humor? My favorite is the Sam Adams pumpkin ale ad:\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je1NIf8GeeY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je1NIf8GeeY)",
"True that",
"Well I gotta be honest, that’s kind of a once in a lifetime thing. I’d never expect anyone to top that gift!",
"No Keenan Thompson. \n\nSo we got a sketch without him smirking at the camera making wide eyes for a change"
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Car ads during the Christmas season are so unrealistic and dumb
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qPGYBLaF15M
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"😎 cool",
"Damn autocorrect lol",
"[bonus Kurt Russel Laughing His Ass Off](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-QEWctHrcQ)",
"Lmao that was fucking great",
"Their commentary for The Thing is equally if not more entertaining.",
"Full commentary: https://youtu.be/mooWs8xwpjY",
"Thanks. There needs to be more full DVD Commentary's about to watch. \nIs there any good resource ? \n\n\nPeople need to see the Spinal Tap Commentary, done in character. \nIt is AS GOOD as the actual movie."
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John Carpenter and Kurt Russell laughing their assets off doing commentary for Escape From New York
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"This dude is such a snake.",
"And proud of it too",
"I checked his IG page a while back. He's got the two-faced act down pat. No wonder the fox fans love him. He puts up this whole man of the earth persona.",
"Every Ape knows.",
"It's merely a little locker room securities fraud.",
"Don't you just love it when guys tell people about the crimes that made them rich like it's all a big joke? /s \n\nCramer's just a common swindler."
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Jim Cramer admitting to how he manipulated the short selling market back in 2006.
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https://youtu.be/pHB2yMFl_QU
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/r/videos/comments/qxyi1n/i_like_this_epic_scene_when_colossal_armored/
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"It is pretty good. This is one of those animes that I can re-watch and find new things everytime, and even thought I know what is going to happen, it is soul chilling. I think it is the music, the music is just too freaking good",
"What the hell did I just watch?",
"Top-5 scene in the whole anime"
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I like this epic scene when Colossal & Armored Titan REVEALED themselves
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRkiyy3EDl4
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"This is one of my favorite skits ever",
"I laughed out loud like 3 times which is my personal record on Reddit.",
"this is mtv's funniest video;\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBluYsydAVc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBluYsydAVc)"
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MTV's The Matrix Reloaded sketch is a showcase of brilliant comedy.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YXGPgif92M&ab_channel=CamoShoeClub
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"I remember learning about Acapulco Gold and Panama Red from Cheech.",
"I had this tape when I was a kid lol",
"No stems, no seeds that you don't need. Acapulco Gold is ...",
"BAADAAAAASSSS WEEEEEEEEEEEED!"
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Cheech Teaches You About Colors
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3tRFayqVtk
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/r/videos/comments/qxzkmm/this_dude_publishes_the_most_amazing_hour_long/
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"This was great! I didn’t expect to watch the whole thing but he’s got a real gentle voice and it was fascinating.",
"Bro he put that out in 2020, probably took him like a year to make it...don't worry, he'll be back:)",
"They started communicating by spelling out text and social engineered him into giving them an internet connection. They took over society and silenced him to hide their existence.",
"Watched the whole thing. Great post. 3blue1brown makes very similar style math videos for anyone interested",
"So cool. Thanks for sharing!",
"Wow that was really cool!",
"Yep, that's a top comment on the video, well spotted mate.",
"I mean his [git](https://github.com/davidrmiller/biosim4) had commits yesterday so I'm pretty sure he's still doing stuff..",
"Super hopeful!",
"Evolutionary algorithms are nothing new (clickbait title much?), however I will say this man does a wonderful job of breaking down how they work / the science behind them.",
"I hardly think the title is clickbait - it was very specific as to what the content will be, nor at any point did I claim evolutionary algorithms are new.",
"It's a bot. All of its comments are ripped from the YouTube comments."
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This dude publishes the most amazing, hour long, PhD-level report on his programmed mutating creatures and their evolution, and the never publishes again.
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https://youtu.be/61EAdZ52eV8
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"Whoa. I hope that the guys who made the youtube show were at least informed.\n\nI remember how much overlap there used to be between the fan community and the creative teams for Star Trek. I'm holding out hope that they were compensated for their idea.",
"I honestly don’t think this is that unique of an idea. I can imagine two different writers reaching it separately. That “power of math” line is sus though.",
"I dunno, the timeframe and how close the ideas are makes it highly unlikely to be a coincidence iml",
"I can see that too. There is a lot of overlap between the people who create these shows and the people who enjoy them and one of the commonalities I think is creativity. After 50 years of things being created in that universe there is bound to be some parallel evolution.",
"This channel is completely full of shit in general, so you know, maybe take their assertions with a grain of salt.\n\nRLM is quoting Disco when they say \"this is the power of math\" btw. I'm not sure about the timetable but Lower Decks is written so far ahead of time they might not have been possible to even have seen this sketch. Because traditional cartoon production takes a shit-load of time.\n\nPlus, the TNG crew space walks on the hull in First Contact iirc, that's a more likely inspiration. And they aren't stripping the hull for materials, they need it off because it acts like a magnet for some dangerous shit. This isn't even the first spacewalking scene in TLD.",
"Whats more likely; all those series of coincidences, or they just took the idea?",
"There isn't a series of coincidences, it's two separate ideas involving the hull of the ship.",
"The three separate ideas and \"Power of Math\" reference coincidentally as opposed to the 1:1 outline in RLMs video? Fitting the time frame for when they would have wrote it?",
"The \"power of math\" quote is from a different episode, \"Mugato, Gumato\", not \"First First Contact\", where they remove their hull.",
"The \"power of math\" line in the RLM video was a joke reference to that line being used in an earlier episode of Discovery. The cartoon line is either a callback to Discovery, a reference to the RLM video, or (probably) both."
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Tv show steals idea from famous YouTube channel
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6jhKEqtLxM
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"> But at that same moment there was a flash, as if lightning had sprung from the earth beneath the City. For a searing second it stood dazzling far off in black and white, its topmost tower like a glittering needle: and then as the darkness closed again there came rolling over the fields a great boom.\n\n> At that sound the bent shape of the king sprang suddenly erect. Tall and proud he seemed again; and rising in his stirrups he cried in a loud voice, more clear than any there had ever heard a mortal man achieve before:\n\n>\"Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! \n> Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! \n> spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, \n> a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! \n> Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!\"\n\n> With that, he seized a great horn from Guthláf his banner-bearer, and he blew such a blast upon it that it burst asunder. And straightway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains.\n\n> \"Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!\"\n\n>Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Éomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first éored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Théoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Oromë the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and the darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.",
"https://youtu.be/7lwJOxN_gXc",
"Goosebumps. This moment in the films brings on lots of feels"
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Tolkien reads - The ride of the Rohirrim
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceS_jkKjIgo
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"\"Imagine being so weak that my mere words injure you.\" - somebody who probably got cancelled.",
"So I'm white... and a man?",
"The mods aren't some of them. This will get deleted.",
"Statistically you'd be a 31 year old asian man. \nI'd be offended...",
"did you copy paste this from the youtube comments? edit: [a 3yr old comment](https://i.imgur.com/jbQ6IgK.jpg)",
"Ever been on the wrong end of the n word?\n\nSuddenly things look a bit different.",
"This shit is such a lazy take, Guarantee there's plenty he wouldn't say.",
"are you?",
"[here's another comedian's take](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_JCBmY9NGM)",
"It's such a strawman anyways. 99.9% of people don't think like this",
"Read yours too. Kind of racist, NGL, presuming my sex and my race.\n\nFrom someone who goes immediately to all black people agree, so you must be white and male, I'm shocked to read \"non attacking\" when political views differ as something you claim to support.\n\nWords are words. Your example makes no sense. So what if the same word was used to enslave someone else? How is that relevant? The same word is used on busses, in movies and songs and it isn't oppressing anyone. Slavery doesn't exist today in the US and you don't know anyone who experienced it first hand.\n\nYou're not even from the US... so what do you know about the struggle of US Black people?\n\nKind of racist of you to presume you know so much about a struggle you've never experienced that you can tell \"you couldn't disagree with me unless you're a white male.\" . I want to introduce you to another \"[White male](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFm9kaBFTbg)\" that disagrees with you.",
"Agreed, no one laughs when I call someone queer anymore. They call me a dick and never invite me to parties. What a bunch of snowflakes.",
"it's a comedy show and a bit, shouldn't take it serious. It's just not reflective of reality. Reality is never that simple.\n\nlol oh no, looks like I've offended some brittle people how awful of me",
"It's the internet. I'm whatever you want me to be. \n\nI am constantly amused at how people who claim to be against racism automatically resort to trying to put people in a racial bucket, or sexual bucket when they don't agree with them. And I love when people guess that I'm white. Tickles me. \n\nUltimately, does it matter? Shouldn't, should it?",
"Yes, I have. It doesn't change anything at all. Words are words. To suggest that we should have control over others to ban their words because you think there's 1 word that's so powerful that it can't be spoken is ridiculous. \n\nIt's a word. We give words power, they can't take it.",
"And yet, I'm white and male when it suits someone's purposes. \n\nThe claim being \"you couldn't understand\", but somehow a 31 year old Asian male knows so much about \"being white\" that they can compare that experience and derive the knowledge that \"being white is superior\" in some way. \n\nTsk tsk tsk. All this racism today. I choose not to be offended for being called a white male. I choose not to hit the \"report\" button for hate. I'll just chat with people instead, but I appreciate the smartest comment I've read so far in response.",
"While technically true, that’s a very naive response. Someone calling someone else the n word is not nearly the strongest example of offensive speech. \n\nTake, for instance, all the members of a gated community telling a new homeowner (who is a minority) that they’re not welcome, that they “best be leaving” and to “watch yourself, people round here don’t take kindly to your type”. \n\nOr how about your new boss telling other staff not to speak to “those ones” (pointing at you) and you subsequently being shunned in the workplace. \n\nI’m not saying such words should or should not be illegal - all I’m saying is that “sticks and stones may break my bones but words can break my heart”. Words are far more powerful than your reply seems to accept.",
"You're traipsing back and forth between social considerations and use of force. Saying \"[we don't like your kind around here\"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4MTMyxcjNU) is certainly not polite and with a threat of violence could even be illegal, but that's not what we're talking about. \n\nYour examples were threats, ostracizing, and ominous tones. They had nothing to do with offensive language. \n\nWe're talking about going to a comedy shop and being offended by jokes. Or overhearing something on the subway and choosing to take offense to it. Nobody is suggesting that \"you better git or we're gonna get a rope\" is OK, or shouldn't be taken as offensive. \n\nThis is a lot of mental gymnastics to make \"I'm offended at everything\" OK.",
"I don't think I have ever heard someone unironically say the phrase \"I'm offended\" in my entire life. This was a thing that people stopped saying 20 years ago. But people still love fighting the last generation's cultural battles because it feels good",
"on reddit or worldwide, because that doesn't seem likely.",
"Great. I'm going to start getting Fox News clips in my recommendations because I clicked on this.\n\nThere's a lot of average comedians who do well not because their comedy is incisive or thoughtful or even particularly funny, but because an audience finds it liberating to hear someone be mean to a group they don't like. A lot of politicians do the same thing.",
"you're avoiding giving your race, but it's pretty pertinent to whether you'd take offence or not.",
"Firstly, political correctness does not exist to stop people being racist. It exists to promote language that is intended to give the least amount of offense.\n\nThe most famous example in the UK is that they banned the word 'brainstorm' because it might offend some people with epilepsy. Note I said might, there was no known issue with that word before they banned it. Someone just decided it might offend someone and changed it.\n\nThis is what Sean Hughes is joking about. People going around trying to second guess what might offend other people and then telling everyone what they can and can't say.\n\nSecondly, your example is terrible. That is not political correctness at all, that is defamation. You are claiming Sean Hughes has committed a terrible criminal act and if you published that publicly he would sue you for libel, and win.",
"What? Previous generation?\n\nPeople thinking they have a right to not be offended causes insane amounts of turmoil, even today.\n\nThe hate against LGBTQ because it offends puritanical groups.\n\nThe hatred of racial minorities because their existence offends supremacists.\n\nThe literal whining, whinging, denial, and lying of an entire political party because they lost the election and it offended them.\n\nCancel culture, literally all of cancel culture.\n\nThis joke isn't just still relevant, it's so on the nose you can't see it.",
"Yes, it is true that some of my examples were close to, but not quite, threats. And close to, but not quite, illegal. It is true that my examples were ostracising, and onimous. But that's exactly what makes them offensive to society. The examples illustrate that words CAN in fact be very harmful, and it's naive to blanket apply \"sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me\", which is what I felt you original reply above was doing. But I think we can now both agree that SOME words, especially ones that are close to a threat, are ostrasing, and onimous, can in fact be harmful.\n\nSo now we're in agreeance on that, what about \"mere jokes\"? Well, even jokes can be harmful. Eddie Murphy was \"only joking\" when he was on stage joking about gay kids dying of AIDS, but this was at a time when people with AIDS were shunned. When people refused to play basketball with Magic Johnson because they thought they could catch it. Eddie Murphy helped normalised a culture of ostracising HIV infected people. In fact he regrets such jokes so much that he even apologised for it! Or what if people are on a subway joking about the people that they'd \"totally rape\", meanwhile little do they know the person behind them is an actual rape victim whose blood has just run cold. So, hopefully you can agree that even some JOKES can be harmful, especially when the jokes is \"punching down\". Again, it's not enough to just say \"sticks and stones may break my bones, but jokes will never harm me\", that is naive.\n\nCertainly, there are lots of people unreasonably taking offence (sometimes even on behalf of other people) to things which requires \"mental gymnastics\" - no argument there. My point is only that it must be accepted that some words, even some jokes, can be harmful - and that no blanket statements can rightly be applied.",
"Those that want to be offensive are the most easily offended.",
"I'm offended by this video.",
"Everyone loves this because in this context he's offending Christians.\n\nBut when you make a joke about certain other groups, well, my goodness, saying offensive things as a comedian is the worst thing you could imagine!\n\nEither everyone is fair game or no one is.\n\nThis is why I never take backlash against comedians seriously.\n\nAny time this or that group of people gets offended by something, they conveniently forget all of the jokes at other people's expense that they laughed at because it wasn't a group they identified or empathized with.",
"Guys there's clearly things you shouldn't be allowed to say and thus should be illegal or punishable by absolute social exclusion.\n\nLuckily I personally know exactly what those are so just let me write those laws, thanks.",
"Please accept my apology for using the offensive racial slur of accusing you of being a white male. \n\nIf only political correctness hadn't gone mad..... With people being all offended and what not by words.....",
"Just words, no way you can be offended by that right, why bother responding",
"you got whooshed my dude",
"White person lectures black person about their relationship and experience with the N word\n\nlol",
"Crazy that this kind of stance became a gateway drug for the far right a decade later",
"Oh this hot take again.",
"Politically Correct = How not to be a jerk\n\nSeriously, when Rush Limbaugh made a big deal about \"political correctness\" it was because he was being a misogynistic asshole.\n\nHe used to characterize feminist perspectives as extreme in order to discredit feminist arguments. Calling women who wanted equal pay for doing the same job, \"feminazi\" or want to confront sexism in the workplace, \"extremists women that want to castrate men.\"\n\nI can't believe it's nearly 30 years later and we are still hearing this. \n\nThere are generations that never heard the origins to political correct terminology. There is a root and it's conservatives.",
"Now you have leprosy!",
"This is one of favorite comedy routines.",
"You being offended offends me.",
"And it all started when someone let a Karen have their way simply because Karen was offended. Next thing we know all the fucking Karen's come out of the woodwork to get offended. \n \nIt's why we have a world full of special snowflakes. Snowflake is Karen's offspring.",
"This is reddit though. The number of offended people in the comment thread is... disheartening.",
"Nope.",
"> This shit is such a lazy take\n\nLOL irony",
"https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Non-Sequitur",
"Being offended is actually way, waaaay more an issue now than it was for the last generation. This is not a cultural battle of the last generation, this is a battle against freedom of speech for the last two decades. This is probably the biggest issue of this age, I'd even say it's a bigger issue than climate change. The entire 'free west' is actively destroying freedom of speech, and it all started with people taking *being offended* too seriously.",
"There are still battles over what is socially acceptable, battles over free speech versus inclusion and tolerance, etc., just like there always have been. It was generally called \"political correctness\" then and gets generally called \"cancel culture\" now.\n\nBut this video is largely referring to a particular battle that was settled decades ago. People used to *literally say* that they were offended, call things offensive, and expect that to be enough to get their way. People don't do that anymore, because it was rightly pointed out that \"offensive\" is a meaningless word. The culture war has moved on to other things. People on the \"more inclusion\" side of the debate use other language that focuses on the particular harms that they argue the speech is responsible for. The discourse has improved in that regard.\n\nSo when videos like this get posted, where we're beating up on a strawman that is saying \"I'm offended\" like it's 1991, we're fighting a battle that's already been settled. No one says \"I'm offended\" and expects anything to happen anymore. \n\nAnd your attempt to lump homophobia, racism, and election conspiracy theories into this debate doesn't make any sense",
"> this kind of stance\n\nAKA liberalism\n\n\"Liberalism: the Gateway to Conservatism\" LOL\n\nYou people are too funny.",
"Ok so who decides which direction we are punching ? Bruce Jenner is both transgender and connected to extreme wealth and privilege. Punch up or down ? Nothings black and white",
"the dude is aware of what can and can't cause offense. his arbitrary line in the sand is that he should be able to intentionally, just because. I don't get why we have to crawl, decade by decade towards not being assholes, instead of just doing it.",
"this dude isn't black. He's blackfacing to get away with views he couldn't otherwise. Like a fake authority.",
"> what can and can't cause offense\n\nYou've missed the point: the line IS ARBITRARY.\n\nHis point is that anyone can be offended at anything, if that's what offends them... but, so what?\n\nNothing else happens. You are offended, the end. That's you not liking a thing, and it is not going to kill you.",
"see, you're pretending to be someone that has a personal stake.",
"what makes the n word worse than any other insult? its just words lol\n\nand people that use the word are usually so fucking stupid that theres no reason to be offended by anything they say",
"I think that's an interesting discussion. You can definitely make fun of Bruce Jenner. But you shouldn't make fun of all trans people. I am the comedy police",
"because people are stupid. it should be that simple.",
"> Nothings black and white\n\nMichael Jackson would like a word.",
"I was a moderator in a game and it's forums for 3 years. You have no idea how many times I wanted to give this asy response.",
"But it can kill people, it can make them feel less than others, it can normalise hate and stoke it. Making jokes about rape or paedophilia etc when you don't know other peoples circumstances can hurt them.",
"You sure showed him.",
"Yup.",
"In terms of “punching up vs punching down”, I don’t think anything in comedy should be off limits, but it’s definitely gonna make a difference in terms of how “good” the comedy is.\n\nThat’s why instead of backlash, just ignoring shitty comedy is the better option. A rich white kid wants to try to launch a stand-up career with jokes about poor Black children and Jews? Go for it…probably won’t make it that far.",
"Any topic can be joked about, but some are certainly harder to make funny.",
"The problem is that the leaders of various civil rights organizations are paid to be offended. The leader of an organization needs to justify his existence and salary to members of the organization, so the leaders are in a constant state of being offended to make it look like they are being active and doing stuff.",
"Que the “victim”",
"I have no idea why you're projecting so much - I was just stating facts",
"People who cry about being cancelled are the biggest hypocrites ever. \n\n'Oh I can say what I like, but you're not allowed to not give me money.'",
"^^^^Watch ^^^^this\n\nDave Chappelle was right to make jokes about trans people not being able to take a joke and it was funny.",
"I think you meant gendered bucket",
"This is one of the only comedy routines I've heard from any comic for like the last five years so I guess you're in luck",
"This bit is going after pretty low hanging fruit.",
"> I was just stating facts\n\nNo, not really.",
"Thats what you think being cancelled is?\n\nBeing cancelled is usually masses of angry people set to destroy someone else's career, business or lifestyle simply because they disagree with them.\n\nIt's not a civil agreement. It's spiteful and hateful. It shouldn't happen.\n\nAnd to think corporate MSM will go along with it because they hold a moral high ground is laughable.\n\nJust look at R Kelly, Cosby, Saville and Weinstein. A huge portion of the MSM and public knew what was going on yet nothing was done because money is greater than power.\n\nTrying to harm anyone because of something they say is childish. If anything their wrong speech should be spread so the masses can know the truth about them.",
"Tons of \"don't tread on me\" at the Jan 6th insurrection, every Trump rally, etc. Which is totally different and doesn't invalidate your point, I'm sure.",
"A bit extreme to say that it can kill people but ok. The point is that people can get offended by the smallest of things and that can lead to extreme self censorship. \n\n\nOf course this can lead to assholes doing asshole things but I find that generally intelligent people in the scene understand this and \"self correct\". \n\n\nFor example that comedian (I forgot his name) that does work with dolls and does the whole Arab bomber skit. He is universally frowned upon within the comedy scene as his stuff is racist and just dumb. Its 10 year old level jokes for people with mental age of a 10 year old. \nI would love to hear another opinion on this though.",
"The only man in bracers I listen to is Kevin Sorbo's Hercules. This guy is a hack fuck.",
"Everybody's offended about stuff. If someone says 'I can't be offended' I take it as a challenge to find out what offends them and then wear it the fuck out.\n\nEdit: You guys realise you made my point, right?",
"Ok, thanks?",
"It's so easy for white men to this shit.",
"Just to point out that this was filmed at least 10 or 15 years ago",
"-somebody who made fun of me for years and judged me and verbally and emotionally abused me. But yeah, I’ll just suck it up. Sticks and stones and all that.",
"Pretty sure you don't understand what being cancelled implies",
"Any stupid person is invariably hilarious. Comedians just make us aware of this.",
"The problem with just not being assholes is that what defines an asshole is subjective to an individual. True, some things are widely accepted as being of the asshole nature but it still isn't universal. What I think is prickish you may find funny - who is right?\n\nAnother problem is people seem to have this misguided belief that you have the right to not be offended. That is an impossible right to have and to defend for the same reason - what is offensive is subjective. The truth is, you have a right to be offended but that is about as far as it goes.",
"Being cancelled isn't real. If someone can go on twitter or youtube or do a Netflix stand-up show to complain about how they have been cancelled, they weren't cancelled.\n\nThey're grifters who monetized outrage. You're the prime example. Use the word 'cancelled' and here you are, ranting about the main stream media being hypocrits. You're offended. I dare say triggered. I'm sure your first instinct is to support the people who are claiming they are 'cancelled' by throwing money at them.\n\nEver consider that's why they play the 'cancelled' card? Because they want your money and they know you'll give it to them?\n\nFor every person who wants someone to shut the fuck up, there's an equal or bigger group that will financially support them not to shut the fuck up. That's what being cancelled is now. It's a fucking lucrative career.",
"I’m offended by this, but only because it’s dull standup. \n\nThere’s no real jokes here. He’s just ranting about not being “allowed” to say things despite having a literal platform to say whatever he wants to a captive audience. And none of his observations are remotely novel. \n\nIt’s like a diet version of Carlin without any of the cleverness.",
"How specifically are their lifestyles, careers, or businesses destroyed?",
"When you tell someone you're offended what you're actually saying is \"I cant control my emotions so I need others to do it for me.\"",
"Michael Jackson was black.",
"> Being censored isn't real.\n\nThis is how dumb you look.",
"ok so should comedians ask everyone who is planning on watching their special to quickly send over a trauma list with all your little triggers on it so he can make sure he avoids saying “daddy left you at a young age huh?” get over yourself. it’s literally impossible to avoid offending everyone. and if you struggle with your own trauma so much that hearing the word spoken causes massive emotional pain, you need therapy. the comedy isn’t the problem in these situations, it’s the will of these people to get help and move on.",
"> This is probably the biggest issue of this age, I'd even say it's a bigger issue than climate change.\n\nHoly fuck.\n\nYou know that when climate change kills all of us, that'll settle the freedom of speech debate pretty definitively right?",
"What a low resolution thought...\n\nIf you think it is a good idea to have a mob of people constantly offended on witch hunts because they are thin-skinned and have too much time on their hands, then I got nothing for you.\n\nAll I can say is I really hope you love conformity lest your values not align with the mob.",
"> Being cancelled isn't real.\n\nI've seen people be target of internet harassments (friends of mine too). It's brutal. I refuse to call it \"canceling\" because it's too easy to just call it that. I'm talking about people sending you pizza deliveries every single day to your house, making false swatting/bomb threats to your house to the point where you risk getting shot by the police. I've seen people get called up at work and being fired due to them becoming a liability in the eyes of their employer to the point where it's just better (for the employer) to fire them than deal with the \"moral\" consequences. I've seen people get their entire reputation destroyed online because if you even dare to type their name into google, some pedophilia-related articles show up, and those people basically become unemployable because nobody wants to give an alleged (note: not confirmed) pedophile a job.. and they suddenly are without a job **because** their last boss fired them due to this targeted harassment. \n\nImagine every single morning you wake up to your email (or whatever other social media) full of death threats. Imagine your phone rings every waking second because someone leaked it online and now you get constant death threats. Imagine they find the name/address of your family members, your son, your younger sister, your mom, your aunt, etc, and since they can't get to you, they try to go through them. You become a liability for everyone that is around you, because of these online gangs of people who just try their best to ruin your life. Even your closest of friends can do nothing but distance themselves from you, because if they didn't, they'd be a target too, and no one wants that. It's social suicide.\n\nAnd trust me, I've seen every single example I mentioned here happen. It's not made up.",
"are you trying to say the don’t tread on me thing is a liberal idea? i know that’s not the bullshit you’re trying to let fall from the asshole located on your face now is it?",
"Sorry, did I offend you? Hope you don't get leprosy...",
"Nope! :)",
"That’s abuse. Big difference from being offended.",
"If someone was truly cancelled then you wouldn't hear anything more from them, so you wouldn't know they were cancelled.",
"Marc Maron did a whole episode on the \"You just can't say anything anymore\" trope, putting it in historical context, and I think it reflects the perspective of many of us.\n\nhttp://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1278-canceled-comedy-w-kliph-nesteroff-and-david-bianculli",
"Yeah man Chapelle is right! Just like he can say \"I'm team TERF\" I can say \"I'm team KKK\" and everything should be fine! /sarcasm",
"Words can’t hurt me though, so it’s ok.",
"Is this a bit?",
"Libertarianism and liberalism have a lot in common. You seem a bit too simple for nuance, though.",
"Dude, this isn’t new. It was part of lexicon before “woke” or the term “cancel culture” was even a thing.\n\nIt’s not an absolute rule, and plenty of successful comics toe the line really well. It’s general advice for comedy that basically means “know your audience”.",
"you want to see being cancelled here on reddit? Just look for \\[deleted\\] and \"comment removed by moderator\" Someone got offended and had power.",
"And white.",
"Jesus Christ exit this video and comments section while you can\n\nThe top comments are people sticking up for censorship 🤦♂️ \n\nReddit is officially Communist Facebook 2.0 …",
"What use is a good planet when there is no freedom anywhere. It's better to die fighting for freedom than to live on a useless figuratively imprisoned race.",
"I'm not sure if you're familiar with Twitter but there are doctor's banned from Twitter that allegedly spread dangerous misinformation. While having an on going childporn issue in their servers and doing nothing about Hezbollah and Taliban pages.\n\nTwitter is the clearest example of lifestyle, career and business being taken away because of opinion. It's shameful, especially for a country like America.",
"Oh yes, the good old times when you could bitch about political correctness without suddenly becoming a poster boy for fascists.",
"You're the one resorting to childish name-calling here.",
"Most of these idiots are containing about \"mobs\" on twitter. Just log out. Problem solved. Fucking pussies.",
"Imagine being so obtuse to pretend that words are powerless.",
">low resolution thought\n\nFucking hell imagine saying shite like that 😂",
"Like the scientists and doctors that were banned from major social media sources for spreading the Covid 19 lab leak theory ? The theory that is now widely considered the most likely scenario for the spread of it.",
"Found the conservative",
">If you think it is a good idea to have a mob of people constantly offended on witch hunts because they are thin-skinned and have too much time on their hands\n\nThat's called being an entertainer, and that \"mob\" are called your audience. If you can't update your material/image to fit with what your audience wants then it's time you find a new job. This isn't a new invention.",
"Actually MJ had vitiligo, which causes a blotchiness of the skin. Here’s an example from the “Thriller” era when it really started showing: http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/34300000/Vitiligo-michael-jackson-34352216-523-660.jpg He would usually try to even it out with makeup because he was very self-conscious about it. His obsession with his looks probably stem from the abuse he suffered from his father his whole life.",
"my understanding is that you're against female safe spaces (domestic abuse shelter, female hospitals, prisons, etc) including guys who claim they're a woman",
"Your lack of common sense offends me.",
"They can’t unless you let them. Outside of constant abuse. This is inherently true. After you look inside and figure out why a statement/insult offended you, it usually comes down to ego and it then holds less power over you when you realize what the ego is doing. It’s all about mindset when it comes to words. If the reverse were true then someone insulting you with some totally insane remark would offend you as well. This has been written about and preached for thousands of years in religions and practical philosophies alike. So yes, sticks & stones.",
"You're just ignorant. Everyone knows about that slippery slope that goes from anti-SJW, to gamer gate to Steve Bannon.",
"you can't pretend that all offensive things are equal though. It's subjective of course, someone out there might be offended by a joke about daddy issues but daddy issues are a pretty common universal problem that's widely considered pretty safe to joke about. Racist, homophobic, transphobic shit however is not, and *tastelessly* \"joking\" about some things in those veins cultivates a pretty harmful environment and propogates harmful ideas. There's no good reason to be offensive for the sake of being offensive, in the context of comedians I think the goal is to be funny not offensive. Making an offensive joke and being offensive are different things",
"the only people writing laws right now to punish “wrongthink” are conservatives who have convinced themselves schools are teaching grad school level race theory, and have twisted themselves into such a pretzel they’ve been caught trying to teach the nazi’s perspective of the holocaust. Both sides!!!1",
"So you proudly saunter around with a nazi flag to offend everyone then, eh? Not much of a challenge honestly to 'find out' what offends most people.",
"\"Only conservatives have the ability to recognize policing speech presents subjective difficulties\"\n\n- You\n\nFound the moron.",
"If you want to make jokes about punching down you conjure and character and use that character a conduit for the joke. A very literal way of doing this would be through ventriloquism or dolls. \n\nUsing your example though it can be very easy for a comedian to say something along the lines of 'I can imagine some ignorant rich white kid, drinking fine wine and making poor taste jokes about black children and Jews to supermodels in his private jet' The comedian can then begin to impersonate this made up character and tell the distasteful jokes which would probably still provoke a laugh. \n\n\nThere is a comedian called Adam Hills who was telling a story about the worst joke he ever heard and he used this method as a build up. He knew that the build up was enough to get a laugh out of the joke, even though it was downright racist. So he added 'Do not laugh at this joke' before the punchline to make it very clear to the audience that he doesn't want the laugh, he obviously continues the bit and gets to his own punchline.",
"communism is when no agree with hack comic! George orwin animal crossing bruther!",
"I certainly did! Very humble of you",
"I think it was Seinfeld who said \"If you're going to be offensive, you better be funny\".\n\nSo I agree that nothing should be off limits, but the bar for jokes aimed at certain people or groups is extremely high. This is why I think the Chapelle nonsense was stupid and offensive. He was calling it comedy, and was doing the whole \"comedians can't say anything offensive anymore\" schtick, but there weren't really any jokes. And if there aren't any jokes, and you're punching down, then you're just an asshole with a captive audience.",
"> Any time this or that group of people gets offended by something, they conveniently forget all of the jokes at other people's expense that they laughed at because it wasn't a group they identified or empathized with.\n\nReddit upvotes\n\n> Popzi gives an example of the above\n\nReddit downvotes and is very upset with me\n\n*\"Watch this\" I said, it's almost like I saw the irony and lack of intellect from Reddit coming from a mile away* xD",
"That’s not being cancelled. That’s an entirely different form of sustained and illegal harassment. We are talking about holding people accountable for what they say, not to destroy their lives but to say hey, maybe that way you used to be able to joke about women, non-whites, Jews, gay people, etc. isn’t as funny to them as it is to you and your buds. It’s obnoxious and the only thing that’s allowed people to feel like it was fine has beeen that for most of living memory those groups were too powerless to say stop. That’s why it’s shocking to the in group. They aren’t used to having to care what the out group thinks.\n\nEdited to change pronoun (didn’t want to give impression I thought that you personally were making fun of out groups)",
"Why is it when dudebros online decide to take life advice from a comedian it's always about being an asshole? No one's ever basing their life philosophy on some video online telling them to be a better person, to be kind and respect others. Nah it's always just how to justify being a dick 101",
"Yes.",
"No.\n\n\"trans-exclusionary radical feminist\"\n\nTERF",
"The next comment explains the punching up vs punching down thing. \n\nBut yeah the trans community sure has had it easy and needed a reality check! Bs black and white takes like yours aint it.\n\nEdit: lmfao you dont like daves joke cause he was right that they're overly sensitive. You're a fucking transphobe who's been banned from at least 1 other sub for it hahahaha\n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/oVWi3fx.jpeg",
"How is being banned from Twitter having your lifestyle, career, or business being taken away, especially if you spread misinformation?",
"but you also can’t pretend to know the variance between peoples trauma. the death of a dog to one person may be mentally devastating, whereas another would be ok. this entire game is a game of gray and that’s what i’m trying to explain.",
"Make fun of her for being rich and evil, not because shes trans. Simple. Weird argument.",
"This video is at least 12 years old. Point your offended attack somewhere else.",
"Guess it doesn’t matter though lol",
"Great! Thanks, I’m all better now.",
"Except the mob isn’t the audience, they’re a vocal minority.",
"I've been on reddit 14 years now, and I have definitely noticed everyone becoming more sensitive. Like grow up and stop being a little bitch. Bring on the downvotes!\n\nEdit: the people downvoting and not replying are exactly the little bitches I'm speaking of.",
">Either everyone is fair game or no one is.\n\nI disagree strongly with this.\n\nJust because a comedian has the right to make any joke doesn't mean they can't be scrutinized for it. It's not a black and white issue, there are shades of gray.\n\n[James Acaster put it best in my opinion.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHqma3rx-xI)",
"I'm not, but the trauma of losing a dog is something I would think most people would at least understand if not relate to. Being trans, gay, a minority, is not. A dog dying and systemic oppression are not realistically comparable things, regardless of how affected a single person may be by either subject. But you can still joke about either without being just offensive.",
"What if it’s insults and nastyness every day, but it comes from different people, not just one person? Is that abuse, or is the person just offended?",
"Oh you mean right after he said he hated old people and \"Chrizzos\"?\n\nYou're proving my point, guy.",
"Its not so much they ignore trans people (especially trans women) but actively work to deny trans people rights through culture war (eg the transes are coming for your CHILDREN!!!), introduction of legislation (eg introduce bathroom bills) and other bullshittery (eg deny trans people services simply for being trans)",
"Care to elaborate or is that just your lazy take?",
"And he says 'you CAN be offended' and then it's confused Pikachu face when people ARE offended! Reminds me of the XKCD comic.",
"Chappelle wasn’t doing the “comedians can’t say anything offensive anymore schtick” though, he was talking about intersectionality between two minorities (race and the LGBTQ community). His whole thesis (especially the offensive bits) was “when does one minority (LGBTQ) stop being a minority and start leaning on the benefits of their majority.” If you really listen to what he’s saying, he brings up some really thought-provoking points. I’m not saying he’s right, but it certainly made me think about intersectionality.",
"This reads like satire, so I hope it is.",
"That wasn’t what he was saying. He was defending his stance on intersectionality, wherein a privileged group (i.e. white people) can still lean back on their privilege despite being a minority. It was playing with the idea of “when does a certain minority stop being a minority if they also belong to a privileged group.”",
"Replace the word trans in my last post with black and you'll find the tactics are eerily similar to how the KKK operated during post reconstruction Jim Crow. Rile people up and tell them the blacks are coming for your women and children, pass legislation to restrict rights, like whites only and blacks only bathrooms, and other discriminatory bullshittery like denying black people services.\n\nThe KKK isn't just lynchings and burning crosses. It's people who weild power and allow and encourage the discrimination to continue.",
"Which is some how equivalent to the KKK?",
"I think Duckman did something like that.",
"This stand up act is 15 years old.",
"The stand up act was filmed 15 years ago.",
"and?",
"[Sure thing mate.](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sarcasm)",
"But Dave Chapelle must have been speaking completely literally because only white comics can be sarcastic, right?",
"Your conflating two different things. Christians and all other religous believers *choose* to hold and impose an illogical irrational belief system on their behaviour and the behaviour of others. Their beliefs are worthy of precisely the same respect as someone who believes faries live at the bottom of the garden.\n\nThe women I worked with at Hornsby Challenge in Sydney Australia (previously called The New South Wales Sub-normal Children's Association) did *not* chose. When they objected to the name, we changed it. I have been arguing this point for the last 25 yeard : if you think those two things are the same your opinion is not worth listening to.",
"Meaning that it wasn't really a low hanging fruit then as it now.",
"If you think being offended is more of an issue now than in the past, you probably don't know much about the past. In the 1960s people were so offended by Lenny Bruce saying \"cocksucker\" that he was brought up on obscenity charges. We literally had comedians being arrested because people were offended by what they said, but apparently only now is being too easily offended an issue.",
"The amount of people who started repping chapelle after that special was disturbing. Not once had some of my coworkers said his name until he started to bitch about Trans people. It's pretty telling who they are as people because I can't remember a time where people tried to make fucking freedom of speech tirades with his content. Honestly don't know how anyone can defend Dave's words when everywhere it is being used to foment transphobic rhetoric. It would be like of his Clayton bigsby skit was a rant instead and the heritage not hate crowd started co-opting it",
"Ok what anti-fat or anti-Karen legislation has been inteoduced? Have there been any major news media reports about fat people or Karens coming for your children to corrupt them? What widespread anti-fat or anti-Karen business practices?\n\nI'm specifically referring to the political and cultural techniques used by TERFs mirroring the political techniques used by the KKK during the jim crow south.\n\nIf you can provide examples like maybe any anti-fat or anti karen bathroom bills introduced in congress, or any hysteria reports about fat people coming for your children and corrupting them.",
"And the conflation you're making is between a stage performance that everyone in the audience knows is a work of comedy and some kind of outreach/charity program. What's inappropriate in one case is not necessarily true for the other.\n\nThere are plenty of things you'd say around friends or family that wouldn't be appropriate in a professional setting.\n\nContext matters.",
"He's not just making jokes but cases. There was no real offensive examples in this video like saying positive things about white people or negative things about minorities, even if he doesn't mean it would have been nice to use real non politically correct examples to make the case. \n\n\nNobody is saying people who calls another person stupid should be canceled.",
"> A rich white kid wants to try to launch a stand-up career with jokes about poor Black children and Jews? Go for it…probably won’t make it that far.\n\nBo Burnham has entered the chat.",
"ITT: butthurt people",
"He is not wrong, and he is funny, but I would say, the story is incomplete. What happens when you offend to the point where you illicit violence? Do we just say you should have shrugged it off, and that giving offense is not to blame, but rather it is your resulting lack of self control at fault?\n\nIn the violent world we live in, are we saying that mutual respect is not something we should consider mandating? If we are saying that, how could we expect civilised behaviour?\n\nWith great freedom of speech, IMHO comes great responsibility, as we also say the pen is mightier than the sword. For me, \"sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me\", to be the approach to soothe children makes sense, which I guess is why we put on this plaster, until we are grown up with calluses and can deal better with the verbal wounds inflicted upon them by their fellow man.\n\nA well timed verbal stab can still incur tremendous pain for me, and I am no longer young, so even my calluses and walls cannot always protect me.\n\nI am human and all I am saying let's act as if we are, and that being human remains a good thing to strive for.",
"He kept on bitching about cancel culture, so to me he was indirectly saying that.\n\nBut to your second point, that's exactly what I'm talking about. He was presenting his opinions and calling it comedy, then using comedy as a shield. Regardless of what you think of his opinions, there weren't any substantive jokes in that whole bit.",
"No. \n\nAnd check usernames.",
"In reaching for a trite response you've missed the point. So would you crack jokes about people with learning difficulties around friends or family? \n\n\"Either everone is fair game or no one is.\"",
"Sure it was, it's just that 15 years ago most people would find the low-effort bit unfunny, and now slack-jawed yokels emboldened by their steady diet of stupidity from fox news and facebook can reference it as some kind of beacon of truth. \n\nPolitics aside, the routine just isn't very good.",
"Jokes are a sacred art form. I don't like offensive comedy but I will always defend it. In the same token I really don't care for some forms of art but I'll be damned if I don't support the artist's right to self expression.",
"I wish more people could he this objective.\n\nThere are lots of things I'm not personally a fan of, but that just means I don't watch it.",
"Your patter is as shite as your opinions. Go outside for a while",
"White privilege",
"Bo made it big by being very talented and making self-deprecating joke songs on YouTube ages ago as a kid in his room.\n\nI haven’t followed his career super closely, but I don’t know if he’s an example of some privileged kid who made it far by punching down. He got here being creative and making good jokes.\n\nChris D’Elia is more what comes to mind, though he’s just rich and not that funny in terms of stand up, but hey, it’s all subjective.",
"Are you offended by the hypocrisy?",
">Of course this can lead to assholes doing asshole things but I find that generally intelligent people in the scene understand this and \"self correct\". \n\nThere was this one comedian back in the day, very popular had his own show and everything. Frankly I loved it, grew up on it and his comedy.\n\nBut there was a moment when he realized that his comedy may not be taken the correct way from a particular segment of his audience. It was in a manner that made him feel ashamed in the kind of comedy he was doing because it may have negative repercussions on people like himself that may have it difficult in society. So he stepped away, he quit and stopped doing that comedy...\n\nThis is clearly a smart highly intelligent individual who has a great understanding of oppressed individuals in society and most importantly of comedy...\n\nSo it was very fucking disappointing that Dave Chappelle would do several tone deaf specials in which he did the MOST BASIC Transphobic comedy. Which would have negative repercussions on marginalized individuals. Specifically BLACK TRANS PEOPLE. \n\nI don't know if you care but there was a great breakdown of it by F.D Signifier on it.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S42DJr95Dfw",
"Nope.\n\nJust think it's silly.",
"ironically posted in a sub full of people who get offended when they see something they disagree with, call for bans on the person, label the comment misinformation, and then feel self-righteous.",
"and you're definitely not stupid. i can tell because you know who all the stupid people are.",
"Imagine being so obtuse to pretend that you don’t have choice.",
"Well I hope you had a good laugh then.",
"then stand up for yourself or get away from those shitty people. yes, verbal abuse happens, but it's not a crime; meaning you can always choose to take their words with a grain of salt. when abusers see that their words no longer have any effect, they lose interest and stop bothering you.",
"you're correct, so you will be downvoted in this clown sub.",
"James Acaster was spot on in that.",
">*so obtuse to pretend that words are powerless.* \n \nI've been called quite a few racial slurs in my life here in Finland only because I look like I'm not from around where I live.\n \nThe slurs would only have power if **I** gave them the power to affect me. I don't. I only feel sorry for the people who spout them, because I know they are worse off than me when the mere sight of my face affects them emotionally so much. It must be hell living with hate like that.",
"The covid lab leak theory was enough to get you banned for misinformation. Now it's considered the most likely scenario.\n\nIf doctors and virologists put that information out on social media I don't see how it's reasonable for an intern at twitter to suggest they're banned for life.\n\nThere are people that spend the majority of their days focus on twitter. Make their living on twitter and get most of their business on twitter. That's how nonsense cancel culture mobs can ruin innocent people.\n\nMisinformation isn't the issue. If flat earthers can convince the masses that the earth is flat, then that's an education problem. Not a speech problem. Banning basic opinions and personal public thoughts is historically very negative.",
"His early humor was certainly low brow and crass, but it was never mean spirited.\n\nHe made a lot of period and fart jokes.",
"i ate my own shit on this thread",
"you think you're the only one who has been verbally abused? i have been plenty. i learned how to stand my ground and fight them off. you should do the same rather than crying about it.",
"Then that extends to other things and pretty soon you're trying to control everyone's actions and how the world is run to avoid any danger whatsoever.",
"Did I say I was the only one? I’m not even talking about myself. I’m talking about racism, homophobia etc.",
"Because.... only black people can take offense to words? Because there are no slurs for Asians, Hispanics, whites, Islanders? \n\nCan you explain? \n\nBesides... it's the internet. Whatever race I claim to be, it's just a claim.",
"That’s the point. People experiencing racism and homophobia/transphobia can’t get away because they never know which direction it is coming from next. They live with this stress always, which shortens their lives. \n\nhttps://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/weathering-what-are-the-health-effects-of-stress-and-discrimination",
"Yeah, if they're saying the comedian's act is a \"thesis\", they've already proved the point that the comedian is not making jokes.",
"And here we get into the meat of it. \"Adjacentism\"\n\n A is sort of like B, and B is sort of like C and C is sort of like D, therefore A is D. \n\nA joke about AIDS is sort of like not taking AIDS seriously, which is kind of like disrespecting people with AIDS and that's kind of like disrespecting the gay community, and disrespecting the gay community is sort of like hostility toward the gay community and hostility is sort of like violence, so a joke about AIDS is violence. \n\nOffense is a subjective, personal choice. We, as a society need to be very careful about things like this and we're not being careful, we're being reckless. No, there's no blanket, but right now the blanket that best applies is \"Shut up, you don't decide what's offensive for everyone. Deal with your own emotions on your own.\" \n\nPerhaps we'll swing the other way at some point and \"Hey, let's everyone take it down a notch and be more sensitive\" will apply. But in society we really do deal in large blanket statements because society is so big. And that's dangerous when we're trying to censor people.",
"I just wish you'd learned something here. You rush to judge others and don't take the time to judge yourself.",
"Didn't say I was offended. Is that why you reply to all the thousands of posts you reply to, you're offended? Odd. \n\nI'm just making conversation.",
"I do have a personal stake. I'm not pretending to be anyone. \n\nDon't we all have a personal stake in this? Are you suggesting only people of a certain race, colour, or sex have stake in how we use language? \n\nOnly women get offended? Or black people? Or Asians? \n\nI'm so confused by your statement.",
"It's easy to spot who's very much compulsively identified- and this is the basis of all stupidity.",
"Is someone gonna tell this person about power dynamics",
"By this logic attempted murder should be legal because \"hey, if they were really murdered, they'd be dead\". \n\nIt's the act of monetarily attacking someone by bullying their sponsors that is deplorable, not the totality of the result. \n\nChristians used to do this with radio stations and TV advertisers in the 70's and 80's and while it wasn't always totally successful, it was still deplorable.",
"I meant sexual bucket. Male, female.",
">\\-somebody who made fun of me .. I’ll just suck it up. Sticks and stones and all that.\n\nYes. You're not so special you can't be made fun of. All of us can be made fun of. \n\n>for years and judged me. verbally and emotionally abused me. I’ll just suck it up. Sticks and stones and all that.\n\nNo. You should avoid that person because they've crossed the line between saying something and a pattern of hostile actions that demonstrate that they don't have your personal interests at heart. \n\nThis isn't about long term emotional abuse. This is about saying \"two Irishmen walk into a bar\" and someone getting together with a few other like minded people and going to the manager of the comedy club and trying to intimidate them into not hiring that comedian again because \"I was offended\". \n\nOr standing up and interrupting the show insisting that the comedian never tell that joke because \"I was offended\". \n\nOr telling people \"you can't say He or She because I'm offended\". Or \"you can't say Christmas, because I'm offended.\" \n\nThis is about authoritarianism by the minority to control the way people speak and thereby think.",
"> Go for it…probably won’t make it that far.\n\nif it's done right, it will go VERY far \n\nget out of here with your censorship",
"yeah idk what that means lol",
"no...absolutely not\n\nthese people just don't want to be censored, that is all. \n\nsource: SJWs try to censor folks ALL the time.",
"That's not censorship. You don't know what the meaning of that word is.\n\nIf you make shit sandwiches, and nobody wants to eat at your cafe, save for a few shit sandwich aficionados, it's not \"censorship\" if you go out of business because nobody eats what you're selling.\n\n\nIf you go out for a night out and try to meet girls, put on your best fedora, and get rejected despite all your attempts at negging them, you're not being censored, you're just an asshole no woman wants to be with.\n\nThe concept really isn't that hard.",
"Same here I'm trying to get you to understand that the premise of people should never be offended by words is just ridiculous, particularly when racism gets involved. Everyone tends to hate political correctness until it something specific that offends them.....",
"He says, while indoors",
"Which word is tripping you up?",
"That’s exactly it. Any line in the sand is arbitrary by nature. Where you draw the line doesn’t matter; the fact that the line was drawn is the point. So you can draw the line at fat jokes, racial jokes, religious jokes, political jokes, etc. - it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you drew the line - and that’s what Steve is talking about, the act of drawing the line, not the line itself.",
"Completely original. Never heard this joke before.",
"Don’t want to be censored… but want to censor other’s freedom of speech?",
"> but want to censor other’s freedom of speech?\n\nno, you idiot\n\nthe people making the jokes are PRO FREE SPEECH\n\nshocking, really.\n\nthe sad little sjws in the crowd are the ones attempting censorship",
"> You don't know what the meaning of that word is.\n\nyes, I do\n\n>If you make shit sandwiches\n\nthey're just jokes...if you are this easily offended then don't listen. \n\n>If you go out for a night out and try to meet girls, put on your best fedora, and get rejected despite all your attempts at negging them, you're not being censored, you're just an asshole no woman wants to be with.\n\n\nthe fuck are you smoking, stupid SJW, none of you know how to make a good analogy. \n\nthey're just jokes",
"I've never once said that no one should be offended ever at anything. You're shadowboxing with someone else who said something you don't like and putting me in their place.\n\nMy position has never been \"being offended is never right\", but that authoritarian movements to censor and change language are wrong. As a sweeping generalization, thoughts (yes, even horrible thoughts like fascism, communism, racism, and cancel culture) should be discussed. It is in these discussions that I hope that humanity learns more about these concepts prior to **ENGAGING** in them.\n\nYou have a personal choice to be offended or not, and maybe it isn't even a choice, but a natural reaction. That said, your being offended doesn't necessarily warrant any action by anyone else. Certainly, being offensive in some cases is a bigger deal than others, like diplomatic relations between nations.\n\nWalking around pretending you're the Queen of the internet and if anyone dares offend **YOU PERSONALLY** that they're automatically wrong, is what I'm against.",
"Awww, sounds like I triggered you. \n\nI guess you didn't read the part where I said \"I don’t think anything in comedy should be off limits...just ignoring shitty comedy is the better option\". \n\nBad troll. Go crawl back in your momma's ass and make yourself a sandwich.",
">no, you idiot\n\nYou’re the one looking stupid\n\n>the people making the jokes are PRO FREE SPEECH\n\nYes I know FFS. But thanks for taking the time to explain that to me\n\n>the sad little sjws in the crowd are the ones attempting censorship\n\nYes. The exact point I have made twice. But apparently you’re too dim to realise. To explain it again, just for you, those that want to have the freedom to be offensive don’t want to be offended by the opinion of those that contradict them, so seek to silence them.",
"how pretentious and awful can you be to try and tell other people what they can/can't find funny\n\nSome black people might laugh at a slavery joke. Not all. But some. because jokes. And that is their motherfucking right in this world. \n\nSo fuck you for telling people what they're AlLoWeD to laugh at. \n\ngrow up kid",
"> those that want to have the freedom to be offensive don’t want to be offended by the opinion of those that contradict them, so seek to silence them.\n\nnope, absolutely no\n\nyou idiot\n\nthey are open to discussion. \n\nSJWs are trying to cancel the discussion in a lot of places.",
"Sounds like someone didn't do too well at their school talent show.\n\nIt's OK to be offended that people may not think your jokes are funny. It's OK. The benefit to being held back a year or two is that you have more experience than the other kids in your class.",
"Be offended",
"and offensive music lyrics? What about those?\n\nPlease, oh please, tell me which songs are OK for me to listen to?????\n\nsilly little SJW, someday you'll grow up.",
"based on the acronym alone, my earlier description sounds accurate. they're feminists who exclude trans people from women-specific spaces?",
"This is true but it isn’t very funny.",
"Oh that's cute, your parents just let you listen to your first album with a \"Parental Advisory\" warning label on it! Sure sounds better without all the edits, doesn't it?\n\nIt's clear that you're trolling. Can you at least try to be funny?",
"your response is basically conceding that we need to meet halfway on whether nazis were good or not. nice job",
"Try again. There's these things called smartphones",
"This makes total sense actually!\n\nAs long as you look at comedy in a vacuum without considering anything about society, or social impact, or humanity, or history, or literally anything at all. Just one person without historical context standing in an empty room that exists outside of history and outside of society. So yeah sounds about right for a redditor, to imagine that's actually how the world works.",
">If you can provide examples like maybe any anti-fat or anti karen bathroom bills introduced in congress, or any hysteria reports about fat people coming for your children and corrupting them.\n\nThe bathroom has been in place for the safety and security of 50% of the population. No men in women's spaces protects women and young girls. It isn't just for bathrooms, but changing rooms and anywhere a woman might feel vulnerable. \n\nYou're not suggesting that making 50% of the population feel uncomfortable or unsafe is like segregating black people 13% of the population, when it only affects a portion of .3% of the population. \n\nYou're suggesting that having a law saying that that a full grown male cannot disrobe and show his penis to 8 year old girls in the changing room of a gym or pool is oppression.",
"Likely antivax, anti science, taxes = literal slavery types.",
"just like the comedian says, these are *school yard* level emotions that you're having trouble dealing with. \n\ngrow up little one, grow up",
"It can be an abusive environment.\n\nGoing to school and bring called racial slurs all day... \"it's just words, you sissy\"... No, it really isn't.",
"Thank god art does not concern itself with the delicate sensibilities of the braindead",
"Enjoy abusing people. \n\n\"Your punches are hurting me.\"\n\n*Nah, you're just a sissy for feeling pain.*",
"I wish that instead of splitting into groups that easily identify and abhor this behavior in others while ignoring it or tolerating it in their own circles, we can one day form groups that strive to be above all this dramatic exaggeration and victimhood and focus on pushing the human species forward.",
"What's not \"a good idea\" about it? Freedom of speech until some people who don't agree with you exercise it?\n\n\"Hunts you down\" what a crybaby. Having your comedy show canceled is not being \"hunted down\"",
"Political correctness is decades old.",
"How do vocal minorities succeed time and time again if the majority of the audience are still willing to pay money for a \"canceled\" product or service?",
"That's my favorite thing to say to people who say... \"Omg im offended!\"\n\n \"OK well... I'm offended you are offended. Now what?\"",
"\"Freedom of speech is great until it crosses the line in the sand that I drew\"",
"That's a dogshit comparison. You just compared physical harm to a fucking boycott.",
"Being a finn as well (Moro vaan!) I gotta say that words do have power, but it all depends on the context. Language is, in essence, a way of conveying power. Ranging from the ideological manifestos to the very mundane \"Go clean your room\", words do hold power, because words are power. Language is the number 1 reason why humanity has evolved to dominate the planet. I'd call that power.",
"So many offended people in this thread. Holy shit.",
"Because companies don’t want a PR headache and capitulate at the first sign of a Twitter mob.",
"I did. Why are those two things uncomparable?",
"A PR \"headache\" that's perpetuated by a minority of people? \n\nOk.",
"Right, it’s unfortunate.",
"Yes that is correct.\n\nI think your wording was ambiguous and the internet being the internet, people like me read it wrong.",
"This echoes what I've experienced with people who are on the more extreme end of wokeness. Very hard to communicate with those people without them twisting things at their end and consequently feeling personally attacked.\n\nIronic how they're convinced the world is against them, yet in reality they're their own worst enemies.",
"Thank you for explaining it so that a small-minded person such as myself can understand.",
"That's honestly a great way to explain it without getting bogged down in \"what ifs\".",
"I’ll make a broad claim. If you are constantly offended by things you don’t agree with, you’re the cry baby. \n\nYou’re logic is ass backwards. People need thicker skin.\n\nAnd yes. Trying to end someone’s livelihood because they don’t like what they say makes them a thin-skinned twat. People like that are non contributing zeros.",
"I'm glad I could help.",
"They’re not trying to censor anything, they’re literally saying you should be able to joke about anything, go right ahead,and that the audience shouldn’t complain or try to get them cancelled for it. You’re just so desperate for an argument you’re reading things into their comment which aren’t there",
"racist jealousy",
"if it's done right it will go very far\n\nto say otherwise is censorship",
"Truthfully making fun of the things that are most off-limits tends to be the most hilarious.",
"Firstly that isn’t censorship. Doubting how successful an artistic endeavour is likely to be isn’t censorship. They’re not trying to stop anything from being said or released, they’re just predicting that it’s probably not gonna be exceptionally popular.\n\nAnd secondly, the key word you missed out is *probably*. I mean most comics *probably* won’t be successful, it’s a competitive field. Doing controversial material *probably* won’t pay off either, unless you’re very good.",
"None of that sounds funny, or like comedy. I preferred Chapelle when he was still making jokes, rather than over focusing on preaching his personal philosophy.",
">the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.\n\nfuck off, moron\n\nknow the facts before you argue",
"Last I checked public indecency and sexual harassment, especially of minors is already a law. So why do we need an extra law that functions exactly the same but just for trans people?",
"They’re not suppressing it, they’re saying “go on stage and try it out”. I’m not gonna return the insult, cause that’s uncalled for. I just think you need to take a deep breath and calm down cause you’re literally not seeing this clearly at all and are very emotional.",
"\"Haha he's making fun of snowflake Christians.... wait you can't make jokes about LGBTQ/minorities/jews etc...\"",
"> probably won’t make it that far.\n\nsuppression, pure and simple \n\nto suggest otherwise is pure stupidity",
"And yet this opinion materialized as soon as boycotts got rebranded as \"cancel culture\" \n\nIf you can't handle people not liking something and telling other people not to like it too, sounds like they're not the only thin skinned little twats. \n\nFor example, nobody is stopping you from watching Dave Chappelle. You are just mad that other people don't like it, and without a shred of irony in the world, are calling other people thin-skinned",
"\"But the earth really does travel around the sun\"\n\n\\-Guy who was cancelled",
"Since you like definitions, here’s the definition of suppression \n\n> the act of ending something by force\n\n>or\n\n> the act of preventing something from being seen or expressed or from operating\n\nThey’re not advocating force and, as I’ve said, they’re saying “go ahead and try it in public, see if it works”, very much *not* attempting to stop it being seen. So no, I don’t think it’s pure and simple suppression.\n\nAgain I’d like to mention how easy it is to make points without insulting others, makes you seem like you’re struggling",
">the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.\n\n\njust....stop talking now, ok? you're a moron and it's hurting both of us.",
"They aren’t suppressing anyone or anything, they’re encouraging them to try it and accounting for the possibility they’ll succeed. Find something else to be upset about instead of copy and pasting the same definition you don’t understand.",
"> They aren’t suppressing anyone or anything\n\nyep, they are \n\ngood talk! \n\nand remember freedom of speech>>>>>>>>>>your feelings",
"Is downvoting my comments suppression? You’re lowering them in the section, are you trying to stifle my freedom of speech by stopping my comments being seen? That’s more suppressive than encouraging people to try risky comedy.",
">You should avoid that person because they've crossed the line between saying something and a pattern of hostile actions that demonstrate that they don't have your personal interests at heart.\n\nNow imagine if general society just did that to you most of the time because of the way you are. Can't avoid that.",
"If you're crying wolf and it leads to avoidable harm you'll get what's coming to you.\n\nLike the cliche \" yelling fire in crowds.\"",
"PC is a little more nuanced than just saying offensive things. For example, if you have a presumptive democracy based in equality, language that serves to subjugate a group is incommensurate with the polity itself. This implies that the speaker has some power over those they speak about, but that is often the case. Just calling someone an idiot isn't a PC violation.",
"Lol that’s ok it’s the internet. I offended people by saying it’s your choice to be offended. It’s a very offensive thing to say that you’re more powerful than you believe lol",
"You are confusing my post history with yours... \n\n\"Authoritarian governments\" you are down the far right Qanon path... \n\nI will double down on the triggering:-\n\nVaccine mandates/passports are a good thing climate change is real and we really should act on it....",
"Smartphones that work indoors",
"That’s obviously different then a joke.",
"The amount of people in the comments claiming that the routine isn't funny AND they are not offended is hilarious",
"Because being a kind person isn't controversial, everyone for the most part is on the same page.\n\nThe answer to your simple question",
"Twenty days ago you wrote this\n\n>Cheers mate I appreciate the non-attacking response where political views differ.\n\nNow you accuse me of supporting Qanon. Name one thing I've said in support of Qanon. You cannot. \n\nAs far as authoritarian governments, for 4 solid years I heard about the Trump fascist government and their authoritarian mandates, and before that about Bush and his authoritarian mandates and how police are essentially the \"jack booted thugs\" of the corporate monarchy. \n\nLet's talk about Texas. Do you think it's authoritarian to criminalize abortion? I mean.. I do. \n\nBut in order to try to \"win\" some meaningless internet argument you have to demonize your opponent. \n\nVaccines are good, I'm vaccinated. Mandating vaccines is questionable at best and I completely understand why people are against that. Covid panic is bad. \n\nClimate change is real, of course it is. The climate is always changing. \n\n\"Something\" is a broad term. I'm for cleaning up our environment and pursuing green and more efficient fuel sources. \n\nDid you do it? Did you trigger me? Do I appear triggered? Also, it's apparent that you're \"woke cult\", so I'll give you some advice. When you try to turn their words around on them, that's when they know that those words really affect you. You should stay away from the words they use, it just lets them know your weakness.",
"Exactly my point.",
"Because.... it appears that this is their argument.... grown men not being able to show their penises to little girls is oppression.",
"This comment section is peak IRONY. Everyone in here getting offended by the video lol",
"That’s been Chappelle’s schtick for a large part of his career. All of his specials on Netflix dealt with race and intersectionality in some form, and even Chappelle’s show had large parts of it that dealt with the hypocrisy of race relations. Part of what makes his comedy so good is that it has a nugget of truth to it and can say something about our society. If you don’t think it’s funny, that’s fine. But it’s been a major part of Chappelle’s comedy for a long time.",
"What I don't get is that Dave chapelle has poked fun on just about every race during his run on Chappelle's show. How are you going to say one thing is off limits and expect it to be fair. Comedy can't be censored like that. It's really an interesting debate but it would be a shame if comedians start censoring their content.",
"I don't think there's much value in continuing, thanks for the discussion have a nice day.",
"I understand, it looks like things didn't go your way. \n\nI'm hoping that you'll keep an open mind about maybe looking a little inward after this and examine some of the hate you hold in your heart. It's natural to be tribal and to hate, it makes us feel right and righteous, but it also divides us. \n\nI personally think it's better to seek understanding than to foster hate. Write back someday if you find yourself agreeing with that.",
"No I've just decided there's no value in continuing any discussion with you and your self-righteous views",
"“I am a humanitarian but not for the Jews”\n\nSee how that last part kind of undermines the first part and likely would make a Jewish person justifiably concerned?",
"“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”\n\n-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations-\n\nThings like that are always a problem and always will be a problem. People need help dealing with things like that bc it will always happen. There’s always going to be “the other” and they will be verbally attacked if not worse. That’s why it’s important to cultivate a mindset that’s powerful from the inside out. Not fake power, not running away from feelings, but real power from understanding that people who are racist (or any other ism) are racist for a reason and they do more harm to themselves than to the group they target).",
"Well... come on, mate. You're not self righteous? \n\nI think the point is we have to try to move past that. You started off by calling me a white male... insinuating that you're so right that only a white male would disagree with you. \n\nDoesn't that sound like it's a wee self-righteous?",
"But grown men could just as easily be showing their penises to little boys in the men's restroom. I don't get what your point is. Further, women's restrooms have stalls, so unless you're in some kind of third world bathroom, I don't get what your issue is. In the case of trans men (based on your comments you would probably just refer to these as women) in the men's restroom, if they are post op, they would just use a urinal like any other man with a penis. If they aren't post op, they would just use a stall anyway. It seems like you're just hyperfocused on pedophilia and channeling those feelings into trans hate, which seems like your own issue.",
"Everyone loves this line of thinking until it offends their personal ideologies.",
"I've already responded to another one of your inane views elsewhere in this post so let's try again. If you try to murder someone and you succeed, they are in fact dead. They cannot live out a simple life like the rest of us peons. They're just dead. If, GOD FORBID, a famous person gets fully 'cancelled' and actually has to change their career then they just become a person who used to be famous. They would just have to make a living in some other fashion like the rest of us. But they wouldn't even have to do that. They could just move to somewhere with a lot of obtuse, emotionally charged people like you and keep telling their shitty opinions to make a simple living without actually even having to do any hard work like regular people do. Oh no, they don't get to be richer than everybody else for no good reason anymore. Boo hoo. Being murdered and not getting to be rich for saying whatever you feel like into a microphone anymore aren't the same thing, obviously.",
"Well, you sort of hit the nail on the head in some regards. \n\nHow do you define trans? Post op, pre op and now there's \"social trans\". It used to be that there was an expectation of someone who identified as trans to be on hormones and be working toward an operation and complete change from MTF or FTM. \n\nMen, sharing a showering space with boys and women with little girls has been socially accepted because we live in a hetero normative world. We need to, because heterosexuality is normal. If that weren't the case, we'd probably die out as a species. So saying \"Yabut penises in the boys locker room\" is really a non starter for an argument. \n\nMen's restrooms have stalls too, so why put doors on them at all? This is a specious argument. Sounds great until you realize that you're not thinking it through. The entire place is meant to be a sex specific place, not just the stalls. \n\nI'm fine with post op trans people living as the sex they've transitioned to. Never even suggested otherwise.",
"And I apologised for offending you when I assumed you were a white male, on a post where you are saying people shouldn't get offended..... You never did answer if you were a white male or not, the majority who have your views are....",
"Talk about inane views, this one takes the cake. Not certain if you're even serious. \n\nI didn't compare the result of murder to cancelling. It's idiotic to suggest that this is what I did and I'm not certain who would read it that way. \n\nI was comparing cancelling as an action to the result of \"oh well they're not fully cancelled\" and saying that it's OK because they weren't \"Truly cancelled\" as the person I was responding to said, with attempting to murder someone not being so bad because they weren't \"Truly\" murdered. \n\nIs there a class you can take to understand that when you compare two things you're not saying that those things are the same thing? Or maybe how to read a comparison so that you don't sound like this? \n\nI can't wait to read your other response, it promises to be entertaining.",
"You know, some people have been called racial slurs while being bullied or attacked or intimidated so it becomes a pavlovian response to feel heightened anxiety and adrenaline etc when someone random hits you with it",
"They have taken on fighting against trans rights under the guise of feminism. \n\nThey aren’t ignoring trans issues and focusing on their own, they are working against trans rights.",
"Ahh, yes. We need to promote heteronormativity because all of the cis hetero people are being discriminated against. News flash, if our species is going to die out, it's likely going to be due to causes stemming from overpopulation. So while heteronormativity is 'normal' in the sense that it's what the most people identify with, it is in no way necessary. Furthermore, it isn't even fair to say that its what most people would identify with if we had a sizable control group of people who were raised in a non heteronormative society. But we obviously don't, because we can't, because people from the old guard are apparently too insecure to just let people use the facilities that they prefer to use. If I feel feminine one day and masculine on another day, why shouldn't I be able to use the women's restroom one day and the men's restroom another day? My point is, if I'm just some kind of predator in disguise, which seems to be an indirect assertion you're making about trans women, why is it okay for me to use the bathroom or locker room with little boys but not with little girls? Also, are you saying that a post op trans woman couldn't just as easily be a predator? Or a cis woman for that matter? And if you're just worried about children asking parents 'uncomfortable' questions, then your shifting the onus onto people who didnt even make the decision to have children just because you assume parents are unable to communicate with their children openly and honestly about subjects that will be prevalent throughout their lives. Nothing you've said here is convincing in the least, but I'm glad you were able to use the word 'specious'. Where would you like your PhD sent?",
"But that's not all the term is limited to. It also encapsulates those who simply ignore it.",
"I think you might need to take a step back and look up the meaning of the term instead of trying to break it down and define it yourself.\n\nTake a look at its history and who it is applied to.",
"In your metaphor, being successfully murdered is in direct comparison to being successfully canceled. In the real world, these have extremely different consequences. That's the entire point. You're making an extreme comparison just for the sake of exaggeration knowing full well that the comparison would be totally moot if both scenarios were played out fully. You're not here to argue in good faith You're a troll who's only here to waste yours and other peoples' time and think that you're somehow winning something by doing so. Don't expect any further replies.",
"\"Trans excluding Radical Feminist\"\n\n\"a feminist who excludes the rights of transgender women from their advocacy of women's rights.\"\n\nI've seen women being called TERFs while not actively fighting against trans rights.",
"Words and sayings only have the meaning you attribute to them. When mom says go clean your room, the words have power because her words have inherit value to you, especially in that context. If I said go clean your room, as a stranger on the internet, that's not going to mean anything. If something happened where you no longer valued your mother or her words, that's a possible secanrio in which the value of those words change.\n\nSo you are right, in a way. Words do hold power, *but*, only as much as we allow them, whether consciously or subconsciously.",
"Okay what were they doing when this happened?",
">In your metaphor, being successfully murdered is in direct comparison to being successfully canceled. \n\nWow.... not even remotely close. And I've already shown that. The original point was that no one was \"truly\" cancelled. So the original comparison is that not being \"truly\" cancelled is OK so not being \"truly\" murdered must be OK as well. \n\nAmazing. Absolutely amazing. Please, by all means, strut around more and proclaim yourself smarter than others. \n\n>Don't expect any further replies.\n\nYou cannot take from me, sir, anything that I would sooner part withall.",
">We need to promote heteronormativity because all of the cis hetero people are being discriminated against.\n\nNot even remotely my point. \n\n>Furthermore, it isn't even fair to say that its what most people would identify with if we had a sizable control group of people who were raised in a non heteronormative society.\n\nWhat an idiotic point. This environment would be artificial. Humans are, by nature, heterosexual. Are you suggesting that aliens built our society? How did we get to be so heteronormative? Because humans built society. \n\n>If I feel feminine one day and masculine on another day, why shouldn't I be able to use the women's restroom one day and the men's restroom another day?\n\nSo that women who are female every single day don't have to be inconvenienced by your whims. \n\n>why is it okay for me to use the bathroom or locker room with little boys but not with little girls? \n\nThe reason we separate boys and girls is that we can't stop little boys from seeing penises as they have one, and we can't stop little girls from seeing vaginas as they have one. What we can prevent is having to introduce sexuality to children before they develop to the point where it's relevant in their own lives. \n\nAdditionally, we remove the awkward and uncomfortable and often shameful feeling we have of being sexually ogled by members of the opposite sex. \n\n>Also, are you saying that a post op trans woman couldn't just as easily be a predator?\n\nYou seem fixated on predatory behavior. I'm not saying that, but there's reasonable precautions and unreasonable precautions. \n\n>And if you're just worried about children asking parents 'uncomfortable' questions, then your shifting the onus onto people who didnt even make the decision to have children just because you assume parents are unable to communicate with their children openly and honestly about subjects that will be prevalent throughout their lives. \n\nNow you're an expert on how other people should raise their children? Anyway I outlined the other aspects here. Your arguments are getting more ridiculous. \n\n>Where would you like your PhD sent?\n\nI'd put it with the others.",
"Do you think maybe people insulting people on Twitter might not be the best way to define terms?",
"Sort of good observational humor about current zeitgeist, but hinged on a too simplistic POV. He could cut a little closer to the bone IMHO.",
"I defended Rowling till she wrote an antitrans essay with no basis in science, she unfortunately does seem to be anti trans rights",
"I don't think you get... anything.",
"Scientific **facts** = transphobic.\n\nAlright xd I suppose the sun isn't hot either",
"Wow I hope you aren't serious. You've lost most your brain if you are.",
">Bo made it big by being very talented and making self-deprecating joke songs on YouTube ages ago as a kid in his room.\n\n\nOne of his songs us called little Adolf, and talks about killing all the \"juice\".\n\nHe's funny, I realize the humor, I was just pointing out that this person said a rich white kid making jokes about black and Jewish people wouldn't make it far.\n\nBo is rich and white, from Boston, and made lots of jokes about \"the blacks, the guys, the jews\" and made it VERY far.\n\nBut people hate facts.",
"https://youtu.be/AA1ZmXmz-7o",
"Operative word here: *Livelihood*.\n\nI don't give a fuck if you eat at Chik-fil-a, watch duck dynasty, or anything in between. I have zero fucks to give how people spend their earned money and time for that matter.\n\nHowever, if you are actively campaigning to have someone lose their job because of something said, you're a thin-skinned twat.\n\nOh, and Dave Chappelle released a response (after the recent special) soon after commenting how every movie company wouldn't touch him for his next documentary. If it weren't for Netflix, he would have been de-platformed because a small group of people can't handle jokes at their expense.",
"You definitely missed the point.",
"But he made *jokes* about those topics. I've read Facebook boomer rants funnier than his latest special.",
">However, if you are actively campaigning to have someone lose their job because of something said, you're a thin-skinned twat.\n\nI just don't understand how the hypocrisy isn't glaringly obvious here. Who gives a fuck if other people are calling for anything. You can consume the content or not, without a fuck given what other people think. Yet here you are, being thin skinned on the internet because other people don't like the content.\n\nOnce again, if it's just a vocal minority, why are companies caving to them when a vast majority of people will still purchase and consume the content?",
"All right, you're really struggling buddy so I'm just gonna let you have the last word. The floor is yours",
"I mean, that was Carlin's entire career, and people treat him like he was the greatest comedian to ever walk the Earth.\n\nRanting as a comedian is, as is anything, the best thing ever so long as you agree with it *a priori*. Otherwise it's unfunny, crass, offensive, oppressive, or whatever you need to tell yourself to convince yourself that it's anything but your preconceived ideas talking.",
"> So would you crack jokes about people with learning difficulties around friends or family?\n\nI call my friends and family \"people with learning difficulties\" literally daily, so yes, yes I would.",
"What gave you the impression that Chappelle was a feminist to begin with?",
">But yeah the trans community sure has had it easy and needed a reality check! Bs black and white takes like yours aint it.\n\nJokes are not a vehicle for delivering social justice. People aren't made fun of because they somehow \"deserve it\".",
">That’s not being cancelled. That’s an entirely different form of sustained and illegal harassment.\n\nThat *is* what being cancelled is. You just don't hear about it because your hugbox only shows you the lovey-dovey, heckin valid and brave part of it.",
">Enjoy abusing people.\n\nI do, thanks!",
"What are you talking about, there are literally entire subreddits dedicated to nothing but heckin' wholesome motivational hugbox bullshit, comedy routines included.\n\nInstead ask yourself why this won't fly in one of those subs.",
"My hugbox?",
"Yeah, people are quick to say “PC culture” is bad, but then provide the least offensive examples. If you are a dick to people, you will be “canceled” and this isn’t a new concept.",
"Louis CK is not known to be a particularly \"PC\" comedian, but at least he had enough brains to realize that being a straight white guy means that it's much harder to offend you.",
">Either everyone is fair game or no one is.\n\nThis is childish logic. Basically this amounts to you saying \"I am going to wilfully ignore the existence of nuance because nuance is too confusing for me.\"\n\nAlso, it's amazing that you're trying to dismiss trans activists because they're not out there doing activism for *literally every other marginalized group*. You're setting an impossible standard so that you can conveniently justify ignoring trans activists. It's almost like you're looking for an excuse.\n\nWhen you're a victim of a specific form of bigotry, obviously you're going to prioritize addressing that specific type of bigotry in your life. Not everyone's given the luxury of being able to pick from a menu of various social justice causes. For some people, the choice is made for them by virtue of their personal circumstances.\n\nIf you think that other marginalized groups aren't getting enough support from activists, be the change you want to see in the world. Get out there and start helping those under-served groups instead of whining about how trans people have it too easy.",
"Not everyone has the luxury of \"ignoring\" bigotry. Some people are actually directly affected by it. For some people, bigotry does more than just ruin the funniness of a Netflix comedy special.\n\nI understand your heart's in the right place here, but it is pretty ridiculous to act like the biggest issue with Chapelle's special is that *it* *didn't make you laugh.*",
"He made jokes in this one too. It sounds like you didn’t like them, which is okay.",
">Jokes are a sacred art form.\n\nlmfao",
"The best comedy is the type that takes something about life and finds the humor in it. He’s not just making comedy, he’s making art that is also funny. Should art not have a point or a thesis?",
"Not everyone. There are a some thoughtful people who don’t act like fascists and try to silence people they disagree with.",
"So you think certain people should not be allowed to be joked about? Sounds like fascism.",
"I don’t think he was just bitching about cancel culture. I think he had a point about intersectionality that I outlined above and elsewhere. He had plenty of jokes, the entire thing was filled with jokes. He was just using that humor to tell his experiences with with intersectionality. If you didn’t think they were funny, that’s fine. Art is subjective. But this special (and really all of his others, dating at least back to Chappelle’s show) were always his opinions/experiences on race. A lot of folks on both sides of this thing just aren’t really listening.",
"That is the most ridiculous thing I’ve read all day.",
"Let me guess. You are about to lecture somebody on how they should never make fun of certain people because you are a joy killing fascist dick?",
"So...you have suffered and had to work to overcome abuse, and ultimately where you landed is that you don't care that other people experience the same thing.\n\nSounds like you've had your empathy stripped from you, dawg. Sorry about what's happened to you.",
"The \"mob\" does not ban them on Twitter. Twitter bans them on Twitter. Twitter is a private company that can do whatever they want.",
"This is not complicated, you are capable of understanding but you dont because it would threaten your fragile, simple world.\n\nJokes have meaning, and they have context. Making a joke does something. In some cases, it does harm. Whether it does harm depends quite a lot on the power dynamics between parties involved (comedian, audience, targets, bystanders, etc).\n\nOh and fascism has a definition, which you seem to have never learned. But it would probably make your worldview too complex. Stay happy in your bubble of universals and essentialism.",
"Uh hu. Corporate control trumps free speech.\n\nI find is strange you agree with that. Strange flex. But okay .",
"Free speech has literally never extended to corporations. I have no idea what you are talking about.\n\nTwitter is banning users for spreading misinformation. What is considered misinformation changes with time. I don't understand how this is difficult.",
"Wow you're so big and tough. \n\nYou just sound like a child.",
"I guess it would be if it was true and didn't exist entirely in your imagination.",
"You're literally crying about people opinions not matching your own and you're too ignorant to realise it. Its truly incredible how dense people like you are. \n\nYou keep repeating over and over again how much you don't give a fuck while obviously really giving a whole lot of fucks.",
"Well, I should add the caveat that there are some conservative white men who get really, really offended really, really easily.",
"Being cancelled is whatever fits your narrative at any given moment.",
"Lol what are you watching that makes you think the lab leak theory is now considered the most likely scenario?!?! Hahahaha jesus.\n\nIt's a potential but currently unverifiable theory.",
"You're not making yourself look very intelligent here.",
"You're resorting to insulting strangers on the internet here.\n\nWay to go with the crowd.",
"What is the most likely scenario?",
"Please stop being so stupid, it's painful to read. You're conflating entirely different things. There have always been religious fundamentalists. Learn some history.",
"I'm deeply sorry I expressed my opinion on something on Reddits comment section .\n\nI am very sorry for disrespecting your corporate overlords.",
"Thank you. I'll use it to say that we both know that you're indoors.",
"Making things up doesn't help your argument. Nobody has defended beheadings. You're just talking pure gibberish.",
"Yes, you are a stranger on the internet. And yes, I am absolutely insulting you're intelligence",
"dead serious you stupid fucking SJW\n\nget a therapist!",
"I'm literally not even advocating that corporations should restrict speech. I'm just saying that complaining about \"cancel culture\" and citing corporations modulating their platforms makes no sense.\n\nCorporations have always, justified or not, have had the ability to regulate what kinds of stuff is on their platform. It has nothing to do with being \"cancelled\"",
"Probably that it spread from animals to humans at one of the Wuhan wet markets.\n\nIts possible it came from a lab leak but theres currently no evidence to support that theory other than the location of the lab in Wuhan.",
"You're conflating what you call cancel culture with beheadings by religious fundamentalists. That's absolutely ridiculous unless you're now stretching the term cancel culture to include all acts of religious fundamentalism. \n\nWho knew the crusades were just one giant act of cancelling.",
"Nope.",
"Again with the fucking crusades. Is there anything you won't defend in the name of your precious crusades? \n \nWho is responsible for the crusades then? Why do they deserve to be beheaded? Samuel Paty was beheaded because crusades is cancel culture? \n \nYeah, sounds about reddit. \n \nThank god I walked away from the left. What a bunch of nutjobs. \n \n> all acts of religious fundamentalism. \n \nOnly one religion responsible for it though. The one you call \"ally\".",
"It spread from bats at a wet market over 1000kms from the bats natural habitat during their hibernation period?\n\nThe loose proof is the lab in Wuhan was doing research on coronaviruses in collaboration with the American government. Finding their risk potential by increasing the infectivity in humans (gain of function research.).\n\nIf this spread from horseshoe bats we would have a string of cities between Wuhan and near Vietnam. The proof in that is its incredibly infectious.\n\nIt looks like we will never have proof. But when it quacks like a duck. It's a duck. There sure lot of individual professionals that are suggesting the lab leak scenario is the most likely scenario. \n\nDo you think the CCP has no say in how major social media platforms behave?",
"The phrase butthurt victim blames anal rape victims. I’m offended.",
"Well I disagree. And I believe free speech should be a monumental part of internet.\n\nAaron Swartz would too.",
"nah man, it's probably more that you're saying you know the experience of the n word.",
"you can probably see my other comments in this very thread.",
"You're either intentionally misrepresenting my words to make them weaker (aka strawmanning) or you lack the reading comprehension and/or logical reasoning to have a productive conversation. Disagreeing with someone isn't the same thing as witch hunting their livelihood. One is indifference; the other is malice.\n\nI have found that whether one strawmans or can't read/logic well, they are a waste of time interacting with further. Good day.",
"Disagreeing is indifference; witch hunting is malice. Cancel culture is just a new brand of cyberbullying. People should not be an ignorant statement away from being out of work. The lack of humility that these chosen people have been enlightened and the people who think differently are to be culled in the town square. Very original shit\n\nIt is that pompous, arrogant attitude of self-righteous people who are virtue signaling shit they just agreed on 5 minutes ago.",
"My biggest issue with Chapelle’s special is that is didn’t make me laugh. That’s not ridiculous. What’s ridiculous is acting like it affects me more deeply because I’m trying to be affected on someone else’s behalf.\n\nI respect that other people had a deeper experience with his content than I did, but that is their experience and not mine. That’s okay. We don’t all need to act like we’re having the same experience.",
"Yep.",
"I can't tell if you're aiming that at me, or the guy I replied to trying to redefine being cancelled so it doesn't include the most severe forms of it.",
"I mean, it is pretty ridiculous that you apparently value your own fleeting entertainment over the welfare of marginalized human beings.\n\nAre you familiar with the concept of \"empathy\"? And are you capable of thinking critically about a piece of entertainment beyond your own immediate visceral reaction to it?",
"I have sympathy with the marginalized groups affected by his content. To say I have empathy with them would just be lying. I don’t share their experience.",
"Ok, so you I guess you *don't* understand the concept of empathy. \"Empathy\" refers to the capacity of human beings to use their brains to occupy the perspective of *another human person*. By definition, it means understanding an experience that is different from your own.\n\nI can't tell if you think that pretending to be incapable of \"empathy\" makes you seem like some cool, calculating, highly rational person. But it doesn't. It just makes you seem like a sociopath. And maybe you are, idk.",
"You guys should realize this has degraded into a semantic argument.",
"You can choose to believe that is a lie, as you can choose to believe anything I say is a lie.",
"It's not a semantic argument, it's just a very one-sided argument in which u/ lootboxboy is attempting to argue that it's normal and OK to not place any value on the welfare of other people.",
"nah, you're just being elusive so your arguments don't fall to shit.",
"American stand up is streets ahead",
"You just described sympathy and told me it’s empathy. You might want to Google the difference between them before you school me with your wokeness.",
"...your last post was an argument about the definition of \"empathy.\" That's literally semantics. If you disagree with his concept of empathy it could be that you're assumptions about his actual feelings are incorrect, since you're questioning his ability to communicate those feelings effectively.",
"Just because I had to define a term for them doesn't mean the entire argument is about semantics. Having a shared understanding of words is a prerequisite for any meaningful argument about anything.\n\nIt's not that I \"disagree\" with their concept of empathy. Their concept of empathy is just wrong. They do not know what the word means.\n\nBut, per their own description, they seems to lack empathy. You don't need to know what the the word \"empathy\" means in order to lack it.",
"No, I didn't. Once again, you literally do not understand the concept of empathy.\n\nDefined by Oxford Dictionaries: \"the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.\"\n\nMerriam Webster: \"the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner.\"",
"[You’re wrong](https://contenthub-static.grammarly.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/empathy-vs-sympathy-examples.jpg). I’m sorry, that sucks.",
"That...is a cartoon. And it doesn't even contradict the two dictionary definitions I just provided. \n\nIf you're using Grammarly cartoons to try and figure out what words mean, maybe you should have a bit more humility about your understanding of the english language.",
"k you spend your time debating a growing number of increasingly fanatical idiots. surely you will debatelord them into abandoning their identity which mandates agreeing with anything Tucker Carlson jams into their heads.",
"I didn't say the entire argument was about semantics. I said it had devolved into a semantic argument. Which is what's happening here. So have a good night.",
"Thanks for the contribution",
"How would my argument fall to shit? Explain in detail. What part of my argument depends on being a certain race or sex and how does it fall apart if I'm not that race or sex? \n\nThere are 330,000,000 US citizens. My argument somehow hinges on my own personal experiences? As if, if I were Asian, or White, then suddenly my argument is no longer valid? Because words are magic and hurt White/Black/Asian/Hispanic people but nobody else?",
"Yeah. Unless he refocusing on actually being an entertainer rather than preaching I'm not going to be interesting in checking his stuff out",
"no, you couldn't possibly understand the experiences of a group of people without experiencing it in all it's subtle iterations. You claimed to have been on the receiving end of the n-word. That word wouldn't effect me, but if I were to be called a Fenian or a Taig then it would bother me. that's the difference.",
"Sure thing boss.",
"Even more relevant today. We are doomed with the status quo.",
"Firstly, this is very far away from your original point. Can you point to someone who has had their \"lifestyle, career, or business\" taken away by being \"cancelled?\" \n\nSecondly, free speech and being cancelled are literally not at all related. I literally do not know why you think they are related. The idea that \"you can say anything you want on the internet without being moderated\" is an idea that has not been true since the internet has existed, independently of \"cancel culture,\" which is relatively recent.",
"Space Jews was def a joke and I thought it was hilarious.\n\nAlso story telling can be a form of comedy in and if it’s own and not every comedy routine needs to be a series of granular, formulaic jokes. I’d argue the best forms aren’t.",
"Jesus Christ dude that’s not fucking fascism. You think a defining quality of nazi Germany or Franco’s Spain was you couldn’t tell jokes about certain groups like Jews and trans? That it wasn’t socially acceptable.\n\nStop making the wokies look reasonable by comparison.",
"I don’t think it’s sacred I just don’t think it’s actually very harmful. \n\nJokes don’t make people prejudiced or cruel, and teasing isn’t violence.\n\nI grew up in a very mixed race environment (Talib’s district, black, arab, white and latin in that order) and people making jokes and not being uptight was a sign of comradeship and ease. It’s when people didn’t feel like they could joke that shit was going bad, and a joke could easily cut the tension especially if there was a little self depreciation built in.",
"Nah, I’m Catholic and I tell altar boy jokes and shit all the time. I grew up super poor and in violence and joke about it as well.\n\nSome people just don’t see treating humor from entertainers or randos as the equivalent of platform position from politicians.\n\nWe’re not all culture warriors. Yet.",
"> Being cancelled isn't real. If someone can go on twitter or youtube or do a Netflix stand-up show to complain about how they have been cancelled, they weren't cancelled.\n\nNo, the cancelling just didn't *work*. Cancelling is a modern form of shunning. If you try to shun someone, but half of your community doesn't participate, then the shunning fails. That doesn't mean you didn't try to shun someone. Then there's a partial cancelling, where people might lose their jobs or their family or community, but that also isn't cancelling according to people like you, because the victims don't have the common courtesy to just off themselves. Justine Sacco, for example. And then sometimes they *do* off themselves, like August Ames. \n\nAnd regardless if your shunning works, it's always psychologically damaging, because we're social animals.",
"Because they are backed up by institutional powers — wokeness is the etiquette of t he Professional Managerial Class and they are effectively bottlenecks on any kind of cultural production because they sign the deals and produce the content.\n\nTheir sense of propriety and moralism can be countered by appealing to the cold hard cash sensibilities of the investors class/capital that they work for.\n\nIe - your manager may want to punish you for saying the bad thing and will as long as their boss doesn’t notice and agree it can make them money.",
"> Can you point to someone who has had their \"lifestyle, career, or business\" taken away by being \"cancelled?\" \n\nJustine Sacco. August Ames. Ironically, Adria Richards and her victim. Becca Tuvell (sp??). Kathleen Stock. And presumably a lot whom we don't hear about.",
"Not liking Doritos and actively trying to get Doritos banned so no one can have them are obviously not the same thing and this is really clearly sophistry.",
"They are literally doing the exact same thing as One Million Moms and the religious right did all through the 80’s and 00’s.\n\nThe second the vague socially left of center achieved cultural power they began to behave just like the religious right in this regard. \n\nHard Pass as an old leftie who remembers how stupid and shitty or\nis/was.",
"Sophistry. \n\nIs attempted theft not a crime? Attempting a crime is a crime and you understand that this is a categorical reality and chose to hone in on an irrelevant aspect because it was easier than dealing with the actual argument.",
"There’s no direct evidence of either but a lab leak is the simplest explanation with the most circumstantial evidence.\n\nPolling does indicate it is the most widely accepted explanation as well, so what they said was technically true and regardless, a pretty good point.\n\nThe censorship was insane and there’s been no reckoning with it, let alone accountability in the panic rush to keep message discipline … err,\nfight misinformation.",
"This. I’m berated by sanctimony and moralism daily lol. \n\nAll kinds of people willing to let thousands of kids die every year because they can’t get adequate medical care saying namaste and shit.\n\nI can’t walk down the street without seeing “in this house” yard signs letting me know I’m fucked up for not huffing my own farts.\n\nWe get it. You’re really into seeming good. I grew up Catholic, this isn’t nee to me like it is you (the rhetorical) you.",
"You don't know how that word affects those people, but you know that no one can know how that word affects people? \n\nBut if someone called you sassenach you'd know how that word affects you, but you're certain it's not the same way? \n\nSo your contention is that the N word is magic and you're some kind of mage who knows things beyond what her blood magic should know? \n\nHey, is [this person black](https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/8loc66/i_dont_care_about_the_nword/)? They claim to be and don't care about the word. \n\nBut it sounds to me like it's your whole argument that hinges on me being a certain race. If I'm Asian, Hispanic or white, then I can't possible know how this one word affects Black people, I mean... not as deeply as you do. Because it's magic, and you have to BE Black to understand it. And you know that... because you're not Black. \n\nWhat if we make that 1 word the exception? Can we get rid of PC and cancel culture then?",
"Love Steve Hughes",
"LOL dude. That's a lot of words you just put in my mouth. No thanks, I'm good.",
"Precisely my point. However when you're emotionally attached to a sense of self that relies upon your tribe being 100% right about everything, it's difficult for humans to take a critical look at what they're doing and why. \n\nWe judge our enemies by their worst actions and ourselves by our best intentions.",
"you're being intentionally obtuse, you initially never claimed to be black and actively avoided saying so because you're resting on the assumption that you could be. At which point you stated you've been called the n-word still avoiding whether it's applicable too you. If you're some straight white american dude then you're being deceitful to pretend you COULD be an authority on the subject when you're not.",
"I'm not arguing from authority. Never have been. I've never said \"I'm this race, so I know\". Someone asked me if I've ever been on the receiving end and I have, in a friendly and unfriendly way. By regular people and police officers. By white folks and black folks. Those are just facts. \n\nI'm not being obtuse, I understand your argument that is based on identity politics and the oppression scale. \n\nMy argument isn't from authority. I'm saying that words have whatever power we give them, and you can choose to be offended or not, no one can stop you. As a society, world wide, we have a culture that outlines acceptable and unacceptable behavior organically and PC culture and cancel culture seek to do so inorganically, by changing the narrative and like you're doing right here, focusing on irrelevancies as if they were critical to the argument. \n\nThey're not. I've never said I was white, or male, or black, or female and if you think that you're going to get me to suddenly open up to you, a stranger on the internet, you're severely freakin mistaken. I don't owe you my identity and the reason I'm not giving it is PRECISELY to avoid the argument from authority. You have to judge my words on their own merit, not AABM.",
"Words have power in how their wielded and by those that receive them. not just that they offend people, but that they proliferate hate and actions. The idea that words are utterly neutral is ridiculous. Hey maybe you're a stone and impervious to words but that's the nature of this conversation, lots of people aren't and less so around certain topics that are either inflammatory ideas they take as fact and begin hating people for differences or just catch all bigoted talk they hear in passing that informs how they should think of themselves. The idea that offense is taken not given is something I don't subscribe to. When I was growing up, I lived with soldiers walking around dropping the odd offensive term to me and people in my area, when I had the shit kicked out of me it was to the words paddy, taig, fenian. The police force would march alongside orange men, when my sister was a kid she was intentionally run over by soldiers. I'm privileged now, but you'd not believe the shit i've still heard when living on mainland uk when people don't know i'm there. All this shit informs what power words have.",
"Oh, dudebros, they're just the worst.",
"Nothing's funnier than putting things into historical context.",
"How offended are you? On a scale of Taco bell to Deliverance, how butthurt are you? I'm only asking to know the degree of sympathy or empathy to apply, too much or too little might reoffend you by the wrong intensity of response.",
"Image typing the extra 'e' to project your accent identity over text. Yall.",
"Oh the favorite clip of the racists and the bigots.",
"None of my thoughts were provoked by anything he said. i didn't laugh either.\n\nHonestly whatever he was trying to do he failed miserably at it.\n\nHe closed by telling us all how his trans friend comitted suicide. I was thinking to myself. Did this trans person commit suicide because she was upset young people were fighting for trans rights or was it because people like Chapelle were denying her identity as a woman and insisted on saying she was a man and they were on team TERF.\n\nEven the kicker backfired on him and cause me to think maybe this friend committed suicide because Chappell himself was constantly riding her about not being a real woman.",
"If you have to explain it then it wasn't funny.",
">How are you going to say one thing is off limits and expect it to be fair. Comedy can't be censored like that.\n\nNobody said it's off limits. Nobody censored him.\n\nPeople did say it wasn't funny (and it wasn't) and people did say he was a piece of shit for punching down on trans people and he was a giant piece of shit for punching down on trans people.\n\n>It's really an interesting debate but it would be a shame if comedians start censoring their content.\n\n\n\nIt would be a shame if the audience were to start censoring what they thought about the show and what they thought about the comedian.",
"Completely false.\n\nThere's circumstantial evidence for both theories.\n\nYou're trying yourself in knots here. There was insane censorship of the lab leak theory but it's still the most widely accepted according to polling? So even though theres no real consensus among experts in the fields the public have come to a consensus and its the one that's been banned? It's almost as if it's actually the theory heavily backed by one political party and all the associated media and the reason it was classed as disinformation was because people like you are without any evidence claiming that it's the most likely scenario.",
"Sorry who's been \"banned\" due to cancel culture?",
"You've just made up what cancelling is to fit you're argument. And I'm sure in the future youllinvent a new definition to suit another argument. It's complete fantasy.",
"Okay logic master.",
"Words have hurt more people than fists ever have. I know people who are still in therapy over what words did to them.\n\nBut fuck those people right? They are just pussies for people like you to fuck.",
"It doesn't have to have been from bats and sorry but your logic doesn't hold because it just has to be one crossover event. Ot doesn't mean it happens with all bats everywhere. \n\nThere are more professionals who are asserting that theres no real evidence to make any determination.\n\nDo you think the US government doesn't have more say in how major social media platforms behave? It's like you all conveniently forget the US is the dominant world super power and like to imagine China as bogeyman. Embarrassing.",
"Yeah there's never any violent Christian religious fundamentalism in the world. \n\nMate nobody on the left is going to miss a halfwit like yourself. You just drag down the discourse with your drooling idiocy.",
"Who would be stopping you from enjoying doritos? Would it be the fault of the people not liking them, or the fault of the companies pulling them from the shelves because a \"vocal minority\" didn't like them, despite nobody else having a problem with them, and being willing to pay money for them?",
"Is an organized boycott \"witch hunting their livelihoods\"?",
"I didn't type an 'extra' anything\n\n[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shite](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shite)",
"The purpose of the episode is not to elicit laughs … it’s supposed to be thoughtful. But whatever …",
"To you. It wasn’t funny to you. And that’s fine.",
"And when a comedian makes the same jokes as the abuse a marginalized group has received for years, it's suddenly comedy. Everyone loves to point to Dave Chappelle, but he's openly said he doesn't feel a white comedian should be able to say the \"nword\". At what point do you disallow the defense of comedy? It's a more complicated topic than people like to admit.",
"he is white, even worse is he's ambiguously blackfacing by never stating otherwise.",
"Amazing how you post a quote from one of the wisest people in history that address this exact issue and people still get up in their own feelings to downvote it.",
"people tend to be offended easily, i personally troll them, have to offend one person atleast to reach my daily quota lol",
"Thats my point, its a colloquialism for that section of the world which projects your location. You could have just typed shit, then you wouldn't have come off as different or like the rest of us speaking English. Simply typing it is casting off the geographical gauntlet so to speak. Its why I'm making fun of you for making fun of that guy... all while typing \"Yall\" to make fun of me while doing it. Its a multi layer joke and takes someone who thinks \"Low res thought\" as normal to get it. The funnier part of it all was you thought I was serious. \n\n[Imagine that](https://youtu.be/G7RgN9ijwE4)",
"> Yeah there's never any violent Christian religious fundamentalism in the world. \n \nAgain, you are defending beheadings by appealing to Christians. It isn't Christians doing it, so why are you trying to use Christians as an excuse for your own beheadings? I don't vote for any beheadings by Christians nor do I make any excuses for them like you do with the beheadings you support. The left votes for beheadings by Islam. And things like the recent memorial day bombing at the maternity ward. You want more of it and use your hatred for Christians as an excuse. Your policies are the direct cause for it all. They wouldn't be in the country if you didn't vote them in. \n \n\n> Mate nobody on the left is going to miss a halfwit like yourself. \n \nOf course you won't. I don't support beheadings like you do. \n \n> You just drag down the discourse with your drooling idiocy. \n \nYou drag our continent down with your beheadings.",
"You got debatelorded out of being far right, or you came to a realization by yourself?",
"Um ok, that’s totally how the world works, good point! I’ll just go on TV, like you suggest… lol",
">casting off the geographical gauntlet so to speak\n\nFucking hell imagine saying shite like that 😂",
"Don't ever stop being you man :)",
"Whether it was overplayed in the media or not it was definitely portrayed like a very large portion of the Trans community wanted him out of Netflix. He did end up canceled in certain future events he was scheduled to play. I enjoyed both his recent specials and while you reserve the right to be offended/ not like it/ feel some type of way about it, that's your opinion. Also what do you mean it would be a shame if people censored what they thought of the comedian? You either like them or you don't.",
"I think comedians should be able to say the N word if it’s relevant to their jokes. Not Kramer style and not after their act is over.",
"Did I say it came from a lab? I believe it came from a lab.\n\nIs that not okay with you?\n\nYou seem to believe it came from bats. Even though you don't have proof.\n\nDid I say the US government doesn't affect social media sites? \n\nI'm not concerned with America affecting social media.\n\nI am concerned about China.",
"Idk. If you offend someone by making fun of their beliefs that’s one thing. If you offend someone by making fun of and disparaging their entire culture/history and do it by spreading ignorance and hatred FOR ACTUAL PEOPLE- well that’s a completely different thing.\n\nIt’s fair if someone calls out something that is literally the root of hatred and, therefore, a dangerous ideology.\n\nLong story short, being mean is bad but being hateful is dangerous.",
"Well Chapelle disagrees.",
"Associating a comedy show you didn't find funny to the welfare of marginalized is quite a reach. And I don't hear people complaining when he jokes about other marginalized groups.",
"> Basically this amounts to you saying \"I am going to wilfully ignore the existence of nuance because nuance is too confusing for me.\"\n\nNuance ties into \"everyone is fair game or no one is\"...because nuance implies that jokes are not to be taken seriously.\n\n> instead of whining about how trans people have it too easy\n\nWho tf said that?...My god you all are just hamfisting outrage into your own heads",
"I’m not saying it’s causing immediate material impacts, but perpetuating bigotry can absolutely have indirect effects on the welfare of marginalized people. That’s common sense.\n\nPeople DO complain about the jokes he makes about other [marginalized groups](https://www.timesofisrael.com/dave-chappelle-jokes-about-world-conquering-space-jews/). Regardless, the relatively muted reaction from other activist groups doesn’t mean trans activists have to stay quiet And the fact that trans activists aren’t simultaneously doing activism for all other groups doesn’t invalidate their message. People only have so much time in the day, and allegations of \"hypocrisy\" amount to little more than ad hominem. It doesn't refute their message.",
"That's called nuance, people...",
">nuance implies that jokes are not to be taken seriously.\n\nNot even close. I feel like you don't really know what \"nuance\" means.\n\nA nuanced understanding of humor would tell you that some jokes shouldn't be taken seriously, whereas other \"jokes\" contain substantive ideas and messages about the world. Dave Chapelle is very obviously trying to convey messages in his comedy. Anyone with even a passing familiarity with his work would know this.\n\nBeing able to grasp nuance means understanding that \"jokes\" with superficial similarities can be very different in practice, because of *nuance*. Making fun of one \"group\" might have very different implications than making fun of another \"group\", depending on the context.\n\n>Who tf said that?\n\nGlad you asked. The commenter above me was whining because they think we are overly protective of trans people.",
"So basically you don't understand the joke...",
"😘",
"I see you are among those who don't understand nuance.",
"What is there to understand? There's no nuance to what he's saying - it's all very straightforward. I simply don't think it's particularly funny.",
"No...it plays both ways...that's how nuance works. \n\n>Making fun of one \"group\" might have very different implications than making fun of another \"group\" depending on the history and context.\n\nNo. That's just comedy. No subject should be off limits.\n\n>The commenter above me was whining about how people are overly protective of trans people.\n\nFirst, no he didn't. He was talking about how the outrage can be applied to any group in general. That's not whining about trans people having it too easy...at all. Zero mention of that.",
"Again, you don't understand the joke",
"Okay then - explain it for me. What exactly do you think I'm missing?",
"None of it was bigotry.\n\nAnd yet people don't go after him for those other jokes. If you don't like the joke, move on.\n\n> Regardless, the relative lack of reaction from other activist groups doesn’t mean trans activists have to stay quiet\n\nNo but it's a strong hint that they are reading too much into these jokes and taking them too seriously.",
"It was bigotry, sorry.\n\nPeople DID go after him for those other jokes. I literally just gave you a link demonstrating this. Did you not read it?\n\nWhy are you using those other activist groups as the benchmark? Your entire premise seems to be \"activists who keep quiet are good and rational, whereas activists who speak up are bad and irrational.\" Definitely no problems there, lmao.",
"You are confused. Saying \"nuance plays both ways\" is not a coherent argument. What are you even trying to say? I'm not even sure if you know. The literal definition of \"nuance\" is a subtle difference between two things which superficially appear to be the same. \n\nLet's try a little thought experiment, since you seem to be struggling with the concept of nuance. If I said \"all Black people are stupid\" is that statement identically offensive to the statement \"all flat-earthers are stupid\", simply because both statements involve insulting a \"group\"?\n\nAs I just explained to you, comedy is very often used to convey or reinforce real messages about the world. Dave Chapelle specifically is known for this. If you had any familiarity with his work, you would know this. If the comedy conveys or reinforces a message, that message is fair game for criticism.\n\nThe above commenter was absolutely whining about how we're overly protective of trans people. That's literally the entire thesis of their comment. Just because the above commenter didn't literally say it in those words doesn't mean it's not the message.",
"Yes it is. Yeah there's subtle differences, which means...nuance plays in multiple ways. There may be substance in some of his jokes but they also shouldn't be read into or taken seriously...because they are jokes.\n\nConsidering your example is not even a joke...it's really apparent you don't grasp the full context of the situation.\n\n>That's literally the entire thesis of their comment.\n\nNo. Nowhere in his statement was any indication of whining of protection of specifically trans people. Think broader young one.",
"No it was not bigotry lol. By all means provide a full quote of anything he said including the full context.\n\nI never said anything about other activist groups, just different groups of people.\n\n>\"activists who keep quiet are good and rational, whereas activists who speak up are bad and irrational.\" \n\nHow reductive of you. When you look at the context of what someone is reacting to, it's easy to discern what's rational or not. Being upset at clear jokes is irrational",
"First, if you couldn't understand just from watching, then you won't understand it at all. Because it's fleshed out in the video. Second, explaining a joke ruins the humor.",
"Lol whatever you say, dude. I'm not sure why you insist I don't understand it. But if that's what you want to believe, then fine.",
"The \"full context\" includes the entire special, so no, obviously I'm not going to quote the entire special to you lmao. Also, why would you want me to include the full context? According to you, the context is irrelevant. But, if you really need examples: he deliberately mis-gendered trans people and declared allegiance to the bigoted \"TERF\" movement.\n\nThat is not reductive, that is a perfectly apt representation of your argument. You said that the fact that other activist groups are keeping quiet is a \"strong hint\" that trans activists are being irrational. This is obviously based on the premise that the activists who are keeping quiet are the ones who should serve as the benchmark for what's \"rational.\"\n\nNow you're falling back on the very flimsy argument of \"getting upset at jokes is always irrational\". As I've explained to you a few times now, \"jokes\" very often convey or reinforce real messages about the world. Chapelle specifically is known for this. You clearly do not understand comedy if you think that comedy can never convey or reinforce a message.",
"No each joke has a context. You just keep cherrypicking bud.\n\nI'm not talking about \"activist\" groups. If Jews aren't getting an uproar like trans people are...that's a hint it's a joke. The benchmark is logic, bud.\n\nAnd again, if you take jokes seriously in any way whether in agreement or disagreement, that's on you.",
"My god you have zero understanding of nuance and comedy.",
"Wow great point man",
"The power of words is what takes reality and twists it to the point where people may do physical harm. \n\nYou're saying you were beat up, which is physical harm. Words didn't do that to you, people did. If you're telling me you'd rather get beat up than called names, I'm going to just assume you're moron and move on.",
"lad, move on. no point conversing if all your takes are bad faith.",
"All my takes? \n\nJesus, son. Can you not see how you're acting?",
"Not buying X and actively trying to stop X from being produced are not the same thing no matter how much you torture logic to conflate them.",
"You aren't just explaining it to me.",
">Whether it was overplayed in the media or not it was definitely portrayed like a very large portion of the Trans community wanted him out of Netflix.\n\nOK. What is wrong with that? Why shouldn't they have the right to free speech to speak out? Why shouldn't they be allowed to petition netflix? Why shouldn't they be allowed to boycott him?\n\n>He did end up canceled in certain future events he was scheduled to play. \n\nThat was his choice. Nobody made him do it.\n\n> I enjoyed both his recent specials and while you reserve the right to be offended/ not like it/ feel some type of way about it, that's your opinion.\n\nI am glad you are magnanimous enough to grant me the right to have an opinion. That's very kind of you.\n\n> Also what do you mean it would be a shame if people censored what they thought of the comedian? You either like them or you don't.\n\nAre we allowed to say that out loud? Like on twitter and shit?",
"The problem here is you aren't old enough to remember what an organized boycott is, which also explains why you spend time online being outraged over stupid bullshit",
"Thanks for that video! Never seen that channel before. I will sub to him.",
"Now I'm just curious on what it means to censor yourself as the audience in the context you provided.",
"If you oppose \"cancel culture\" and attack \"cancel culture\" you are going to cause the audience to censor itself when criticising artists.",
"I would say that I understand nuance very well, but to your point, I could be wrong in my belief. Which nuance are you referring to, so I might see if my understanding is flawed?\n\nPeace to you fellow Redditor.",
"Sure, if that were something new for him to do. Chapelle has always pushed the boundaries of comedy, which is why he's a great comedian. That's the part that gets me though. You know how this comedian operates and yet it's when he discusses this particular issue is when he seems to get the most backlash. You can say Michael Jackson diddled kids all you want but also are you going to tell me thriller wasn't good?",
"Literally sociopathic/grade-school behaviour. Nobody sane or mature does this.",
"Lol I’m in my 40’s dumbass. The problem is you’re just some asshole who thinks their assumptions = education. \n\nLook up any data or studies on boycotts and deal with being wrong.",
"And here I thought I was just giving you the benefit of the doubt. Turns out you're just a moron 🤣"
] | 526 |
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I was offended - steve hughes
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https://youtu.be/W6DmHGYy_xk
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/r/videos/comments/qy341r/things_can_be_horrible_every_now_and_then_i_need/
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[
"[ **Jump to 01:20 @** Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball (Chatroulette Version)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6DmHGYy_xk&t=0h1m20s)\n \n ^(Channel Name: SteveKardynal, Video Popularity: 95.02%, Video Length: [02:45])^, [^Jump ^5 ^secs ^earlier ^for ^context ^@01:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6DmHGYy_xk&t=0h1m15s) \n \n----------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n \n ^^Downvote ^^me ^^to ^^delete ^^malformed ^^comments. [^^Source ^^Code](https://github.com/ankitgyawali/reddit-timestamp-bot) ^^| [^^Suggestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/timestamp_bot)",
"This shouldn't make me as happy as it does. I think he did another one with a Carly Ray Jepson song and it actually made me like the song, iirc",
"The real superpower, making people laugh!",
"Oh my… that’s gold! My poor dog, looking at me quite confused because I’m laughing so hard with tears running down my face. Thanks for sharing this.",
"2009-2013 was the absolute golden age of youtube. I miss it",
"this should be deleted from the internet. :/",
"Thats chatroulette",
"I know. The video is from YouTube. I remember the day it was posted because it was #1 trending",
"No, it belongs in a museum!",
"lol",
"OMFG the exercise ball!!! Love this man",
"Not to mention the one he did with Mariah Carey's all I want for Christmas is you, which I think might be the most-viewed video on his channel.",
"I gotta check that out. It's genuinely delightful!",
"that's delightful as all get out. I love it.",
"Oh hey, I knew this guy in college.",
"It's not really Christmas until I watch Die Hard, and him dancing to All I want for Christmas.",
"I forgot about this guy, love it!",
"I like his call me maybe, allways brings a smile to my face.",
"Sexy little man.\n\nI wish I had his confidence and charisma.",
"What exactly was \"chat roulette\". I've seen this video loads of times, but I think I'm missing the context of what exactly chat roulette was/is.",
"What’s he up to now?",
"Remembered in yt videos as a place to be connected to a stranger at random and have a unique video chat experience. \n\nBut in reality it was just 80% dicks and this sexy hairy dude would have hit next to so many dicks.",
"No idea, actually. Haven't kept up with any of my college mates, really. I don't use social media either so I just sort of lost touch",
"He's got 5m subscribers on YouTube, that's what he's up to lol",
"Same as Omegle. You randomly connected with a stranger either via webcam or just text chat. You can then talk to them or move on to someone else. Sort of like speed dating but just for chatting. Of course it attracted all manner of freaks and exhibitionists.",
"THIS! We need more of this in the world.",
"Oh really? What’s his Channel?",
"That’s a shame, someone just responded to me saying he has a YouTube channel with 5 million subscribers.",
"Remember when “trending” wasn’t hand picked by the platform and actually reflected users habits.",
"Questioning your sexuality? Me too mate. & I found the answer.",
"https://youtube.com/user/SteveKardynal",
"The thing that I like most about his videos is the genuine smile that he gets from the other people.",
"[Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen (Chatroulette version)](https://youtu.be/KAQhG59zqZc)",
"Wrecking Ball has the most views by a long shot but [here it is](https://youtu.be/InYvRyX2Fu4)",
"According to [one of his most recent videos](https://youtu.be/TgpV0lQQ0Rc), he streams games on facebook",
"This also makes her song better:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fegs-XVKgnM"
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Things can be horrible. Every now and then I need to remind myself this video exists, and end up laughing so hard tears come out.
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https://youtu.be/m8Z-R5ghBbQ
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/r/videos/comments/qy3fa0/making_dil_bahar_icecream/
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[
"No thanks!",
"thank god they are all chin diaper safe",
"What was that powder they poured into the ice?",
"Probably salt to lower the freezing temperature of the water so they can still press the forms in but freeze it faster.",
"I wondered the same thing. \n\nIt's salt https://i.imgur.com/mVcMLRM.png \n\nIt's most likely to have the ice melt faster to make easier putting in the molds and having heat absorbed uniformly.",
"It looks neat but there is like nothing that looks clean…",
"India is so unsanitary.",
"Salt which reduces freezing temperature of the water. So water stays sub-zero, but is easier to dunk things in and provides better contact surface.",
"If you look closely there is a large bag next to the man pouring that says salt on it",
"Salt lowers the temperature at which Ice melts at, effectively lowering the temperature of the ice bath. \n\nThe same reason why salt is put on roads in colder climates during winter snowstorms. Allows snow/ice to melt below what would be the normal freezing temperature of 32F / 0C.",
"It looks cool but I'm not that hungry...",
"There sure are tonnes of unsanitary kitchens in India, but what specifically is so unsanitary about this icemaking shop?",
"Are you an antivaxxer?",
"If you don’t already know and you think this is up to health code standards then you are probably from India."
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Making Dil Bahar icecream
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzhREYOK0oo
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/r/videos/comments/qy3gjp/hover_crafts_are_here/
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[
"Hovercrafts already existed.. you just mean cushion-less ones…",
"have you seen the way people drive? i cant see things like these becoming mainstream",
"That crazy prop wash and the fact it will fall from the sky when the motors stop make it a hard pass for me.",
"This isn’t a hovercraft it’s a compact helicopter",
"It's weird that we still rely on spinning blades for propulsion systems",
"Flying cars will never be a thing because they're really energy inefficient and because dumbasses wil regularly kill themselves and others with them at like 100x the frequency than normal cars.",
"Everyone is a pilot….. eh no not really…. Some people can’t even handle left and right",
"Range?",
"This is just a big drone",
"Lets get some rocket fuel powered passenger aircraft",
"A helicopter will autorotate on engine failure. I wouldn’t fancy my chances in that thing.",
"From the site: \"Flight time: 20 minutes\" with pilot at ~85kg.",
"Imagine it fails but the props won't turn off. How the hell do you get out, or have someone get in to rescue you? Oh well, good tech demo.",
"That's because we still have no idea what gravity is.",
"I also wouldn't want to be near when it lands or takes off.",
"So, not going to be much use until they have better/lighter batteries.",
"And don’t forget some people still don’t know how to use a turn signal\nIn a car.",
"if there are enough economical benefits they will",
"a drone is autonomous, this is a quadcopter",
"Should be an excellent base to build a Star Wars speeder bike..",
"Come in, BMW isn't making these...",
"We’ve had flying cars for decades… they’re called helicopters. They are expensive and not as efficient as regular cars but they have their uses… it just turns out that getting regular people from point a to b isn’t one of those uses.",
"Too bad you get 12 minutes of fun before the battery dies.",
"Really ever, this are toys for the ultra rich, not plebs like you and I.",
"Doesn't look like it would take much to run into a solid object and watch the props disintegrate into tiny pieces. Then gravity takes over and your bad day gets worse.",
"This has to be as noisy as fuck. But in the video you only get inspirational music as the background. Noise does real environmental damage to insects and birds especially. NIMBY please.",
"I'm no engineer so I'm sure there is a reason for the design.\n\nBut I'd want the blades spinning above my head in case one flys off.",
"Ever really.\n\nI'd be supper happy to see electrical blimp for example. Those can fly as much as you want and with today's materials can be made to be much more reliable.",
"I am not an engineer but will this stay up if one of those four engines fail or spin uncontrollably to the ground? Inquiring minds wanna know",
"Yeah for real! That's all I could really think about. If one of those blades break in flight and flies back toward the pilot, it would not be a good day.",
"Yeah, open frame designs for the propellers are super noisy.",
"Its actually got two motors on each arm (one on the top and one on the bottom). I'm sure they designed it for single failures, so can probably survive if one motor fails (and possibly multiple motor failures as long as they are on different arms). I doubt they have enough control authority if they lose a whole arm though.",
"lol the comment section is always so negative when these get posted. Looks pretty cool to me!",
"Four person decapitator machine",
"Why ever drive again when you can hover hundreds of feet in the air with 4 uncovered spinning death blades inches from your face that are louder than a biodegradable sunchips bag?",
"I can't wait to be rich enough to afford it!",
"Except the DoD has confirmed that anti-gravity propulsion exists.\n\nIt's all about electromagnetics.",
"Even with that redundancy it's still seems risky but it ain't going to carry my ass lol",
"My only worry is if a prop breaks, it could real easily just kill you. Otherwise this is full on Jetsons!",
"Oh look ! A flying coffin.",
"Turbo charged litter coming soon",
"Here!"
] | 41 |
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Hover crafts are here
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaEo_NuH1_M
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/r/videos/comments/qy3vmb/a_brilliant_depiction_of_gta_and_modern_gaming/
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[
"That puzzle is super hard, truly an inconvenience………..\n\n\n#####P.S ryan is a comedic genius and I love him to death!",
"I've recently stumbled upon his channel and it's goldmine for laughter. Also binge watching his Pitch Meeting series, which is simply a masterpiece.",
" The fact that \\*none\\* of this is exaggerated, hurts me on a spiritual level.",
"Some of them sure. But after a while the template he uses for every video really shows itself.That is not to say the content is bad, but it is very repetitive. That seems to be the stick that people are chasing, so he just ends up being stuck in this contentloop, which is kind of a shame, because he is a funny dude.\n\nWhile this is not exactly a discussion we're having here at all, I think I can summerize my point in that I'd love for Youtubers who make this sort of content to be a bit more like south park and a lot less like Kitchen nightmares.Both shows have a template, but one is waaay more noticeable than the other.\n\nThe format matters a lot too, I guess. But really when you've seen one pitch meeting or one episode of kitchen nightmares, you've kinda seen them all.\n\nEdit: wtf happened here?\nPeople are reacting to my comment like they're little kids and I just pissed on their favorite teletubbi. Lol",
"That video is almost a year old now too lmao.\n\nStill didn't stop me from buying valheim tho...",
"I think the saddest part about all of this is that over the course of the last few years, apologists and whiteknights of said practices have increased drastically and now it has become the norm\n\nJust look at /r/newworldgame for the latest example, or /r/anthem or /r/fo76 and the myriad of defenders who cream their pants at the promise that their unfinished pile of data excrement -might- get finished in a couple of years. 'B-but it has so much potential'",
"I think the formula is the point. Same thing with the \"Super easy, barely an inconvenience\" thing. \n\nYou're supposed to see how repetitive the movies are. He does plenty of other stuff outside of that.",
"YEA.. RUSHED GAMES ARE **TIGHT**",
"Yes, hence the \"format matters\" comment.",
"\"I value that feed back soooo much.\" Lol",
"Hades is a complete game, and awesome.\n\nI guess - what you could say, is that people just need to stop being humans. I mean, they get tricked so easily. Guess we there's nothing we can do, except perhaps, regulate this. \n\nOkay, guess it's nothing we can do!",
"It is but to me way to repetitive and boring",
"There's a reason I am subscribed to him.\n\nThe videos he makes are always hilarious, but they also hold quite a few nuggets of truth in there. It's difficult to balance that out, but he manages it.",
"Far cry 6 is completely unpayable right now, it was a full priced game.",
"the Pitch meetings are for sure formulaic, but that is why he has his private channel as well, where he goes for a different topic for each clip.",
"if you're going to give them your money why wouldn't they. The problem is consumers.",
"Stop paying companies for graphics and physics simulations and choose gameplay.",
"Stop making gamers your QA testers. Stop denying refunds for purchases for a subpar product on your platform. Stop* crunching for Holiday season. Stop outsourcing the games that made you gaming staple and not a joke.",
"What’s wrong with it? Currently working through 4 and 5 before I buy",
"Man, we'll all buy anything. Do anything. Words are so empty\n\nGo back a few years, to the 2080ti graphics card. \n\n\"pay 1200 for a gpu? r u fuckin insane\"\n\n\"not on your life. noone will pay that much for a gpu\"\n\nNow they literally can't keep 2,500$ gpu's in stock. Companies know consumers are weak and full of shit now. There is blood in the water alright.",
"Here's my cold take: nobody has any right to complain about the GTA remaster.\n\nThey didn't show any actual gameplay, you should've waited til release.",
"What's wrong with it? I havent played but I've had several people tell me how good it is",
"I paid 54.99 canadian for diablo 2 remaster, it's always down and all of the old bugs are in the game. Makes me laugh at the caliber of the swindle. Just pay a few overworked and underpaid artists to draw new sprites, copy and paste them into the old code, then collect the money. Wild. Good for them tbh.",
"Why? A Lot of people value good graphics.",
"Just missing the customer finding a 5 dollar bill inside the box and the developer greedily grabbing it out of his hand to represent player-beneficial exploits that are almost always top priority for an instant patch.",
"How many escape attempts have you made?",
"*A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.*\n\nGeorge Lucas",
"And yet, people enjoy the summer blockbuster style movies anyway and George Lucas made 6 shitty ones in a row so he's not exactly a top tier advice giver.",
"He should have got Sean Murray to appear as the salesman.",
"The New World subreddit is full of people shitting all over the game though… So was the Anthem one for the first couple of months (I know because I got great joy from reading the sub despite not owning the game).\n\nProblem is after a couple of months most people have given up and moved on to other games and it’s only the deluded corporate defenders left.",
"With ya there bud. After the release of Battlefield 2042, my favorite franchise, I am beyond disappointed at the current state of gaming. It seems like no major studio can make a well made, polished and complete game anymore.",
"Dude never took his own advice!",
"The prequels not bad movies so idk what you’re talking about there bub\n\nEdit: your boos are meaningless, you are all wrong.",
"(kind of a dumbass and a hypocrite)",
"You have two optons nowadays:\n\n* Give up on \"\"\"\"\"next gen\"\"\"\" games and only play indie games.\n* Wait at least a year or two before considering the AAA games.",
"Like 30-40 i got through one time and than after i was like eh",
"Back in the Dark Ages, when you bought a video game there was at least a 50/50 chance it was either wonky, way too easy, or just a boring grind. And there were no patches to make it playable. You were just screwed.\n\nAnd you couldn't go by reviews, either. Virtually everyone publishing game reviews depended on advertising from video game companies, so any big budget release was guaranteed to get rave reviews. About all you could do was go with a publisher that had usually produced decent work in the past and hope for the best.",
"That's amazing. That's a sentence from the video!",
"To be fair they only had 21 years to make the game playable, give them a break",
"Halo is feeling pretty good to me. But lol, it's far from finished.\n\nWhat's there though is the bones of a damn good arena shooter and I can't wait until they flesh out the playlists a bit more.\n\nIf it was a paid product I wouldn't touch it in its current state, but as a F2P I quite like it so far.",
"I value your feedback.",
"Yep. They get away with it cuz they're still making money. I've started waiting on buying games and it's pretty depressing to get it a year later and there still being issues.",
"Or..ya know... rent it first.",
"Unfortunately, by \"story,\" he meant mindnumbingly dull political backstory.",
"You could always go rent the game from Blockbuster back then.",
"This is the way \n\nI'm loving me horizon zero dawn. I learned about it after the Metro fiasco.\n\nEveryone kept saying that Metro was a shitty hzd clone set in a steam punk universe, and meanwhile I hadn't even played hzd.\n\nI wish I hadn't bought Metro first tho.\n\nLike you said, I should have waited two years",
"Hasn't been down for about 2 weeks.",
"Yeah, and even the cutscenes they showed looked like shit.",
"Thats on you, pal. ~~Blizzard~~ Activision wearing blizz's skinsuit is pumping out redflags one after another. \n\n\nI felt betrayed with diablo 3, then with overwatch.. enjoyed wow classic, but managed to avoid the honeytrap that wow classic tbc is.",
"Nobody is forced to by a game at release. Just wait a year and you get the better game at half the price.",
"The mind of those game company shills must go something like this:\n>No Man's Sky got better after the prerelease campaign contained many blatant lies. Therefore other broken releases must also become better.",
"This is why I stopped gaming all together. Fifa died in like 2016 along with most decent series.",
"I think that more to do with mining and supply driving the prices up. BUT now that this has been set in stone I think the prices will stay there for a while. They know they have the golden goose now.",
"Stop buying the games",
"GPUs are different because they are literally legalized money printers used for mining alt-coins. There is realistically no supply that will ever satisfy the demand for such hardware.",
"Episode 3, the best of the whole lot of them, got a 68 metacritic score. That's the best they could do. Taken as an aggregate? 6 shitty movies is an apt description.\n\nJust because prequel memes are hilarious doesn't mean the movies actually hold up.",
"Rock and Stones!",
"The prequels suck.",
" The entire software industry in general.",
"I hope this thought becomes more common. Too many people desperately try to dodge any type of responsibility and then scratch their heads wondering why the gaming industry is getting worse",
"Back in the dark ages I had 5 rental stores in my town and I'd rent games for the weekend for like $3.\n\nNow there's nowhere to trial games except Game Pass and demo's.",
"HZD was excellent from launch, though, and it's not exactly an indie title.",
"The problem is that the gaming industry doesn't actually care about people who are passionate about games, they care about money. When a big studio starts creating a new game, it's almost never the people who are passionate about it who actually get involved. You can pay a person for their skills and knowledge, but you can never pay someone to care. \n\nThat's why we've seen so many of the biggest events in gaming have been player generated: the modding communities, the unofficial patch-makers, the speedrunners, the streamers and content makers. If it wasn't for the modding community there's no way in Hell Bethesda would be what it is today, and if it wasn't for an unofficial patch-maker the GTA load times for PC would be almost twice what it is now, we wouldn't have games like League of Legends or DotA, which evolved entirely from fan-made content.\n\nIf the focus is only on making money, then they'll probably make money, but the product will suffer. The problem is the greedy dingalings who focus only on money and insist on taking the quickest path to it no matter what.\n\nIf the focus is on creating a high quality product, however, then they'll still probably make a lot of money, but it will take a little bit longer. You really can't rush art.",
"It *is*, sir.",
"Might want to tamper your use of the word \"masterpiece\" there bud.",
"The server issues are inexcusable, but the whole idea of D2R is that it's literally the old game exactly with a layer of new graphics over it so old bugs existing should be expected. [Making a 3D layer for a 2D isometric game](https://youtu.be/4mGYpsHpwN0) doesn't seem as easy as you'd think and I think they did an amazing job keeping the look of the og. Vicarious Visions has a lot of talent and is wasted at ActiBlizz",
"The game runs fine, OP is exaggerating",
"the clone wars or spiderman 3, don't know which movie made me hate everyone involved with a project more.",
"> you should've waited til release\n\nPeople do this with movies ALL THE TIME. What is it about games that get people SO HYPED to preorer?",
"Don't buy games until they've been released and reviewed. They need the anticipation of your money to motivate them to complete and fix their games. Pay now, they get what they want and move on, and who cares if it gets them public shame.",
"Don't say that! There are a ton of amazing games out nowadays. To just name one - Red Ded Redemption 2 is a game-change (no pun intended).",
"ya, forza horizon 5 is feeling the same way right now. its just too easy for companies to release shitty games then finish them over the next year with patches while they sell content that should of been in the original game as DLC. cock suckers",
"That's fine. If you buy something for its graphics don't complain about all the other stuff that doesn't work though. Oh and don't be surprised when the advertised graphics are not representative of the real thing.",
"could it be that maybe - and i'm just spitballing here - they need to charge more for games than they did in like 1986? \n\ngames in 1986: $60, employee roster 20\n\ngames today: $60, employee roster 943\n\nevery time i bring this up i get fiery indignation along the lines of \"bruuuuhhhh you're CRAZY NUTSO BONKERS games are expensive AF bruh.\" and i can picture them scrolling through their endless library of games they haven't even clicked on yet to decide which one of the developer-soul-crushing, crunch culture titles they own and might wanna play if they ever get around to it.",
"from console launch anyway..\n\nthough pc was eventually fixed",
"exactamundo. don't reward them for a shit product. don't buy it. make them offer a quality product first. not the first time a developer has had to learn this lesson by watching their sales go down the toilet. \n\nits about time the big devs eat some serious shit. don't enable them with preorders and sales of crap product. even the big boys will get the message when you hit em in the wallet.",
"played horizon during the 1st lockdown, bought everything with the dlc for like 10 bucks",
"It's kind of a vicious circle.\n\nPeople are starved for a good game so they buy into all the hype, get disappointed, which makes them even more starved for a good game.\n\nI seriously think this is what the AAA companies want. Always under deliver so you are left wanting so that you buy more.",
"Loved his Game of Thrones take\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhKOV3nImQ",
"Fromsoft and Bluepoint are doing a great job imo",
"bullshit, go one generation more and see the performance of the mid-tier offering.",
"No industry cares solely for a tiny subset of consumers that are passionate about their product. It's an unsustainable business model to just please your devotees.",
"The game sucks but it is playable. There is some minor problems like red dots not displaying and bullets not working, weapon wheel not showing up, enemy spawn problems, and just overall boring and being extremely easy to play.",
"Stop buying the games",
"That's a skit that will stand the test of time. Classic Ryan.",
"PTW gaming would like a word",
"They're addicted.",
"I think the problem is that *enough* people can be persuaded to act against their better judgement (if they even have any critical eye at all), and the fact that *enough* people are doing it allows the company to stay in business. This sort of justifies the whole process in the eyes of the uncritical consumer.",
"How optimized is it? I don't have the best gaming PC but I'd like to play it.",
"cyberpunk in a nutshell",
"I think the consensus is that it is exactly like 3, 4, 5 but with a new coat of paint. So if you like those and arent bored yet, youll like 6. If you never played any of them, you might like 6 on its own, but its not an innovation in the industry anymore.",
"Indie games now are following a similar model. Bannerlord was released over a year ago for $50 and the game is still basically early access.",
"Except not when you start including DLC. at that point it can start approaching $90-$130. So fair point on DLC/expanding the world but not on the base game being a finished product",
"What I just don't understand is why people are willing to hand these companies money, when there are so many amazing content reviewers who will-on day one-tell you that the puzzle is completely broken.",
"Ryan George is awesome!",
"Actually, a LOT of industries care solely for those tiny subsets, they're known as \"whales\" in the industry, a single target whos obsession with their product leads them to spend an absurd amount of money.\n\nThey have every reason to care, but they don't care.. because caring isn't money, and capitalism prioritizes money above all else. It's a paradox of sorts, the more they focus on getting the money, the less of it they'll end up with in the long run. \n\nFanatical fans are people every industry needs to keep pleased, and if possible they should be trying to hire them. If you want quality game production, you'll get it from the people who are passionate about it. Paying someone who has no interest in what you're creating will never lead to the same level of quality by comparison.",
"Larian studios literally just made amazing games for their tiny audience and now make BG3. Sometimes it works quite well.",
"FFXIV was so bad originally that they had to nuke the whole world and start over. But now that game is the beloved star child of Reddit you can't speak poorly about. I'm not saying it excuses GTA -- I didn't even think to buy that garbage after I saw the trailer. Games can become good; just don't give them your money until it is.",
"Dude. You’re part of the problem imo. when was the last time blizzard made anything quality?",
"lol, won't somebody think of the massively profitable multi-billion dollar games industry! \n\nHow many microtransactions did companies shoehorn into games in 1986 I wonder? I don't think the answer is that the already massively profitable games industry needs to make even more money. The fiery indignation is fairly well deserved I'm afraid. This is one of the worst takes I've ever seen on this issue.",
"This is why I just got a vr headset, pulled out my old g25 wheel and finally bought a playseat, joysticks throttle and some better pedals, repurposed the living room for this. I'm actually having fun playing now. it's that, or rocket league, speedrunners, simpler titles. The only new game I've bought the last years, that wasn't a simple back-to-basics style cheap thing, was Valheim. Which I got back into with the VR mod. oh ye rocket league was awesome in VR too, vorpx just doesn't work too well with WMR or I'd play like that a lot more.\n\nThis industry is filled with troglodytes who have no problems buying cosmetic items and regurgitated nostalgia titles while also thinking VR is dead. It's so dumb.",
"At this point it's on the consumer for continuing to enable developers to keep releasing broken trash. I can't remember the last time I bought a game on or near release day. It's been many years specifically because of this issue. These companies are basically marketing hype machines more than game development studios at this point.",
"Quoting the video everyone saw literally minutes before is *tight*",
"I remember someone talking about the years leading up to the 1983's video game market crash. Stores were overflowing with games to the point where they had bargin bins full of them all at the same low price, and most of them were shovelware.\n\nWhat certainly didn't help was that there weren't enough reviews so often times the only way to find out is to buy the game. There were a few quality games, but because the stores couldn't tell the difference between what was gold or turd, they all got priced the same.\n\nWhich encouraged a massive \"race-to-the-bottom\" because why spend several months with two dozen programmers on a good game, when you can spend a few weeks and a single programmer to s*** out a game that will be priced the same and sold at a similar volume?\n\nEventually the whole show came to a crashing halt when stores across the US effectively boycotted ALL videogames (as they couldn't return the games back to the distributors as those often went bankrupt or just refused to accept the returns) and switched back to traditional toys, leaving very few places for videogames to be sold. I recall reading that in the span of two years, video game sales went from about $3 billions in revenue... to about $100 million.",
"hmm, and i wonder *why* these companies adopted these weird revenue models?",
"Imagine if the first HL game in 15 yrs shipped as broken, buggy, rehashed and incomplete as almost all of 2021's major titles.",
"The BIGGEST titles in 1996 sales-wise moved a million units. Tomb Raider sold 3.4 million in 2013 and was considered a disappointment.\n\nAt or around full price for a good chunk of those, we're looking at $175 million (ish) conservatively. \n\nHow much more do you think should be required to create and market a game? The price point is fine. The push for quarterly returns over quality output is the problem.",
"Stop. giving. them. your. money.",
"Has there been a triple A release that has lived up to expectations in the last year?",
"Pachito!",
"That's on you for buying from the company that made \"reforged\" a demeaning term and the worst example so far of a remaster in History.",
"Since 2014\n\nThese days I'm glad when just one game a year is worth buying. Even then I dont expect anything good annually. At first it felt like a cheat code but now it feels like depression. The memory of have too many good games to play is quickly running out, because no new groundbreaking (or perfectly polished) titles are being released. They can't even adequeltly remaster their old games? Yeah, it is sad however I approach the reality.",
"Man, I’d kill for some incredible graphics and physics simulations. \n\nA huge part of why I specifically play video games is to dabble in cutting edge, real time rendering and physics simulations. Give me an incredible looking sandbox with amazing physics, and I’ll have all the “gameplay” I need. \n\nTake Radiohead’s new art gallery app on the PS5. Incredibly impressive on a technical level, with not much in the way of gameplay, yet it is still one of the most enjoyable next gen experiences for me to date. \n\nTetris and Pac-Man have “gameplay”. Homemade Uno cards drawn on cut out pieces of A4 has an infinite, timeless amount of “gameplay”. \n\nI bought a PS5 for graphics and physics driven games in impressive virtual environments. I love aesthetics, animations, fluid simulations, collisions, Ray tracing, AI upscaling, anti aliasing, clever LOD management, etc. It’s all hugely important to my enjoyment. \n\nI feel like an analogy would be “it doesn’t matter how skilled a painter is, or how good his supplies are, what matters is his intention and the meaning he’s trying to convey”. Yeah, perhaps, but if it looks like shit, and the other guy made a fairly vapid and meaningless, yet almost photorealistic painting of something very cool, it’s not immediately obvious which is “better”. \n\nThis meme of “gameplay obviously always over technology for everyone”, just isn’t true for many of us, it isn’t why a lot of us play video games. \n\nIt’s why I have almost zero interest in RTS games, top down point and click RPG’s, MOBA games, MMORPGS, card games, etc. \n\nThey simply aren’t immersive, 3D worlds for me to explore, ideally with some cool physics. A first person mode is also always important to me, that helps with feeling I’m inhabiting the world. As does a very minimal, unobtrusive HUD. \n\nSo, yeah, I don’t think that games have fallen into a trap of being technically insanely impressive, but lacking in gameplay, I’d actually say it’s the gameplay that’s become stale and stagnant. AC, Far Cry 6, COD and Battlefield are great examples, and none of them are technically all that impressive, they aren’t doing anything particularly new or novel. Far Cry 6 is essentially Far Cry 3 in 4K with better LOD distances and textures, etc, the physics at play aren’t remotely impressive. I’d say FC2 was more impressive from memory. \n\nIncredible graphics, and more importantly, a remarkable physics engine, can contribute so much to “gameplay”. It’s simply more fun to, say, shoot people and objects that react convincingly with the projectiles and environment.",
"well at least that game gives you your moneys worth",
"~~IBM Lotus~~ HCL Notes, Oracle's Peoplesoft, SAP and other enterprise software would like to have a word.\n\nSame goes for industrial controls software. There's a vendor at my workplace where their very latest software... only works with Windows 7, and it also needs internet connection. IT department had to massively lock down the firewalls between that Windows 7 computer and the internet. The software will behave erratically if you try to run it in a virtual machine so no \"Run a Windows 7 VM on Windows 10\" solution.\n\nThe vendor said they were going to release a new software that runs on Windows 10, sometime in 2022-2023, and \"end of life\" hardware won't be supported. I asked if they would also be including Windows 11 support, and never got an answer for that.",
"wow, how much more could you miss my point? i only mentioned developers and crunch culture in my comment. there's ZERO inference that these companies need more profits for their CEOs and shareholders (the ones who decided to keep games at cost while the people who make them suffer for it). it's to alleviate -exactly- some of the things your complaining about. why has 4 decades of inflation touched nearly everything except gaming? $60 in 1986 is $142 today. base games at that price would at least alter the culture in positive degrees.\n\nthanks for jumping in to prove my point about indignant gamers. lol 'worst take ever' pfft. sorry for encouraging you to think.",
"One way to fix this is through the credit card companies, can’t you just claim the company did not deliver what you purchased and post a refund? If they won’t, then force them to pay a higher merchant processing fee",
"Ryan George is hilarious",
"Capitalism",
"Who you could sell too was also more limited, there's now a much, much larger consumer base for video games than there was in the 80s. It has gone from niche nerdy hobby to main stream multi billion dollar franchises.",
"wowowowow..... wow",
"they're super formulaic but he's genuinely funny in them.\n\nmaybe not a masterpiece but one of the more accessible forms of comedy right now",
"Microsoft buying Bethesda gives me hope.\n\nEdit: but then I remember Skype.",
"I played in on a 4th gen Intel processor with an an amd rx580 and it looked great at medium - high settings. Only got about 30 fps during really busy moments but it still looked pretty good and could have been better had I tweaked the settings more.",
"Yeah, no idea what that user is on about. While I didn't like Exodus nearly as much as the first two, they are in no way related to Horizon Zero Dawn, and a FPS apocalyptic stealth shooter with mutants and monsters is def not steam punk.",
"\"People are starved for a good game\" \n\n\nWhat a statement. There are literally thousands of amazing games out there. More quality entertainment than you could consume in a lifetime. Much of it free or of an utterly trivial cost.",
"um yeah, OP said that in 2016, decent games stopped being made. 2018 is after 2016. I gave an example of a good game made after he said they stopped making good games.",
"I can only name Santa Monica Studios. I’m confident GoW2 is gonna be jaw dropping",
"havent played it but I heard Valheim was good?",
"My honest opinion is that a good chunk of people who buy these games are autistic and obsess over video games. I have a friend of mine who will buy literally anything as long as it’s related to a thing he likes, and he is autistic.",
"I’d like all those things.",
"And we can’t be surprised that this amazing looking game involved thousands of people doing crunch for months or years, only to shop the product and be told they won’t earn a bonus because the metacritic score isn’t a 90. The game goes on to sell 10 million copies and the studio is closed or folded into another studio.",
"There's a third option out there:\n\n* Only play FromSoftware games",
"And let's be honest, every single game that comes out getting 8/10+ in most major review publications is more or less equivalent to there being no reviews at all.",
"Please name for me even one instance where the price of a product increasing has lead to better quality, and better quality of life for those involved in the creation of said product.",
"Returnal is a PS5 exclusive published by Sony and it's well made, polished and complete.",
"A good story isn’t gameplay. \n\nI’d love an amazing story with amazing visuals and amazing sound design and physics and all the post processing bells and whistles, with practically no gameplay. Could be a walking simulator, it could be amazing. \n\nThis idea that “gameplay” always needs to be the master value for video games, is bizarre to me. Gameplay has to be the master value for a pack of playing cards, but video games can offer so much more. Experiences and journeys, simulations of relationships, exploration of consciousness, role playing as other kinds of humans, or non humans. There is so much that “video games” can achieve beyond “gameplay”, which for me is the domain of Pac-Man and Tetris. We nailed “gameplay” a long time ago. \n\nI don’t see a battle happening between technology and fun, between “graphics and gameplay” they simply aren’t in competition. Rather both have become uniquely stagnant. \n\nFC3’s gameplay and graphics impressed at the time, they worked together. Having a big, lush, open environment to explore was at the heart of both gameplay, and graphics. They complimented each other. \n\nFC6, however, doesn’t impress much in either category, despite doing more in both. The graphics aren’t really servicing the gameplay all that much, although for me, the visuals are probably the best thing about the game. But they can no longer provide any real novelty. It’s just a sharper, cleaner version of what I’m used to. And so we are essentially left with FC3’s gameplay, with no real aesthetic novelty. The technology driving the open world just isn’t doing it for most of us anymore.",
"So glad I grew up with NES, SNES, and PSX. Modern gaming looks like hell.",
"I was thinking about buying BF 2042 yesterday, then read the steam reviews and didn't. Feels pretty good.",
"Really weird that you got downvoted for a thoughtful comment elaborating on the thinking behind your opinion. This site is getting bad. Really bad.",
"Diablo 2 was my childhood, I was always going to buy this.\n\nAnd I literally started my post with \"I paid...\".",
"Was this a surprise? Battlefield games have been a mess at launch since the dawn of time.",
"Dude... it has a '2' in the title. It's the second game in a series, third if you count Red Dead Revolver.",
"I stopped buying Battlefield games 10 years ago, did I fix it yet?",
"Wow wow wow... Wow",
"Agree, if they have the full scale, they should make use of it.",
"And that’s why we can’t have nice things",
"I’m complaining about it and I had no intention of buying it, nor do I. I’m simply saying that it’s shit and lazy and embarrassing",
"Seriously, a year and half since the pandemic started, have there been any good AAA games?",
"> Now they literally can't keep 2,500$ gpu's in stock.\n\nThis is a completely separate issue though lmao. Why is reddit so fucking bad at making a decent point?\n\nThe *80/ti cards have been selling for $1000+ for many years now, well before the shortage, and tons of people buy them. Just because you won't, or can't, doesn't make it any less true.",
"Boredom and disposable income. \n\nYou think the thing to make you happy lives in the Store, and if you just keep buying stuff the magic thing to make you happy will come along one day.. you just carry on like this till you die because what you’re looking for can’t be patched over with video games, TV shows and porn",
"CJ FOOL!",
"Good but I wouldn't expect new content anytime soon.",
"You forgot the part where most indie games are Early Access and incomplete as well.",
"Which industrial controls software?",
"Hades got in the top five all-time on Rock Paper Shotgun if I remember correctly.\n\nI love it but it also shows how few complete, good games are released, even Indies.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nHotline Miami was a highlight for me, but the sequel sucks because they lost their vision.",
"They can make it, they just don’t want to. That’s hard work that they won’t get paid for this quarter. Better to release it unfinished and charge you to beta test it. Remember when game companies beta tested their own shit so then could release a full game that worked reasonably well? Pepperidge Farm remembers.",
"That's easy to say but graphical design is just as important for a lot of games.\n\nExample: Guardians of the Galaxy has very mediocre gameplay, but the animation, story and graphical design makes it to one of the best games made in 2021.\n\nBut I get your point, a lot of shooters just have fancy engine things with less art directions.",
"Yep, games as a service for most companies mean releasing unfinished games 6 to 12 months ahead of time and finishing the rest while consumers get the crap end. Why is this ok? And why do ppl keep buying into it? No ideaaaaaa",
"When I was like 10, I had an F1 game, where everytime you would run a full race, your engine would blow up. Man was I mad, haha.",
"The changes that come about after \"finishing\" doesn't change the core gameplay loop, which is what many people find boring about roguelikes.",
"ah Agile Development.",
"FIFA 15 is my latest one and it is just amazing. \n(Even though the AI always winning to keep the championship close is infuriating)",
"And yet people will continue to fund this trend upon a myriad of dumb excuses. The \"potential\", have it before anyone else, fomo, generally stupid, lack of critical thinking skills, etc... I wanted the GTA's, saw the price and reviews and was glad I spent 8 on Bioshock Infinite",
"I run a Ryzen 1700x and GTX 1070 and it runs better than original PS4 in frames and graphics. Mix if high and ultra settings. Also it plays a lot better if you pair a controller to it than mouse and keyboard.\n\nThere was a lot of poor optimization and bugs when it first released to PC but after a couple months of working the kinks out it ran just as good as on my PS4. The devs just had to deal with a massive hardware environment and additional graphics settings and optimization that they didn't need to do for playstation. They stepped up the the challenge and were very attentive to the community. They fixed the pain points of the players first and then smoothed out the rest of the experience.",
"I know its not exactly the same thing, but Nintendo. I feel like all Nintendo AAA games are made with all the care in the world and are almost always guarenteed to be a finished product when they are released.",
"My Asperger's bros are passionate and selective gamers who play the same thing over and over instead of bulk buying (e.g. Rimworld, Football Manager)\n\nThe lower functioning dude in my uni, obsesses over Mechas and JRPGs and buys every game that belongs to that genre regardless of how shit they are.",
"1. I cannot follow the pedantic argument you're making here. I think you're saying OP chose to stop gaming because there weren't 'decent' games, knowing full well there were 'amazing' games? What?\n\n2. I just gave one example as a comment to \"This is why I stopped gaming\" -- to show him that, whatever games he thinks died out, there are still great ones being made, and he shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater.\n\n3. You can't say \"he clearly meant....\" when he gave exactly one example of a game series.",
"If you increase the customer base at the same rate as the development costs, the price per game can stay the same.",
"I realized back in my ps2/GameCube days that I game (and they were sold complete back then!) was really worth the full new price. I got to a point where I didn’t give a shit about new releases and usually just looked through the used/discount bin at the local eb/babbages/gamestop. That habit is serving me well these days.",
"Don't buy preorders. Don't buy early access. Return defective games.\n\nMake this a cultural shift, and things can improve.",
"Nobody can compete not even gaming industry with Apple, €700 iPhone 4 antenna gate, \"you holding it wrong\" response of Steve Jobs and their bumper cases that was free for the first 6 months and after with a cost of $25.",
"Yeah, so what’s interesting is I don’t play video games to play games like Hades. I’m sure it’s a very good game, I’ve heard literally nothing but praise, but I’m not massively into “games”. So games like battle ships, or Uno, or Tetris. I enjoy them, but it’s not why I play video games. \n\nI like immersive 3D digital tourism experiences. So exploring photo realistic environments in 3D is the centre of my personal dart board. Games like RDR2 in first person, Kingdom Come, Metro, Cyberpunk, etc, all really appeal to me. I also like to get rid of the HUD. \n\nI only say this because a game like Hades will often be held up as a great example of how to do a game right. How games should be. \n\nBut it’s not why I, and many others, play games. It’s almost as though “video game” as an umbrella term for all digital, interactive media might be a bit limiting. \n\nObviously VR is the ultimate destination for my personal interests.",
"Bro, do you even /r/starcitizen ?",
"Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I love all of that stuff. I stay up to date on siggraph papers every year even. \n\nLots of games end up trying to be the Marvel of games, where they all have to have this huge budgets find themselves into the you get graphics, content, and correctness (pick 2) quandry. When that much is invested, they have to appear to have it all and lose out on he last, where maybe they should dial down the first or second. \nYeah, that radiohead thing was great, especially the way it threaded Kid A music into it. I would love to see them live again, just amazing.",
"Can there not be a lawsuit because the goods purchased were broken?",
"It stands to reason that why we're seeing an increase in apologists and white knights, is largely due to the fact that a good chunk of gamers that only know this business model.",
"free games, non-full priced games, games on sale, are the best games tbh. xbox game pass is also pretty good.\n\nwell yeah there's micro transactions in most free games, but hey I didn't pay 60 dollars to get microtransactions, \\*cough\\*, literally any FIFA game. \n\ngames are going downhill nowadays, the quality of game compared to what we get is getting worse. I tried back 4 blood beta and I honestly fail to see why it is a full priced game. It should be at the minimum, only 20 dollars or so. Then we have the very blatant false advertising companies try to do \\*cough\\* cyberpunk \\*cough\\* where the supposed demo/gameplay first-look looks amazing, and they hyped it up to have a in depth story mode branching out with choices but the game releases and it's only like, 40% of what they said the game was.\n\nI doubt this will change since the majority of people will still buy these games. GTA remaster? even though the remaster is arguably quite bad, I do see people enjoying the game and such. Nothing wrong with that of course, but ya know, sad to see such a unoptimized game being an 'okay' thing to sell now.",
"I laughed for days at his short about making Christmas songs. It’s one of my favorite sketches of all time",
"If game studios and retailers thought they’d increase their revenue by increasing the cost of the game, they would already have done so.",
"Aye, eagerly waiting for DD2 to release.\n\nProbably a year off still, by my estimations. So far I've ignored any content and community discussion.",
"People who pre-order and have trouble getting refunds deserve this. Anyway, I'll stick with r/patientgamers and buy DRM free.",
"Big Nintendo fan here, I enjoy most of their games and agree a lot of them are finished games of high quality. However the latest Mario Golf is an example of a game I wouldn’t consider a finished product on release",
"With the state of the industry today, I wonder if a 2nd video game crash would even happen.\n\nBut immediately afterwards, I realized that people nowadays to fully boycott a product.",
"Lmao the stadia subreddit was the saddest place ever to be born. I don't know if they're still rending their garments to defend the greatest console to ever be unusable and abandoned faster than the ouya but they were a mighty force at one time",
"The formula is kind of the joke though.",
"Hey, I paid good money to bitch about this broken ass game. You damn well gonna hear me bitch about it!\n\n/s",
"At least stop preordering or buying day one.",
"We could always see what MY FATHER thinks of these lyrics…",
"The Game of Thrones season 8 pitch meeting encapsulates my feelings perfectly. Absolutely spot on.",
"Yeah, those character models of the creepy wooden guys looked amazing. You see fairly similar creations in “Dreams”, art galleries and exhibits. \n\nI think a lot of Art Galleries should have apps on consoles for virtual tours. You could easily have a photo realistic render of the building, with detailed photo scanned art that you can pan around, it could be accompanied by an audio file or video file explaining more. I’m sure these kinds of things have existed in browsers for years. But the Tate or Guggenheim having its own PS5/Steam app would be cool. \n\nIt would be a good way to democratise art.",
"r/patientgamers all the way. I've been playing all the last gen AAA for $60 a year on PS Now. Release hype is bullshit and only leads to paying a premium to get in on a beta test.",
"> Fromsoft\n\nWas going to say this. Sekiro was great, Elden Ring is looking sweet.",
"Idk about autism but I know plenty of people who just buy the katest game because they love games. Like how people watch all the new anime that came out because they like anime. Or buy the latest graphics card or phone or model of a character because hey it just came out I have to have it. People just like buying stuff to have stuff.",
"I haven't played that one yet. I might have just gotten lucky with the games i bought, but it just seems to me like there are rarely times people are complaining about nintendo compared to these other game developers.",
"I gonna need you to get all the way of his back.",
"Rockstar is *only* a billion dollar company. Cut them some slack. /s",
"You expected more from the same company that brought you Battlefield 3 reskinned 3 times as 3 different games?",
"\"We wanted the money now\" sums it all up for every rushed game",
"Eh, there are very different reasons for that. Industrial control software had to be extensively qualified, many times because it also has medical or military applications. Qualifying software to a high degree of confidence is a complex task that requires controlling all of the variables, including the entire OS environment it's on. \n\nImagine if it's a CNC machine and in the middle of an operation the OS completely freaks out because of some change between Win 7 and 10 that that only occurs when some obscure combination of subroutines interact in a specific way that couldn't have happened under 7 because one of them didn't exist before. Now the tool head crashes into the work at high speed and completely mangles the machine. The manufacturer (and specifically devs) are on the hook for that, and DO NOT want that to happen, even if it means having an old OS running underneath.",
"please name for me one other industry where inflation didn't touch the cost of products and the industry in question has as many problems and issues among its creator base? it's like you're *trying* not to hear a side of the argument. i'm certainly not saying it's a fix-all miracle cure. game prices *shouldn't have stayed so low in the first place*. inflation, demand for games, drastically higher employee numbers, i mean.. clearly some bad decisions were made over the years and cost per base game is -one- of them. a big one. \n\ngamers want to complain about pay-to-play, IAPs, ridiculous DLC prices, crunch-culture and incomplete games shoved out the door, yet mention any of the possible reasons that are unique, self-induced catalysts for the models you're complaining of, and then suggesting you open your wallet to remedy - well, that's heresy.",
">It seems like no major studio can make a well made, polished and complete game anymore.\n\nSounds like you don't have a PlayStation then, the studios they own make the absolutely best games in the entire industry with such polish and care not seen anywhere else. It's crazy people who game don't have a PlayStation 4 or 5 at least, the best way to go is own a PlayStation and PC because every other game is on PC that isn't a PlayStation exclusive.",
"Yes but FFXIV 1.0 was a functional release, it just had horrible ideas, it worked fine on a technical level.",
"Or maybe... just maybe.... games are still good, if not better on the whole than they used to be so that's why most AAA games get at least a 7/10 from most reviewers.",
"\"Oooh, remastering the PS2 GTA games, sounds like it's gonna be a lot of work...\"\n\n\"Actually, it's going to be super easy, barely an inconvenience.\"",
"We’ll then, respectfully, let me guess that you have not yet played Ghost of Tsushima yet. Sucker Punch has crafted an immaculately well made game with this one.",
"Lol I bought the game in 2013 and it still hasn't come out!",
"...they just released an update like a month ago...",
"reviewer gets early access to game -> review gets more eyes on their website/magazine -> reviewer gives game 8/10 -> game company sells more games -> gives review early access to more games\n______________________\nreviewer gets early access to game -> gets more eyes on website/magazine -> gives game 3/10 -> company never gives reviewer early access to games",
"I remember how hyped I was when hearing the announcement but then I sensed something wasn't right when the trailer had nothing to show. I decided to wait for user reviews and low and behold the finished product is just as lacking as the trailers. I bought resident evil 4 and an oculus quest 2 instead and its one of the best gaming experiences I've had in a long time.",
"well the industry obviously can't deliver on all three, so you need to prioritize",
"> Now they literally can't keep ~~2,500$~~ gpu's in stock\n\nIt's a lot easier to sell out of your stock of GPUs regardless of the price when you only had 3 of them to begin with.",
"Don’t get me wrong I consider them a high quality developer, just pointing out no one is perfect in this industry",
"You're arguing for them like you're getting paid to do it... or maybe you like getting into completely unimportant back-and-forths with people online? Either way, I'm good on continuing this discussion ✌️ be well",
"Even after a year these AAA games are still crappy and the studio has moved on to the next game. Very few examples of a terrible game becoming complete and polished after launch.",
"This comment is not in all caps so I will just go buy another game.",
">don't buy it\n\nIt's easy for you to say. But for the thousands of videogame addicts that distill their personality to \"I play videogames!\", that constantly consume videogame \"\"news\"\", that can't afford to not play the latest ~~shitty~~ awesome AAA videogame on day 1, that can't help but preorder everything just in case somehow the Earth runs out of bits to transmit the videogame 6 months from now, when people have had time to notice it's bug ridden and at least *some* of the bugs are corrected, and that will cry how broken a game is while they click the \"Preorder\" button on the next one, no, it's not easy to do.\n\nThis isn't the companies' fault. It's **entirely** consumers' fault.",
"Something annoying is when a game does have a lot of content, people will say \"Where's the content? Stop fixing bugs and start releasing more DLC!\". Not sure if it's staged or people are really that obsessed with constant \"content\" that they don't care if the content is any good.\n\nI'd rather a game be solid with maybe modding support, than a steady stream of \"Here's the xyz update, a DLC containing 3 low effort items\"",
"Except the \"\"\"\"bf veteran\"\"\"\" crowd had been very vocal that they aren't that",
"I agree. Their's only one problem though. Game studios don't seem to care for the sale numbers after a year, only for sale numbers at launch. So they make more games like the games that sell well at launch, not like the games that sell well after a year. So, now we get to have a lot of shitty, but hyped up games, because people bought them so much in the past. There are still good games being made, but not as much, and that is kind of a logical consequence of good quality and a favourable consequence too. We just have to wade through the shit to get to the good bits.",
"Yeah, there was the hearth and home furniture update, but thats not the two biomes and bosses that players were looking forward to seeing finished.\n\nFairly lackluster imo.",
"Yes!!! So much this!",
">don't enable them with preorders and sales of crap product.\n\nPeople have been saying this for years. The majority of people will still do it though, perpetuating the cycle",
"You genuinely did because none of this applies to you. Same as me. You literally fixed the problem personally. The remaining issue is systematically this is impacting more and more other games that could have been good when the companies realize they don’t HAVE to put out a finished product but still get money. That will take a watershed moment like ET where the average consumer not on Reddit also doesnt buy the game.",
"I've seen people defending the $20 price tag to make your character the color white in Halo infinite...",
"nice vid",
"/r/patientgamers\n\nI usually wait three to five years before touching most AAA games, you can't always avoid the DLC bull but at least most of the bugs are gone and content finished plus the price should be more reasonable.",
"That's not how it works. If anything, agile is making software better, provided the teams know how to utilize it. A traditional stupid waterfall is a fucking recipe for failure and you'll never reach your end goal as you imagined. Agile at least allows you to react to changes and iterate the product. If it's managed properly it can yield hecking excellent results. Demos with stakeholders every sprint, constant feedback and improving, deadlines for releases, enough resourcing for test teams to write test plans, perform alpha testing and so on. Don't blame agile development. Clearly you don't even understand it.",
"Physics are fun. Too bad gta V fucking neutered that part. Played GTA IV for hours on end just to do stupid shit like the swing glitch.\n\nGTA V? Impressive, but it felt like a childs toy. And they didn't even fucking give it VR implementation, I'd jump right in if so. Do I look forward to GTA VI? No.",
"I work with an aircraft manufacturing company. They still use IBM MAINFRAMES FOR THEIR DOCUMENT STORAGE.\n\nFUCKING MAINFRAMES\n\nLITERALLY, 1980s TECH. WTF BRO.",
"Sounds like all of them...",
"It's weird seeing people throwing a fit when a game gets fixes instead of DLC, if the game doesn't even need DLC. Like they'd rather throw money at something they won't even get to enjoy, and are confused when a game doesn't have a content cycle like that.",
"Probably not. Video games have become very ingrained in society all around the world, but back when the game market crash happened a LOT of people still thought that games were just a fad or new type of toy that was going to come and go. The games industry pulled in something like $200 billion last year, that ain't going away so easily just because publishers started putting out bad games. For all the people buying the AAA games, there's just as many who got them \"free\" through game pass or stick to indie projects off itch.io",
"Idk if you like the souls series or some of the games produced by FromSoft but I’m really excited for Elden Ring. They had a network test and all the big souls youtbers love it. Doesn’t come out til February though",
"NMS is always brought up and it's aggravating- even if it got better later that doesn't mean we should celebrate games launching underdeveloped, or treat it as taking the highground to say that if NMS did it other games might. Because they probably won't, and even if they do, that's not better than just having a good release",
"Anthem fanboys lol. It was funny reading their defense of what is obviously a broken game",
"Pick up Hell Let Loose, you'll never go back to a AAA dev. \nIt will bring back the Battlefield glory days vibes. It's hit the spot after years of me dearly missing the BF1942 and BF2 days. \nIt's not perfect but the devs have a big involvement in the community. \nThe console release has been only recent.",
"Repeat after me: No preorders.",
"I don't. I usually wait for YEARS until it's free to download or %70 off at the second hand section lmao",
"Refunds. Show them we won’t tolerate being raped and they might just stop doing it. If you want those games that you lose yourself in for hours again refund is the only way. Across the board.",
"I'm 30. When I graduated high school, my dream job was to become a game developer. Luckily, life circumstances prevented me from going to college.\n\nI'm going to school for Computer Science now and am about to have my associate's degree. I am *so* thankful that I dodged the bullet of working in such a shitty industry. Greed has completely ruined what was once a really cool industry. I'm going to enjoy a lowkey job working at some company, probably developing some app, not having to deal with crunch or sexual harassment",
"Stadia was a Google product. It's demise was foreseeable as soon as it launched.",
"fo76 and no mans sky\n\n\"but it's actually really good *now*\"",
"Forgot the part where the guy buying the puzzle keeps giving the puzzle maker money continuing the cycle. I learned my lesson from cyberpunk. I will never preorder a game again.",
"immediate",
"what other high-concept manpower-enabled products have done this without adjusting for inflation for 40 years? this isn't like computers being manufactured by automated factory lines. sure there's R&D costs associated, but that's helped by moore's law and piggybacking technologies that already exist. games are more like the film industry, in that there's a story developed, art direction, editing and revisions, etc.. things that take real years and years to produce and finish. yet you don't see theater ticket prices at $1.50 anymore.",
"Indie games are the ones that pioneered early access. The difference there being that there were a lot of early access success stories. Things like Prison Architect and Rimworld and other games that were very playable during early access, and the time period essentially served to add new content to the game until the devs were ready to 'properly' release it.\n\nWhen AAA publishers copied the early access model, they just took the bits about making money, and ignored the parts that actually made it successful in the first place.",
"Im gonna need you to get all the way off my back about posting lazy comments for karma",
"unfortunately, if the video were 3 seconds longer he pays for the puzzle extension anyway...",
"A company that does this needs to have their business license suspended for 5 years. Apparently it’s not criminal action because they audience is mostly children. It’s fraud. It’s shitting on the consumer. It’s sets a bad precedent and our government should be protecting us from what now I’m just going to call a scam.",
">Years\n\nFixed that for ya",
"Aye good point, I hear it's looking good for the souls fans. I'm not really engaged by dodge-roll combat, as much fun as they are to some, I found the constant rolling and running away just tedious\n\nEdit - I actually watched some streams playing Elden Ring for a bit simply because it looks beautiful and I doubt I'd ever want to play it myself",
"and find a reviewer who actually cares about games. Someone with a similar taste to you is your best bet of liking what you eventually buy.",
"Apparently they are \"working really hard to create the best game ever\" and \"you can't expect them to make a groundbreaking game in a couple years!!\" So now I don't even ask about when people expect this game to come out.",
"I think he usually blends moments of his style of humor, with pointing out funny/weird moments in movies. (Sometimes elicits \"oh yeah, when you put it that way that is pretty funny\")",
"RIP flight mechanics in BOTW. \n\n I only got to see you in videos, you were patched too quick.",
"I was an OG backer way back in the day that was already seeing some red flags. Bought the lowest level I could (like $20 or something) that gave me the game just in case I was wrong (it did sound like the kind of game I'd enjoy) and then just sat back and watched the slow mo implosion. I've still never touched any of the 'betas' or any other aspects of the game, but the drama alone was well worth the money.",
"I hate that I get all screenrants trash videos on my recommend list since I watch his pitch meetings",
"\"Gamers will never fall for that\"\n\n&#x200B;\n\n\"actually it's gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience\" \n\n\n\"oh really?\"",
"If you make it through a bunch, everytime you get to the end the story progresses further",
"Did you just quote a line from a video we all just saw? \n\nLazy",
"I don't think it's the miners buying them up so much since Nvidia started adding anti-mining flags to all their 3000 series GPUs. I think it's resellers snatching them all.",
"Ignition is pretty good",
"Way to generalise autistic people.",
"The new Mulan pitch was also hilarious",
"I value your feedback.",
"Ah no worries. Thought I would throw it out there as it looks like one of the better game I’ll be buying in like.. the last 3 years. But yeah most years we’re lucky if one game is worth buying I agree with you there.",
"Yeah, I'm Aspergers and play video games an unhealthy amount of time. I'm absolutely not the kind of person who buys this kind of stuff on day 1 just because it's new. Hell I actually often stress about new purchases a lot more than other people would, and actually rarely buy new games as a result, mainly sticking to the same few I have thousands of hours in.",
"Anti consumer strategies are the fault of the consumer? \n\nHey I know I punch you in the face every Tuesday, but you still haven't been able to stop me from punching you in the face, so I think the issue here is that you won't stop me from punching you in the face.",
"Fuck am I autistic?",
"r/thebloodline looks like a really good game. Low poly graphics, cartoonish physics, but has a lot going on with it and the creator takes a lot of feedback from the community and incorporates it into the game. I'm not a PC gamer, but it makes me want to be",
"There definitely are, but it's not just a good game people want for. There is such a thing as novelty seeking in psychology, where people are interested in newer things. \n\nPeople want to ride the hype train into a new game. It's the same reason people would rather cook/get new food than eat yesterday's left overs that are still quite good and might be better than whatever new food you're about to get. Of course it's not purely binary for decision, maybe the left over is pizza vs frying some eggs, you'd take the pizza. And this is reflected in games as well, the highest rated titles are often acquired by everyone. People will get the couple dozen 10/10 games and then start looking at the 9/10, which has a ridiculous amount of.\n\n At that point I am curious if choice paralysis kicks in due to too many choices. If there are thousands of 9/10 games, as you've said, it's hard to pick the right one. I think that's when people will simply look at what is coming up, much less choice.",
"It only happens because people are stupid enough to consta tly pre-order games or buy them on release day.",
"You are forgetting that reddit is the minority. For every redditor, there are 100's of mothers and dads out there with kids that see an ad for a video game or need a birthday present or christmas present and the moms/dads will pick out something they've seen an ad for or the kid wants because that's how the world works. Timmy wants a video game, well Timmy is gonna get a video game regardless of the quality or integrity of who made it. Good luck convincing the average person to stop buying something that they don't care to get any information about.",
"Yeah, it’s a spectrum",
"^ Average Agile Fan vs Average Waterfall Enjoyer 🗿",
"I'd even argue that games are at their all time best, but the problem is that the majority of people don't bother looking past triple A games",
"Way to get offended for no reason.",
"The original mount and blade actually released itself the same way. I don't believe there was even early access in steam back then, you had to get an updated install client from their website every time there was a new update. Same thing with RimWorld actually (that was a decision by Tynan though, steam had early access then).\n\nI think those examples are okay as long as you are up front with it though. Bannerlord is getting so much flack because they took forever to release it and expected a finished game, but the devs were up front they were still in beta. I prefer that than something like Cyberpunk's release.",
"People say \"just stop buying games!\" Like it's that easy. Consumers are dumb as fuck and businesses are predatory as fuck. That's why we need regulations and laws regarding unfinished games",
"> Demos with stakeholders every sprint\n\nlmao, I don't even know where to start. But if you;re speaking from experience then lucky you I suppose",
"If you're a fan of Battlefield you know every Battlefield at least since Battlefield 3 has been a buggy mess on release. If you didn't expect this you weren't paying attention. \n\nNot that it's OK. But it's not surprising.",
"They're not complaining about people having fun but rather complaining about people making excuses when game studios release unfinished products.",
"We reached a time when they dont have to make any new games. They just need to remaster the old ones",
"Send this to every AAA developer stat",
"I dunno man, 2 out of every 3 indie games these days are kickstarter early access scams. I keep wanting to buy ooblets for my wife, it went into early access A YEAR AND A HALF AGO. No release date on the roadmap. People have basically moved on from Valheim, still in early access with no release date. How long was Ark in early access and buggy as hell? They released it on every platform and even released expansions before taking it out of early access, and when they finally did, it wasn't because all the shit was fixed, they just said \"fuck it, it's done\". And that's not even talking about the biggest early access scam of all, Star Citizen. I don't know if you can call it indie anymore as it has amassed a bigger budget than any game ever, but I think it still qualifies considering that was its roots and the studio has never released a real game.\n\nEarly access is cancer. Even the ones that do eventually release in a reasonable form have diluted their game's experience so much by drip-feeding content over years that no one can be bothered to care anymore and everyone has already moved on.",
"I mean I guess it was if you had an awesome computer could not run on mine at all so “worked fine” is debatable.",
"Its not normal consumers buying those at those prices you donut.",
"No probably not.",
"MODS. Valheim has a bunch of mods that make the game imo. But if you like to build stuff and fight monsters and explore. It's pretty fun with friends. I have probably 300 ish hours in it, so for me well worth the 30 bucks. I would like to see the mistlands and other biome though",
">Don't blame agile development. Clearly you don't even understand it.\n\nWhat companies do?",
"Microsoft doesn't have a great reputation for putting out working games either, lol.",
"I mean if we've gone from 1980s to 2020s with no inflation adjustment whatsoever and gamers kick and scream at any attempt of a price rise, then you deserve half assed game and micro transaction you get.\n\nLiterally no other hobby I have kicks and screams about occasional price rises like gamers do, yet gaming has a quality issue that none of the others do.\n\nMaybe there wouldn't be this half assed 'if it's good enough that some people will buy it and we can get on the next job' attitude if they were getting paid properly.",
"itll never happen. Example A: Battlefield 2042** is one of the worst reviewed game on steam of all time, while still being #1 top selling game on the platform\n\nEdit: Wrong year",
"That reminds me of the purposes of movies. Something might not be a \"good movie\" by certain criteria, yet be perfectly functional as entertainment to the audience to which it's addressed.",
"His movie pitch skits are great as well.",
"Man going back I remember being gutted that bf5 was so fucked on release and I was going to wait a year and then buy when the problems got fixed.\n\nInstead I just forgot it existed until this 2042 drama came out.\n\nProbably a good way to do things.",
"Holy shit he's right. I totally forgot about the horse.",
"Most Sony exclusives arrive in pretty good state.",
"Post release reviews from users not ign etc",
"I’d argue they actually exploit people that care about games and most devs are passionate about these projects. It’s how these AAA studios get away with obscene amounts of crunch and long hours. They exploit their passion for video games, make them work long hours, and then lay off a bunch of people once the work is complete. \n\nIf that were my working conditions then there would absolutely be issues with the finished product even if truly cared about the product.\n\nThe reality is that everything we see right now is failure of the management. They announce games too early, promise too much, allow scope creep, overwork their devs, and release a product that isn’t ready. Frankly, a lot of companies game developers work for are abusive. \n\nGame developers at these companies honestly need to unionize and fight for better working conditions. I believe that you will see better quality work if devs have more of a say in what they can realistically accomplish in a given timeframe. Because right now management makes the decision on what the game will be, even if it’s unrealistic, and then overworks their employees to achieve it.",
"I loved gaming on consoles growing up and now I just hear of all horror stories of corporate greed and I have no interest at all. It's a sad state gaming is in.",
"This is such a fucking useless comment. Clearly it's not going to stop because consumers are dumb as shit. Maybe petition the government to stop allowing these game studios to commit fraud.",
"After all of the overhyped games that have come out broken lately, you'd think people would wise up and stop buying games on day one.\n\nIt's not hard to wait a day or two for a review to come out.",
"What is so special about it? Graphically it's fantastic, with great attention to detail. The rest.... Eh",
"It helps that most of their games are very very similar to previous versions of those games, and that their technical complexity is like 10 years behind the rest of the industry.",
"Man, the story! I've never been so emotionally moved at the end of a video game.",
"And then there's animal crossing, which takes a step back from the older games.",
"I’m a simple man. I see Ryan George, I upvote.",
"Why do people like you always assume people are offended by you? You're just being an ignorant dick and I hope you try to be better than that.",
"Should have agreed to buy the extension after he mentioned the price, that would have been the cherry on top. And also still accurate.",
"basically gamers aren't sold games anymore, they're sold a service or worse, sold a promise",
"I played the beta, it was okay. But the game is broken. I think I'd gladly pay for the game if it's issues are addressed, so I'm assuming that will be a year after release",
"Neat, it's an example of a nonpolitical echo chamber.",
"Probably not, but if you also have problems communicating with people or understanding the emotions of others you might want to see a doctor.",
"They did a network test with still 2 months from release and I've heard nothing but praise from all the videos I've watched and like super minor glitches that I honestly wouldn't get upset over even in a finished game. Very excited. As a rule I try not to hype myself up just to be disappointed, but I feel like I am hyping myself up for Elden Ring. Really hoping it doesn't take a turn for the worst.",
"You know, I've been asking myself that same question",
"Literally quit New World after like 400 hours because of this patch.\n\nGood game until this patch. Will they fix it? Don't care anymore.",
"It's not Hades' rogue-lite genre that gets it all the praise. Well, some of the praise. It's a really entertaining example of that type of game.\n\nBut it's just well made. It's not unfinished. It's not waiting for content patches to fix major bugs, or add in content that was advertised as being there at launch. It had a massive beta period where things were fixed and tested. It is just a properly made game by devs that love what they do.\n\nNot being a fan of the genre doesn't preclude you or anyone from being able to appreciate it as an example of how to do games right.",
"All I can say is that it's a regional vendor that wrote their own software for their own proprietary systems that also have their own proprietary components combined with common industrial controls hardware.\n\nYou don't have that software, you have no visibility into what their systems are doing.",
"Way to generalize and stereotype me because you want to be offended by things because it makes you feel like you’re doing something about how shitty the world is when you’re actually doing nothing.",
"Star Citizen: \"So I'm going to make the biggest, craziest puzzle you could ever imagine. Here are some jpgs of the pieces\"",
"I mean, Half Life Alyx was incredible, but Valve only seems to release a game every 7 years or so these days.",
"I was watching a gameplay video of Alien: Isolation because it’s coming to iOS/android and I want to try it out. The video was from the PS4 release in 2014(?) and it was played on release day. Every cut scene was jittery and the gameplay was good but not perfect. The guy playing said “I haven’t installed a zero-day patch if one is coming out so hopefully this stuff gets fixed then.” \n\nI’m an old fart who grew up on NES/SNES so this whole concept of releasing games that need patches before even playing them just seems so awful.",
"yeah you see this i am more ok with they dont claim it is finished.\nif you want to go the early access beta route lying about it is bull shit",
"Anyone buying a \"AAA\" game on release in 2021 is an idiot.",
">2022\n\nUh dude that's next year",
"oh, eh, typo, sorry",
"> all of the old bugs are in the game\n\nWell, yeah. Just like with WoW Classic, people were frothing at the mouth to make sure the devs didn't change anything! Ummm... except for the bits that they did want changed, of course. But nothing else!\n\nAnd so people got what they asked for.",
"It's all about MVP (minimum viable product). Getting people in the door is all that matters. Once they're in, sell them the rest of the game over time. Patching is a symptom of the world we live in now, where most consumers have access to high speed internet. It's allowed development to get a little less stringent.\n\nHowever, some of that is sheer complexity. How many lines of code are in a AAA game nowadays? Bug-hunting produces more bugs, and the amount of code involved means there's basically no end to the cycle of refinement. Yes, developers and publishers need to put a limit on \"feature creep\" to set an end point, but I think as consumers, we're taking the good with the bad here.\n\nIt would almost certainly be better if developers weren't pushed to deadlines. Involving shareholders and MBAs in the game-making process invites plenty of complications. It also brings money, though, that would otherwise not allow for such extensive development. It's a trade-off.\n\nAnd I don't mean to make it sound like I'm here to excuse poor quality. Profiteering in games has definitely made an impact on their innovation and enjoyment. The games industry could use an overhaul of sorts. Some of those less appealing features may still be necessary, though, if we want any games on a larger scale.\n\nThere are still plenty of great independent games out there, a number of which offer much better entertainment value on the dollar. Finding them in the PC realm is more likely. AAA games have basically become Hollywood blockbusters, meant to appeal to as many people as possible with big budgets and less substantive content, but you can avoid them if you so choose.",
"I preordered Metroid Dread because I knew this would be the case.",
"It is still in early access. It says so on the store page.",
"Let me get off that thing!",
"Right! I rarely get excited for games, but I am excited for this one. Fromsoft has a great track record and really seem to know what they're doing. I don't think we'll be disappointed.",
"It's a 20 year old game, the gameplay doesn't need to be shown, it is known. They got a right to complain that its worse than that even if they didn't buy it, especially since the originals have been removed from sale.",
"Getting karma is super easy, barely an inconvenience.",
"Hitting social media with the game first is motivating people to buy games as early as possible.",
"True but it’s not that hard to keep your eyes open for another Valheim or another Subnautica.",
"We have access to a huge army of content creators who are making guides and establishing metas within the first week or so of any game. Which means if you aren't playing from the start, you'll struggle to catch up and even the playing field.\n\nI haven't bought a pre-sale in a long time because of the bugged release trend, but I can understand why people feel forced to do it if they are interested in a game.\n\nOf course many are also simply starving for an actual good and polished game like we used to have, so they'll buy and try anything that comes out.",
"Mario Party for the switch was very disappointing as well",
"If the problem is 'the game I want doesn't exist' then no he didn't solve the problem.",
"/r/patientgamers is where it's at.",
"I don't know how bad it will really be, but Battlefield has always been my favorite series and it breaks my heart not to have a ps5 or a good PC to play it. Im stuck in the previous generation.",
"Look at you compromising good game play for shitty games faster\n\nHow about make a completed good game and then sell it. This isn’t a hard concept",
"Sounds like you are buying the wrong games from the wrong companies.",
"They (publishers) will keep doing this if people keep buying them! Angry comments on the internet mean nothing if the money is still flowing in!",
"Take a trip over to//r/halo . So many fan boys whiteknighting it. They ripped out half the game, sold what was left back to you at full price then gave you MP for \"free\" but with a fucking terrible battle pass. Buying the game doesn't even get you shit in multiplayer. That feels real scummy to me, but apparently the rest of community is cool with it.",
"Well coming out with a new FPS like CoD or Battlefield every 2 years is alot more similar than what nintendo is doing. Also, id rather get a game with lower technical complexity that looks like BOTW or Mario Odyssey that i can play without extensive issues. Nintendo knows what they are and (for the most part) they do a pretty good job delivering the products they promise.",
"I'm currently playing Age of Darkness. Early Access but a lot of fun",
"Games today are not €60. That is the entry price to play (what is quite often) a broken beta. \n\nThe argument you're trying to make is disingenuous at best and ignorant at worst. Particularly when you consider that large publishers expect you to fork over in excess of €100 to get the \"full\" experience from the Super Mega Deluxe edition.\n\nAnd that's without mentioning the rampant microtransactions.",
"At risk of sounding like the accused, at least Star Citizen was upfront about the process, even if circumstances changed so timelines got changed, then development ended up taking the usual amount.. But since it's been developed and playable since the very first hangar was built, it feels like it's limbo...its not. And that's the idea - you are funding the development.\n\nYou don't have to agree with it, or believe they will be successful, but star citizen never pretended to be anything but what they are - a game being created by people buying in early.\n\nThe EA's and Ubisofts of the world deserve the hate waaaaayyyyy more than CIG",
"“When I was a kid\nI wanted to be a hero.\n\nA warrior.\n\nBut instead I grew up to be\na nobody.\n\nFlicking through the same\nthree apps on my phone\n\nuntil it was time to sleep.\n\nI used to work\nin video games.\n\nSounds awesome, right?\n\nNot when you're a code monkey\n\nfor a mindlessly addictive\ncell phone game\n\ndesigned to steal money\nfrom parents credit cards.”",
"They just bought a new bigger office lol.",
"Bought gta day one, played through gta 3 and vice main missions, very happy with my purchase so far, only problem is that the game went down for so long and one mission on vice city was unfinishable, which is a shame, but a small community mod fixed it. People just expect too much from this remake. Idk about battlefield or other titles, but nobody has valid criticism for the trilogy except for the fact it was down for multiple days",
"Don't let negative nancies tell you otherwise. They have clear road maps and deliverables, and are currently opening a 1,000 person studio that was announced this month:\n\nhttps://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-11-10-star-citizen-developer-plans-1000-person-manchester-mega-studio\n\nPeople are just salty they can't have instant gratification.",
"The hardcore gamers are often the trend setters. The normies will follow them.",
"This comment should scroll along the bottom of Reddit all the time like a news chyron.",
"So true. lol",
"If you compare what star citizen is going through with what many other large-scope games go through, it's really not much of an outlier at all. And the scope and what they've achieved with star citizen is way more ambitious.\n\nPeople don't understand that most AAA games are in development for 5+ years usually before any marketing takes place of ANY KIND - could you imagine hearing about FO5 and then having to wait 5 years to play it?\n\nSince Star citizen has been playable since the very first module was devv'd up, it *feels* like its taking inappropriately long.\n\nTake it from me - a backer in roughly 2014 whos been watching the story unfold for years, and as someone who's remained critical and unconvinced that the largest and most complex technical challenges can be achieved...but boy oh boy if they do pull those off.. These comments are gonna feel silly. IF.\n\nBut it is unfair to lump CIG in with the EA's and Activisions... They never pretended they weren't a crowd funded play-it-as-we-develop-it gig.\n\nI highly recommend if you have your account to check out the current state of the game - I think you'll be impressed.",
"His pitch meetings are literally cathartic for if you just saw a film that you did *not* like",
"The people who complained about the 2080ti price are probably not the same people spending $2500 on a graphics card.",
"Only part that isn't included is the customer keeps buying puzzles from them despite not liking the quality of the previous puzzles.",
"Exactely, Star Citizen was early access, you weren't buying a completed game and at this point I have more fun in it than Elite Dangerous",
"It shouldn't give you hope. Microsoft is trash.",
"I'm coming from experience and we do demo day with stakeholders after each increment. If you have a good scrum master, it happens",
"STOP BUYING THIS CRAP FROM Ubisoft, EA, Blizzard, Rockstar, Bethesda, the list goes on, just move on.",
"good gawd and WHY do you think that is? you’re so close.. it’s a model unique to gaming partly and largely because they don’t. charge. enough. micro transaction were part and parcel to this basic poor decision to keep prices artificially low. and lo and behold, their dubious strategy worked in ways they probably didn’t even bother to hope for. listen to all of u accepting that micro transactions and crunch culture is just ‘the way it is’ yet out of the other side of your mouth complaining about it. /facepalm",
"Looking at you, Animal Crossing",
"Is decade-gratification reasonable?",
"Probably in the AAA sphere, but I see a lot of decent, and finished games in the AA or not Activisoin/Ubisoft/EA field.",
"*If you like beating your head into a brick wall",
"No no he was right the first time",
"Disgusts me that these companies scam their customers and no one goes to jail.",
"Amazing, it just works !",
"> but has a lot going on with it\n\nOther than spells thrown at a ragdoll model, what else does it have going? Genuinely asking as that's all the context I keep seeing.",
"Those “anti-mining” cards were broken in a week lol.",
"I just watched 2 and 3 back to back last week for the first time in over a decade and… 3 doesn’t seem as bad as I remember it. There’s some pretty fun stuff in there, and it was nice to see a superhero movie again where the stakes weren’t the entire observable universe",
"Yeah, this seems to be the only way.\n\nThe sad part is, most games I was interested in never seem to reach the point where they are good enough to bother anymore.",
"Meh. 1990s Diablo 1 graphics were better. The storyline is next to nonexistent. Minecraft building is more intuitive. In the first few hours you will run into oooh 3 wild creatures and 2 monsters that are uh.. challenging? No... I couldn't even lie about that.\n\n2/5",
"Hades was good but top 5 of all time is ridiculous.",
"What? This is kind of far from the truth. Scummy major studios that have been making the SAME game for years and years cut corners and sell pieces of garbage? Yeah, no shit.\n\nLook around though, the amount of highly polished amazing releases is quite large. I'm a Playstation player myself and their AAA games are out of this world amazing. I have been blow away by Last of Us Part II, Death Stranding, Returnal, Resident Evil: Village, Ratchet and Clank (ps5), Ghost of Tsushima, Death Loop, Spider-Man, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and SO MUCH MORE! These are just a few examples of highly polished games by major studios. \n\nI think the problems come from MAINSTREAM copy and paste games being complete garbage and money-grabs. Games like Fifa, NBA 2k, COD, Battlefield, Far Cry, GTA, Madden, Destiny, Diablo... etc. etc. etc. Yes, their decreasing in quality really doesn't surprise me...",
"I bought it and regretted it within 15minutes.",
"What about complaining about how Rockstar is a scummy company that took modders to court, removed their old games from being purchased so you're forced to get the shitty remakes?\n\nAnd no they're not off the hook because they caved after all the backlash. They shouldn't have done it in the first place and them doing the bare fucking minimum shouldn't get them any goodwill.",
"There’s *way* more than 1 good game a year releasing. They’re just harder to find because most are indie games.",
"I mean, forza 5 just released and is great. Plenty of other examples too.",
"You can say the same for Toyota. Don't chase the latest tech, don't make sweeping charges year to year, put care into production.",
"Yeah. This is literally an apologist comment.",
"Those are useless to someone who knows what they’re doing, and a lot of miners know what they’re doing",
"Roguelikes/Roguelites seem to be the only way to go for me these days. I've sunk 130+ hours into Risk of Rain 2.",
"Generally speaking, it's not that those kind of bugs are top priority, it's just that they're usually well publicized and easily reproducible. \n\nBeing able to repeatedly trigger a bug is the most important factor in it getting fixed.",
"Rock and stones! Tbh though my friends and I love playing indie games. They’re usually a lot more polished and playable than AAA.",
"Back in my day, yoiu just became friends with that one kid on the block that had multiple game systems and even (gasp!) a PC that played games beyond Carmen San Diego and Oregon Trail.\n\nAnd he was either the richest kid on the block or the poorest.\n\nBut then you also had to play what they wanted to play.",
"GhTs a cool perspective. I’m gonna jump back in",
"remaster (riːˈmɑːstə) \nvb\n\n(Electronics) (tr) to make a new master audio recording, now usually digital, from (an earlier recording), to produce (compact discs or stereo records) with improved sound reproduction.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nZero content or bugfixes promised or delivered.",
"I am betting gran turismo 7 is amazing out of the box.",
"Or 3: Gamepass and just play whatever you're feeling like",
"This comment smells like a bot. Makes no sense in context, name is two random words and a number. [Also, the comment just copied part of another comment in the thread.](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qy3vmb/a_brilliant_depiction_of_gta_and_modern_gaming/hle4z85/)\n\nEDIT: the bot is /u/Key_Medium2240",
"r/xboxgamepass is where it's at.",
"The problem with that analogy is that you'd be continuing to pay them for the punch in the face. Stopping paying could be considered \"blocking\" the punch.",
"You forgot the part where the people creating the puzzle are abused, overworked, underpaid, and then blamed for it being unfinished.\n\nThis is why I give games a good year. The price drops and it's usually as fixed as it's going to get. Bonus if a complete edition comes out.\n\nUnfortunately I've had to phase out fighting games because the audience dies quickly.",
"Joke's on you, I don't buy overpriced crap because I'm broke.",
"I've been binging inscryption lately. It's incredible. Single player horror-esque card game.",
"The problem is that the game industry defines \"fanatical fans\" as \"people who spend the most money\".\n\nIn other words, the whales.",
"صناعة البرمجيات بأكملها بشكل عام.",
"Love me some Ryan George",
"Honestly just wait a year or two and play every new game just 2 years behind. It's pretty simple, people have to stop dumping money out before they see the finished products. \n\nbring back demos.",
"TBF, that's like the basic kind of \"best consumer practice\" F2P model, and if they're going with that for multiplayer then IMO it's kind of fine.\n\nIf it's going to still need the full game purchase than it's BS. \n\nPeople have said for *years* that cosmetics is the way to go for F2P. And there's not many options in Halo for cosmetics.",
"What does this even mean? People buy movie tickets ahead of day 1 showings, \"all the time,\" as well.\n\nNot *everyone* pre-orders games, just like not everyone goes to day 1 movie releases.",
"The entire software industry in general.",
"I always just point to battlefield 2.",
"I can also confirm that they're still very actively working on the game and their goals. It's not at all a scam, more of a way too ambitious project afflicted by feature creep. But they're getting shit done.",
"Yea, indie games. Like DayZ. Which I purchased in 2013. It's basically playable now.",
"This is the state of gaming since at least the advent of horse armour. DLC, preorder, prepurchase, greenlight, crowdfunding, beta access, alpha access, early access, roadmaps, community-driven content and all that crap",
"Except I am not making excuses for CIG I'm just pointing out the reality, but sure take those feel-good shots I guess",
"Makes me want to kick them in the shin.",
"I think a lot of this has to do with the industry double dipping. I know not everyone has the newest system, but as long as developers have to build two different games essentially we’re going to get half baked shit. Look at cyberpunk, had they not had to put out a shitty PS4 version they game would most likely have been of much higher quality. It was evident from the start that game was never going to run on last gen.",
"Super easy! Barely and inconvenience.",
"The problem is the company selling the garbage and promising it's good. That's like blaming a car salesman for a driver getting into an accident with the car he sold.",
"Vote with your wallet and stop buying games that aren’t finished.",
"fans of reviewer become convinced > fans buy game > fans who followed reviewer now upset at unfinished game > ? > **reviewer laughs as the blame bypasses them as they count the money they were paid by said review**",
"HE’S FROM THE OTHER MOVIES!",
"shoutout for the dipshits in /r/LowSodiumCyberpunk",
"Yes, you are right, I agree with you of course it is exaggerated, hurts everyone.",
"I remember a time when there was no patching. The game was finished or the game was not finished and you bought it when it landed in the shops, and things were so much better.",
"> People just expect too much from this remake.\n\nFucking LOL",
"Honestly, how is this shit not considered fraud?",
"I’m gonna have to ask you to get ALL the way off the consumers’ backs…",
"> Hades is a complete game, and awesome.\n> \n> \n\nThere's a lot to be said for the developers having a good track record. There are companies that I would feel safe preordering from, just not many. Supergiant would absolutely be one of them if I actually enjoyed the gameplay as much as I do the aesthetics.",
"It’s funny (and super sad) that instead of knowing that a big established franchise game is going to be fucking amazing, we now know it’s almost a guarantee that it’s going to be a soulless money grab that barely functions. There are some exceptions, but they’re just that; exceptions to the rule.",
"It depends on what triggers that obsession that autistic folks tend to have. One of my friends brothers obsesses over large ships. One friend obsesses over Star Wars. Another obsesses over Gay men. Geek culture is filled with autistic people. It’s a spectrum, and anecdotal stories will vary. I think game companies choose to target people that are mentally ill in order to make more money.",
"Nintendo. That's it.",
"Yeah, but you're forgetting something...no one cares what you think.",
"Sure, but why even make them a priority when the only way to reproduce them is by watching a bunch of guide videos. I get they're trying to fill patch note space, but it helps *literally nobody* fixing shit like that. Spend what, 3 days fixing a bug nobody wants removed, is 3 days spent not fixing a bug that causes you to die instantly when transitioning rooms or hitting weird slopes.",
"Not even broken. Nvidia straight up released a dev driver update that made it possible to mine them at full capacity.",
"This dude has 2 first names",
"\"Move fast and break things!\"\n\n\"And then fix them?\"\n\n\"if there's time\"",
"You have described how cultists think Agile works very well. \n\nIn the real world the only thing it does is turn managers into micromanagers, developers into machines whose only purpose is to react to Jira notifications, and the owners of Atlassian into billionaires.",
"I pre-ordered AoE4... But only because I played the beta and way already happy with the game. Still a risk, but not a blind one. I had like 14h of gameplay before I bought it.",
"There's a \"reviewer gives game 7/10 -> reviewer gets death threats\" in there somewhere.",
"To be fair, I'm a pretty calculated buyer when it comes to games but it's really not that simple sometimes.\n\nYou could give someone the perfect description of an apple pie, describing in full detail why it's hot ass, but if they're a fan of apples or are in the mood for apples that day, they might still buy in and give it a try, just to experience it for themselves.",
">\tEveryone kept saying that Metro was a shitty hzd clone set in a steam punk universe, and meanwhile I hadn't even played hzd.\n\nLiterally nobody has ever said that, what the fuck are you talking about.",
"Sure, so I guess it’s a little bit like comparing a car to a gun. \n\nBoth can have great build quality, be well designed and innovative in their fields, etc. They are both made of metals and polymers, have machined parts and moving pieces. And so some general comparison is applicable. \n\nBut one is still a gun, and the other is a car. I feel like Hades is pretty much an entirely different thing to, say, The Last Of Us, Part 2. Them both being digital, interactive media is about as far as the similarities go. \n\nMaybe the time of comparing all “video games” to all other “video games” is coming to an end.",
"i am one of these idiots. when i hear a new pokemon game is coming out, i preorder immediately. i am a weak man lmao.",
"It's really not since there are a multitude of F2P games that offer more colors by default and for less cost like Warframe or Destiny. Right now paying $20 for a single color is not good, that's 1/3 of the price of Halo Infinites campaign.\n\nAdditionally Halo up until now has always given you a selection of colors to freely combine and apply how you want on your character. So a series feature has been removed and is now being heavily monetized.\n\nAs well the specific color white coating is only able to be applied to a specific armor core, so any other core or armor base you have is not allowed to use it. And it's not like you could buy the color for those cores either if you wanted to since they don't sell it yet and there's apparently no way to earn it. \n\nOn top of that players have even been giving suggestions to the company of letting us have limited color control or even to buy and place the colors we want freely but then continue charging us for material textures, patterns, decals, effects, etc. So it's not like players just want everything in a F2P completely free and are trying to compromise. The whole thing is just bad when compared to most other successful F2P titles",
"My question is why? Developers and studios today are much bigger and richer than ever and somehow they can't pull games of any kind when twenty years ago a small studio of 20 people could make wonders... Outside of the obvious thing which is money going straight to the execs and investors' pockets, how come they can't do anything with all of their resources and man power?",
"No, it's all the adults that want to recapture their youth, but always end up disappointed because they're not dumb kids anymore. And, since most reviewers are adults, and a lot of internet posters are adults, they flood the net with their toxicity and the kids pick up on it because they're dumb and don't think for themselves.",
"For real. Last game I bought was gears of war 3. Since then I've just ridden the wave of games on games pass, ps+, and whatever epic hands out.",
"Or the N64 ports they've been releasing, that are currently worse than homebrew emulators... Nintendo has their own share of cash grabs.",
"Hey there's still plenty of life in the industry. Just not a lot of it at the top. I imagine it's just as bad as most industries. The top players are the top because they suck. But you stick to your guns and you can find a company/team worth supporting",
"It's a title that will never be complete. It will always have active releases. If you're been following the game for the past decade and feel the game hasn't drastically shifted with each release then I don't know what to tell you.",
"Who says I need to buy the game to bitch about it online?",
"It's honestly awesome. It's gotten me really truly back into gaming as an adult for the first time in over a decade. Brings me back to when I was a kid and I'd go to blockbuster to rent a new game every week and the possibilities seemed endless.",
"I've spent 3500(cad) on GPU's this year, but im at 5 grand(cad) and counting, give or take a couple hundred depending on the price of bitcoin at that moment.\n\nMy only bad purchase was a 1k(canadian) 3070 LHR, but I bought it to be my main rig card. It has an obnoxious videoscreen on the side of it lmao but it gives me 50 fps on msfs and 100 on doom eternal 4k/rtx so I'm ok with it on the gaming side.\n\nAnd I mean, it's at 46.5 M/H and rising thanks to the clever blokes trying to get through nvidia's limiter, it'll pay itself off and then some by july when apparently eth goes proof of stake, but yea, it wasn't a great purchase on the money side of things. But I got crazy good prices on a 5700, 1660s, 3060ti, 2070, and 6700xt early in the year. It's nuts to me that memoryexpress is just straight up charging 450 dollars more for the 6700xt I have than when it came out. The difference they added onto the price over the year is more than the card should reasonably be sold for. Mind boggling to me. What an era. Very random assortment because I only bought stuff if I could find it on the cheap - again, except for the 3070, which I only bought because memexpress's website lied about having stock of another card, and when I got there, it was all they had that day and I was jazzed up about getting another card.",
"Also Toyota: *builds the world’s second fastest 3 cylinder engine to go rallying*",
"Spending money on a recently released AAA game is a complete waste of money. There hasn't been a big budget release within the last 5 years what was worth a damn. Big studios are complete trash and they release trash. But apparently thats what people want.",
"Your mileage may vary based on preference, but AAA games since the pandemic started?\n\nAnimal Crossing New Horizons, Doom Eternal, Metroid Dread, Resident Evil Village, and Monster Hunter Rise all come to mind. \n\nI’ve heard decent things about Halo Infinite but haven’t tried it. Shin Megami Tensei 5 also just came out and was well received if you’re into JRPGs.",
"Same lol. Spend a good chunk of change to get a Cutlass Black, too...\n\nI still do hope the game actually launches some day, but it's straight up just a pipe dream at this point.\n\nOh well, maybe I can get some of that money back in the inevitable class action suit against them.",
"Returnal had some problems at release. Lots of crashes on a game that had no mid game saving, and then they put out an update that literally erased save files. I've heard they fixed that stuff, but I haven't been able to bring myself to play it again after my save got deleted.",
"“Now Timmy, I want to share something from my childhood with you. It’s very special to me. It’s called ‘Hot Coffee’.”",
"Just because there is a demand for something doesn't make it unethical to sell it.",
"I bought the early access to Darkest Dungeon 2. Red Hook made DD1 an incredible game using the same method and have proven themselves as developers. I want to be in on the ground floor to help push the 2nd game towards greatness.\n\nPre-Ordering the 5th CoD game released within 2 years though? Yeah thats a microbrained move",
"and this is why EA/DICE will continue to ignore them.",
"FFXIV has its flaws, but it's become one of the most popular MMOs out there because they fixed the *hell* out of it and updated it meaningfully. Same story with Elder Scrolls Online. To this day I'll say ESO is leaps and bounds better than any other MMO out right now.",
"Only thing it's missing is a fanboy to say:\n\n* the puzzle is actually great\n* it's your fault the puzzle was rushed\n* why don't YOU try developing a puzzle, Mr. Perfect?",
"Lol ok then",
"You mean visually? Or like the gameplay is all the same?\n\nI mean I could be totally wrong - but don't all major studios that makes multiple games using their own proprietary engine?... GTA and Red Dead have a ton of technical similarities, but the story and direction make them two totally different games.",
"r/back4blood",
"At this point it should be obvious to never pre-order. But now you should also never buy a game until it is out in the wild at least a few days. Read final reviews and what early adopters are saying, then make a decision. I was all in on GTA trilogy but waited since there were no early reviews. Glad I waited, fuck Rockstar.",
"Ok, wtf does that have to do with the game not running.",
"Did anyone really expect number 6 to be an innovative game? Nobody makes 6 games and totally changes the premise",
"Sweet good recommendation, I've heard great things about this one",
"Even Nintendo botched their 3d all stars remake imo. Microsoft does seem to be doing well with tbh. 343 seem to be listening to their fanbase for Halo infinite, forza horizon 5 is tons of fun so far and I like gamepass.",
"You can't generalize a specific person based on their specific actions. I know it might be hard for you but maybe try to actually learn what words mean before you use them. Just a suggestion.",
"Early access makes total sense when you’re a single developer or a very small team. It can take over a year (or longer… for Rimworld, etc.) of not having any income before releasing a game that *may or may not* make a profit. \n\nIf you’re a big studio with actual employees, there’s not much of an excuse. Make a $1 million dollar game instead of a $500 million one if you’re concerned about profit margins.",
"Meanwhile I just want to upgrade my RX 580 but even that old card is worth more now than what I paid for it new almost 4 years ago.",
"ARK: Survival evolved. \n\nBuggy, unfinished mess at launch, but that's okay, it's early access, \"we're working on it\".\n\nReleases a paid DLC before the main game is even finished. \n\nThat stinger at the end is not even exaggeration, that's real.",
"There’s still a lot of good shit out there. Sekiro, FF7:R, Baldur’s Gate, Smash Bros, DB:F, P5, etc. Games released annually will always be shit though and we need to stop supporting the business model that breeds adequacy, complacency, and shit.",
"Yeah I haven't bought a game at release since Battlefield 3 came out, and honestly, I don't regret that one since I got to jump in and play with my friends immediately. Plus, that game had a *pretty good* release. It's only gotten much, much worse since then. I've pretty much stopped buying games within 12 months of their release. \n\nThe major added benefit is that I've probably saved an average of 75% on every purchase. Sometimes I paid a stunning *$35* (RDR2) for something, which at this point feels expensive to me. I can't even image spending $60 on a single game now, I'm spoiled.",
"Everytime I try to mention that reddit only includes a teeny tiny portion of the world I get shit all over. Most redditors seem to see this place as the entire scope of the world",
"Yeah, we DESERVE a half-assed game.\n\nGo take a leap",
"You paid around 60 bucks for a game that couldn't be 100% completed without the help of modders that will get none of that money. Why are you ok with this? It's not like it's some indie company, rockstar has the resources to make the game right but they chose to do a cheap cash grab instead.",
"I mean its actually worked on a lot of people. Theyve just accepted this is it amd spend anyway",
"TotalBiscuit's death was, I think, a pretty substantial blow to consumer advocacy in the gaming sector. Nobody has really taken up the role since, at least in a way that influences public perception enough for the actual publishers to make changes.",
"the company absolutely promotes this behavior. they treat their business model similar to gambling. they want to attract the whales. the people that are the biggest spenders. and promote and glorify the shit out of em so the masses will follow suit. many do.\n\nbut don't get me wrong, in the words of george carlin, imagine how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of those are even stupider.",
"r/pokemon needs to read this!",
"It's not just games pretty much all software is like this now. Sell the concept take is the cash do as little as possible to not have the customer leave. This is worse the less competitive the sector and sectors are getting less competitive because it turns out you can't lose clients if you \"merge\" with the competition.",
"Ryan is funny",
"Me too! I try to explain to redditors why Pokemon doesn't make a game catered to its adult audience... I get downvoted to hell, and the \"proof\" i get is a poll that was held on reddit... where no children could participate lmao",
"I'm already there",
"This feels every tech product in general in 2021",
"I love watching them for films I DID like as it gives me something to think about or chuckle about later",
"Not useless. Weakened though. I'm getting 46.5 on a 3070 lhr with the latest shit and +1500 memory. It's doable, but obviously not ideal. I probably wouldn't have bought it if it was just for my mining rig, but I wanted it for my main/gaming PC.\n\nI think miners are a big, big part of this shortage, but I also think normal gamers are buying cards too. Sorry I don't think that, I know that, personally.",
"For money saving reasons, I haven't purchased a game within 6 to 12 months after launch. I almost always wait for either patches, DLC or major price drops before I consider buying. Hell right now I'm still playing God of War on PS4 after they announced a sequel and PC port. I got it for $20 and it's amazing.",
"I was just checking on the sub and people are cheering and celebrating because they gave this studio $400 million dollars, and they haven't been able to finish this game in 8 years? Goddamn, what's going on with this people?",
"No they haven't, the 1080ti was 700 wasn't it? 2080 was 800?\n\nBut we aren't talking the pure highest sku's anymore dawgy dawg. Man newegg wants 600 CAD for a fuckin' 1660 lmao.",
"It's also coming out for the PS4 so it can't be much better than the first one",
"There are several AAA games worth it on release that have come out in the past few years,\n\n* Doom Eternal\n\nUh wait, I'm sure there's more, let me double check\n\n* Doom Eternal\n\nFuck is that really it? Welp I guess y'all just need to play Doom.",
"Yea newegg wanted 700 CAD for those the summer, absurd gouging, even with the current situation.",
"I watch the Star Wars Last Jedi one every so often to stem the rage. Super cathartic.",
"5 was quite a bit different from 4, which was basically just 3 with more stuff to do, but the difference between 2 and 3 was so large that it felt like a completely different franchise. They found the winning formula with 3 and have kind of stuck with that ever since. 5 was actually a lot more like Primal in that there were different territories and animal companions. I haven’t played it yet, but I wouldn’t imagine 6 is anything totally new.",
"Its avoidable though if reviews are accurate and people listen to them. Also no preorders",
"Now what the game industry can do is destroy an entire genre.\n\nRemember Guitar Hero and other similar games?\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1ly7yb/why_did_rock_band_and_guitar_hero_die_could_they/\n\n> The big killer was oversaturation. From 2005 - 2010 the GH series had GH1, GH2, GH3, GH World Tour, GH5, GH Warriors of Rock, GH Aerosmith, GH Metallica, GH Van Halen, and GH Rock of the 80s. That's 10 games in 5 years.\n\n> Rock Band started in 2007 and RB 1, RB 2, RB Beatles, RB Greenday, Lego RB, and finally RB 3 in 2010.",
"To me, that's one of the problems. \"All the big YouTubers love it.\" How many of those were paid to love it. You don't have to make a good game anymore. Just make it look like a good game. Get those week one sales and then on to the next hypeware title. It's probably even considered a liability now. If the game is too good, we have to support it longer. \n\nLook at cyberpunk. This is the new business model. Everything for those week one numbers. After that who fucking cares let's do it again.\n\nI think I'm gonna go trademark the word hypeware now. I foresee it being used a lot more in the future.",
"It has it's problems, only reason I am playing is because I have access to the 10 hour trial and friends that actively play. Last night was my first sessions with em. I personally made it through 2 out of 4 games. Had to quit one game because I was stuck in a crouch animation and killing myself didn't allow me to re-spawn. The other I just got kicked from the game with about 50 tickets left.. no idea why. So yeah.. its got its problems lol, glad I got this 10 hour trial thing going. I honestly do not trust any large publisher/developer anymore to actually release a complete game day 1. Indie studios have been crushing it though. Hades, Ori 1 and 2... the list goes on.",
"Or just play the oldies and skip out on the current generation altogether",
"It blows my mind that people still pay a lot extra (like $20-$50 more!) to get access to a game 4 days early. Usually it's completely broken and unplayable during those few days.",
"> Luckily, life circumstances prevented me from going to college.\n\nAh, what a great society we've built; where people consider themselves lucky if they managed to avoid college.",
"\"You can have the new puzzle pieces now. You just have to find them by purchasing these randomly filled boxes.\"",
"This needs more upvotes. I'm glad we can patch games now but it's so heavily relied on to fix bugs, missing features that should have never shipped. Hello Battlefield 2042, Cyberpunk, Mass Effect and on and on.\n\nAAA devs/Management shouldn't be praised for fixing a game after a year/s they should be reminded time and time again this isn't acceptable. Sadly the only way to do that is to not buy their shit but we are already well past critical mass where even people who don't follow games I bet would make up a large enough audience to not hit their pocket hard enough.\n\nI'm not sure what a game would have to do to cause such a backlash / retail return fiasco but it would have to be something like not getting past the menu.",
"Wtf lol",
"Plenty of single player games are well made and polished. Especially from Sony.",
">Take a trip over to//r/halo . So many fan boys whiteknighting it. \n\nGame has no collision, people literally phasing through enemy and not landing melee blows, no xp system only battle pass (for now apparently), no campaign coop (for now), no forge (for now), you cannot chose your gametype in multiplayer (want slayer? Well too bad, you playing Oddball now), a lot of gametypes aren't there yet (CTF, Oddball, Slayer, Strongholds, Stockpile and Total Control only - and again you can't chose), most colors are behind paywall, you can't swap colors from one gear to another. \n\nBut hey, \"why don't you just have fun? Didn't Halo 1 had nothing and you had FUN? \n\nThey say that unironically.",
"Yes its enabling snitty behavior. They know they can get away with it so they just continue",
"What are some good indie ps5 games?",
"I mean, I bought the trilogy and have had zero complaints with vice city and I’m almost done with it\n\nI’m playing vice city on my series s with updated controls and graphics. It’s nice. Fuck people for judging me on how I spend MY MONEY",
"i haven't been keeping up, how bad is battlefield 2042",
"I have done both of these. Last game I paid for on release was Factorio (and only cause it was well researched and a damn good game even in early access... with a playable demo so you know what you are buying!). \n\nAll other games like God of War, Spiderman, Horizon Zero Dawn... wait 6 months after release to see what the real reviews are like versus the pre-release hype.",
"It’s just not a very good game though.",
"Yeah, while times could be better, they've been far worse",
"Actual release date for AAA games is 1 year after the actual release date.",
"I suppose that the kid at the end of \"the emperors new clothes\" would have been lynched and not exactly celebrated, haha",
"Yeah, that's the problem tho. It's slow, the UI is convoluted and requires a month of training to grasp, and it's not reliable; it crashes frequently and then I have to start the (slow) process of data retrieval all over again.\n\nI had to spend so much productive time training for it when I got my job, and I'm sure I'm going to spend additional time training the fresh-outta-college kids when they get hired here.",
"the willful cognitive dissonance here is baffling. that’s not in any way what he said. not in the slightest.",
"Halo 4 was like a polished reach system since reach was a bit to grindy. It was pretty good in 4 and even had some armor you could only get through challenges which is cool!",
"Or hate the film but still never plan on seeing it (like the new Home Alone movie). I saw the trailer and said \"well this should be a good pitch meeting at least\"",
"I love it when people throw fo76 out there.\n\nIf you like fallout and you haven't played this game, you need to put down the haterade.",
"> could you imagine hearing about FO5 and then having to wait 5 years to play it?\n\nNo, but I can for Elder Scrolls 6. When did that E3 teaser come out again? 2017?",
"I got a 3090 as my main gaming card, and it wasn't even my intention to ever get that expensive of a card (walked into a MicroCenter wanting a 3080 or 3080ti and it's what they had) or even get into mining with it until I read up on how much it could earn. Someone else said you can remove the LHR stuff with certain drivers if you know what you're doing.",
"Yup, 100% a bot, good catch, thanks for the heads-up.",
"There's a giant backlog of quality games you most probably did not play at your disposal, for a fraction of the release price. \n\nWhile that does not address the current problems of the industry, you on the other hand can still enjoy yourself while refusing to support the current shitshow and wait until they fix their stuff before you spend that hard-earned money. \n\nWith our current database, I'm sure you can spend quality time for years without looking at new shitty games.",
"Guardians of the Galaxy was brilliant, polished and a complete experience. Couple bugs, nothing game breaking. It was my game of the year.",
"Forge mode soon though (tm) maybe. Eventually.",
"It's not at all the same. Every Battlefield has had a solid foundation that's buggy on release. Battlefield 2042's foundation is non-existent.",
"Ok, but what does that have to do with this comment thread.",
"Absolutely. If it’s a film I 100% know I’m not gonna watch then I just watch the pitch meeting for it lol. Never been a superhero movie fan so it’s very useful for that.",
"Everyone hyped elite dangerous so much, they made fun of me for enjoying what exists in star citizen. I finally gave in and tried it. You couldn't walk around. It didn't have massive multiplayer elements. Everything felt bland and like a game not a simulation. Turns out most the cool features are locked behind dlc anyway.\n\n\n(read this comment behind the eyes of someone in 2016)\n\nI'm not going to defend cig at all. It's been a decade and it's only now starting to be fleshed out enough to be a game you sink more than a few hours a year into and even then it's plagued with performance issues to a point you can't even throw hardware at it. On the bright side they do employ multithreading pretty well it seems (loaded up all 8 cores I have) and definitely sucked back every ounce of ram I own without a memory leak so it seems with optimization of assets and distances they could make it more enjoyable.",
"If you were paying attention you would see people's complaints aren't the bugs, it's the awful design choices that can't be fixed with a simple patch.",
"I love Star Wars but his star wars pitch meetings are all masterpieces. He also made one about the holiday special that was never made and doesn't exist.",
"It worried me noone has anything bad to day about it. \n\nIf a streamer talks shit about I doubt they would get early access next time. \n\nRemember cyberpunk?",
"No, but you obviously never played the originals, because all this was expected",
"Honestly, in my experience \"unfinished\" games are those with minor bugs, maybe some more rare worse bugs. I've never bought a game day one and found anything besides visual/minor bugs or poor optimization. I'm not defending the industries practice but the video claims are a bit exaggerated imo. A missing puzzle piece would be a game breaking bug. Personally I don't care if a game is a little janky as long as it's fun.",
"It is definitely an accurate analogy, but game companies do this because customers let them. It's not about morals. They get the money so they don't care, and I don't see how thats going to change.",
"This is the exact logic that these businesses want the critics of their product to have. \n\nThey want the world full of rubes and people who blame the rubes for being duped. So then there is no political will to stop them from their exploitative practices.\n\nThe actual problem is the companies and people with your attitude.",
"GTA? GTA5 came out as complete as can be.",
"Players refuse to pay more for games to keep up with cost of inflation, developers can’t afford to hire more people because players refuse to pay any more than 60$, the scope players demand is larger than ever, and the game still needs to ship in an expected window. \n\nSomething has to give, they’ve turned to MTX to make up for the fact that the average player won’t more than 60$, or sometimes anything at this point because now it’s too much to pay 60$ even, players want all their games free to play with all the content included and think selling cosmetics for a dollar is going to make up for the fact that the dev is making 0$ on people just playing the game.",
"1 mission with a weird bug, like I said, it's a shame that it happened, but it's not the end of the world, everything else has lived up to my expectations",
"The days of Battlefield 3 and Skyrim were the end of a glorious era, and none of us knew it at the time. It's sad to see how close to every single big game has either been an instant disappointment or slowly became one. Battlefront 2 and Cyberpunk were practically historical in how big of a letdown they were at launch for easily avoidable reasons, Warzone is practically historical for such a large game slowly becoming unplayable due to bugs and hacks that are just never addressed, and then we also have games like GTA5 that literally stopped making new games and just kept adding new content you can pay for. It's insane how we are at the point where video games could and should be better than ever, but instead they are getting worse.\n\nBattlefield 2042 was the last AAA game I care about until Elder Scrolls 6, which is years out. BF42 was a disappointment and as a huge BF fan who was determined to enjoy it even I find myself growing tired of it already. It's just so damn disappointing that we don't have major companies who prioritize quality these days.",
"Imagine if movies were released unedited in scenes and crashed in theaters...",
"> I'm going to enjoy a lowkey job working at some company, probably developing some app, not having to deal with crunch or sexual harassment\n\nHa.\n\n!remindme 3 years",
"PlayStation Studios??",
"I think this is too simple a take. Their will be lots of people who care about the quality of their game. But they aren’t the very few who decide when to ship.",
"I think my favorite aspect of Star Citizen is the fact that in deep space you can just leave the cockpit and walk around inside your ship. Or even leave it and float around, definitely adds a lot more immersion than in Elite.",
"Patient gaming only really works with single player parts of games though. The multiplayer component of Deathloop for instance only worked close to launch, and when they did a big sale, but otherwise there aren't players. Completely discounts live games too.\n\nNot saying it doesn't have value, I wait for sales on the majority of games I buy, but it isn't just a cut and dry solution.",
"Imo the biggest problem is the focus on meta progression and \"swag.\"\n\nI really don't care about that stuff. And while I don't really have a problem with others enjoying it, I think it affects everyone when games are so reliant on meta progression to the detriment of the game itself. People now are complaining about the progression in Halo and I just don't give a shit. The game plays well so the other stuff doesn't matter.",
"My experience with Halo infinite has been pretty good so far. Only been playing the multiplayer and not the campaign though.",
"Is it really catered towards kids? Or is it catering to a more casual adult audience? Genuine question cause I'm not up to date on Pokémon. But often times people see \"casual\" and dumbed down mechanics as being geared to kids, when it might actually be geared to adults with less time to sink into games. Hardcore player bases become very oblivious of what it's like to be a casual player.",
"Can always go demo route and try it for 10 hours. Right now $2 gets you three months of games pass on PC which comes with ea play, so you get battlefield, Forza, and halo when that launches in a few weeks.",
"He’s also lying, it’s not 20$ for just a color palette, it includes 2 helmets, a body piece, shoulder piece, visor color, and I think an emblem but I could be wrong about the emblem.\n\nIt’s not personally that attractive to me so I’m not going to buy it, which is the same freedoms every other player has. If they come out with a set I really like I might drop money on it cause the game is fun.",
"Multiplayer games are the only genre this doesn't really work for, since player bases tend to shrink, servers get shut or down, or the grind to catch up is overwhelming. But I don't miss it at all, most MMOs seem to have gone full lootbox anyway.",
"The promoted ad on this post is for GTA V’s new heist crap.",
"I rarely play multiplayer games anyways, especially not competitive ones. The multiplayer I play is mostly co-op stuff with my friends. We're all too old and decrepit to put up a fair fight in most MP games now, so we'd rather just work together and have a good time. And yeah, all the multiplayer games these days don't seem that appealing. The only one that's caught my eye recently is Halo Infinite, and that's free.",
"It’s not a fiasco if people are paying for it. Stop whining and find another game to play.",
"> They ripped out half the game, sold what was left back to you at full price\n\nThe rejoicing of thousands if not millions of players who *prefer* the multiplayer part.\n\nNot having to buy the game to play your favorite part seems like a pretty damn big positive.\n\nAnd they've made statements not even 2 days after launch to updating and improving the battle pass, so this sounds like a nothingburger to me. It's only an issue if their promises don't pan out, which would be suicide for them so unlikely to happen.",
"I'm so glad last of us 2 came out FINISHED. Godspeed naughty dog.",
"It is not \"current\", this has been gaming for over a decade now.\n\nThese broken, rushed and ultimately unfinished (despite all the \"roadmaps\" in the world) releases are the norm.\n\nThere are more titles left abandoned than actually fixed. Games like Fallout 76 are in a decent shape now, but it took years to get there and it still needs work!\n\nThis didn't start with Battlefield or Cyberpunk, it has been happening with every major developer because no matter how much they screw us over all they have to do is tease the return of the next big franchise and people will get in line for the next disappointment...",
"Thats not really the games fault though. It was your hardware.",
"the technical complexity is really not lower than other games. It's equal to or higher. The devs at nintendo know what they're doing. They have to make games which are more fun with less resources and optimize it well for their weak hardware.",
"Idk if it’s just bc I took a fat rip or what but that was very well articulated and explained",
"> I mean if we've gone from 1980s to 2020s with no inflation adjustment whatsoever and gamers kick and scream at any attempt of a price rise, then you deserve half assed game and micro transaction you get.\n\nIs it not though?\n\nHe's stating if we don't want to pay more for a game then we deserve the trash we've been getting. In what universe does paying a higher price for something guarantee a higher quality?\n\nIll pay more when developers prove they can deliver more. The recent run of absolute shit quality money grabs isn't doing anything to move the needle for me.",
"I was thinking more along a CP2077 line, at least the far cry series has a bit of polish.",
"Lol imagine having this opinion about an actual early access release. It was released with the understanding that it was unfinished. Not even comparable.",
"It's not *basically* still early access, it *is* still in early access. Not sure what point you were trying to prove there, but yes, unfinished game is unfinished.",
"Most of the world runs on \"if it's not broke, don't fix it\". \n\nEspecially as fixes can be costly and run shitty. Look at the mess of Canada upgrading to Phoenix for their gov pay system. A mess and now a case study. Previous system was a mess but at least it *worked*. \n\nAnd aviation is a *lot* of old tech, because it's time tested and high reliability as a result. Aircraft run ancient systems as a result, but they're largely flawless due to that. New systems are big risks as there's higher complexity.",
"Always said that people who complain is just pocket change for the companies. It might look like millions are complaining about the same thing but nope. The only time a company tries to fix something they fucked up is when there's more than a couple of millions all complaining at the same time that make it to the national news, that's when they react because they know that that could affect actual sales.",
"Super difficult, lots of inconvenience.",
"> Don't buy games until they've been released and reviewed.\n\nCyberpunk taught me, don't trust reviews.\n\nI'd been a good boy, I didn't preorder for my ps4 until the reviews were in and they were all like 9-10/10. I thought I was safe to pre-order the day before release so that I could download and be ready to play. We all know what happened next.",
"You would think there would be some kind of class action lawsuit against these gaming companies that fail to release a complete game at the prices they charge. That the trailers and promises told during pregame release interviews and discussion would have some false advertising impact. \n\nWC3:Reforged was one that was nothing like what it was advertised as for a whole year. Cyberpunk 2077, BF 2042, and many others for the last few years. As long as it has a standard frame work to it and you can log in, the share holders don't care and force it out. There is no real consequence for them.",
"What if everyone did a chargeback with their card company and claim product not as advertised?",
"Metroid/Pokemon BDSM/Resident Evil VIII/ are the only games I bought this year at release.\n\nEach game may have flaws but at least I know they're finished. \n\nSimply avoid anything by EA/UBI/T2 it's been Thier shtick for years. You only have yourself to blame for buying these games",
"Come play Hades, then!",
"Pokemon BDSM? Kinky.",
" Most people bought the game like 8 years ago when the timeline was said to be 5-6 years. When they passed the 5 year mark they got rid of their in depth roadmap (and tried to spin off a second game). What you are saying ***eventually*** became true when they extended the timelines. Most people bought based on a different set of expectations though.",
"It's so simple: don't buy anything that you don't already know what you're getting. A trailer is not enough. A road map is not enough. Look at what is out in the public and gauge off of that. If it does not yet exist in the public, then there is nothing to gauge, it doesn't matter the promo materials.\n\nStop endorsing poor purchasing decisions.",
"I don't know if I did that involuntary or if autocorrect knows me too well",
"Oh my GODDDDDD. Stop looping in gta with this shit cause it’s not the case and makes the real issue seem like a cry wolf situation. God damn this Reddit echo chamber circle jerk bullshit",
"And when someone actually does spend all their free-time for 3 years making a puzzle and wants to tell everyone about it they get shit on for self-promoting their passion project.",
"Because internet discourse has devolved into exaggerated lunacy, there is no place for nuance, a game is either \"uninspired dead-on-arrival cash grab\" or \"genre defining game everyone should play or their gamer card is pulled\", so you have people piling on one side, and others who don't agree naturally going to the polar opposite.\n\nThere's no more \"game has issues but it is really fun\", because if you say that online you're simultaneously a shill, a whiteknight, _and_ salty gamer.",
"Don't forget \n\n*wait for reviews before you throw money at it.",
"It gets better. After you give them all your money they just fired their entire staff. Thrn there's no one to make the changes. Sometimes they hire back the staff member unless a programmer does the art work.",
"Reminds me of how Tesla’s are being handled currently with the microship crisis. They sell a bunch of models incomplete, missing usb’s, panels are off, etc., and people will still accept delivery. But don’t tell the folks at r/teslamotors, they get very defensive if you talk about their god-tier level vehicles in any negative form.",
"After buying New World and 2042 this year I feel like a fool. Both games I had been really excited for. Now I just feel like a fucking idiot.",
"Here's a thought. Just stop fucking pre ordering anything ever. Don't be a stupid consumer. Be a smart one that waits to see if something is a dumpster fire first BEFORE you buy it. \n\nI stopped pre ordering games and now I own 15 houses in a 3rd world country. I also have 5 wives and 2 husband's.\n\nBe a smart consumer like me.",
"How does that boot taste?",
"And that is why you gotta only buy games from nintendo at their release",
"I agree I decided.",
"Consumers have nobody to blame but themselves. Stop. Preordering.",
"Metroid dread is one of the worst games I've ever played. After Metroid zero mission (and Prime 1) the franchise has been fucked to oblivion. Fuck Nintendo. Super Metroid is my favorite game of all time and they can't seem to get their head out of their asses.",
"I meant more the vast amount of spells. You can do pretty much anything you can think of and there's also quests and puzzles. Maybe I just like it because I like fantasy RPGs, but it just seems like a fun sandbox game that doesn't take itself too seriously and has a lot of spell and skill variety. It's still in progress as far as I know, but I think it'll be absolutely kickass when it's done. \n\nA lot of the posts on there are just displaying spells or skills that the creator added, which is likely what you saw, but there are others that talk about the game as a whole",
"And the fact that CIG allowed anyone to pull their money out and get a refund no questions asked when that happened means people complaining about it are just bitching on the internet about nothing.\n\nThe other commenter was right - I'm so tired of even trying to discuss star citizen as someone who's followed it, detached. All the same shits been said, will be said again, and has been said 1000 times before in a 1000 different ways each.\n\nI don't care, past just the urge to correct dumb shit people say that's demonstrably stupid/false.\n\nOn to the rest of my Saturday.. -*yawn*",
"I mean the millions of dollars in TV shows, toys, merchandise all for kids. It is 100% catering to children, growing its user base.\n\nThe adult audience has been consuming the product for 20 plus years... why try to catch a fish that is already caught?",
"I don’t preorder games, I always wait to see streams or videos of the game before buying. Even if I only wait a week, it’s saved me a lot of money. \n\nCan’t remember the last I fully regretted buying a game.",
"Remeber when you bought a game and you got the entire game on disc that didn't need updates or dlc to access more of the game? Those sure were great times that we sadly will never see again",
"Most of Sonys first party stuff releases fine",
"Stop pre-ordering shit.",
"Was really looking forward to it myself. Really thought it might be a great game, somewhere in between Hell let loose and Battlefield 5, at least what I hoped for. Saw the trailer and already got scared a little. \n\nTried the beta, played 40 minutes. Uninstalled it, saved money. \n\nI would love to have something more realistic than Call of Duty or Battlefield with planes killing everything 24/7. \n\nI like Hell let loose, but would prefer it to be a bit more polished and be set in modern times. Maybe add some parts of Tarkov in it as well. \n\nNowadays it feels like all shooters are unpolished, which I just do not understand. Why not work one one game, finish it and add DLC´s for income?",
"I love video games but working in the industry seems like a good way to make you hate your hobby",
"Totally fair. It does make sense. Adults will keep buying the games and showing the content to their kids. The smartest thing to do is consistently make the next generation do the same thing",
"I'm fully aware of these things; I'm just venting about it anyways :D",
"And with co-op coming at some point in May 2022, it's just laughable. It's so very unfinished it's not even funny. But because it at least works and some aspects are finished, people will be mostly fine with it.",
"His overly enthusiastic grin and tone of voice kill me.",
"They can and have been. You just did not care to try something out of your comfort zone or make informed decisions on what/who to choose. \n\nMost people only look at AAA studios and consider what crap they shit and try to sell you as chocolate as the whole of gaming because they once were able to actually produce stuff that fit your taste so completely even Gordon Ramsay would not have been able to find anything wrong with the dish served, even though they are currently doing stuff behind the scenes that are so horrendous right now that not even Kitchen nightmare could feature them even if they wanted to nowadays.\n\nAnd why does it work? Because you've received small pieces of shit that increased over time until the pile was so high you would not be able to smell anything else anymore if your younger self could experience it, but you got used to it and thus accepted it as the norm.\n\nOnly when you go out for some fresh air and find some backwater restaurant that serves actual food you might rediscover your own taste you've lost. So go out there and try something new, cause having to eat shit is just something you were condition to do, not something you have to/need to or should do.",
"Yeah it's actually pretty decent now if that's what you're after, i couldn't really get into it because I use old VATS to much, but many of my friends play it and I see how far it's come.",
"the most ludicrous thing about this in my opinion is that game companies get away with it multiple times.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nat a certain point, you have to start accepting part of the blame.",
"How about cargo and multi crew ships. That stuff is awesome. You can interact with each other while flying around",
"I don’t really buy new games anymore, and it would take some serious vetting and overwhelmingly positive reviews before I’d feel comfortable doing so. I’d rather play 5+ year old games that I know are good than roll the dice and spend $60 on a new one.",
"Woof. This is about the 20th time today I've seen negative comments on 2042, it must really be hot garbage.",
"I didn't see anything about a refund.\n\nIn fact the last thing I remember is about Squadron 42 possibly being a second charge. \n\nYou can say I'm just spouting dumb shit but people who bought in 2013 have rightful gripes as we move into **2022**.\n\n>We are able refund pledges up to 30 days after the order was made. Anything outside of this time frame is no longer refundable.\n\nYeah 8 years ago so I'm a bit out of the window according to their website. \n\nhttps://www.polygon.com/2020/12/28/22203055/star-citizen-squadron-42-release-date-beta-delayed-alpha-testing-funding",
"This is why I point to unionization as the answer. Before patching became common, management had to actually listen to developers when they said a game couldn’t ship. If they released a buggy mess they could have been on the hook for an expensive recall or stores just wouldn’t stock it. It was financially riskier not to listen to development staff. \n\nNow they don’t really need to listen to devs because games can be patched after the fact and people still buy their buggy games at launch. On top of that, management gets to overwork employees through abusive practices like Crunch instead of hiring additional developers. \n\nIf game developers unionize, it will level the playing field and give them more say in how a game is developed. If management comes to them with some unrealistic proposal, they can push back and say either hire more staff, extend the deadline, or cut feature xyz. They could put an end to the abusive practices like Crunch and force management to commit to a game that can be developed in reasonable timeframe.",
"Lmao Metroid dread is great. The movement is really right and there are tons of sequence breaks to discover. It's definitely a return to form. Easily better than any other Metroid besides super Metroid which is basically a perfect game so it's about as good as it could be. The emmi's are a little unnecessary but it mixes it up somewhat.",
"Yep. Quality and gameplay doesn't sell pokemon.",
"Word of advice, when someone says a game is \"unplayable\", it's likely very playable, but might be kind of glitchy, have frame drops, or crash now and then.",
"Some people have already platinumed some of the GTA Definitive Edition games, so it's a little exaggerated. The puzzle can be completed. It just doesn't look anything like what was advertised. And maybe some of the pieces had to be jammed into place.",
"Despite the fact the game companies shouldn't be releasing unfinished games, at some point I have no sympathy for these people. They're not thinking with their brains, only their hearts. It's entertainment, not true love. Don't buy something because it sounds exciting.",
"This fits the developmentof Ark perfectly. That game is still so broken it's ridiculous. The tamed dino AI sucks all the ass, the lighting is completely messed up, the caves are still a nightmare to navigate without glitching through the floor, and there are so many other issues but they keep adding over priced crap to the game and make no attempt to fix it.",
"Same, i haven't played what's out currently in a few years, bit I've keep up with development pretty well.\n\nIt's so draining to even try to argue for SC and the existing game play that is super fun (and the core of it that has been fun for a while). Everyone just repeats the same stuff, while forgetting there is legit fun gameplay to be had (often for free) which is more than you can say for many \"proper\" games that have \"released\" recently.\n\nHonestly the look behind the whole process has been worth the money for me and it's not really much a surprise why it's taken so long when they've had to change engines enough to the point they make their own, and to see all this new tech that should be industry standard in the future.",
"Oh boy. Ryan George doing non-movie content is the treat I didn't know I needed.",
"The better analogy would be you know with certainty if you go to his house, this guy will punch you. And you keep going. While also paying money to go. At some point, don't go.",
"This is exactly equivalent to:\n\n\"OMG, these politicians are stupid, evil assholes.\" \n\"Stop. Voting. For. Them.\" \n\nGuess what: I don't. But as long as there are millions of stupid, ignorant people, and there's no IQ/education criteria for voting, then stupid, ignorant people will continue to be elected. It's an emergent phenomena of civilization, beyond any individual's control. All I can do is watch.\n\nI don't pre-order games, I don't buy \"early access\" games, I don't buy predatory freemium games, so on and so forth. But I can't do anything about the millions of people who do.",
"Oh I agree a union will help, I don't think it'll be the be all end all but it will move the needle in the right direction. Things can still be bad under a union, just look at film. But that in no way means we shouldn't push to have them unionize to get better practices hell we need it most industries now as workers are getting raked over the coals.\n\nAlso even a dev can over promise to management so it is a two way street. We really need to overhaul this whole tease, announcement and preview cycle too. Just so much little and big things that could be tweaked in this industry.",
"A beacon of light in this void of unfinished games.",
"This is why I stopped pre-ordering \n\nWith digital distribution, its not like they will run out anymore.\n\nThat way I won't keep on getting burned on unfinished projects.",
"> The state of the industry is on everyone that preorders games.\n\nNice victim blaming there. Ever since I was a kid who barely was able to find a copy of pokemon Yellow, I really got into pre-ordering. I pre-ordered though n64/playstation gen, ps2 gen. Ps3 gen. Games were rarely the mess they were today. Pre-ordering isn't the problem.\n\nEdit: based on responses I should clarify. I don't disagree that, with the state of things, pre-ordering is good. I'm saying that devs are the problem and should be blamed. Not the customers.",
"Should say \"actual quotes from gaming company execs\" because every word said here has been said already\n\nPeople need preorder interventions",
"It's an indicator of the average age of gamers.\n\nPlenty of kids don't know better, because they're too young to know better.",
"And the fact that most 3/10 games just never get reviewed at all by major outlets. They have to pick and chose which games they have time to review, so it’s going to lean towards games that already have some traction in the media.",
"Absolutely, now if only they made it easier to join other's crew",
"Parrying? Everything? Why? I agree with Dunkey who's an og like me. Why Nintendo. Why.\n\nEdit it may be a decent game at face value, but Metroid level? Not Since Prime 2. Still waiting Nintendo. Sigh.",
"By the time it comes out the idea will have already been stolen.",
"Exactly. People talk and talk, but still pre-order, or buy games. I haven't bought a game since Witcher. I was this close to pay for Star Citizen & Cyberpunk. But I didn't. And just pirated everything, didn't miss on anything. Subnautica got my money, Minecraft got my money, Stardew Valley, and No Man's Sky once they fixed everything. I only pay now the ones that deserve it.\n\nThen again, I'm 36, gaming is a hobby, and I don't care if I tried something few months after.",
"We are listening.",
"Practically did exactly what he said. Also no, pre-orders are a problem. Not the main problem but a massive one. Not one company is going to sell a finished product if they can sell it incomplete before anyone has even seen a review on it.\n\nCompanies will take the path of least effort and cost for maximum profit every time, unless they can get some PR for a short while. That's not a deniable fact because at one point in time you bought pokemon years ago.",
"Fo76 is unironically decent now. Unfortunately they shove micro transactions down your throat which is annoying as fuck but the gameplay and the story and the NPCs that actually exist now are pretty decent. It's like fallout 4 with more features because it's a game as a service and not a standalone title intended to be modded.",
"To this point, it's honestly baffling how DICE managed to fuck up so hard when theyve been using the same engine for a decade, know that their audience just wants an expanded BF4 and literally have done all the things they need to do 5+ times now.",
"> Boredom and disposable income. \n\nI just don't see the need to buy day 1 or pre-order even with disposable income. I can buy all AAA games I ever want, but I already have hundreds of games I don't have time to play, why would I choose to get a new one for full price in its worst possible state without looking at any reviews?",
"Sounds like my networking equipment. Always in beta and never works like they say it will.",
"Damn, you're kinda of missing out then. The current betas are a completely playable multiplayer experience with multiple planets and quests and shit. You can actually play for hours. There *is* something to experience.",
"This is really what TLC was talking about in their song. Don't go chasing waterfalls",
"lol u don’t even know how to use that insult. foh",
"Out of curiosity, did you buy the game? Pre-order? If so then what incentive do the devs have to \"get it right\" when they know people are just going to continue tossing money at it.\nI was hyped to play this game but have waited to see how it's been received and I'm sure glad I did.",
"Because bugs aren’t the only issue with the game, it’s missing features/content that has been in previous titles of the series, some of them being in the series for more than a decade",
"> Why is reddit so fucking bad at making a decent point?\n\nAnd here you are proving how ironic Reddit can be.",
"100% agree. I typically buy a game 1 year after release as it's usually cheaper and a better game than when people started playing it. \n\nI've only done early access for one game in my life and it's because I saw its gameplay and needed to scratch a larian studios game itch. Played it only one and am now patiently waiting till releases.",
"That people are fine with this is sad. I really wish people would vote with their wallet.",
"You... you literally are making excuses... Most expensive ~~scam~~ video game ever made. I will never stop laughing at star citizen.",
"Been doing that for years now. For the most part it means I've just not played multiplayer AAA games.",
"If you still preorder games you’re absolutely an idiot.",
"... Or just wait until the reviews are out?",
"wow wow wow",
"I'm still annoyed that my good friend pre-ordered me a copy of Cyberpunk. His heart was totally in the right place since we had been talking about that game for months, but man I'm disappointed that Projekt Red got his money. I still haven't installed it and I refuse to until I hear it's 'complete' more or less.\n\nNow I sit and wait for Elden Ring. I *will* wait until full reviews come out, despite how much I trust From.",
"maybe because a friend of mine bought it for me as a gift, but i don't have any skin in the game, and let me tell you, this game is a train wreck and it's gonna be that way even another 10 years from now. it's not fun and engaging. i used to play idle games when gaming back in the day, while chatting with people, now it's the only thing keeping me from throwing the pc out of the window whenever my friends (who have the game) make me download it and play it. it has some improvements from like ages ago but to little and the game has nothing to do in it. \n\nthis game needs what other games made by chris robberts needed, to fire his ass and make a good game with other people ...",
"That was the Renaissance, youngster. Blockbuster didn't start renting games until the mid-90s.",
"Call me a liar, I literally couldn't care less. I couldn't possibly care enough to go dig up a link. The one you posted isn't the mechanism. For a short period of time, they let anyone who had put money into Star Citizen retract it if they wished, no time limit, no questions.\n\nShockingly, barely anyone refunded based on the change in direction. So shocking in fact, because the change in direction came *from the people they asked if they wanted to refund*. Wow man. Mind totally blown. Bruhhhh",
"This was before Blockbuster was renting games, youngblood.",
"Never seen anything with such catch phrase density. Except maybe movies themselves haha",
"Child, there was a time when you could not rent video games.",
"Wait, what's the deal with BF now?",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/h7l854/were_all_just_trying_to_enjoy_the_dream_in_our/",
"Star citizen",
"Tarkov is in \"beta\" still and feels more polished than BF42",
"Yes, there will certainly still be bad games, but it will improve work conditions and put an end to crunch. Once that happens, I think management will start to be a bit more mindful about what they commit to because they won’t be able to rely on crunch to put out a semi-functional game. That will lead to higher quality games at launch and hopefully the general public will start to set a higher bar for quality. \n\nRight now I think most people just expect games to be buggy at launch. If that changes then people will be less likely to buy the bad apples and studios will once again opt to delay a game rather than release and fix later. \n\nEither way it will improve the lives of people in the game industry so that will be a net positive.",
"That’s just Reddit.",
"You can also just wait like literally one day after release before deciding and you only lose one day if it turns out to be great. I was big excited for Battlefield 2042 but decided to wait just one day after release before buying and it was easy for me to decide to wait",
"Not sure if you’ve been following but core parts of the game are still unfinished and it’s been a long time. They took the money and ran.",
"I've never played 3 before, but 100%'ed vice and san on pc, played sa-mp for 2k+ hours and played through the story 7+ times, once on my phone as well. There's nothing catastrophically wrong with these remasters",
"anyone who preorders a game is responsible.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nhow dumb can you be",
"I was positive this video had just come out, it’s so timely. \n\n(It’s nearly a year old.)",
"Geez I didn't realize it was that bad. I've got about 64 hours in it and I enjoy the hell out of it, even past the bugs. They're definitely annoying but not game breaking for me.\n\nEdit- I'm not saying they released a polished product. I'm just saying it's not the worst game of all time contrary to steam reviews.",
"You should play Insurgency: Sandstorm",
"wow.",
"…wow",
"Man, those movies have given me such a visceral reaction to even hearing Toby or Kirstens voice to this day. Let alone seeing their faces or watching their work.",
"Agreed, so glad I went the web dev route. Better pay, less stress and job security",
">Shockingly, barely anyone refunded based on the change in direction.\n\nMust have been pretty well advertised...",
"\"But won't pissing off our entire fanbase be really difficult?\"\n\n\n\"Actually, it'll be super easy, barely an inconvenience!\"",
"The trajectory I was headed in was going to a for-profit school like DeVry\n\nI ended up going to a community college and will be attending a local university for my bachelor's. I'm glad I didn't end up at a diploma mill",
"> Nice victim blaming there\n\nYou are not a victim if you are choosing to preorder a video game. That is honestly insane to believe that.",
"paid upvotes",
"This + maybe me getting older = I don't have fun playing games anymore. Feels bad man.",
"I'm glad for you! Wish you much success.",
"Eh that game is kind of difference since its always been crowd funded. I don’t regret buying it, it’s the best sci-fi/spaceship porn I’ve ever seen in a video game. Just sucks there’s not much to do and it’s very buggy.",
"> why don't YOU try developing a puzzle, Mr. Perfect?\n\nThe easiest low effort rebuttal that will never make any sense.",
"All of my favorite gaming franchises have already done that for me. Everything is monetized ad nauseum and the only games that come out that I'm interested in turn out to be low-effort cash grabs like the GTA remasters and Fallout 76",
"The video game industry have been pretty fucked for a while now.",
"And never more appropriate than just before Christmas",
"It was also released with the understanding that they were working hard to finish it. \n\nI loved what was there and I would have liked to see more, but the first patch took 8 months and didn't expand on the unfinished regions. \n\nSo yeah eventually it will be there but I don't believe the devs timelines.\n\nGo ahead and downvote all you want, but my initial point stands, great game but buy it for whats there because the development is slow by early access standards.\n\nAnd the same point stands for other games here, buy it for whats there because they aren't in a hurry to change it.",
"Paris international airport lost capability for guiding landing planes in low visibility conditions, because a Windows NT 3.1 system crashed with no one knowing how it worked anymore: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/failed-windows-3-1-system-blamed-for-taking-out-paris-airport/\n\nThe problem I have with the vendor at the workplace is that their software requires internet connection for operations, which means if **anything** gets past the firewall, that Windows 7 system is a goldmine for any attackers. All that software does is provide monitoring of their systems. The actual operation logic is within those industrial systems, not in the Windows 7 computer.\n\nI expect a repeat of the Colonial Pipeline attacks in the future with internet facing industrial control systems that have no security.",
"Scamming gamers is TIGHT",
"Its not that they cant but the people at the top give certain windows and they want the game pushed out before christmas this year. Look at Assassin's Creed taking feedback and slowing down on pushing games out to actually better their content. And that's from Ubisoft...",
"But we are emotional beings, want it or not, especially when it comes to things like entertainment. The primal purpose when seeking a game is ultimately \"How is this game going to make me feel?\" even if you try to be as rational as can be, you cannot detach the emotional element. \n\nAnd this is what big companies prey on, and as far as I know have been for AAA games.",
"There are a lot of single player games that are excellent, it’s the Games as a Service games that you should avoid if you don’t wanna get nickel and dimed",
"Because it's free, yeahlol free.",
"Because they've proven that the GTA model works. Just adding skins to online play and selling e-bucks is vastly more profitable than paying people to *actually* develop a new game.",
"That's why I started doing this crazy things years ago, where I wait until games are released and then read the reviews before giving them my money.\n\nAll the people who defended preordering are the reason we are in this mess right now.",
"I'm more worried about the latter. In my time in the workforce, I've spent most of my time in women-only spaces. I'm a little worried I'm going to be facing an onslaught of lonely, nerdy men when I get my \"big girl\" job. I'm a lonely, nerdy, gay woman",
"i'm not trying to sway someone to not play the game, but giving money to a man like CR is like begging for a shit game. just look at the subreddit. look what's the state of the game. people need to know that the only way you are going to get something out of a con man is not to give him your money for a promise. hope everyone gets their grandios game so i can play it also, but right now, the only thing that can get me to play that game is money, i should be paid for my time in that game....",
"Yeah, but did you see the trailer for Puzzle 2??? It looks fantastic. Lets hope they learned some lessons from Puzzle.",
"If you buy a game in early access, you are always rolling the dice. \n\nBut no, I have not played since I poured in about 80 hours at EA launch, I'm waiting for release. What core, missing parts are you referencing and how long has it been since they've pushed an update? Are we talking weeks, months?",
"Day 1 is so much fun though. An entire world to discover, no one has seen it. An undefined meta game. You're playing for fun and not for optimization. All that leaves if you wait too long",
"Delusionallol",
"Agreed, agile is an annoying shit show that’s a waste of time and money\n\nI swear the only people that like it are apart of a circlejerk",
"What's wrong with parrying? It's mostly optional and works pretty well.",
"Ripping off gamers is TIGHT!",
"You should play Ghost of Tsushima. I felt it was an excellent, well polished and - moet importantly - a fun game. \n\nHave to admit it's the exception when it comes to AAA games",
"played on console so....",
"Tarkov feels more polished than any other shooter on the market",
">The problem is that the gaming industry doesn't actually care about people who are passionate about games, they care about money.\n\nevery industry does this when it gets too big.",
"Yeah yeah yeah!",
"My only problem was with how linear it felt. never once did I feel lost. I liked figuring out where to go next. The game held your hand the entire time.\n\nEverything was hidden behind a sparkshine puzzle \nThe game did not reward you for exploring.\n\nFound the game a solid 6/10. I enjoyed it but I'll never replay it unlike past games in the series",
"LMAOOOOOOO FRONT PAGE [Star Citizen has reached $400,000,000 funded](https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals)",
"Seconded, Insurgency Sandstorm is a great middle-ground between Hell Let Loose and Battlefield.",
"This was actually in response to cyberpunk 2077",
"Just play games from JP developers that have a good reputation such as Namco, Capcom, Nintendo, etc. Capcom has been killing it lately in terms of improvement of their products. \n\nHave not been disappointed so far from main JP gaming companies.",
"Never pre-order games. It's super easy to just wait a few days until after the game is out. Like, so easy. And in that time you can find out if it's trash or not.",
"Plus by that point there's usually a deluxe/complete/GOTY edition that has all/most of the DLC bundled in at reduced cost vs. buying it all seperately.",
"I wonder if it is more of a lack of face to face communication. I'm finding any business that doesn't have to look me in the eye, will be more likely to take advantage. They can make up bullshit excuses because they don't have to do exactly what occurs in the video. \"We are receiving higher than normal call volume,\" is their greatest weapon.",
"> Pre-ordering isn't the problem\n\nNot alone, no. Pre-ordering *wasn’t* a problem years ago, but times change. Once game publishers realized they could abuse the customer with zero consequences, pre-ordering did indeed become part (but still just *part*) of the problem. Pre-ordering a game today is much more risky, and just incentivizes the behavior satirized in the video. Consumer protection laws could help, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon, if ever. \n\nIf people didn’t keep paying up like suckers, publishers would get the message. As long as it’s still profitable and legal, though, why would publishers change a system that works in their favor?",
"As a lifetime gamer that’s now an adult, this is heart breaking. I don’t enjoy giving my hard earned money to these companies, for this exact reason. I really hope the future of gaming changes because this is really getting out of hand. \n\nAt least the memes are good.",
"Gonna need you to get ALLLLL the way off my back about the scam thing",
"No. Finally got my hands on a RTX 3080 and picked up RDR2 and Forza 5. Still looking for a multiplayer fps to scratch the competitive itch. Maybe halo infinite is the answer.",
"modern video games are a racket but don’t listen to me i still play the PS2 on an analog tv",
"“I’m filing a lawsuit for malpractice against the doctor who botched my surgery, and left me without a functioning left arm.”\n\n“Why don’t YOU try performing a surgery, Mr. Perfect?”",
"Well millions of people year after year keep buying the same broken games",
"It’s “lo”",
"Yeah, between Humble Bundle and PS Now I have more games than I'll ever need ***and*** I've been able to gift games to friends!",
"Well to each their own. For me it was extremely predictable given the nature of it being a prequel, and the utter repetition of the Arthur and Dutch dynamic.\n\nAlso the gameplay was so repetitive and uninspired as to make me want to quit as I got to the end, just because each time I knew it would turn into a \"kill 50 guys like it ain't no thing, by slowing time and aiming at their faces\".",
"The montreal Olympic stadium (on the puzzle) did end up costing over 5 times it's budget due to corruption. They say for every cement truck they charged for 5. Cost over a billion dollars and took decades to pay off - using cigarette taxes.\n\nAnyway, it's a good analogy for a money pit.",
"wow",
"Hopefully the new law treating crypto as a regulated taxable security will dampen that a bit... wishful thinking maybe.",
"Can we stop buying incomplete puzzles please? Let's just agree to stop buying incomplete puzzles. I'll pledge to do that.",
"Exactly as I knew it would be. The essence of discovery isn't there, and that's what truly makes Metroid, Metroid. Sadge.",
"\"Don't tell me what to do with my parent's money!!!!\"",
"Nah you’re tripping. Super Mario Party was disappointing yes, but Mario Party Superstars is amazing. Only criticism is lack of maps but because of MPs RNG nature each playthrough will be wildly different that maps only play a small part in.",
"As someone who has spent entire evenings during lulls in releases sifting through gamepass/xbox marketplace and seeing nothing that peaked my interest, this statement is in bad faith.\n\nWe play games that excite and intrigue us. Sure there us technically billions of hours of games available to us, dating back to the late 70’s. But no one just plays something because it’s there. Otherwise I would open Gamepass right now, download the first game on the list and play it till i 100%’d it and continue down the list. But I don’t. People want new games ESPECIALLY from established franchises they enjoy or already know they like.",
"now its readable!",
"If anything this is more true for multi-player games. Studios refuse to spend the money to make sure their servers are ready and just let them crash repeatedly for a year before doing anything about it.",
"You forgot: \n\n* You deserved to get scammed for not waiting for reviews of the puzzle",
"The problem is, that the big companies want to stay in the old pattern of releasing games but modern games are so much more complicated. It just gets exponentially more work to develop games.",
"Oh you mean the trailer that looks like a AAA Hollywood movie that also looks really, really expensive, so expensive that it is suspicious how much it would cost to make that instead of that money going into the product? And also that trailer that had 0 discernable gameplay, but was made \"in engine\" to psych out potential customers into thinking it is what the gameplay looks like? That trailer? The trailer that also was released 3 years before the actual release date that definitely won't be delayed for reasons that never get explained? Yeah, I saw that trailer.",
"Charlie?",
"Riders Republic...",
"Apparently they aren't enabling, but *demanding*. Looking at gamers, this is a losing battle. No way you'll get the measured consumption from them you'll need to see change, especially since some are spending their parent's money.",
"Watching them is super easy, barely an inconvenience.",
"Yeah, all the YouTubers said Cyperpunk was great too. Turns out to get invited to many of these network tests and beta tests you're contractually obligated to say only good things.",
"You’re the problem.",
"Remember when one of the elder scrolls games charging $4 for a horse MTX was one of the biggest scandals of all time. Pepperidge farms remembers.",
"TBF at least with ES6 people had been begging and screaming for Bethesda to acknowledge the series. The \"teaser\" wasn't so much of \"get ready to hear more about this game we're working on\" as much as it was \"this is going to be a game at some point so stop asking about it\"",
"Never heard of superstars, was referring to the 2018 release. 4 boards is not enough when the past 19 years of MP games had 6 or more. Rafting mode was a joke as well, just a dumb gimmick.",
"Stop buying prereleases",
"There will always be people working on passion projects. Usually these are newer, or smaller developers. But there is just too many people willing to pay a monthly subscritpion, or buy unfinished projects that for large companies looking at a bottom line - why wouldn't they? \n\nIf a company can spend 50% of the work, cutting all the tail end polishing and bug fixing and ongoing support, but still get 80% of the profits, then financially they're going to keep doing it. The same way games are moving to MMO or subscription services. They can try to make a game to sell to a ton of people one time, or they can get a smaller percentage that just functionally buy the game every month. \n\nThere's just so much easy money there for developers, and probably always will be thanks to globalization, expanding population, and the ability to instantly put content for sale online.",
"hint: there's never time",
"\"The *80/ti cards have been selling for $1000+ for many years now, well before the shortage,\"\n\nNo. They weren't.",
"\"Too big to NOT fail\"",
"Pre-ordering became a way to guarantee that you got a copy of a game on opening night. In the day of digital releases, there is next to no reason to pre-order anything.",
"Anthem is about $2-$4 used here, and at that price it's a hell of a fun time.\n\n....less so if (like me) you pre-ordered it at full price prior to launch.",
"> The puzzle wasn't designed for players like *you*. Some people like puzzles like that",
"This is all truly sad for gamers. I really can't count how many games have been Ls that I wait years for. Cyberpunk/Anthem/outriders/GTA remake and now battlefield. A lot of money saved since I wait for reviews first but it sucks for gaming. At this point, I know if I am excited and it looks amazing, and if its not made by from software, i know its gonna probably suck.",
"Yeah for a while, preordering wasn't pointless.",
"A game that was promising to deliver something at 2 million dollars has now made 350+ millions (Edit : 400 and they're proud of it on the subreddit lol) for delivering nothing outside of constant beta projects piling into each others.\n\nCIG will release something average / bad with Star Citizen slapped on it when it won't be able to make crowdfunding money anymore and there's people out there that will blame the public for forcing them to do so.",
"What is this lol, a definition bot or something? I'm actually confused if you're just agreeing with me? Dictionary definition aside, D2R was fully advertised as what it is as far as \"remastering\" it goes in every promotional video they released. You wanna complain about the game? Complain about advertised features that are missing or broken like the servers, ladder, tcp/ip.",
"One of my most downvoted/controversial comments was saying that the Mac version of Pillars of Eternity 2 shouldn't have been released when it did...because it literally didn't work for about 3 weeks post launch. \n\nAll the fans were salty that I would be upset about paying money for...well nothing and that I was somehow slandering the devs.",
">Wait at least a year or two before considering the AAA games.\n\nThey're better at that point, and much cheaper. I may even have a next gen console by then too.",
"Or with F2P (Halo Infinite) games:\n\n\"Why are you complaining, you paid nothing for it?\"",
"In the wise words of the late TotalBiscuit, \"Preorders are bad for the consumer\"",
"That's not just GTA, that's basically the majority of the gaming industry. The only thing that's missing is hyping up the puzzle with ridiculous promises so that people pre-order it.\n\nI love video games, but I fucking hate the industry.",
"No, the blame should be on companies that mislead on their games and have it broken at launch. Pre-ordering wouldn't be a problem if companies polished the game before release like it used to be",
"I'll never understand people who preorder digital goods. Like, are you worried they will run out of bytes to send you?\n\nEven in those rare cases where there's a discount involved, it won't make up for the option to not buy the game if it turns out shitty.",
"do kids still watch pokemon? is the tv show still on tv?",
"Isnt it more reasonable to blame cd projekt red for outright lying about the game's state rather than the people who were misled.",
"Was completely shocked to see the new world sub full of human beings the other day. Granted I don't play MMOs but I thought it was common knowledge you don't play a game that's destroying graphics cards let alone one with toxic monetization models",
"Not really simping, just putting the blame on developers and publishers where it belongs imo",
"I don't disagree. I just don't blame the customer who is misled. It's purely on the devs. That was my point. Pre-ordering wouldn't be a problem if qa was better like back in previous generations.",
"Yup. I don't care how good any Rockstar game is now. After how they handled GTA V I was done.",
"With everybody and their mother thinking that they will be big streamers, with all the big streamers, FOMO, you have the perfect storm of people preordering and buying day one just so they can try and grab views. \n\nThis industry ruining practice will never change until all the people decide that they can wait a few weeks to see if it's worth it. Until that happens (which it wont) this is our new normal.\n\nUnfinished games with half assed promises that maybe they will finish the game via 50 exyra gb worth of updates and DLC that was accessible day one if not for the lock they put on it. \n\nFuck them all.",
"Oh, okay. Thanks for clarifying!",
"That was my point though. It isn't the same as the old days and that's not the fault of people who pre-order, rather companies that are releasing half finished title",
"Heck, even inside reddit we're a bunch of hypocrites",
"We can stop this from happening by simply not buying games until they release them in a decent state, perhaps we need to wait for some trusted YouTube in-depth reviews like gamer nexus style before we make the plunge.",
"After seeing the shit storm of no man's sky, then Cyberpunk, I decided not to buy Battlefield 2042 before launch. I pre-ordered Cyberpunk and luckily had none of the major issues most did. But it's the only pre order I've done since Skyrim. I'm really sad to see what's going down with battlefield. I've been playing that franchise since the OG series. Secret Weapons over Normandy was my jam.",
"And this is one of the very many problems. \"Eh who cares if it isn't finished? I can find a level of enjoyment\"\n\nI bet loading up BF4 would be even more enjoyable than spending money on unfinished products that they released simply to get all the holiday buys. \n\nLike... actually WAIT until the game is finished before giving them your money. But with yearly or biannual releases, knowing the majority of the player base will jump to the new games, no one wants to miss out so everybody buys and plays broken games just to be part of the current meta.\n\nIt's perfectly designed to take money in exhange for unfinished or half assed goods.",
"Software development is hard. Source, am a software developer. The problem is studios have zero incentive to change. Why? Because everyone, not just the fanboys, still line up around the block to get the latest game. Regardless of how many post on Reddit you see about people vowing not to support this business model, i suspect most are just paying lip service based on how the model doesn't change.",
"Nintendo has joined the chat.",
"Isn't that the point of the video though? The consumer buys the product that they were advertised and receives a buggy broken or unfinished result. The developer says, \"well hope you enjoy it because that's all we could bother doing before we sold it.\" Then you're forced to \"enjoy it\" despite the \"bugs\". The fact that you're defending something made on bad faith is not a testimony to their innocent mistakes but a rationalizing of your purchase by someone who willingly got screwed over.",
"This so true it hurts. Halo Infinite is the best example of this. Shipping the game without Coop campaign and locking armor pieces behind paywalls. Now 343 announced Coop campaign maybe will be coming out on May 2022. A feature that has been a staple of the Halo franchise since the 1st game will be added on 6 months after release. Fuck this predatory bullshit. If the game isn't complete , don't charge full price.",
"Plenty of blame to go around. I blame both",
"BF4 is still going strong",
"Why is self-promotion banned in most subs? Like we’ll watch and discuss content made by huge companies who pay millions to get you talking about their content, but if someone promotes their YouTube channel, suddenly they’re the anti-christ.",
"People can shit on Nintendo for a variety of reasons, and I’ll happily join on some of them, but at least their first party games are completely finished products when they’re released (with maybe Pokémon being the occasional exception).",
"I've gotten away from a lot of the triple A game companies. Or try to at least. I've been playing a ton of Valheim and Hell Let Loose as of late. Along with games Like Brigador, Sprocket, and a variety of other smaller companies. I do still play some big names though here and there. But only after buying on steep discount. It's rare that I end up with a game that is broke as fuck anymore. It's nice. To say the least.",
"One thing that could be added to the video is a couple if shill puzzle reviewers exclaiming all the good part of the puzzle and omitting the fact that most of it is missing or broken, and that’s another good analogy for all these so-called trusted game review channels. And I’m not talking about IGN or game spot, I mean people with defenders all over the web like JackFrags whose entire career depends on insider access and being invited to events where they get exclusive details and content on upcoming games. They tow the line and act as PR for these terrible gaming companies to get you hyped up and sell you a product and they’re just as culpable as everyone else. Is Stylosa giving you a fair unbiased and honest opinion on overwatch two, did LevelCap Gaming give anyone a realistic opinion on the battlefield 2142 beta? I’m just saying people need to be very careful about whose opinions they listen to outside of official marketing from gaming companies. What can appear to be on the surface an independent unbiased opinion about an upcoming game, is in fact somebody self censoring and looking out for their own bread and butter. It’s the same thing that happens with news organizations where they refuse to criticize a current administration for fear that they will be excluded from interviews with high-ranking officials, and various examples like that. You really got to dig deep for the stuff, but one solid piece of advice I think I can give you all is do not rely on people to criticize their own sources of income for honest opinions.",
"Gamers are more United than us citizens fighting for free healthcare lol",
"I imagine a lot of the gaming community would be perfectly content buying a broke ass car if it looked pretty on the outside and just be happy to complain until it was patches up enough a year later to at least limp to the store for their food.",
"Okay, I'm gonna need to get all the way off my back about your game development morals.",
"Ryan's Pitch Meetings have been carrying that channel for a while now.",
"current publishers are so focused on short term profit that they literally cannibalize their own products. publisher pushes shitty underbaked game -> consumers buy unfinished product and get pist -> game gets shitty rep and is no longer financially viable to finish -> game languishes in maintenance mode and dies. These publishers are too stupid to let their watermelons grow; they are content to pull the seeds out of the ground.",
"We so would have finished it but sadly PS<gen+1> is out and we have to focus on this amazing new platform so YOU can enjoy the best experience possible.\n\nI'm up for hire.",
"r/wheresthejoke",
"Because sometimes people abuse it and try to use it to gain some following, or we wouldn't be able to tell the amount of shovelware.",
"No, nobody said that",
"Sounds like every aaa game",
"Oh okay lemme get off of that thing.",
"Stfu, the examples you listed sure are remasters smfh",
"Self-promotion is fine as long as you're rich and famous!",
"F",
"It's sad, studios instead of focusing and improving what they do great, they try to copy some other shit and attract who knows what.",
">I get downvoted and ridiculed when I say don't preorder games. \n\nPress X to Doubt.",
"Well there is a rumor Nvidia is artificially limiting supply to keep demand high. \n\nBut there is also Covid, and shut down of factories, and there was a water shortage.",
"I think I bought the wrong game. I’ be been playing Battlefield 2042",
"We need another industry-wide crash.",
"I'd argue most games don't get reviewed by all but very small outlets, like \"dude with a blog that rates games\" kind of small scale (not saying bad, but small). There were like 10k games released JUST on Steam last year, there's just no way to even reach the better half of them for 5/10+. That's 13 games a day.",
"…wow",
"🎶Moving Goalposts🎶",
"You're the embodiment of an Eternal September. Sigh.",
"Ya the other persons comment is essentially the same thing as saying “there’s plenty of fish in the sea” when you’re buddy can’t find a girlfriend. It’s completely meaningless.",
"Oh this is the pitch meeting guy",
">If you compare what star citizen is going through with what many other large-scope games go through, it's really not much of an outlier at all.\n\nAs an ex game developer and someone who knew people who worked in their main Nottingham offices....\n\nNo. Star Citizen development is not just like other large scale AAA development.\n\nWhat experience do you have to make such a claim?",
"I'm going to have to ask you to get alllll the way off his back about that",
"Ah. I never had a PS4. Wish I did.",
"Ah yes. This is why BotW runs at 720p 15 fps at times. God forbid you want to really stress the game out like using the camera mode when you're in a grassy area (actually literally required at one point to progress through the game).",
"He’s the guy from those YouTube videos!",
"Remember when Gen 7 was called Pokemon S&M? Good times. I missed out on posting the jokes I made about it.",
"The ~~narcissist's~~ gamer's prayer.",
"Telling people not to preorder games is one of the the largest pieces upvote fodder on /r/gaming.",
"When other people vote and elect a bad politician, you have to suffer the consequences of it.\n\nIf you DON'T buy a particular game, you aren't impacted by it. You don't have to spend money, and you don't have to play a broken game.",
"there certainly are problems with FO76, but overall it's not bad (says the guy who recently crested 1000 hours of play time). I got into it just after the wastelanders expansion and to hear people talk about the game when it first came out it sounds like it used to be a completely different game. \n\nmy only problem now is there's nothing new to do.",
"How many games take this long or this much money to make? How could they have been upfront about what it is while also changing the scope of the game several times over after the initial crowdfunding? If they weren't still doing extended crowdfunding they'd run out of money fast, and with nothing even close to the full promised game (2 games actually lol) still. You are absolutely making excuses for them.",
"Reddit is the whole world I tell you…. 😢",
"If anything I think Reddit is a terrible representation of the general public. There’s a shit ton of views/opinions that are very popular on Reddit that in real life are the complete opposite and are very unpopular.",
"Did they send out emails to let you know that it could be refunded? If I wasn't informed how could I take advantage?\n\nDo you not understand the irony of your \"moving goalposts\" statement here lol?",
"Embrace indie games. They give you a fully fleshed out experience for like 10-20 dollars, while the AAA games are $60 broken soulless messes.",
"Insomniac continue to amaze me with the quality they put out.",
"They’re actually celebrating hitting 400 Million dollars being raised.",
"Yeah. We subscribe for him and only him . Everyonce in a while when we have 9 minutes or whatever with nothing better to do we'll give one of their other videos another try and they never fail to disappoint.\n\n\"10 things you may have missed in _____ where 9 of them will be direct, named, unmistakable references to something.\"",
"I was so stoked for Anthem when it was first shown. An MMO shooter where you fly around like Iron Man? What's not to like? After trying the demo/beta I was like \"yeah that was kinda fun for a couple hours maybe? but I'm good to stop here.\" What a let down.",
"Wowowow",
"Agreed.",
"Super easy, barely an inconvenience. ~Grove Street Games",
"Ryan George is a treasure of a human being.\n\nWatching his videos is SUPER EASY, BARELY AN INCONVENIENCE",
"In this age of instant gratification that won’t happen. People will continue to preorder and will continue to buy non descript season passes/early access stuff.",
"In real life, the guy buying the puzzle would be like \"oh well, I had to get it right away or I'm going to miss out on this!\", people complain but they still line up on launch to get this stuff, blows my mind",
"We need Ryan to do Pitch Meetings for video games",
"Indie games are really taking off in creativity lately and in risking new ideas. I picked up Barotrauma and was floored with the detail for a <1gig game. I know people love good graphics but if it's good graphics slapped onto poor or old ideas then it only carries it so far.",
"> why don't YOU try developing a puzzle, Mr. Perfect?\n\nI hate this fucking excuse.\n\nIt's not my job to fix your shitty games because I don't get paid to do just that.",
"Sexual harassment is something to be concerned about but I'd be much less concerned with that than your day-to-day working conditions regarding crunch. I'm a male, so I obviously don't have the same experience, but I've only seen maybe one or two bad instances of this. 99% of the time women have been treated just as well as their male counterparts, at least at the companies I have worked for. They make a pretty big deal about it, though. Lots of training, etc., and a pretty explicit set of rules.\n\nThe idea of crunch, though, is much more pervasive, at least to me, and companies don't really give a crap about it. You're expected to get your work done, even if it's unreasonable, and if you don't... Well... That's a problem. I'd be much more scared of that and make sure you set clear expectations with any employer you go to about what is expected of you. If you expect to work in any kind of start-up or fast-paced environment (read: probably the ones you're expecting to get a job at) fully expect them to not even bat an eye at 60-70 hour work weeks, working on weekends, etc.\n\nI just left a software engineering consultant position because the \"baseline\" of work was 60+ hour work weeks with whatever weekend work they wanted for whatever reason. My company did very little to protect me, even though their entire schtick is not having to do that. Poorly managed projects and expectations will lead to this atmosphere almost every time.\n\nMost of the \"lowkey\" jobs that I see now are all government or non-profit work. There are trade-offs to that, though.",
"Why are you generalizing my actions as a bigot without understanding them?",
"Reddit is ironic",
"Then stop buying from major studios. The gaming industry has changed, and people seem to keep buying from companies before checking any decent unbiased review of the product.",
"People say this and it makes sense in some cases, but then GTA Trilogy is a single player experience that people could've waited for and yet they bought at launch on hype alone, so I think that's just an excuse",
"Is From Software a \"major studio\" yet?",
"Where you paying attention when BF4 first came out? It was literally the same thing; lots of bugs, tons of people calling it an unfinished mess, etc. If people are having fun with 2042 as it is and they think that the game will only get better with time are they really that wrong for enjoying it?",
"Christ are you 12 years old? Some of us are old enough to be around before this preorder bullshit and we are telling you straight to your face. STOP PREORDERING GAMES. It is absolutely what started this bullshit. Educate yourself instead of clinging to the wrong opinion.",
"In ages long past pre orders were great to ensure you had a copy waiting for you day 1. That hasn't been a concern for nearly 20 years now but people still do it even though it's just harmful practices now.",
"Gotcha so since I never experienced any bugs or glitches with Cyberpunk 2077 it was everyone else’s hardware not the game.\n\nSee how that sounds?\n\nFFXIV was a failure on launch for many reasons including unfulfilled promises.",
"I agree. There are endless fleshed-out single player experiences. It's effectively infinite. But when I want to change it up and play some multiplayer with my brother/friends, the options are just so frustrating. The only games I can say that I've had fun playing in the last few years have been OverWatch and Rocket League, and to a lesser extent, War Zone.",
"Blizzard: gameplay first",
"I’ve always been a big fan of the single player rockstar game lines in gta and red dead. As such I’ve avoided all the online bullshit and don’t have a huge grudge against rockstar for that. What I don’t like is how they no longer make new games and just make new content available online only.",
"Not true at all.",
"In the gaming world, it’s pretty popular",
"Thanks for the info. I actually had it in mind to steer clear of startups for exactly that reason. The only big-name company I'm interested in working for is Microsoft. I'd like to just work on some app or website for a company\n\nI'm majoring in CompSci and minoring in Cybersecurity. I'm hoping the minor will make me a bit more competitive",
"I don't think it is *that* bad, just your typical user review brigading. Definitely not good, but not like it is one of the worst games of all time.",
"We are, but dealing with disappointment is part of being human as well. There's been plenty of games that I've been excited about, and I think \"this will be so fun and I'll love it\", but then the reviews come out and it's bad. Then you just have to suck up the disappointment and not buy it, because what you thought it was, it's not.",
"‘How dare someone else like a game I’m pissed about’",
"Grand Theft Triangle",
"According to steam’s hardware survey the 3000 series is hardly in use. It’s not gamers using these cards. \n\nhttps://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/",
"Idk what's worse. Calling Metro a Horizon clone or claiming Horizon is a better game. This has to be a typo right???",
"What was it _supposed_ to be?",
"That's not the actual problem though, the problem is \"the game I want is not as profitable as the games they're making\", how you fix that problem idk, you can't just will stuff into existence without it being profitable",
"Naw, if the game is good it will still have an audience a year from release. \n\nI just played through Dark Souls 1 and 3 and Bloodborne this year for the first time and they were all very active. \n\nAny comp shooter worth the money will also have a good player base after a year too.",
"notice hollywood is doing the same...",
"Any multiplayer game worth the money will be active a year after release. I just played almost the entire souls series this year and they were all very active.",
"You have no idea what you are even talking about.\n\nYour seething is preventing you from enjoying something you'd like. What a shame.",
"I would, but it looks like a two arm operation :P",
"Same (though not 1000 hours). End-game is pretty lacking but there are at least 100 hours of content before things have a hint of getting stale.",
"You obviously didn't read my post if you think I'm 12 lol. I was saying that preorders used to have a point back in the day (I even mention how supply used to be limited). I never said that people shouldn't stop pre-ordering games. I'm saying that people should stop blaming the customer and start blaming the company. Why is that such a controversial opinion?",
"People preorder games because they know they're going to get it. This could be based on the reputation of the company or based on marketing materials release. You should know what you're getting into when you preorder. Nowadays, you don't. That is solely on the companies, not the consumer.",
"But miss out on what? Missing features and a chance to lighten your wallet? Why not just wait? I see the same problem with consoles. People are all up in arms over scalpers, as if scalpers were the problem instead of people who see the next console as \"indispensable\". Or the parents who think their kids deserve an overpriced console. Bottom line is the problem are the enablers, not the ones who are simply meeting the demand.",
"Player: this game is literally unplayable!\n\nEA: Would you like to pre-order the next game?\n\nPlayer: yes.",
"“bUt ThE sCoPe Of ThE gAmE?!?1!”\n\nThe only thing that got scoped was your wallet of its contents.",
"I stopped after Fallout 76. I'll tell you one thing though, not buying games I want asap always ends with random fucking spoilers!",
"The fact that this video has been posted on several game specific subreddits I follow, with the context of the title pointed toward that game, also hurts me on a spiritual.\n\nThis video has been posted everywhere the last day or two, and I can't even be mad because it applies perfectly",
"I work in retail and just a little while ago bad a customer ask if the GTA trilogy was available yet as a physical copy. It isn't but I immediately told him he doesn't want it. That it's an unfinished game with a ton of issues and to look into it online.\n\nHe said he would just go download it...",
"Because of the Reddit policy that you aren't supposed to promote more than 10% of your account's activity. Reddit expects your account to be a user first and foremost instead of the face or representative of the content. \n\nThat said you can easily pick out a whole bunch of \"official accounts\" that violate this policy everywhere... It's such a shitshow. Yes, there are people who spam and abuse their Reddit privilege to promote and promote and promote. But then there are those who uses a separate Reddit account like a Twitter account where you're just posting content related to your project and keep your personal stuff separate. \n\nWhile I get the sentiment behind the policy, from my experience, actually enforcing it, is an utter shit show.",
"Oh you sweet summer child. \n\nIf other people's spending didn't impact me, freemium games, for one example, would disappear over night. All those games that have been effectively ruined because their play is balanced around encouraging sales of a premium currency would instead be designed around around player enjoyment, and I could *buy* them, outright, once. My gaming landscape would be broadened.\n\nBut that's not how the world works. Because people pay for that shit -- in particular because of a subset of *addicted* people, which the industry calls \"whales\", pay an unhealthy amount for this shit -- I get to see franchises I once loved polluted by it.\n\nLike it or not, your choices affect me.",
"Battlefield 2042 in a nutshell.",
"It's crazy people still point to a disaster of a launch nearly a decade ago trying to use it justifying the same bad practices a company has no intent on changing lol",
"How is gamplay going to justify my 2500 dollar graphics card?",
"Marketing. A lot of those amazing games don't reach the attention the big fish games do. Whether you're a normie that puts all your focus on one thing or all your friends are and you follow their lead, there's a lot of great games that will never make it because that's their legacy, obscure and forgotten.",
"I think that's because he did it for cyberpunk 2077",
"on pc you can maybe get to the main menu, but click on continue or start the dlc it just crashes",
"fc6 completely just doesn't work for most right now. It just crashes when you try to start the game from main menu, a lot crash during splash screen",
"Say it louder for the people in the back",
"Whenever I see people talk about 'the current state of gaming' wrt dlc's, broken games etc, they only have themselves to blame. Not just because you shouldn't preorder any product, but also because there are a plethora of alternatives.\n\nThere are more gaming companies than ActiBlizz, EA and Ubisoft. Cmon guys.\n\nWhenever you pick up a well-reviewed, couple of month-old game, you're almost certain of a good time.\n\nAnd if you only like online multi-player games, pick up some f2p's, or live service games, instead of BF/cod which update about yearly.\n\nSome people are opposed to indies because there is no minimum quality control. To a certain extent this is true. There is plenty of indie garbage. There is also a lot of AAA garbage too, so this point is a bit moot. The point remains the same. Grab an indie that's at least a couple of months old, and has very positive reviews.\n\nThere is a huge historic backlog of games you most likely haven't played if you're under 20. You have no excuse not to play them.",
"That has nothing to do with complexity or optimization. They chose to leave the game with intensive areas and low framerate. I mean, yea, the switch can be a bit weak for a game of the scale of botw, but they did what they could.",
"I’ve enjoyed 2042 but only in portal mode, mostly BC2 rush. The 64v64 feels really forced and not fun.",
"He's the guy from this series!",
"Wow wow wow... Wow",
"Yeah yeah yeah",
"Or any other AAA release in the past 10ish years",
"And then there’s fucking Todd Howard pushing the propaganda. \n\n“It’s not how you launch, it’s what it becomes.”\n\nSay this about literally any other product, and watch how that shit crumbles.",
"For real. Don’t preorder might be one of the most common comments in this sub.",
"But FOMO",
"Yeah, that person is an idiot who doesn’t understand basic economics, let alone the video game industry.",
"This video is highly inaccurate. It doesn't show the Puzzle Customer buying the $30 extension.\n\nWhich definitely would happen.",
"It's obvious that adults are a significant part of their target audience. If they weren't, why so much nostalgia pandering? Why bother running E-sport tournaments if the games are aimed exclusively at <10 year olds? Also I just skimmed through the clothes on the pokemoncenter website and the majority of what I found was in adult sizes, go figure.",
"Also doesn’t help that major publications have like 10,000 people writing articles for it that all have different tastes, play styles, desires, etc. So keeping consistent scores across the board is nearly impossible. A game you find trash could get a 9 because the reviewer of the day grew up with the franchise and is blinded by nostalgia or whatever. Stick to indie publications and you’ll find a lot more consistent, honest reviews.",
"I remember when beta tests were fun, took a little work to get accepted into, and you were able to provide feedback. The beta would close, and so much time would pass that you might even have forgotten about it by the time the game launched, time enough apparently to fix problems. Now it seems to me at least, beta just means we release the game a week early, with the exception of Halo I'll give them that.",
"Oh, really?",
"Im not saying adults aren't a massive portion of their sales. My point is that they might want to keep getting new kids into it as opposed to catering to their current adult audience who will eventually be gone. Then leaving them without a new young audience to replace them.\n\nAlso that maybe many adults do enjoy their direction, but the vocal hardcore minority on gaming forums might be unhappy",
"Totally not paid articles guys! Meanwhile thriving GaaS titles get nothing or maybe a paragraph \"article\" when they get huge updates",
"“That’s the guy from those videos!”",
"If defending shit business practices is fun to you then yes, stop please",
"It's hard to admit you were had. You might even convince yourself to find joy in something that simply isn't what it should be, I've done it. I could think of at least a handful of games I was hyped about, bought, completely regretted it, but still forced myself to play them anyways just because I spent the money.",
"Agreed. It’s not everything I wanted but I am enjoying the product. I don’t regret buying it.",
"This just points out that SaaS in general needs to have laws in place dictating what constitutes as an acceptable 'product'... if they don't make good on their promises at launch, everyone should get a full refund and they should be slapped financially after that.",
"Then how do you explain your fifty upvotes here?",
"BDSP",
"r/patientgamers for the win.",
"maybe that was the prblem, and it turns out to be actually a one arm operation?",
"You could fly in BOTW?",
"This is why I stopped buying games at launch but instead wait for the Game of the Year or whatever edition that has all the DLC and patches ready.",
"Because it is a legitimately good game now, with a fantastic community and humble dev team... who also play the game at a high level. \nFFXIV did the right thing, no one else has followed suit yet. EA, Ubi, CDPR, Epic and friends always promise the next biggest thing, and it's always awful while the customers foot the bill and are denied refunds.",
"It *was* a forgettable horse",
"Rdr2 has awful controls. I really tried to like that game, but it’s just not fun for me to play.",
"Milspec is just a fancy word for cheap and doesn't work",
"I'm gonna need to get right off my back about the puzzle pieces.\n\nOk let me get off of that thing.",
"I haven’t bought a game at full price or on release in *years*. Until back 4 blood came out lol",
"Every battlefield release, the game is crap on release. This always falls into the memory hole.",
"Either way the problem isn't solved.",
"halo infinite has been really fun so far",
"I haven't really heard too much about the new Battlefield. Is it really that bad?",
"Yeah a f2p games is one of the few places where I don't really have an issue with games being unfinished at launch. Halo's multiplayer feels more finished now than BF2048 which costs 80$ here in Canada. It's ridiculous. Between Halo and Age of Empires Microsoft has been making me very happy recently.",
"The game and engine is already outdated and is probably limiting their scope.",
"Eh, you're missing out on a fun experience with Cyberpunk. It's not what was promised by a long shot, but I didn't feel ripped off after finishing it.",
"I bought Anthem for $6 simply to fly around in the suits, it's really fun.",
"There are mine carts made of metal that you could manipulate with you inside it.",
"It’s also just so easy to buy stuff now. I can buy a video game with less than 10 clicks of my controller.",
"Not just kids wanting their toys, but adults who cannot fathom the idea of meaningful spending. These studios and publishers do not deserve the money, but these adults of weak constitution do not think about how hard they worked for that $60 and how spending it on poor quality only emboldens a shitty publisher/dev studio.\n\nIt really takes us reasonably minded people to repeat this often to our friends and across communities. It will never reach 0 but we could put a dent in some of this.",
"The campaign is basically a different game though. If you pay for the campaign now you are pre-ordering the campaign seperate from the multiplayer. It's not like you paid for halo as a package and only got the multiplayer part. The multiplayer and the campaign were always presented as 2 seperate releases. It's like fornite battle royal vs the fornite campaign. It's basically 2 different games using the same engine.",
"Don’t buy games until they’ve been out and been reviewed. NEVER preorder games",
"R* we expected better for real. Don't piss away 20 years of fan goodwill like this...",
"There is absolutely no reason to buy any game day 1. Zero. None. \n\nPeople purchase now based on FOMO. \n\nDay 1 gets you an incomplete game, glitches, paid DLC, and more transactional bullshit designed to make your experience objectively worse. \n\nYou pay full price to be glorified beta testers. \n\nIf you're willing to wait, these titles will be a fraction of what they're worth now + patched + with the dlc included. \n\nGame companies see gamers as exploitable ATMs and don't give a single fuck about any of them.",
"That's how I've felt since Xbox 360 dropped. I'll just wait. No biggie. Most of the games I wanted to play ended up going through the free monthly games.\n\nI only beta test for free dawg.",
"980ti was $650. 1080ti was $700.\n\n2080ti was $999, so maybe you can stretch that to fit your \"$1000+\" definition. But I feel like 3 years (2018 launch) is a little bit of a stretch for \"many years\" especially if you're saying it's well before the shortage. Oh and also the 2080ti was ridiculed for its price and price:performance.",
"New world subreddit is the epitome of toxic white knight behaviour for game devs.",
"Not spoiled at all man. For whatever fucked off reason this is how the market operates. \n\nLoyal customers who hand over their hard earned money first are fucked over. \n\nIt's the folks purchasing 2 years later when everything is done and over are the ones really enjoying their experience.",
"They'll never finish it. They aren't in the business of selling games, they're in the business of *renting promises*",
"Then the publishers did a backflip, snapped the customer's neck, and ruined the day!",
"I found Sekiro to be way more engaging than any Souls game I've played.\n\nSomething about the parry posture mechanic is far more satisfying to me than the dodge roll gameplay. Lack of a stamina bar probably has something to do with it.",
"this is a top steam review via Searrard:\n\nLaunch Review\n\nDo not buy Battlefield 2042\n\nDICE\\EA know how to make a “Battlefield” game.\nDICE\\EA made trailers that promoted this game.\n> DICE\\EA inserted all the “only in Battlefield” moments in to the Trailer\nDICE\\EA knew that this game is missing all of the below features.\nDICE\\EA still released this.\n\nA lot of the missing features come from a reddit post, I added a list of my \"Broken\" experiences. I only wanted to use this list to prove my opening statement.\n{LINK REMOVED}\nBattlefield 2042 subreddit and Jellyswim_\n\n\nNo offense was intended, I just wanted to leave my review this morning on the cut content and what a poor \"Battlefield\" this was.\n\nMissing Core Features\n> No standard server browser\n> Fewer standardized game modes\n> Fewer base game maps than any other title (even including portal the map count is only 13)\n> No persistent lobbies You have to matchmake after EVERY round\n> Fewer in-game assignments None outside of cosmetic unlocks\n> Less character customization options (than BF5)\n> No profile progress/stats page in the menu\n> No battle log/stats tracker for other players\n> No global leaderboards\n> No end of round assignment progress screen\n> No custom emblems\n> Fewer achievements\n> No medals\n> No swelling crescendo of dramatic music near the end of a match. Static Noise does not count\n> Less destruction\n> Only a small handful of destructible buildings on each map\n> No map altering levolution\n> No spectator mode\n> No permanent community servers (would be useful for clans and events)\n\nMissing from Infantry Gameplay\n> Fewer guns Even including all the portal guns, BF4 still had more at launch\n> Fewer infantry gadgets\n> No manual leaning\n> No diving while swimming\n> No high wall vaulting\n> No crouch sprinting\n> No backwards prone\n> No explosion knockback\n> No rolling after falling from heights\n> No ammo or health pickup off teammates\n> No scope zeroing\n> No thermal optics\n> No indirect fire gadgets\n> Less anti-tank launchers\n> No lock-on launchers The M5 works with the SOFLAM but that requires 2 people\n> No AP mines/claymores\n> No static weapon emplacements\n> No fortification building\n> No resupply stations\n> No suppression mechanic This one I don't mind but it was a staple and now it is gone\n\nMissing from Vehicles\n> Fewer vehicle types Separate vehicle progression per faction even though they are functionally identical.\n> No naval vehicles Except I guess the hovercraft technically\n> No vehicle gunner direction indicator\n> No lock on direction indicator\n> No vehicle enter/exit animations\n> No tank turret decoupling This was in BF4\n> Less vehicle driver/pilot customization options\n> No tank zoom customization options\n> No tank gunner customization options\n> No helicopter gunner secondary weapons\n> No separate helicopter/fixed-wing controls\n> No control input while looking behind/free looking in aircraft\n\nMissing from Scoring System\n> No squad wipe scoring\n> No player damage points\n> No vehicle damage points\n> No vehicle kill assist points\n> No headshot bonus\n> No long-range kill bonus\n> No assist counts as kill bonus\n> No squad objective play bonus\n> Oversimplified teamplay scoring (i.e. healing a teammate always gives you +5xp rather than the amount of health you give)\n> Squad and Teamwork\n> No commander\n> No special squad call-in abilities\n> No squad field upgrades\n> No in-game VOIP\n> Fewer factions (with almost nothing to give the 2 factions any distinction)\n> No cross-team chat\n> No \"create new squad\" option\n> No clans\n> No view of squadmates while in the spawn screen\n> No \"Medic incoming\" indicator in downed state\n> No rank names/icons, just a number.\n\nMissing from UI and Quality of Life\n> Less control customization options\n> Less UI customization options\n> No HUD/icon opacity customization\n> No HUD scaling customization options\n> No gunsight reticle customization options\n> No network performance graph\n> No individual player scoreboard\n> Less detail in the 'who killed you' screen\n> No ultrawide monitor support. Cannot move UI elements to suit screen size\n> Very poor friend joining system\n\nBROKEN\n> 45 tick rate servers\n> Rubberbanding\n> Deploy bugs, revive bugs. Downed state bug that prevents you from being revived if you clip through anything. There times where you have no countdown and cannot respawn\n> Janky animations\n> Performance is horrible on PC. Unplayable framerates from what looks like CPU bottlenecking\n> Unlock three different silencers for the same weapon that have no effect on the stats of the weapon\n> Exact same attachment on two different guns having an opposite effect\n> Hovercrafts are able to scale vertical surfaces, as well as fly in the right circumstances.\n> In rare cases, a player will become unable to damage enemies. This player will also lose their nameplate, causing them to appear as hostile to allies. This is fixed by dying and respawning.\n> Broken Bullet Registration\n> Broken Bullet Spread\n> Broken Weapon Balance\n> Broken Vehicle Balance\n\nDo not buy this game\n\nA lot of the missing features come from a reddit post, I added a list of my \"Broken\" experiences. I only wanted to use this list to prove my opening statement.\n{LINK REMOVED}\n\nNo offense was intended, I just wanted to leave my review this morning on the cut content and what a poor \"Battlefield\" this was.",
"And we’re relying on humanity, to stop buying shit they don’t need, as a solution to this behavior. It’s too big to stop spinning at this point. More shit to come, get your fuckin wallets out!",
"At this point, I don't believe that's true. They're at $400 million in funding now. So you're suggesting that $200 million of that was from people who thought the game was going to release on a different time frame but I don't believe that to be true. \n\nIn 2014 they were at $50 million, at that point it may have been under the pretense that it wouldn't be an everything simulator with 20 years development. But May 2017 they hit $150 million and at that point it was pretty clear it would be forever in development.",
"No self-promotion (unless you are the makers of the Deadpool movie, then you can have the front page for two months).",
"Okay, so did the series die with Prime 1 or Prime 2? Make up your mind.",
"cRyPTo",
"🇦",
"Do you not get the reference to the very thing you said you have watched many times and is formulaic?",
"Because everytime something like this happens it's the first time for someone and they fall for it.",
"This is exactly how Battlefield 2042 is right now",
"What are you talking about? This game has everything\n\n* The operators and their slick one liners after each round\n\n* Those slick cinematic cut scenes not once, but three different intros at the start of each round\n\n* No more stress about deciding which server to join - we decide that for you.\n\n* Antarctica map\n\n* Antarctica map\n\n* Antarctica map\n\n* Antarctica map",
"Imagine the Pitch Meetings for any Kojima game.",
"You didn't contribute to making things worse. that's just as good.",
"I did, it doesn't seem to have helped.",
"These problems with software all have names in academia and industry. It's called gold-plating. They want to introduce newfangled features because they are \"cool\" and those features have nothing to do with what the end-user (or purchaser) values. The devs will not fix bugs in previous releases because their dev team has moved on to the new game. Or in this scenario, they won't even FINISH the previous release because they have moved on to the next shiny object.",
"The thing is if they released the source and copyright you would have an amazing community edition available by Christmas, just look at what the community has put together for Skyrim",
"Forza Horizon 5 has been very, very good on release I’ve been loving it! \n\nSadly, It’s the only Triple AAA game I’ve played on release recently that felt like I wasn’t just handed early access to a BETA (or even Alpha in some cases)",
"Yeah modern warfare 2 and fallout 4 were about my final go at a AAA game. It's no wonder we can't get a complete game when people are more than willing to pay extra to beta test a half-game.",
"Ryan is a treasure.",
"Insurgency Sandstorm is in a SUPER polished state right now. I enjoy the modes that are akin to CS more than COD. It’s fast paced but doesn’t fee line rando’s are spawning on your head all the time.",
"I'll go with option 3:\n\n* Don't buy shitty games, do buy good games",
"The puzzle looks super easy…",
"Since you have mentioned this.. the industry+academia calls this *gold-plating.* Let me give you an ironic example, since you and I are both on reddit.\n\nThe reddit userbase has been begging, pleading, asking, and demanding a search function on this website for years. Reddit main headquarters has simply ignored these millions requests. \n\nInstead of implementing things that the userbase values, they instead put all their developer energy into live streaming service called \"Reddit TV\" or some such. The idea is that \"more cool stuff\" sells more. We need shiny bells and whistles rather than software/websites that work. As if to rub salt in the wound, they then implemented image inlining in chat boxes. \n\n[Gold-plating]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_plating_(project_management) )\n\nMore irony.. reddit does not properly parse linked URLs that terminate in a closed paranthesis `)` So let me post a screen shot for you , since the reddit devs cannot be bothered to give us anything useful. https://i.imgur.com/3vdobM3.png",
"I LOVED his Twilight Pitch Meeting series. I'm baffled by how it got so popular with *that* amount of crap stuffed in a single movie.",
"...wow.",
"This is only possible because idiot gamers keep buying all their shit. Milk them for everything they're worth, I say.",
"Updoots to the moon!",
"I love when I get downvoted to the third circle of hell for saying I prefer classic games for this very reason.",
"There is nothing wrong with them enjoying it. But people should expect this to happen since EVERY BF launch was a shitshow. If people have fun with it, more power to them but if someone has remorse for buying a buggy mess at launch then that's on them because there was no sign pointing that it will be ok.",
"The GTA series lost me when they downgraded the amazing rag-doll physics engine in GTA4 to the kindergarten-level blocky physics engine in GTA5.",
"alternative: You know there is a conflict zone with high emotion and tension in Kenosha, WI. You generally don't wish to be attacked or to murder other people, but nonetheless you brandish your assault rifle and go anyway.",
"Stop. Blaming. The. Customers.\n\n And. This. Dumb. Period. BS. Too.",
"~~Source on it being \"one the worst reviewed game[s] on steam of all time?\" I mean I know it's bad but come on.~~\n\n~~When I look at steam now it just says \"Mostly negative.\" The game has a bad enough reputation that it really doesnt need hyperbole to make it look bad.~~\n\nEdit: Asked and answered.",
"Rip him but he was wrong on this point. If preorders ended today the situation would still be bad. Companies wouldn't make any sales until something showed up on shelves. \n\nBlaming the customers won't affect change. We must put all the responsibility onto publishers and stores like Steam to ensure products are reliable.",
"There are so many indie games that treat Early Access as an excuse to never properly complete or polish their games. I mean ffs some of them even have marketed expansions with their own DLC titles. Most of the time you don't have to pay for them but there ARE some early access games that charge extra for new content additions. \n\nFeels like fewer and fewer indie games actually respect the early access system and actually diligently work towards a full release. Many just stay in EA to weasel out of any criticisms of the game not working right.",
"I'll throw Rising Storm 2 in that mix as well. Can be buggy on some aspects, but they really nailed the combat.",
"Because money.",
"For all the bullshit that cyberpunk entailed, at least they didn't launch it under some crap Early Access label. Might be broken but at least it was a 1.0.",
"I don't know what else to say. I can't believe all the downvoting lol. I don't think it's as bad as everyone's making it out to be, and certainly not the worst game of all time according to steam. That was kind of my point, I understand the bugs are bad but worst game of all time?",
"Amazing use of summer children here. They're so young that they don't remember better days when cheats were codes and not paid dlc.",
"Paging Dr Rittenhouse",
"He's probably talking more about PC since Steam is huge for Early Access and much of this conversation thread is about Early Access",
"Yeah exactly what I'm saying. It's enjoyable beyond the bugs, And they're not completely stopping me from playing. Sometimes I can't deploy it century turret as Boris, doesn't mean the game is the worst of all time. I know some people have gotten stuck on the revive screen or something, but again almost 64 hours in and I haven't had it happen to me so I'm not sure where the issue lies.",
"Lmao",
"What else would I be speaking from? In my company agile worked fucking well. Medical tech has its perks, hella stringent policies. Fuck you all for being fucks. Fucking dickheads. Just because your companies suck, your management sucks, and you suck, doesn't mean everything sucks. Suck my dicks.",
"Play Mario Golf, the recent paper Mario, or Mario Party (not Superstar) and try telling me those are good games. \n\nNintendo is just as liable to make a mediocre game as anyone else.",
"Average redditor moment.",
"https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/11/20/battlefield-2042-has-entered-steams-10-worst-reviewed-games-of-all-time-list/?sh=5e2b1ebb1110",
"Non-shit companies with non-regarded people.",
"I stopped playing MP games when CS hit Beta 5(or 5.2). Somewhere around there they introduced shields for the CTs(which I hated) and the cheating was just too rampant. From what I read and understand cheating is still rampant in MP games which makes me wonder what's the point?\n\nNOTE: I think I outed my vintage with this post.",
"Lol no inflation whatsoever??? When I started gaming, a video game cost $59.99. In 2021 a new PS5 game costs 79.99. \n\nWhere do you live that games still cost $59?",
"Worst game my ass. I've been playing it since launch and it's amazing. Best battlefield yet.",
"Stop ignoring a host of legitimate concerns that someone has just because they can’t single handedly control the entire consumer marketplace to perform a boycott \n\nPeople have a legitimate complaint when an IP they love or want to enjoy is absolutely trashed by a publisher crunching a developer, regardless of “WELL OTHER PEOPLE BUY IT GET THEM ALL TO STOP HUR DUR I AM INTELLIGENT”",
"\\> It's obvious that adults are a significant part of their target audience\n\nA part? Yes, Significant? No. they dont catch fish theyve already caught. \n\n\\> f they weren't, why so much nostalgia pandering? Why bother running E-sport tournaments if the games are aimed exclusively at <10 year olds?\n\nNostalgia Pandering insures that quality and gameplay wont effect sales. If youre buying pokemon because \"I remember Charizard\" then yes\n\nWhy run e-sports for over 10? because to exclude people from your product because of age would get major backlash. They are the minority, but why not let them play? You dont have to be the majority to get treated like everyone else. \n\n\n\\> lso I just skimmed through the clothes on the pokemoncenter website and the majority of what I found was in adult sizes, go figure.\n\nThat's right, I forgot that kids have the ability to shop online and use credit cards... go figure.",
"The latest post about that game in /r/Games is yet another textbook example of how brainwashed the backers are.",
"They've had roadmaps since 2014. And they've never stuck to or even honoured any of them.",
"ESO is one of my all time favorite MMOs, it's not perfect but it's imperfections are so miniscule. It's also one of the only MMOs that doesn't REQUIRE raids, and all while having a functional first person mode.",
"Dunkey's video seemed very sarcastic/comedic. I'm pretty sure he enjoyed the game overall.",
"Ah, clearly you MUST work in the industry too for you to have all these conclusive irrefutable facts about how the industry \"actually\" works. \n\nThe irony of lambasting someone for not knowing how the industry works while also yourself having no idea how it works. Typical Star Citizen fratbro.",
"I worked as an Analyst Programmer for years. During that time I didn't want to look at a computer when I got home. Working in the industry made me hate the thought of even touching a computer in my work downtime. Thankfully, I got out of that god forsaken shit hole industry and I can now enjoy computers again in my spare time(which I have a lot more of).",
"Only example people ever have is RDR2 and GTAV for what \"normal development time\" is. Only two examples and not even good ones considering how awful Rockstar has become. \n\nMost other games don't take nearly this long to get made, while having similar \"attention to detail\".",
"FO76 is good \"now\". It absolutely was not when it released, which is what this entire thread is talking about. \n\nExcusing a game because it finally got fixed months and months after release is a terrible counter argument.",
"Yep. I hate the constant argument of \"they will patch it, just be patient and stop whining.\"\n\nLike I guess fuck me for expecting the product I bought to actually function.",
"Still way too much money for what it offers. Remember when people pitched a fit when Oblivion horse armor was $10? Why is $20 for what amounts to one suit of armor suddenly ok?",
"After six years I have been checking out the appstore on my new phone and I gotta say...any better games on there would be wasted for the audience these markets seem to get (after they created them). Every single one of those games whales are defending their addiciton and I don´t even wanna argue with them cause its just sad to see because they seem to be angry with themselves for spending money so the last piece of dignity they keep for themselves is to either shout down or not listen to criticism if they are already not enjoying what they are doing, blaming the devs and still have to continue what they are doing.\n\n It boggles my mind how someone can write a sentence like \"Trying to write the devs won´t amount to anything because they are greedy af and ruining the game but there is always people like you coming in here trying to sour the game for others with crying about it. I enjoy playing that way so I will just kick you if you don´t drop your criticism\" \n\nLike how would I even try to argue with someone who contradicts themselves three times in one sentence who is both victim of the devs salesstrategy, ruining the game while supporting that strategy and hating themselves for feeling the cognitive bias it creates.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nAnd I don´t think its much different for PC...whether it be any of the EA practices or preorder sales or any of the points mentioned here. There is probably a whole masters degree worth of stuff in the gaming market that could just focus on how to screw that specific market over.",
"It's even more egregious when you consider that the Master Chief Collection lets you unlock literally every cosmetic through season points that you collect by simply playing the games. I have basically 75% of the cosmetics in the MCC and never spent a dime beyond the initial purchase of the Collection. \n\nWhy do I now need to spend $20 for one suit of armor and one color?",
"Hell, even Halo MCC operated this way, and the MCC is made and maintained by the same fucking company.",
"I had to get a new system after my main(old) gaming system was destroyed by a power spike. I got a 3060ti for it and the GPU alone cost more than the gaming rig I was replacing cost(indexed to inflation - yes I am anally retentive.)\n\nI mine on the card while not gaming and I get 77% of the full hashrate which makes it economically viable. I have to say if you are still running 1080p or 1440p this card kicks arse and its only $1300AUD(/s)",
"There's plenty of reviewers who won't tell you the game is in a trash state, or at the very least will completely under represent how bad it is because they're bought and paid for.",
"I'm currently getting 43.5avg on a 3060ti v1 with Hynix memory. I'm using the latest T-rex which ups the LHR % by 0.5 every 20 minutes or so. It also calculates the frequency of LHR detection and calculates if that detection is often enough to downstep the LHR % or whether or not it is acceptable.\n\nI am not downclocking the CPU at all and have +1000 on the RAM as it's hynix crap RAM.",
"vote with your wallet, gamers. they'll stop that shit when you stop accepting it.",
"I remember in middle school, Starcraft was cool. Starcraft 1. Then people did starcraft II, diablo 2 or 3, and world of warcraft. call of duty, modern warfare, elder scrolls, just everything, every single god damn thing, the same story.\n\nFor 20 fucking years, every major game that comes out on the xbox, playstation, and PC is like this. Gamers constantly bitching about it -- but still buying it. Stop it, ya dinguses! The \"[whales](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDrbgdf7UFE)\" are not powering this. You are. Boycott these companies en masse and force them to quit it. Stop supporting \"crunch,\" you fucking vultures.",
"The puzzle is a remaster of an older puzzle, you're expecting too much.",
"Plenty of modern aaa games come out completely fine and well made with all the parts, people just need to pay attention to reviews and whatnot beforehand and make educated purchases instead of blindly trusting brand names/etc.",
"Those two things have nothing to do with eachother and that wasn't an assertion I was making. They are at 400M now because they have roped so many whales into their funding scheme that has a whole area dedicated to those that have paid ~~TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS~~ TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS or more for digital dlc.\n\nThis shouldn't be praised. \nhttps://www.polygon.com/2018/5/30/17411226/star-citizen-legatus-pack-bundle\n\nhttps://support.robertsspaceindustries.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002542733-Concierge-Levels-and-Rewards",
"No hardware LHR on the 3090. Expect it to happen with future drivers though.",
"Makes you wonder if they even have project managers making sure their goals are met before moving on to the next stage. Looking at the results, it's one of the situation that all their employee are like \"it's good enough\" and they just handed in their work because the deadline is up while thinking that they'll just patch it in later. Too big to manage and everyone is too afraid, or don't care enough, to point out the obvious shoddy work.",
"You're not allowed to enjoy something other people don't! It's only love or hate, you can't like it but think it's got issues.",
"Except they get sponsored by the puzzle maker, so you can't possibly be certain if they aren't full of crap. Or you get the overly hype personality content creator who won't show you their true feelings about the puzzle, because hype and \"positive\" content is better for views and they can put their face on the thumbnail, looking like they've just seen a unicorn doing a kickflip while receiving a blowjob from their favourite pornstar. Also, red arrow in the thumbnail pointing at absolutely nothing of relevance and the title reads \"This POGGERS puzzle LITERALLY made me go INSANE, no clickbait!!!\n\nYes, I've become cynical as hell.",
"Agreed, it'll never happen.\n\nWhat you need to do is not so much stop giving these companies your money (I mean, you *can* still do that too) but rather *start* giving your money to smaller studios and games.\n\nI spend the majority of my time playing games that are often well-outside the AAA arena and I honestly couldn't think of doing otherwise. I do also play big budget games, but I end up finding that more than the problems mentioned in this video, they also end up feeling extremely formulaic and just don't \"do it\" for me like they used to.",
"I happened on his channel about a year ago and he never fails to make me chuckle.",
"Oh I missed that part. My bad",
"Are you asking gamers to show financial restraint and.....patience!?",
"Well, if you just went through all that and then immediately pre-ordered that guy's next puzzle.. wouldn't you feel just a little silly?",
"Dude village was sick as fuck and I'm so excited for pokemon but my wife won't let me buy it yet",
"I do it for games I absolutely know I will want to get on release date no matter the troubles, mostly cause I'm shit at money management so I can't trust myself to have $70 on any random given day in the future\n\nSo if I have to pay now to secure my elden ring to me the risk of there being bugs/broken shit is less important than my risk of not being able to play Elden Ring all day when it comes out",
"Are consumers *actually* truly surprised? The video game industry is ~~dead~~ irreversibly regressed. No new, revolutionary console/PC game will be produced again because producers literally do not provide content for artistic enjoyment anymore. The only games worth playing are the top rated ones of the **past** that had an explosive peak. A few exceptions only. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMake any claim for indie games you wish, but no games will break records like MW3 [please do not insult that reference, insert any of your favorite games that smashed global records here; e.g. SanAndreas] did or whatever other games were revolutionary.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdit: status of the industry",
"Oh my lanta he hit the nail on the head perfectly! Lmao",
"Lol",
"Speaking of Fallout 76, it sucks seeing how many people disregard any criticism of the game because \"it's good NOW!\" I paid $60 for the game on release. It should've been good *then*. On top of that, I feel like people just brush Bethesda's shitty business practices under the rug. They were even worse than the shit companies like EA pulls. Bethesda literally false advertised products and said they'd do nothing about it. Fuck Bethesda.\n\nUnfortunately I'm a fucking idiot, though, and will play Elder Scrolls 6 in 10 years when it's released.",
"It's definitely the worst Battlefield though, and by a large margin.",
"And that’s roughly the same logic Jimmy Page uses for “Why isn’t there a Led Zeppelin guitar hero?” He says “If you want to play guitar, go pick up a real guitar!” Alright then, go learn how to fucking act and stop watching movies.",
"this is what ive been saying forever, indie is the future of gaming",
"Same. \nI usually make myself sound like an old man, but back in my day we played Battlefield for hundreds of hours with basically no progression. It all focussed on playing the game and actually having fun.",
"[This one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nfbeK5LAl0) from early in the pandemic is my go to",
"I really enjoyed every battlefield game I've ever played though, and I think people really like to shit on battlefield 5 too. So much so they stopped supporting it very early.",
"Content reviewers don’t have million dollar marketing budgets",
"Don't buy AAA games and Don't buy reboot reimagine movie tickets",
"Because if it isn't banned the majority of posts will just be commercials.",
"Sadly, that would require a substantial, large scale team effort. The last 2 years showed me people aren't capable of that.\n\nThanks for trying, though.",
"It amazes me that certain game companies release the same game every year or two, yet they seem to completely rebuild the game each time, with the exact same bugs or issues that were present in a prior release.\n\nHow is the quality going backwards when it’s mostly a copy paste anyways?",
"Ryan George is TIGHT!",
"Oh, there he is now",
"Or if \"your friend\" made it.",
"Isn't this the same dude who does the movie script vids?",
"Ha, like they are gonna work on it. The thing is such a massive mess I don’t even know where they would start.",
"> not having to deal with crunch or sexual harassment\n\nGreed, crunch, and sexual harassment are all serious issues, but greed didn't cause the crunch & sexual harassment. The good ol' days of games being made by \"passionate people\" didn't have better HR departments or better workers'-rights advocacy. It just had less publicity.",
"For me personally: it’s not about hype, but if there’s a game coming out on steam that I plan to try anyways, I’ll usually preorder it if it has preorder bonuses or a preorder discount. I can still watch reviews as soon as it comes out and even play for up to 2 hours and then use that judgement to determine if I want to keep it or refund it.",
"Prime 1, 2 was playable. 3 was atrocious. You know what I meant. Prime 1 was the last truly perfect Metroid game.",
"I’m one of those dudes who got the definitive edition and still enjoyed it",
"Oh the puzzle is actually made for people with 10 fingers on each hand. Maybe your five finger hand can't solve the puzzle.\nFive finger hands are so last gen that they can't handle this masterpiece of a puzzle.",
"But so many people complain online about a shit game they bought. The same people who could have watched a review and waited a week after launch, but no they buy it then complain. The people your talking about who aren’t watching reviews aren’t making reviews either.",
"I discovered a new love for gaming once I accepted that I should just play single player games and wait until they're out for a year before buying them.",
"Labor gets better wages when it coordinates, the same is true for consumers. Quit buying such obvious traps or refund within two hours at least.",
"For me, the CP story, characters, writing, dialogue and pretty much anything narrative related, was 10X as impressive as anything in a FC game for me personally. \n\nIn FC6 I’m actually unsure if I’m doing key, narrative heavy story missions, or just busy work. There is very little distinction between the two, in my experience.\n\nAlso, an update a few weeks ago made it impossible for me to disable the wall hack glowing red outlines on enemies, making the game unplayable for me until it’s fixed. So it’s not even particularly stable.",
"I think you have me confused. I'm not Curt Hennig.",
"Selling unfinished trash to gullible fanboys is tight.",
"I agree. \n\nThe only time I’ll preorder a game is if I know that I’m going to 100% play it, regardless of the opinion of others. So games like Tlou2, Cyberpunk, Elden Ring. I don’t care if they get 2/10 across the board, I want to be there to experience it for myself. I want to be one of the first people on earth to sample these new experiences. \n\nThe other reason is money management, I might just preorder to bank the cash so I don’t have to worry about it 3 months later. Again, these are games I’m specifically wanting to experience out of the gate for personal reasons. \n\nMost games I’ll just wait for reviews and sales",
"You forget that Reddit users are stupid as hell too, but also elitist who think they know better than everyone.\n\nPeople on Reddit look for a reason to be miserable, games like anything aren't perfect but if you're looking to have a bad time it's not hard.\n\nI don't buy things I don't like, but I also don't talk down about people who buy things I am against. It's not your money so don't stress it, it doesn't affect you.\n\nAnd before anyone comes back with the dumbass comment of \"It does affect me because it affects how companies make games\" then that just means you don't like video games anymore, and you're just looking to have a bad time. If you hate video games go find something fun to do instead of bringing everyone else down.",
"Why though? That's exactly the infighting that the publishers would rather deflect the heat onto. \n\nWrite letters to your politicians to start creating laws on these issues. That's how you make a market as disastrous as games currently are, bettr.\n\nYou can do whatever you want but what will be more effective?",
"When the stock price goes down. They could care less about 0.5 review, until people start see the stock tank.",
"Well alright then. Lol",
"You ever hear the phrase \"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, same on me.\"? This is nothing new. Stop pre-ordering games and you'll stop getting tricked.",
"I learned my lesson after destiny 1-2 \n\nI really wanted to love those games the gunplay was top notch.\n\nBut it should not take 2 expansions for a game to reach it's full potential and become fun",
"I was thinking about it and tried the 10 hour Game Pass trial. Gave up on it after an hour and was pleasantly surprised when Halo Infinite was released. Been playing that instead.",
"* If you hate the puzzle so much, why did you buy it?\n* If you didn't buy the puzzle, what given you the right to complain?",
"Apparently people are too entitled for wanting a game they pay for to actually work properly.",
"How funny I was going to buy the game yesterday. Then seen the steam reviews which made my YT some reviews. Yea what a dumpster fire. Happy to save my money. \n\nWe all have been saying it for years. STOP PREORDERING! It's the only way to stop this shit.",
"Jimquisition still does the consumer advocacy thing. But people complain about him beating a dead horse. Looking at how bad the GTA trilogy and BF2042 are, I fail to see that the horse is dead. It's very much alive and affects the whole industry more than ever before.\n\nThe problem is that most people just don't care about anti-consumer behavior and they get angry when it's pointed out to them about their favorite game of the moment.",
"At a certain point, it's the government's of the world's fault for allowing this shit.\n\nBusinesses exist to make money regardless of morality, and that's one of the key principles of capitalism. You can't blame a corporation for doing what it is designed to do. \n\nUntil the awful, corrupt, GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED advertisement agencies of the world finally decide that ANYTHING even SLIGHTLY ambiguous is false advertising, this will continue.\n\nWith No Man's Sky, the UK'S Advertising Standards Agency decided that they were guilt free because NONE OF THE PRE-LAUNCH ADVERTISING counted because it wasn't on the game box. So I could literally make a trailer of the best game ever, spend YEARS showing you footage, screenshots, interviews where I talk up the features and next-gen graphics, only to deliver Pong and I would be crime-free.\n\nThey can even say \"Has this feature\" even though it doesn't, just as long as they put that little * in there. They can fucking LIE, so long as they tell you that they're lying... what the fuck sort of \"ethical\" advertisement agency that's run by the GOVERNMENT would allow that shit!?\n\nDid you know that Genuine Leather is a company called Genuine Leather? So when you see words that say \"Genuine Leather\", it *isn't* actual, *real* leather, and just the name of a company? And did you know that \"clinically proven\" basically means shit, because it takes place in THEIR clinics where they can kinda say anything, and that \"scientifically proven\" is the only one that counts? Seriously, this shit is rampant, and how the FUCK is EVERY PERSON on the planet supposed to know ALL of this shit!?\n\nOur governments are failing us. Each and every day.",
"I planned to buy Vanguard and Battlefield 2042 but I wanted to read a few threads after a day they were released and then read some others a week later to see what people thought about them. They tend to love them day 1, but the problems are all out within a week.\n\nI bought neither.",
"Even free to play is greedy. Sometimes even more so. Money ruins literally everything.",
"Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl\n\nReleased last friday.",
"Nailed it.",
"...I feel like I've seen this whole thread a few years ago back during the whole battlefront bs",
"It's an admittance either way....",
"Try going to steams early access reviews. \n\n\"It's not done but it has PoTeNtIaL.\"\n\nIt's darned everywhere, funnier when it's on a game that hasn't updated in 2 years.",
"You mean like how iD used to do on much older titles? Think they have up to Doom 3 Open Source or something.",
"Idky op shoehorned gta in the title. It has nothing to do with gta.",
"LoZ",
"I always rebuke with \"It doesn't take a chef to tell that the food tastes bad.\"",
"I haven't played it but I believe Squad is a lot like Hell Let Loose but in a modern setting. It's based on the Project: Reality mod for Battlefield 2.",
"I mean, sure, that works too.",
"So don't listen to dumb ass reviewers like that then.",
"Do don't listen to those types of reviewers",
"*Konami headquarters*\n\n“So, you have a video game for me today?”\n\n“Yes sir I do”\n\n“Why, we are a pachinko company, gtfo of here with that lol”\n\n*The End*",
"Aaah, nothing like the good ol' NES. Bought a cartridge, popped it in, and it just worked. 35 years later it still does.",
"Has he been emancipated from Gamerant yet?",
"It’s in alpha still?!?",
"Because why make a polished game when you can release something people will eat up no matter what. See CoD Vanguard and BF2042. \n\nBack in the day, if you came out with a shit game, the developer's name would get tossed around on message boards and negative word of mouth went a long way. Now gaming is so mainstream that you can put out trash and just because of the large market, you can profit even if only .0001% of gamers buy your shit game.",
"Deathloop just came out a bit ago and I would say it's a complete game.\n\nForza Horizon 5 is also really good.",
"Cdpr",
"When is someone making r/Ryangeorge?",
"Suffice to say, you know I'm right.",
"I had a pysch doc once who made some comments that seemed awfully outside his scope of expertise as they are not medical doctors and in my case was getting closer to surgery\\\\sports medish type stuff but just brushed it off as lets be real he probably knows something about injuries and shit he is in the medical field after all. \n\nTurns out the other week i finally actually read the card he gave me, hes not only a pysch doc but also an MD, and a surgeon. \n\nGuess he took the whole, why don't you fucking do it to a whole other level.",
"You bring up a good point. Square and konami have a long history of releasing very polished games.",
"In the case of GTA, there already was one and they threatened legal action to remove it before launching their own flaming pile of garbage. lol",
"Really, when? I was born in the mid-80s and rental games were always a thing as far back as I remember. I can't vouch for the pre-NES Atari days, but I'd be surprised it wasn't available.",
"It’s really easy to figure out whether a game you are interested is freemium or not. You are over-complicating this. If you buy games that are finished, well-reviewed, and don’t have in-game purchases, you’ll be fine. That’s what I’ve always done and I am never disappointed with the results.",
"Last game I preordered was Diablo 3.\n\nConcerning that compared to today's dumpster fires, I got a really good game.",
"I mean there are studios that consistently produce on what they advertise. They're just far and few between.",
"But you didn't trust reviews. You trusted early reviews. Day two after the game was released it was clear that it was a shitshow.",
"Ok, but how do we convince the masses?",
"my first and only preorder was Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, because you got Juggernaut as a playable character if you pre-ordered through GameStop.\n\ngame came out, I went to pick it up, and they told me, \"hey, the publisher let us know that they didn't have enough Juggernaut codes to give out to everyone that pre-ordered.\"\n\nlol, okay. lesson learned, I guess.",
"I think like a lot of nonsensical arguments it it did make sense at one point and then morons kept parroting it as some kind of gotcha.\n\nFor example people with ridiculous expectations or people with no understanding of what they're aggressively criticising.\n\nIt doesn't not apply to a non functional product in an industry of fairly functional products.",
"Never gonna happen. People will pay and get screwed over and over again, ad infinitum",
"If you can't trust yourself to have $70 to buy the game when you want it you aren't responsible enough to spend $70 on a game.",
"Ya ya ya",
"why don't YOU try developing a rebuttal, Mr. Perfect?",
"They can't and won't improve. Even if the 0.5% of players who actually care about their product decide not to pre order, you will have the 99.5% of little kids who saw the flashy trailer and asked their parents for the game, and people who just don't care about quality and just want to play something with a big name on it. Unless corporate overlords decide it's profitable to make good games again (which won't happen, like ever), this won't change and will only get worse.",
"This was made for Cyberpunk",
"I now have nothing to buy since all games have been tailored to the stupid people. I mean I understand why they do it, it's apparently much harder to make a good game than it is to make a game that stupid people will pay, but it means that in my lifetime we've gone from having a plethora of great games come out every year to an incredibly small trickle, and all of them from small studios.",
"This right here should be the real crime",
"> absolutely no reason to buy any game day 1. Zero. None.\n\nNot entirely true, but I get your point.",
"Every year or so there'll be some good new indie game, but it's very rare. The AAA scene is a wasteland, every single game is either FPS or 3rd person action/adventure with open world elements. It's so ridiculous how boring the games industry has become.",
"Psychiatry is a speciality of medicine. They are medical doctors.",
"I've yet to meet an engineer that's seen AGILE implemented properly and used in such a way that they like it. It is much more a funny catch-phrase these days where when things fuck up we just go, \"Hey at least we're AGILE!\" Honestly at this point I couldn't tell you what AGILE is anymore, it's been so butchered by management to become just a catch-phrase that sounds like you're flexible.\n\nTo me it's like 'scrums', those came up as something and had a purpose but these days I see 'scrum' used interchangeably with 'meeting'. My PM will go, \"Lets have a scrum tomorrow!\" and it's just some meeting talking through hardware shipments for a project.",
"All this wasted time and effort when all you need to do is stop being a dipshit and buying dumb crap.",
"Not to mention Timmy has pretty much played games bought for him and doesn’t fully understand what games used to be like and should be like so he never complains",
"Nintendo rarely releases buggy messes. Their real problem recently is that they're relying too much on ports and remasters of old games with minimal improvements and charging full price for them. Though to their credit they're at least functional...\n\nThe N64 games on Switch though, those fit right in qith the video.",
"\"I'm actually enjoying the puzzle\"",
"Wow wow wow wow, WOW",
"I have the easiest solution to these situations. I don’t buy games until they’ve been out at least a couples days to a week after release. EVER. The only exception I made was FF7 remake and I got lucky.",
"I'm still traumatized from dayz fanboys. That was the first time I saw a game so utterly broken. I genuinely was confused. It was soooo popular, I literally could not have imagined it could be so bad.",
"The core gameplay loop? Of trying and then dying and trying again? Or like, are you trying to say that Angband and Hades have the same gameplay? I don't understand your point, like at all.",
"Tragedy of the commons.",
"> The video game industry is dead\n\nWouldn't say dead. Just really lazy, because they know that people are going to buy anyways.",
"I thought they were separate from the get go and were not doctors before they split, guess ive just never looked at their cards to see the MD.",
"u/DRUNKKZ3\n u/T0TALfps\n\nthere's a video about you guys!",
"This is a [9 year old Gmod video](https://youtu.be/e-LE0ycgkBQ) about the same issue, it's sad to think how little have things changed ever since.",
"You're choosing to read disdain and dismissiveness into what I said. The reality is our purchasing choices are all we have as individuals.",
"I dont feel like GTA did this to me but many other games have.\n\nSTOP PREORDERING GAMES!!!",
"if you have a PC, look into either Squad or Hell Let Loose",
"I haven’t bought an EA game since 2006. 🤷🏻♂️",
"Why do people keep parroting this tired rhetoric? News flash, these games aren't broken because the graphics. Please educate yourself about the topic before regurgitating nonsense.",
"Ahhh… RIP TotalBiscuit",
"all of their IP seemed to have peaked at either the n64 or gamecube era",
"big oof\n\nwhat's this from",
"Pre order bonuses should be illegal. That would solve a lot of issues with people buying because of fear of missing out on stuff.",
"At first they got their early cash-in with pre-purchasing. Then, when pre-purchasing started falling out of fashion due to both boycotts and online shops, they switched to “releasing” their games half a year before they were actually done. Basically like pre-purchasing, except you get early access, and lied to.",
"The only difference is that plenty of people would believe everything this guy is trying to bullshit them about the game and would excitedly wait for them to \"fix\" the game and jump at the chance to buy more of it because \"Its good now\".",
"But I liked some parts of the game, why are you so against me having fun? Why do you think you can dictate the way I have fun with? I am only going to focus on you attacking my enjoyment of the game because I think your just a contrarian hater who wants to ruin peoples fun and not aknowlege any of the awful things Im supporting with my money.",
"No one cares.\n\nThey even preorder Cyberpunk shitshow.",
"But how will I enjoy the game if I dont buy it right away?",
"OHH not buying unfinished games is TIGHT!!",
"He's our national treasure here in Quebec!",
"They dont focus on the comapnies fucking them over or trying to sell them a shitty product. They pick it apart, look at the couple of things they like about it and decide \"Yep money wall spent, cant believe all those haters out there are wasting their time shitting on such a fun game.\" The indsutry thrives on these people not thinking beyond that or some of them not even knowing why some of the things people complain about are bad. The community needs to be more informed if we are going to fight this thing without the help of some third party imposing regulatations and restrictions on companies and videos like this are perfect for that.",
"The release dates are correct, them trying to \"fix\" their product after people didnt just eat up whatever is put infront of them is going to drag out long after the game is out.",
"I preordered Anthem and literally only played the 10 hours from the early access and haven’t touched it since. Then came cyberpunk with have around 2-3 hrs of gameplay and haven’t opened it since. Cyberpunk was a trust buy since you know like everyone else I played witcher 3 so the Apple shouldn’t land far from the tree or so I thought. I’m 100% never buying a game until at least a couple of months pass.",
"Honestly, that sounds like it would be great for me. I'm on the computer entirely too much in my free time.",
"\\> \"Companies wouldn't make any sales until something showed up on shelves.\"\n\nwhy would that be a bad thing?",
"You are just NOT getting this guy's point. He's saying that, if other people didn't encourage the creation of freemium bullshit by buying into them over and over, then his gaming library/ palette would be broadened. There would be more solid games because those studios dedicating time and resources to freemium bullshit would instead dedicate that time and those resources into making a fun game that sells because it's FUN. But because so many people encourage studios, with their money, to pump out mindless lite-gambling games, those studios are busy making games that cater to the freemium crowd. This in turn causes other developers to want a slice of the pie, and you end up in our current clusterfuck of a freemium hellscape and many franchises literally being ruined because of the widespread adoption of these mechanics/ design choices.\n\nAgain, other people's decisions affect you. That's the whole idea with \"vote with your wallet.\" Right now, the people that are okay with shitty gambling mechanics and buggy releases are out-voting the people that won't deal with that.",
"We have not nailed game play, were still experimenting with it.",
"\"It should have not been a triangle right away\"\n\n\"we value that feedback\"\n\nOw that hurts😥",
"The puzzle wasn't designed for players like you. Some people like puzzles like that",
"> It’s really easy to figure out whether a game you are interested is freemium or not.\n\n\\*woosh\\*",
"Might as well just chuck money at kickstarter games instead. Take me back to a time when games at full price were also a complete game and that expansion packs can be considered standalone mini games with actual new content and not some \"new features\" that wasn't finished to be part of the base game.\n\nLet's go back and sail the high seas, though tbh some of these games are so broken it's not even worth pirating. Fuck not just giving these greedy bastards money, add salt to the wound.",
"Glad I didn't listen to my friend lol",
"BUT ITS JUST A REMASTER /s",
"[Guns Akimbo.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_Akimbo) It’s a small part of the monologue where the protagonist describes himself.\n\nThe movie is nonsensical fun. If you like violence, decent soundtracks, and paper thin plots, it may be your thing. FWIW, I love it.",
"**[Guns Akimbo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_Akimbo)** \n \n >Guns Akimbo is a 2019 action comedy film written and directed by Jason Lei Howden. It stars Daniel Radcliffe, Samara Weaving, Ned Dennehy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Grant Bowler, Edwin Wright, Rhys Darby, Milo Cawthorne, Richard Knowles, and Mark Rowley. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2019 and was released in New Zealand on 5 March 2020 by Madman Entertainment. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic closing theaters across the globe, the film became available digitally on-demand less than three weeks after it was released theatrically, and earned only $1 million at the box office with a $15 million production budget.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)",
"I’ve been working in startups and tech for 15 years IRL. Follow your gut. If it feels like they’re trying to sell you or it’s too good to be true, don’t drink the Google juice. My favorite jobs are the ones where the team is small and the product is stable and already successful.",
"Oh, apparently I **wasn't** having fun playing all those games 1+ years after release. Thanks for letting me know!",
"Except that preordering is unironically bad because it encourages shit like this",
"As a developer, it definitely makes sense. I'm not saying what the industry as whole is doing is right by any means, it's actually incredibly awful what they do to the workers and the ways they extract capital from their audience, but... Making a game is hard. Some dickhead in marketing promised a release, not the developer, and it's not the developers fault that the game is difficult to create. People getting sweaty over release dates that were announced doesn't help, and they don't understand the work that goes into it.",
"I only played the \"beta/demo\" but it's horrendous.",
"Don't all platforms offer refunds these days?",
"Products would get rushed out in even worse shape. Preorders arent the problem. It would be a non solution. Preorders haven't always existed and unfinished games released before they were a thing. Blaming preorders completely ignores the real people at fault, the publishers, and deflects the blame onto the gamers themselves. \n\nA real solution would be to write to your politicians and talk about regulating video game publishers and making themore accountable to laws.",
"Why GTA?",
"Cant say I’m upset with gta though. They kept that game alive and current forever. I would have been happier with gta 6 about 4 years ago though",
"Playing GTA San Andreas DE, I feel like at times they barely put any effort into it.",
"Not exaggerating things are tight!",
"I’m playing Hades at this moment. It’s ok. I just beat Control and that shit was my jam. Had all the things.",
"Or I'll just do it lol",
"Was reading a post about 2042…\n\nupvoted comments basically blaming consumers.\n\nJust… what? “you knew what you were buying”\n\nexcuse me but during the beta those same people were screaming about how its just a beta and its not the finished product and not judging a game before its released and blah blah blah blah blah.\n\nAnd now its “if you don’t like it its your fault for buying it”\n\nHoly crap what?",
"commas, you seek commas",
"It’s missing «Do you know how hard it is to make a puzzle ?» as if it had never been done before.",
"Rather watch Guardians of the Galaxy for even better story and graphics then go play a game with actual gameplay then some licensed pieces of crap with pretty pixels.",
"In some settings the difficulty of making a puzzle is a good argument. Like with the removing of features between games that is stated in press releases and interviews that most people didn’t even care about. Cough cough national dex pokemon. But games that are filled with bugs at launch or lie to you, that argument is stupid",
"Pre loading and «not wanting to miss the initial hype» are usually the explanations I read. The first I can understand as someone who knows how bad slow internet is but the second one I don’t understand.",
"I😎😎😎 rarely play multiplayer games anyways, especially not competitive ones. The multiplayer I play is mostly co-op stuff with my friends. We're all too old and decrepit to put up a fair fight in most MP games now, so we'd rather just work together and have a good time. And yeah, all the multiplayer games these days don't seem that appealing. The only one that's caught my eye recently is Halo Infinite, and that's free.",
"Exactly what I have been feeling",
"\"Did you say Starbucks?\"",
"When the ps2 was the console of choice i found one reviewer who had the same opinions as I did about multiple games and loved the same ones I did. I would always wait for their reviews and would base my buying decisions after reading the reviews they did. Anytime I listened to the type of the larger magazines I was usually let down. If you can find someone with your own tastes that's the best way to make those buying decisions.",
"Aaaaand back down the Ryan George rabbit hole I go.",
"Well this just sounds like you have no idea what great games are released each year. Stop lookin' purely in the AAA space.",
"Oh my I remember this, I didn't play the game at the time but I was so dumbfounded when I saw that DLC for sale on the steam store! I tought that maybe ARK had been released by then but of course when I checked the game was still early access. Ridiculous.",
"I have a ps4 and a switch, and honestly, I have zero desire to buy a new console, because of the state of the industry. Sure there's still good games, I know that, but it's just not worth it right now. The only one I'd even consider right now would be Xbox because of gamepass, but I wouldn't do that because I'd just buy a pc instead since gamepass is on that too. (hell, you can play gamepass on your phone with nothing but an Xbox controller and a good wifi connection).",
"The only thing I will say specifically about New World is until like level 30 or 40 none of the big problems with the game really exist. \n\nSo most of those people are low level going \"what is everyone complaining about this game is great\"",
"I hate Nintendo, but they make good games.",
"Indie games are the way. They are cheaper, made by people who really care about the game, theres usually tons of attention to detail, and most indie developers have great communication with their fans.",
"I never expected to see Ryan George on Reddit, but I’m very happy I did. He’s great",
"You don’t. The dipshit gamers just make excuses for preordering like they always do.",
"20 years is a bit of an exaggeration. \n\n20 years ago (That’s 2001. Beepers were still a thing.), physical discs were still the primary source for games. \n\nDigital copies are still a *relatively* recent adoption, especially within the context of consoles. It really took digital storage to catch up to make the downloadable games appealing to mass consumers.",
"The waiting game is where it's at",
"🤯",
"The definitive edition had a review embargo. Reviewers weren't allowed to talk about the problems. I did the due diligence of waiting for reviews and I almost bought the game until I saw Reddit posts showing all the fuck ups and bugs. I can definitely see someone who doesn't use reddit checking the reviews, seeing them being general positive, and going to buy it.",
"There's more them than us.",
"And the reason management is doing that is because they are legally required to maximize profit. So yet again, the real issue is capitalism as a whole",
"Woosh? Is that how you respond when faced with an argument you have no rebuttal to?",
"100%, I had 1k hours in ARK when this happened and it was the main reason I never went back. I couldn’t believe they were releasing DLC for an early access title, and refused to partake.",
"I’ve grown up playing video games, started with a Nintendo 64, things only got better and better as consoles got powerful. But over the last several years there has been a shift and it’s fucking sad to see what gaming has become and how hard these publishers mill us all for money now.\n\nI lived through the oblivion horse armour controversy. Oh man if we only knew what was to come and what gamers would be putting up with and accepting a decade later.",
"Holy shit. That's a long list.",
"I'm too scared to say it, but I can't afford a new hard drive to make a clean update to Windows 10 - so I missed out on launch week and never played and have been real bummed out about it all, so the fact that 2042 is almost unplayable right now makes me very happy. I'm sorry :(",
"this video is so accurate that it's tilting.",
"Blame the tweener's moms who keep buying the games for Xmas",
"No it isn't. Companies willfully adopt lazy business practices. They aren't being forced to, they are deciding to.",
"If preorders ended you'd just call them bad releases since they'd still happen and since preorders never caused them..you're missing this key point. \n\nWanna know the real reason why TB and other YouTube game reviewers hate preorders so much? If you buy it before you hear their take, their opinion is less valuable to you. They want you to wait to hear their take so it's in their best interest to make sure you believe preorders cause all the problems. Publishers and stores don't rush to correct them since gamers blame each other instead of those who are directly profiting off bad software releases. \n\nIt likely has never occurred to you that Valve may share responsibility here, since though they take 30% of the sale.",
"I've been a lifelong gamer and proudly never preordered a game ever",
"Yes. Not entirely because of bugs or fixable issues either. The core of the game is shit. They are going after the hero shooter market and sidelining the Battlefield market into a separate mode.",
"If it's not restricted, then spammers overwhelm subreddits with advertising and come-ons. It suffocates genuine people trying to generate discussion or share content they actually care about.",
"A even better depiction is how other companies (who am I kidding? Sometimes the same company will do it again) will pull the same trick 6 months later and the gamers will be totally happy to pre-order the game, even though they know there's a very chance it will come incomplete one more time.",
"They have “raised” $400M as of today.",
"I feel personally attacked as someone who had preordered CP2077",
"Keep buying the puzzles, everyone. That'll teach 'em",
"I think it’s a shift of target market that causes it. Games that target towards more “hardcore” audience like squad has no progression but still is successful. While battlefield becomes more casual focus.\n\nIMO many progression system is a “cheap” way to artificially prolong the playtime of a player. Content locked behind levels, battle pass, etc. Especially true on a multiplayer focused game.",
"Its better then no puzzle\n\nFucking industry is shit",
"Man, I feel you. Asked me friend what guns each classes had, all he said was “what classes?” All I needed to hear was that.",
"Rushed puzzles are tight! Developing a puzzle is super easy, barely an inconvenience!",
"And Sony is protecting sketchy business practices like this by not allowing refund. It would be different story if Rockstar know they could lose all their sale by the next day.",
"For me its the twilight saga, by 4th movie the producer guy just giving up and asking \"what are we doing here\" is freaking comedic genius.",
"Dismissing a game even though it's been fixed is drinking the Haterade.\n\nWhy pretend the reality of the situation hasn't changed? The state you are talking about doesn't even exist anymore. The game is very much finished.",
"I enjoy this guy. He keeps popping up and I'm glad he's seen success.",
"The thing that bothers me is the community one was obviously better and that means Rockstar had to have known their product wasn't good enough but went ahead anyway and went all legal to protect their piece of garbage.\n\nI know it's a business and making money is their main goal but what they did here is really shows they don't care about the people who give them money anymore. People are paying Rockstar to shit on their desk.",
"Yeahyeahyeah",
"Yes",
"Can you download games with PSNow or is it streaming only? Ive had gamepass for a while and find it to be the best value option in gaming but my heart is really with the PS if they offer a similar option.",
"It’s worth it",
"Kinda like rain on your wedding day, amiright?",
"FromSoftware",
"Where can I get that unfinished Montreal puzzle?",
"Yeah that's cute and all, but they are spending lot of money trying to avoid building EV cars.\n\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/nov/04/us-oil-giants-top-list-lobby-offenders-exxonmobile-chevron-toyota",
"I was replying to a comment about AAA games - which was a reply to someone saying \"no major studios can make a well made, polished and complete game anymore.\" \n\nMy comment was mostly in regards to the AAA game space, because that was the topic of the thread, so I was concurring that since 2014 this was also my strategy:\n\n> You have two optons nowadays:\n\n> * Give up on \"\"\"\"\"next gen\"\"\"\" games and only play indie games.\n> * Wait at least a year or two before considering the AAA games.\n\nWhat are you talking about?",
"> left me without a functioning left arm.”\n\nSo you’re alright?",
"God I hate fanboys, regardless of whatever they're a fanboy of. Such blithering, mindless retards who sold their soul to a company/base their own personal honor on a product. It's just pathetic.",
"Oh, and let's not forget the classic \"I didn't see any of the problems you are seeing, are you sure it is not just you?\" Classic gaslighting.",
"In my case (Argentina) the peso is so weak that by the time the game released it actually has a ~50% increase in price\n\nI bought bf2042 for 3400 AR$ then a week later it was 5000. Obviously I refunded a week ago after seeing the state of the game",
"The ironic thing is that if you are late to a new release you have to use the internet so cautiously to not get stuff spoiled if you spend time in gaming communities or if youtube's algo knows you like or play new games... some youtube videos have spoilers in their thumbnail/title on day 1 lol",
"It is almost as if they are a corporation. Seriously, stop buying games from corporations. A corporations number 1 concern is making sure investors see a return on their investments. In fact, they are legally obligated to do everything they can to ensure profits for their investors. \n\nFor instance, if I was to take control of a corporation and make the number 1 priority making new games that are good for the consumer, but not necessarily profitable, I could find myself in prison over it.",
"Not to mention that you can't expect a single person with no money and an unrelated full time job to make something of the same scale as a massive publisher-funded development team of people all working full time on a game.",
"If it were that simple, PhDs in marketing wouldn't exist.\n\nGame makers know exactly how to push the consumer's buttons to get more sales. And for the average consumer, they are defenseless against the aggressive marketing.\n\nIt would be nice if gamers could all get together and punish makers for all the bs, but it isn't going to happen. Star Citizen is a good example of how much abuse gamers are willing to take.",
"Didn’t they release the source by mistake?",
"I get why it was a thing in the past. It wasn't that long ago that not pre-ordering your game meant that the store could run out before you got there. I remember one birthday, all I wanted was this one game coming out the same day as my birthday. My mom went to every store in town and they were all out. She had to drive hours out to the city and comb store after store to finally find ONE that had a few copies left.\n\nBut not only is that almost never a concern now, most people just download games instead of buying a physical copy. Pre-orders are a weird relic.",
"how do safe words work with pokemon?",
"I feel like you're either lying or people are downvoting you for entirely different reasons.",
"No way to know that on launch day. Much safer to wait a month or so until the hype dies down and the genuine takes start to float to the surface. \n\n2 years if you also want to save a few bucks on the box price and get the DLC packed in to boot. An excellent way to go if you've limited free time and budget for gaming.",
"The internet also means there's no middle men holding the key to the market the way the toy stores of yore did. The market today is decentralised and multifaceted.",
"I feel like if you had read those reviews more carefully instead of quickly checking the score you would have seen all the red flags. Weren’t the reviewers only allowed really controlled conditions? The game is very fun on a powerful machine: just not as good as promised 😒",
"I agree legislation that provides stronger unionization and fairer work environments would be the ideal thing to do but they can open new studios overseas and develop there if it's cheaper. More importantly though the people in Congress in the US are barely able to understand how Facebook makes a profit when it's free, so I'm not sure I want them touching video games with a 40 foot pole right now.",
"I think if the intentions were to actually make the product an acceptable level through community feedback this is fine. Or if your goal is to add and improve the product. However blatantly putting out a product that’s crap and only making it market acceptable that’s a bad practice.",
"another retro 2D side-scroller? No thanks",
"Format of this video, w the rapid, repetitive, exchanges, is grating and tedious.",
"What's wrong with it?",
"How else will youtubers get lots of view if not by PUTTING IMPORTANT PLOTPOINTS IN ALL CAPS AS THE TITTLE and sotimes not even cutting out a character to put next to their moronic face and just a screenshot of the ending.",
"Dunno if you were looking for recommendations but when you say immersive 3D tourism experiences you made me think of [Outer Wilds](https://store.steampowered.com/app/753640/Outer_Wilds/) (Not the obsidian one.)\n\nSpace game all about flying around exploring a dying system and solving the big mystery. Doesn't align with the combat focused games in your list, but it's rill gud.",
"Your problem is you expect that the people who use this argument to be able to follow logic that complex.",
"All the hard work in the world doesn't stop a bad game from being bad.",
"But... But what if this time it's different than the last time? 🥺",
">You only have yourself to blame for buying these games\n\nInstead of blaming consumers who might not know those companies are peddling unfinished products, why not, I don't know, blame the companies?\n\nWhat is common knowledge to you, might not be common to a casual player - or the parent/friend/lover/neighbor/dog who buys it for the gamer in their life.",
"\"Why would you sell me this if it's not finished?\"\n\nBecause you're a sucker, and the company has your money now.\n\nThese game companies are shitty, but if you're foolish enough to drop your money on a game on day one, you deserve what you get. If this were the first, second, third time this has happened with a AAA studio and a hyped game, I'd get it. But it's the 1,000th. A fool and his money are soon parted.",
"> These publishers are too stupid to let their watermelons grow; they are content to pull the seeds out of the ground.\n\nWhat makes you say that? Consumers are running to the stores to throw cash away for unfinished games - what's the publisher's motivation to make a great product? They're getting rich for half-assing it.",
"And there were no review copies for ps4, and lots of reviewers mentioned that and said it was dodgy AF. Also there'd been a lot of leaks showcasing the game being a complete shitshow on ps4.\n\nBasically all the reviews were from the standpoint of playing on a high end PC with few technical issues, under which circumstances 9/10 is a reasonable score for the game.",
"A fool and their money is soon parted. But yes this is pretty fucking pathetic.",
"Why don’t you try developing a rebuttal, Mr Perfect?",
"Hurdurr let's pre-order this game it looks so cool man",
"Blizzard: “I feel personally attacked”",
"I feel this and it hurts as much has I would expect it would.",
"Watching his videos is TIGHT!",
">then read the steam reviews and didn't.\n\nand [Epic has been trying to suppress user reviews to coax publishers to sell their game through them instead](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-01-16-epic-games-stores-avoids-review-bombing-with-opencritic-integration), ayy lmao",
"It's great fun but buggy atm",
"Even movies are getting post release patches like Cats lol",
"\"I'd love to, give me $100 million and I'll get started right away!\"",
"A Psychiatrist is a medical doctor who also specializes in Psychology and can prescribe drugs. A Psychologist is a medical professional who specializes *exclusively* in psychology and can provide therapy, but cannot prescribe drugs. Psychologists are \"real\" doctors in that they can legally put \"Dr\" before their name, as can a Doctor of Physics or Biology, but they're not medical doctors and don't have an M.D. \n \nIts important to know the difference if you're looking for one or the other, some people will complain that they're not getting the help they need when going to a Psychologist for a condition that could really benefit from medication, or \"They just wanted to prescribe me pills\" when going to a psychiatrist when that's generally the reason you go to a Psychiatrist. \n \nA *good* Psychologist will refer you to a Psychiatrist if they're not suitable for your condition and vice-versa... but not always. So its important to know what you're looking for.",
"Quite often they tempt people with preorder bonuses \n\nIsn’t usually enough to tempt me personally but I know people who can’t resist. Thinking they’ll miss out forever on some shitty items",
"I'm having a lot of fun with the broken nonsolvable puzzle",
"That’s blatant false equivalence. Your performance problems were caused by your weak hardware being unable to run the game. Cyberpunks problems were various software issues that afflicted the game even when being ran on machines that had no issue running the game. They aren’t the same.",
"In the case of music subs, because there are 5000 people a day who want to post their 'fire beats', don't interact with the community in any other way, and 4999 of them are total garbage, turning the sub into a cesspool.",
"It's the same kinds people who think you can't critique or criticize something unless you're good at it",
"My answer would be I’m busy working one of the other million jobs required for a society in which they can make video games in.",
"Honestly, what other show changed course from the best to the worst so quickly?\n\nI'm going to have to actually read the books huh? maybe I'll wait until the last one is out first =D",
"Ok but how is this GTA? All GTA games were pretty well done and finished on release",
"You’ll never read the book then",
"PlayStation doesn't.",
"feelsbadman",
"This video was made right after Cyberpunk launched so it's mostly making fun of Cyberpunk. And yet here we are again.\n\nAnd btw, when Cyberpunk launched people said that it won't be the last time people keep buying garbage, and here we are.",
"Yes. You kept your money and the developers got nothing from you, and you weren't disappointed from a bad game.",
"Why gta? More like early access games",
"yeah release date of the video of December 15, 2020 makes it entirely about Cyberpunnk 2077 but OP wants to make it about GTA to get that karma. \n\nThis is going to keep getting reposted every single time a developer makes an unpolished turd of a game.",
"Yep",
"Not for Cyberpunk 2077 (what this video was aimed at). Developers released like 3 quality of life patches with 0 new content within a year and said that we're not getting anything for another year, despite promising DLC and stuff earlier.",
"Yeah yeah yeah.",
"You want your puzzle not to have broken pieces? My god the entitlement of todays puzzle players. I enjoyed the puzzle!",
"I gave up and dipped out several years back. It is simply too much money when it approaches car part level expenses. I just bought more games, graphics cards doubled in price for the same model in the range...It just became frustrating playing catch up every several years when everything I bought was literally worthless. It was the sum of it all and in the end for companies that just became greedy or way past their capacity to actually meet basic goals. There are other communities and ways around this I know but it did led me to take the break that has never ended.",
"The classic",
"Well you now have businesses pitted against consumers, unless someone steps in with a new mass market card this cycle continues.",
"Well, no fucking shit....",
"Onlyfans is okay. But try and promote something non-sexual or not part of the hivemind and say goodbye.",
"someone send this to the rockstar ceo",
"You usually get something on top of it like 10% discount, aditional content or the first DLC for free.",
"BF5 subreddit:\n\n> Why are people so negative???\n\n> This game is perfect we just need more skins available to buy!\n\n> DICE could you please fix these 10 game-breaking bugs a year after launch?",
"This is why I moved back to Pirating games.",
"Battlefields used to stand out we all know that right? They used to be something really special no?? Up till BF4 they had great ambition. It’s all gone in mediocrity.",
"What am I missing here? \n\nI’ve been playing GTA:SA for a few days now and I think it’s great. \n\nI’m not sure if people expecting GTAV levels of graphics or something, but I think Rockstar did a good job with it. \n\nIf you want to see an utter botch job of a remake, have a look at how badly Bethesda fucked up Skyrim. It’s literally unplayable and they’re not patching it until they have a large patch that deals with a ton of other issues. Crazy.",
"> I'm shit at money management \n\n> pay now ... is less important than my risk of not being able to play Elden Ring all day when it comes out\n\nAnd you don't think these things are somehow related? 🤔",
"Modern *western AAA* gaming*",
"* some people like puzzles like this, not everything has to be made for you\n* well this other recent puzzle is worse so it's okay for this to be bad\n* it takes more resources to make good puzzles these days\n* the puzzle may be unfinished and a mess but the box art is nice so it balances out\n* the puzzle looks great on my table, maybe try another table before bashing the puzzle?\n* it's not for people who complete puzzles 24/7, go outside for once\n* but this company has made quality puzzles before??! you don't like previous puzzles from the company?!!\n* I don't care about the quality, completing a puzzle, any puzzle, activates a memory of that time I completed my first puzzle and I will do anything for that dopamine hit no I'm not addicted you're addicted\n* this puzzle company was my childhood and I will crucify anyone daring to say they don't produce quality puzzles anymore and haven't in 10 years",
"Years/decades same thing!",
"This man is a legend 🤣😂",
"Everyone knows the quality of the game is directly related to the ratio of PogChamp over ResidentSleeper in Twitch chat during the trailer",
"No need to rent. Our library had a decent stock of games.",
"He summarized the pandemic in its entirety for me.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nfbeK5LAl0",
"Fr tho. The Risitas meme about the piss poor dev response and handling of the game is 12 hours old with 5.3k points and over 100 awards.\n\nThey know.",
"It should be considered fraud",
"I remember when Diablo 3 released, and I wanted to play it single player, but the servers were full and I couldn’t log in for 3 days. \n\nI expressed my frustration on Reddit and people slammed me for being entitled.",
"Thats my rdr2 experience. No creativity in gameplay at all.",
"I feel like massive pre-ordering is part of the problem. People keep ordering shit that hasn't even been finished yet and it just removes incentive from the company to properly finish a game because they already got your money anyway. They then use the money to sell you broken DLC's instead of finishing their game, because they gotta keep the money rolling.\n\nAnother problem is probably the influencers who take money to promote and sugarcoat broken and unfinished games to sort of justify it's crappy state to the public, as if it's ok for a company to not deliver what they promise.\n\nGame development is in a horrible place, can't play any new release without facing six million bugs and glitches out there.",
"The fact that all these DLC's were massively bought makes it worse.",
"\"game A had flaws therefore game B is not shit\".\n\nCool logic.",
"It's because they are stupid.",
"At least early access is transparent about it not being a complete game. It can also be beneficial to the developers. \n\nTake astroneer for example, I bought that years ago n was able to follow its evolution. The games dinamics changed multiple times and the devs listened to its players. \n\nIt’s when you get the developers who hype you a game, advertise it as the next best thing and then it turns out that the game is fucked. Example, cyberpunk.",
"Question, I dont play GTA, but I was under the impression that GTA 5 was a huge hit, and good from the start. Was I wrong?",
"No man's sky really made good on thing eventually. Started playing it again recently and it's like a different game.",
"Pre-order deals commonly have a reduced price or some other bonus, like beta-access or in-game shit.",
"Well, GTA 5 was a masterpiece in 2013",
"In a pandemic world where everyone suddenly became a phd doctor or some shit, this argument shouldn't surprise anyone anymore. Duning Kruger effect is real.\nHonestly, there is truth in there and the argument works both ways. We're complaining about unfinished and uncompleted games, but wtf do we know about actually developing them?\nAll I know is that I don't enjoy ganes that aren't finished unless their recycled content is sprinkled with really good gameplay mechanics which makes the game enjoyable enough.\n\nTake Halo Infinite MP for example. The game is almost as barebone as it can be, but the gameplay is so well done that I will enjoy this for a long while. Plus it's free, that's nuts. Halo Infinite is a breath of fresh air in the nonstop shitty releases of overhyped games.",
"God I hate to defend Nintendo. But you would only think this if you’ve never played Breath of the Wild, SMO, MK8, Metroid Dread… \n\nAnd never check sales numbers.",
"It's been a while since I watched it. Havent really had movies come out for quite a while. I think thr last one I saw was for infinity war.",
"SWIM doesn't just do a bunch of drugs they also promote my art",
"Yo ho ahoy",
"I think this is more to do with Cyberpunk",
"Yeah I agree. Didn’t see much wrong with it tbf. Even if it was released now, would be still pretty good.",
"I remember someone saying. I can't fly a helicopter, but i know somethings wrong when it's stuck in a tree.",
"Not many people seem to know the story behind this:\n\nThe founding developers who started Ark came from the same studio where they worked together. During early access Ark went viral, and they made made millions!...\n\nOnly to have their previous employer [hit them with a non-compete lawsuit](https://www.polygon.com/2016/4/16/11443486/ark-survival-evolved-lawsuit-trendy-wildcard-stieglitz-noncompete) for something like $600 million! Which they had to settle out of court.\n\nSo now the game is still in early access, but the studio just got financially nuked. They start selling DLC to stay afloat, and become known as the worst offenders of early access greed.",
"Nintendo does on 1 or 2 games. Then it says f you",
"Pkmn puzzles from 20 years ago are way more challenging than those in the latest games.\nGames got to easy, even for 'casuals'",
"> No way to know that on launch day.\n\nYes there is. Review copies are always given out before launch and game reviewers are pretty ruthless. There isn't really any games that misalign from the reviewer audience scores to general public scores.\n\nWait until reviews are out and then buy. Just don't pre-order months in advance without any indication of completeness.\n\nI agree it's beneficial for your wallet to wait, but that's not what we're talking about.",
"You can download most of the bigger game files, but some of the smaller ones are only streaming. I haven't had any issues with either option so far.",
"> and game reviewers are pretty ruthless.\n\nDidn't work for Cyberpunk.\n\nDoesn't work if you dont have a reviewer who you trust and know their taste matches yours well. And they get a review copy/aren't blacklisted for talking their mind.\n\nHype on launch day can hide alot of crap.",
"if sales numbers meant anything the best game in the world would be madden or fifa",
"I'm not an avid gamer anymore. I don't recall which reviews I read but there were enough of them to give the impression that there was no reason to worry. That CDPR had delivered. That was of course bollocks on all platforms since it was as much the complete absence of promised features as performance which was at issue.\n\nAs said, what I've learned is that the reviews and reviewers cannot be trusted since there were plenty of reasons for reviewers to be red flagging the game. Let's not be blaming the victim here.",
"Thats pretty cool, I'll have to check it out.",
"Unions can and do care as little about product quality as any other part of the organization. Not saying unions are bad, just that unions won't fix a fundamental QA issue, because that's not why unions exist.\n\n'Union made' doesn't equate to higher quality in any other product line, you shouldn't expect it to do that for games either.",
"Damn totally forgot how bad this whole series was.",
"Early Access is a phenomenal development for games because it encourages developers to be open and honest about the actual state of their game. \n\nAs many games over the years have proven, there's no actual metric you can define a game as 'finished', so having this method of self reporting is the best case scenario we can expect.",
"Last patch was the 25th of october, with a hotfix on the 12th of november.",
"Thing is absolutely nothing stops them from calling their game 'finished' and releasing post 1.0 patches. There's no actual metric for what constitutes a complete game. \n\nSo 'abusing' early access is the *best* case scenario. They're straight up telling you their game is unfinished, and may always be so, and if you want no part of that you can happily avoid it.",
"I've always been fascinated with how everyone deals with inflation that high from a purely logistical level. Do you get a raise at work every week or something? Do restaurants throw out menus and just take to writing everything on a board on a daily basis? What about government prices, do they update that quickly or do fines and fees often end up being really really cheap?",
"GTA 5 is not the problem...kind of, the definitive edition of San Andreas though...fans have modded it better.\n\nPlus, do yourself a favor and just go look at when GTA 5 was released and ask yourself, have they released a new GTA since then?",
"I swear I could watch him talk to himself for years. It’s endless entertainment.",
"*\"Fine. I'll make my own game. With ladders and backpacks.\"*",
"Facebook and Google are the last companies I'd work for at this point. They have too many ethical issues that they don't seem to want to address, Facebook especially\n\nApple is slightly less evil but still not my favorite company. It seems like they treat their workers well, though",
"Yeah. It's like, sure why don't I learn an entire computer programming language and framework for that programming language as well as learn the creative/artistic skills to make an entire video game from scratch.",
"So you dodged not one but *two* bullets. Nice job.",
"Literally the only reason to pre-order was for limited collector's editions, and even that's not safe anymore. \n\nSee: Fallout 76.",
"* i have no problems with the puzzle\n* learn to puzzle, you noob",
"My sentiment isn't pro-preordering, it's anti-victim-blaming. \n\nShould people stop preordering so much? Yes. Is it consumers' fault that companies sometimes pull a bait-and-switch? No. If you're mad at companies doing this and direct your anger and derision at the consumers enabling them, that's a form of displaced aggression and only serves to take the heat off of the companies doing the scamming in the first place.",
"You do you, person with a preemptive judgment [that likely hasn't even looked at the reviews](https://steamcommunity.com/app/1088850/reviews/?browsefilter=toprated&snr=1_5_100010_), let alone played the game.",
"There's a comment just above you detailing how awful and broken BF2042 is... \n\nAnd go look at the Halo subreddit and see how pissed people are about how F2P has ruined Halo multiplayer. \n\nYou really can't seem to grasp the breadth of the issue.",
"What? The first 5 seasons were amazing, season 6 is up for debate but had the Battle of the Bastards, 7 and 8 were rushed dog shit.",
"First 3 books were amazing, I wasnt a big fan of the 4th. But I read them all pretty much around when season 2 was airing.",
"I think you could argue that the game of Chess nailed gameplay thousands of years ago. But maybe we are talking about separate things",
"Digital downloads didn't kill shortages, increased efficiency of cd programming did. It's been nearly 20 years.",
"You're being intentionally obtuse if you haven't understood me by now. \n\nPreorders arent even a problem before YouTube. You were likely just broke and are injecting new morality into your memories.\n\nYou're going to be ignored now since I get no joy from brick wall convos. Good luck out there champ.",
"You are right, it's a [guideline](https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion), not policy. That said, in many sub it is upheld as a rule anyhow.",
"Or \"You came on reddit to whine about it? I can do it so it can't possibly be an issue for anyone else.\"",
"That's why I put sales second. Gonna guess you dont have a switch.",
"Meh... the thing is, people know it's not complete in advance, and they still dumb enough to buy it anyway.",
"Companies do it **because** consumers enable it.\n\nI can put all the heat I want on companies for offering preorders and they will simply laugh at me because people are still preordering.\n\nI don't consider it \"victim blaming\" to point out a bad purchase for what it is.",
"I used to program for cartridge and dvd games where you could never patch anything, the time up to the Christmas release was a deathmarch of bug fixing and long hours all summer. \n\nNow that they can patch things they've gotten so lazy",
"You didn't make an argument, you missed a point, entirely, obviously, publicly. \\*woosh\\*",
"I get raises twice per year with the occasional emerengy raise, but it never beats the inflation. I think I'm making about the same I was when I started after my internship after 2 years.\n\nRestaurants and supermarkets raise all the time. We need to buy in bulk so we don't get hit with increases\n\nGovernment stuff falls behind, but they are always coming up with a new tax to not collapse entirely. Here the working class is carrying the rest of the country real hard lol.",
"Yeah, nothing wrong with pointing out a bad purchase. I just take issue with people who seem to find joy in deriding or condescending to others while doing it, like the above comment from another user. Basically, I see a difference between highlighting preorders as the crux of the issue vs. attacking consumers in order to get them to behave how you want them to.",
"I heard your point, but it is invalid. There are more than enough great games without these issues (extra purchases, etc.) to play all day. The existence of these bad games does not negate the existence of the good games. You bury your head in the sand when faced with the reality that your outrage is unnecessary.",
"> I heard your point\n\nBut you didn't, or you wouldn't be saying any of the nonsense that follows. You utterly miss the point. \\*woosh\\*",
"Yeah the last season of Dexter was rough, but Dexter was a decent show at best. Not the greatest like GoT's was. imho of course. I really like the first few of Dexter though, they really had something for a bit there.",
"These companies are getting straight up offensive, as in literally offensive, as in their community manager will go \"don't like it don't play it\" when you voice a complaint.\n\nWhat the f happened how did we gave those cunts so much power?",
"Also the \"after you buy the puzzle, you can buy some small random chance prizes to see if you get more pieces that match! Ohhh, and you might get some you already have. But that's ok, we'll just get rid of those after the fact...\"",
"When someone disagrees with you, that doesn’t mean they missed your point.",
"But when they missed your point, it does.",
"Didn’t happen here. Your problem is you need to spend a little less time gaming. You’ll enjoy it more.",
"> Didn’t happen here. \n\n\\*rofl\\* It sure as fuck did. [\\*wooooosh\\*](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qy3vmb/a_brilliant_depiction_of_gta_and_modern_gaming/hlgfbxh/) You're dumb as a stump, man. Get over it.",
"Are you upset?",
"[\\*wooosh\\*](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qy3vmb/a_brilliant_depiction_of_gta_and_modern_gaming/hlgfbxh/)\n\nYour position: games other than freemium games exists, therefore people buying freemium games doesn't affect you. Do you hear that giant woooshing sound? Of course you don't, or you'd stop repeating the stupid.",
"The existence of mcdonald’s doesn’t affect people who like Thai food.",
"Yikes. You're just making it worse.",
"Not really interested in hearing from someone as dense as you again. Bye.",
"*I'm* dense? \\*lol\\* You were downvoted across the board, multiple people told you that you missed the point, but rather than re-read and actually *think*, you just kept asserting that you got a point that you *clearly, demonstrably* missed entirely. I even repeated your position to you, showing that I understood it. You cannot do the same, because... \\*woosh\\* You're dense as *fuck*.",
"The horse is such a stupid thing for people to latch onto",
"In some countries they use the word \"series\" to call what you call a \"season\".",
"Person I replied to said \"whole series\".",
"And via the above suggested word replacement that would become \"whole season\".",
"*”In fact, forget the video game!”*\n\n(/s I love Death Stranding)",
">Gonna guess you dont have a switch.\n\nyou're correct, I didn't buy a $300 system that only has 2.5 good games for it.",
"Its ok not to like nintendo games bud, I'm just pointing out that their peak was not 2001 and you wouldn't know because you don't play their latest shit.",
"Thanks for the reply. Imagine the car industry was like the software industry.\nCustomer: \"the gears are grinding, the car runs slow.\nVendors: sorry you did buy a support license. Bye.",
"Dexter had like 4 good seasons?",
"Watch [this](https://youtu.be/ajh9e3PDAOc)",
"Because then how can mods get paid for promoting corporate content?\n\nThe gate doesn't keep itself you know?"
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A brilliant depiction of GTA and modern gaming fiasco
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"Wow, just wow, that's fucking awesome.",
"This is the time to open your inventory and solve another Broken sword riddle, Stobbart",
"I like it! not enough Broken Sword references these days! :D",
"Myust vibes. What is a font? other than typeface",
"A bowl for holy water.",
"A baptismal font, for baptising babies into the church.",
"Ohhh a font. I thought the video was about a written font not the classical meaning of the word.",
"Hello American history buffs! We've got loads of stuff like this. My local village church has a fragment of a cross from 750 A.D. https://www.runesdb.eu/find-list/d/fa/q////6/f/628/c/4ddb3c5595bcd4fde9ff5d13863ab2d3/\nYou don't have to go far to see really, really old stuff in beautiful locations. I'm not part of the tourist board, just proud of my country. Come and visit.",
"Norman doesn’t look ok.",
"lets see how good you look after 1000 years :-)"
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"The transition to her smashing a bottle on the bully’s head didn’t make sense to me. I get she was in on it but the shots explaining it weren’t totally clear to me. Like, were we seeing the same scenes from her perspective, indicating she was being bullied by that guy as well? 🤔 \n\nI think it’s good but that bit of cinematography felt disjointed. What was the point of the banana peel? Liked the music.",
"Quite interesting to say the least",
"Absolutely brilliant!… one of you should marry the girl, she’s a keeper!",
"I loved the banana peel! One of the most epic parts of this masterpiece!",
"But nothing happens with it? Like she steps on it and then it’s not relevant because she didn’t actually step on it? Or something",
"The idea from the board/problem solving scene is to have her slip on the banana, fall in his arms and have them fall in love with each other."
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"LOL",
"I'm glad people went to help her but damn. What did she say before \"fuck America\"? Im a monument? Also, pretty funny she says fuck America and puts on a American flag mask seconds before her 'seizure'.",
"Assuming she was actually faking it, this feels like a performance art piece so it's quite possible there's some subtle symbolism there.",
"Maybe she loves America so much that she literally wants to fuck it?",
"Rittenhouse gets cleared of all charges, about to exit court room.\n\nJudge Schroeder yells out from behind \"hey kid\"\n\nRittenhouse turns around\n\n\"you forgot this\"\n\n*tosses him his AR15\n\n<freeze frame, credits roll, eye of the tiger plays>",
"I am a monument... Keeps moving around.\n\nM'am, monuments don't move around!\n\nBut the left put on their best case against Rittenhouse... \"I am a monument and I will fake a seizure\".",
"At this rate...what would be the long term effects if only the worst of both sides of the political spectrum in the US donned the flag? MAGAs & SJWs unite under it?",
"Can't tell what it is but that mask ain't the usa flag",
"Looks like the stars n stripes to me."
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"Good info",
"Cool info, but I'd guess if a 1-2000+ dollar telescope is your first you'd do a lot of research...\n\nWell then, I guess some people can afford to have a collection like this guy.",
"I still pay for most of them 🤣\nBut this video is to help others not do the same mistakes I did",
"Alternatively, you can do a fair bit of astronomy/astrophotography on a $150 budget: \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9AjNOCv-4I \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYsgyL7I8RI",
"i love his videos...\n\ncheck out this one :\n\n[https://youtu.be/Na-aBhc\\_gTY?t=740](https://youtu.be/Na-aBhc_gTY?t=740)\n\n&#x200B;\n\n:)",
"Yeah i've seen than one, he's brilliant. Do you know about his Big Amateur Telescope? With your equipment you might qualify to join it. \nhttps://www.astrobiscuit.com/the-big-amateur-telescope"
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"w o a h",
"Nice\nThese malls is where talent gets found",
"Beautiful.",
"Her mate’s done with hearing her play this every piano she walks past",
"If I like this piano tune, any other recommendations?",
"How could you not stop and listen to that?",
"It's Hans Zimmer. Check out his music",
"I watched the trailer for that movie and I feel like I just watched it. I like the piano much better",
"It was an excellent in-theater experience shot on 70mm IMAX film cameras. The sound score was intense, and amazing. Saying that, I’ve only watched it the one time.",
"Starts off slow and apparently simple but by the end, you feel she’d use more piano keys if she had them. The music brings me to the cusp of tears.",
"The idea of seeing your child dying of old age and you being young is freaky",
"I keep waiting for that one guy who always plays ragtime on the high notes to pop up",
"Wowwwww amazing",
"Watched it tonight awesome!",
"Good deal!"
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Girl Slays Intersteller Theme Song On Public Piano
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"Nice idea but Ill just stick to using my phone",
"That's pretty neat",
"This is ingenious",
"Yeh, most people I know are capable of not **using** digital devices while using digital devices.",
"I can appreciate the thought and effort that went into making it, but part of the appeal of an hourglass is its simplicity and iconic design.\n\nThis might solve the issues mentioned in the video, but I feel like it loses a lot in the process.",
"That but there's also windup timers that do just this.\n\nIt can be reset instantly, it's loud so you know when it goes off and shows you how much is left.\n\nAnd guess what they're commonly called, an egg timer! (Atleast in the states they're called that)\n\nBut ya this is one of those stupid pointless \"inventions\" that reinvents something that already works well enough.",
"Neat project, and a fun kinetic toy. \n\nModel link from the description: https://www.prusaprinters.org//prints/87021-tipping-egg-sand-timer",
"Also those issues are pointless.\n\nThe reason they use those hourglass timers is for their compact sizes this thing isn't compact and requires to be like 20 times larger just to make they much amount of time to be right.\n\nAlso it doesn't tip over right after the last piece of sand leaves the top chamber! Defeating the whole point of an accurate time.\n\nAlso it requires a perfectly level table so it's center of gravity won't be shifted over to one side.\n\nSo in reality it solved problems that no one generally had, which other products already covered, but adds in new much larger problems that isn't easy to fix on either sides.",
"I hate loud timers and alarms, and would 100% buy one of these for board games.",
"Love it!",
"Problem is that A) won't hold a correct time. Let's say you have 60 seconds worth of sand in the top, it would likely tip when you have anywhere from 50 to 55. Mainly because needing the precision to put the center of mass right at the balancing point one piece of grain of sand would drive the price up insanely much.\n\nIf you try to correct that issue. So it starts tipping before the times would you would still have an inaccurate clock.\n\nAlso it only works on completely leveled tables and surfaces. Because a table or surface off leveled to one side would alter the center of mass to the tipping point preventing it to fall or having it fall early.\n\nSo all they to do what? Have the reset time be mostly instant instead or a few seconds, and having something loud but not loud at the same time....\n\nAlso mechanical timers generally allow you to alter the pitch and loudness or a bell. Or could put something they dampens the sound? Mechanical energy hitting the bell or sound producing part.",
"I totally agree about the simplicity of the hourglass design, it's elegance can't be beaten",
"I wanted it to be a timer using an egg",
"I can understand wanting to get away from electronics more but... It's a damn timer just use your phone",
"True, though there is something to be said about the aesthetics of this version as well as the simplicity making it a good project to do with kids interested in 3D printing.",
"Ahh yes, the very noticeable thud of something 4 inches in height falling over, that can only operate over a static time window. It's genius!",
"I love this and I love the idea of not using a phone. I’m the same, when it’s board game night, phones are out away. They are too much of a distraction for some people and making sure the screen doesn’t turn off or the app if crap it just annoying. I’ll be printing one of these and giving it a go!",
"This takes away the fun of opposing team watching and yelling TIME!!",
"you are really over thinking this. Its a free 3d printing model for people that want it, he's not aiming to change the timer industry. It can be used for board games, being a few seconds off has no impact, this timer isnt meant to launch a space shuttle.\n\nRedditors favourite past time is shitting on things.",
"are you an hourglass timer lobbyist or something?",
"Traditional mechanics are something to behold.\n\nI love when you get consumed enough in that world that you end up finding cam drives and cam logic to be just wondrous.",
"This ^. If you have a 3d printer its worth getting if you do play games with timers",
"I...don't really agree. Spending time with technology to make something that means you aren't bound to it later isn't hypocritical, in my view. Your comment rings a bit of the old \"you say society is bad, yet you participate in it, curious\" chestnut.",
"Takes juan to know juan",
"Love the idea!",
"How neat is that??",
"The table better be perfectly level or else it won't work properly. And if you jostle the table at all it might tip early too.",
"Clever, practical, functional. Marvelous concept, and design!",
"They don't put those in most board games though. They put in the original style of egg timer that this one improves upon. This design is cheap and simple enough that they would include it.",
"Why would he want to get away from digital devices wherever possible? Other than pretentiousness?",
"You can also just get a small digital timer for less than $10 that will ding when time is up and that can be used for a variety of games that all have different timer requirements.",
"it's not really a contradiction, sure he's using a computer and 3D printer now to build the project, but later when playing board games he can really be free from anything",
"This is super rad. I'm not saying any company will buy it, but no board game company wants to tie their products success up in the assumption that every one already own an integral part of their game mechanic. I would at the very least trademark the design, and make it clear that it's free for personal use but not commercial development. Don't defer to the \"good nature\" of a for profit entity. If they come to you to buy the design, you'll have the leverage and can insure they donate to an org.",
"Very true. There are lots of solutions which are better than this. Even phones are probably better but I like a gadget, I like a novelty, and I like something mechanical rather than digital",
">The reason they use those hourglass timers is for their compact sizes this thing isn't compact and requires to be like 20 times larger just to make they much amount of time to be right.\n\nI might be wrong, but I think this can be scaled down. It would require a smaller channel and different sand perhaps, but I don't think that's an issue that couldn't be resolved.\n\n> Also it doesn't tip over right after the last piece of sand leaves the top chamber! Defeating the whole point of an accurate time.\n\nThat's irrelevant. The delay there is constant, and can be accounted for by precisely reducing the amount of sand. \n\n> Also it requires a perfectly level table so it's center of gravity won't be shifted over to one side.\n\nThat might very well be an issue. I doubt it requires a *perfectly* level table, but it'd be interesting to see it go against a regular hourglass on increasingly slanted surfaces to see how big of a disadvantage this is.\n\nI think I'd prefer OP's timer if I was playing Pictionary. I dunno if I'd use it for much more than that though. But I don't really use hourglasses either.",
"you can even tweak the model in CAD and make improvements. This is a fun project and I'm glad I'm not seeing the typical pedantic, devil's advocate b.s. that usually flood the comments.",
"No wobbly egg timer is going to get in the way of yelling TIME!\n\nI mean, now you have the extra incentive to yell time between the thingy starts to fall over, but before it hits the table. Extra interactive!",
"You can tell it's neat by the way it is.",
"I mean, when playing a board game, it can be distracting - people are on their phones pretty consistently in every day life to begin with, so having that \"hey let's just put away our phones for a couple of minutes while we play this game together\" can be a fresh air. Having a phone sitting out and constantly messing with it for the timer can be distracting.",
"Not only that, but the guy who created this analog timer, will save *everyone* down stream who ever uses it, from having to rely on a digital timer / their phone. So it's digital savings/distancing is reverberated exponentially.",
"Yes sarcastic cynicism achieves everything. Thank you for your contribution. Well done.",
"I wonder how consistent it is with flipping? It seems like depending on small things like the balance or texture of the table could have quite an effect on when exactly it falls over.",
"The greatest improvement to the hourglass was the digital timer. This is like improving the triangle wheel by making it square, years after they already determined a circle was the most optimal.",
"Yes. His argument of just wanting to get away from all digital devices where possible falls flat when we all already have a phone, and when the alternative is buying a rather large chunk of plastic.",
"People are giving you shit but you're right.\n\nEspecially about having to stand level. You can lose several seconds on a bad placement.\n\nHowever, scale it up to a few minutes and it's a great concept. It'll be more resistant to outside factors like levelness. In other words, a good egg timer.\n\nBut. A light knock isn't necessarily easy to hear, and you can't easily take it with you.\n\nAll in all I like it, but not practical.",
"He's the CEO of an hourglass company. He's already commissioned an article about how millennials are killing the hourglass industry.",
"He should patent/license that for commercial use.",
"I mean, I don’t think board game companies “own” the hourglass design. Anyone can make a sand hourglass and sell it. And if you make acquiring it more complicated, they are definitely not going to use the design. This design isn’t so revolutionary that board game companies are going to be fighting to be the first to use it.",
"Replace the sand with yolk.",
"That's analogous to saying don't spend money to get something that saves you money.",
"I thought this was an egg timer so I could finally cook a descent egg sando",
"Math. You can solve these problems.",
"This isn't for use in a lab, Christ.",
"How is it pretentious to not be on your phone?",
"That's not what he said. He said he wants to avoid digital devices wherever possible. He's just being contrary.",
"How would you go around and calibrate this for example exactly 60 seconds?\n\nSuper nice Idea.",
"Pretty.",
"> I mean, I don’t think board game companies “own” the hourglass design.\n\nI have no idea what you are attempting to convey with this. No one is suggesting that they do, as it's design has long since moved into the category of open license (probably the wrong word).\n\nOP invented something novel. Regardless of any possible future sale, they should insure that their invention maintains their oversight. \n\nAdditionally, OP's design would almost certainly be easier to mass produce than an hourglass. If the companies in question are purchasing the hourglasses from external vendors, they might very well be tempted by an easily reproducible alternative that requires no special machining.",
"You know...\n\nThere are people out there who like discussing the technical side of things, both the good and bad, without it being disparaging. \n\nIf you don't understand this concept, kindly shut the fuck up.",
"That is great fun",
"How is that better than making it free?",
"That's wicked good thinking! I had one simulator to this but it would fire a .45 round at you if you ran out of time.",
"Sorry man I just like arguing with people.",
"Is give it about 7 neat",
"He can make money off of it.",
"Not necessarily. It's expensive to try patent such things, and a Chinese company (or two) will simply copy it and do it for cheaper after you spend all of that money trying in vain to make money off of it.",
"Patenting, sure. But not other forms of licensing.",
"Yeah but this thing tells time down to the last grain",
"Crazy!!",
"If it’s out there for free couldn’t companies use it without having to donate?",
"Analog Jesus. He coded so that we could have everlasting game night.",
"By counting out exactly 10,000 course grains of blue sand.",
"Okay, but this device tips over *before* all the sand has escaped the top compartment. It's not going to measure time with any precision or accuracy as a result.",
"Yeah I thought it would yeet the egg, so you had make sure to watch this thing closely to avoid a fucking mess.",
"Slightly better than ugly neat.",
"If anything they can just add TWO hourglass timers in a board game. So when you have one going, if you are done before time expires and don't want to have to wait for the reset, you flip the second one to start the next round while the first one is resetting. I highly doubt you will finish before BOTH are done resetting.",
"OP please put warning label so we don't yeet the egg",
"This is probably fine for some board games. But absolutely impractical if you're short on table space, or playing on carpet.",
"Noted. When I’m playing Pictionary on a level, lab grade table, I’ll make sure to use the Atomic clock instead.",
"Technology is technology, regardless of the medium. If a tool does the job well, why downgrade to something more primitive? Might as well be writing using a feather and pigments, instead of using a fountain pen and ink.",
"Fuck China stealing everything.",
"That’s why it’s called a donation.",
"interesante",
"Wouldn't both teams end up having the same amount of time as long as it was placed int same position every time. Isn't that the point is that the playing field is level for everyone. As long as the time is the same everything is good. I can't believe you wrote all that out and didn't even realize this. wow",
"I wouldn't recommend math. I got addicted to it. Now, my physical and mental health has deteriorated and the only work I can get is selling code on the streets of silicon valley in order to afford a 1 bedroom apartment.",
"Great shit",
"It’s far more analog tho vs a wind up.",
"... you got code? I'll take some code.",
"I understand how to calibrate a normal sand timer, simply put some sand in it, time it and measure the weight. But with this one the tipping point is not easily altered.",
"I dunno what this guy is on about, lockdown has been great for my mental health.",
"I foresee this being one of those things 3d printer owners print out in an attempt to justify their purchase, use once, and put in the heap of other prints to never be touched again.",
"The size is also an issue for fitting inside a board game box. The sand timers are very space efficient.",
"So isn't the tipping point and the weight of the sand the calibration?",
"It bugs me so much that it doesn't finish the sand it has before falling over. I know it's nit picking, but having it still have loads of sand when it falls just bugs me.",
"what? You do understand that this is a timer for analog board games right? How... is it dissonant at all?",
"Cool.",
"You can measure the tipping point by how much sand it takes to tip it, or since it’s 3D printed, calculate the center of gravity and amount of sand needed in a piece of software.\n\nIf you want it to time longer, you can just add counterweights to the side of the device so it takes more sand to make it tip.",
"It doesn’t take any time to reset an hour glass…you just flip it over and it’s working again. What is he talking about?",
"Or just use an egg cooker and get perfect eggs to any firmness every time...",
"Personally I found it many neats",
"Set it on something smooth. Magazine, plate, my son's brain.",
"You calibrate it in exactly the same way, the tipping point is directly correlated to the amount of sand you put in it.",
"That's why I always try to pack some ~neat~ heat",
"Hey man, your bad vibes won't stop the revolution changing the world of cheap plastic crap that's destined for a landfill. With a 3d printer in every home, everyone will have access to *expensive* plastic crap destined for a landfill.",
"Can you make it smaller? For the amount of sand it’s extremely large",
"Now he just needs to make it tip all the way over and BOOM! Perpetual motion machine.",
"My ADHD says fuck off I'll use it more often, but I've gotten distracted and am coloring Instead",
"More sand = later tipping point. The topleft chamber starts out heavier and more sand needs to drop to the lower chamber in order to shift the weight enough to tip.",
"yeah, I like the thunking noise it makes",
"Great idea man!",
"Then you have a meal after your game, which is just money well spent.",
"If you want to reset when it is halfway through you have to let the sand all end up on one end or the other.",
"Oooh now i see, thanks",
"Please don't.\n\nLet me concentrate, so no tic-tic-tic please. \n\nAlso the ringing is awful.",
"Add a bell",
"Seriously. Does anyone other than like the maker of pictionary actually use a sand-based timer in modern times?",
"Then you're going to be super excited to learn that you can set your phone to make a thunk noise when the timer completes, if you so desire.",
"Could put a bell in it. Like a cat toy.",
"You mean something that is more expensive to produce, and more prone to failure?\n\nThere's a reason why board games came with sand timers and not something with springs and gears.",
"you're making a joke, but the whole \"nobody notices the time runs out\" is literally a mechanic of these games. I feel like it's part of it. Same with caring more and more about yelling \"TIME\" depending on how serious you get.",
"Subbed. Your channels bout to blow up and im gonna watch it happen. :)",
"Man, fuck Big Hourglass. I heard they want to start charging by the grain. The grain! They're trying to keep us \"lower class\" people from hourglass ownership.\n\nYou can already see the shills trying to bash on this guy's invention. They know a real threat when they see it! Don't fall for it!",
"No need for personal attacks. I was completely justified buying my 3d printer. I fixed my dishwasher and saved $17 dollars minus cost of printer, special high heat filament, and 3~4 hours of design.",
"With normal sand timer you get a constant ratio of time to weight (of sand) Once you know the constant you dont to run any more tests to have it measure a unit of time precisely. With OPs timer you couldn't just add double the sand to double the time",
"How do you dial in how long the egg timer goes for?",
"But also about 10 times larger",
"Well done! Don't see too many pure design videos, cool stuff",
"As long as it’s crap printed in PLA I’m fine with it. It breaks down in nature and is generally the cheapest filament.",
"Put in bunch of sand, time 60 seconds, and block the drop-hole and remove excess sand once you hit that time.",
"Sounds like something a \"Big Timer\" shill would say.",
"I would still yell it when the thing falls over",
"The simple upgrade is a threaded insert on the left side, and a screw that you run in and out. The further out the screw the further the CG is biased toward the left and the more sand needs to drop before it tips. The reverse is true; tighten the screw to reduce the time needed to tip. \n\nYou could get fancy and have something more akin to an abacus bead, with some sort of labeled scale to make the timer quickly adjusted. It's never going to be as precise or accurate as a digital timer, but +/- a couple seconds run to run and across set points is probably reasonable.",
"PLA is all I use, but I'm under no illusions about the per part costs. Between my design time, time spent tuning, the amortization of the printer and electricity the filament is basically free.",
"\"egg timer\" ??",
"Lol, it's not hard to justify buying a 3d printer. \n\n1. I have plenty of disposable income.\n\n2. I love technology and new things.\n\n3. I enjoy learning new skills.\n\nI'm constantly coming up with things to model and print. Coworkers also ask me to model and print things for them too.",
"I just wanted to make an N64 and a low poly skyrim dragon. 300 bucks well spent. \n\nIgnore the gun I made, I lost it in a boating accident, and it never existed in the first place",
"Seems like a pretty scalable design.",
"Scattergories has the best timer. It ticks the seconds away for everyone to hear, and then blasts a deafening buzz to crush your spirits. Plus it's entirely mechanical, so it will outlive the house you're playing in.",
"Guy's only got 44 subs.",
"If they’re using for free they have no obligation to donate ANYTHING. Otherwise they’d have to pay to use the patent and the OP could have donated the money instead of trusting a corporation to do the right thing, sarcasm should be reserved for people who know when to use it appropriately, otherwise it makes you look like an idiot.",
"If you had to pay for it as a donation, then board game players couldn’t print it as individuals for free. You’re the idiot.",
"What is he talking about having to filter sand back through to reset it?? It works both ways just flip it..",
"Yeah I haven't seen an hourglass called an egg timer before. It's usually those windup ones or now digital timers.",
"Gun owners on gun control \"but then only criminals would have guns!\"\n\nGun owners on criminally hiding their guns \"BoAtInG aCcIdEnT\"",
"It's called a joke.",
"Now I’m positive you are a smooth brain, it’s extremely common to donate to charities through third parties.",
"Ok bud",
"Like what things? My friend bought a 3d printer and I couldnt think anything that I would need to print. I asked him what is he gonna print with it and he didn't know",
"It's if you want to reset it before the time has run out"
] | 148 |
videos
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Novel egg timer
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https://youtu.be/mYWTZrHBoAs
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/r/videos/comments/qy7304/woman_finds_bear_in_her_car/
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[
"I love the scratches right after lol",
"“Oh gosh, are those for me? Awww you shouldnt have…”",
"Trying to close the car door with a bear inside? Goodbye car.",
"Yeah that was an odd decision. Though I guess it would have at least blocked any possible attack were that to work",
"reminds me of the tommy boy scene with the deer",
"Is that a young black bear? What size is a bear dangerous at?",
"I have no idea why I find the screaming so funny maybe its because the bear seems so nonchalant about the whole thing after.",
"All of them.",
"Not odd at all. If bear is in car, bear won't chase you down and eat you. \n\nIt's just instinct/monkey brain stuff.",
"Yeah. But he’ll steal your car though.",
"Generally black bears will flee on danger. Mother with a baby is a whole different story though. We see black bears up in northern Michigan all the time and the are terrified of us and our dogs. They are also a lot smaller than grizzly bears. In person they are about the size of a bear, just the black ones though.",
"Karen finds bear in her car\n\n*Directed by Robert B. Weide*",
"> In person they are about the size of a **bear**, just the black ones though.\n\nA bear is roughly the size of a bear, mind blown!",
"Exactly.",
"A bear wouldn't steal a car and it wouldn't take part in video piracy.",
"Oh my god",
"I think putting a barrier between yourself and a literal fucking bear is actually a pretty wise decision.",
"“Jeez, that was weird” returns to the car lol",
"Bear: Ooh a pick-a-nick basket!",
"\"oh look, free fruits, what a day\"",
"Lmao at the scream",
"The scream was an over reaction, but I guess some humans are screamy. And giving it immediate access to food reinforces the bears behavior, so it will return for more. The bear will likely be shot by wildlife",
"Okay, you go first then.",
"“The bear will likely be shot by wildlife”\n\nA gun wielding chickadee no doubt. They’re the worst.",
"\"Was just warming it up for you...\"",
"I mean, she didn't purposefully feed the bear, she more kind of flung stuff in the air as she ran away screaming.",
"Perhaps a trigger happy squirrel with a .44.",
"At least in person. They’re usually much smaller than a bear when seen on the phone screen for example.",
"Just the black ones though.",
"Disinformation? This was intended as a joke(albeit a failed attempt, obviously). But all kidding aside, I do believe what you and OP are suggesting/citing however, my position on the matter is to err on the side of caution when it comes to wildlife that may view me as a meal under the right circumstances. \n\nSo please, don’t misconstrue my opinion, or my attempt at humor as disinformation. Clearly, I lack the educational/experiential insight that you and OP possess. Think of me more like the woman in this video, not the seasoned, educated, bear scaring expert such as yourself. Disinformation…give me a break human.",
"Trying to lock the bear in the car is such a baffling response. What was step 2 of this plan? Tow it to a park ranger?",
"I have probably seen a hundred black bears in the woods. Usually me saying \"hey bear!\" Kinda loud makes them freak out and run away.\n \nBears have great sense of smell so they don't need to rely on hearing or vision as much. So there have been times I've yelled at a bear and it didn't hear me and kept walking towards me not even knowing I was there until it was 50 yards away and then gets spooked and runs off. \n \nThey are all huge babies.",
"Not really, thought process is this: \n\n* See dangerous thing. \n* Want to not die to dangerous thing.\n* Put up a barrier between you and dangerous thing\n* Situation 'stabilized', now figure out what to do.\n\nLike, given the choice between an absolutely fucked up car interior and getting mauled by a bear, I would choose the fucked up car interior. Now, we, the omniscient viewers, know everything ended just fine and the bear was harmless. But when you're in a situation like that, it actually makes an awful lot of sense to try and put up a barrier.",
"Cars are made out of fucking carboard these days. He's either getting out or he'll just fuck the interior up and shit all over it while you wait on fish and wildlife. I'm sure that's a fun insurance claim to make.",
"Momma feral pigs will send the piglets to sample new food sources. If a cage slams shut then she and the rest of the litter just scatter and those piglets might as well be dead to her.",
"If you see a young bear, assume the momma is nearby. I'd rather guess wrong and look like a spaz than the alternative.",
"Boo Boo is that you?",
"Okay, I'm glad I wasn't the only one, bc this shit had me rolling",
"It seemed she spent an extra 5 seconds trying to trap a bear that wasn’t bothering her in the vehicle, where an equal amount of time could have put her back in the safety of her house.",
"This is a good point that other commenters aren't considering.",
"Yes, but while coming up with that very rational response, were you 3 feet from a bear?",
"Running is usually not a rational response. Not saying it isn't a good response nor the wisest choice in hindsight, but fleeing is usually an emotional decision. Flight or Fight response. \n\nThis definitely wasn't flight, but it was a very odd for a fight response.",
"Sure but the alternative could be you die, and you have .5 sec to decide because the bear has noticed you",
"How often is all the time?",
"I’ve seen a lotta things in my life, but that was… aweeesooome! Hahaha…. sorry about your car though, sucks.",
"I mean, for some of us, this isn't a super uncommon reaction for people to have after seeing us. I would've reacted the same way as the bear.",
"A football field is exactly one football field long.",
"Potato quality, but relevant: [https://youtu.be/OkV\\_ztynYDM](https://youtu.be/OkV_ztynYDM)",
"A bear wouldn't download a car!",
"Except football fields are bigger in Europe than in the US. For linguistic reasons mostly (soccer vs football) but also technically.",
"wait, the bear came out of the car!? how tf did the bear even get in",
"> Cars are made out of fucking carboard these days.\n\nLol, such an ignorant comment. Cars are stronger and safer than they've ever been.",
"Can confirm northern MI bears are usually the size of a bear",
"I kept waiting for the bear to just climb back into the car",
"What happened to the woman? Sounds like she ran into something and got knocked out.",
"How to get some fuckin apples in three easy steps by: a bear",
"Bruh, door was left wide open. Did you not watch the first few seconds?",
"What Lexus commercial is this?",
"I need to ask. Who parks their car into branches?",
"The bear was not fucking. It was literally not a fucking bear.",
"From now on, every ride in that car will smell and feel like a trip to the zoo.",
"Absolutely funny 😆",
"Sorry, masterbating bear*",
"Are you joking? Bears have claws and cars have windows.",
"And even if it wasn't already open bears are known to open car doors themselves if they're unlocked",
"no I did not.",
"Fr? Thought you need thumbs",
"Being a bear: the ultimate open world adventure",
"I had so many encounters like that with Black Bears when I worked in the US. I was only there cir 3 months.",
"If it was a polar bear I bet you wouldn’t say that.",
"very little danger compared to some other things out here. I once scared 2 off with just a folding lawn chair and a bunch of shouting. \n\nOne time when I was a kid I watched my grandma scare off a black bear on her own. \n\nthey're really fun to watch, they're basically giant mutant racoons out here in the mountains",
"https://youtu.be/ysYi_Nrk_-U?t=14\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bCf-1qYjvE",
"yea it wouldn't be funny if it was a grizzly, except that well yeah it'd be pretty funny seeing a grizzly fit himself into a clown car.",
"https://youtu.be/mpEt86GDK8Q?t=16",
"\\*masturbating bear",
"Or her waving her arms in the air like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone",
"[Oh, a bear totally would.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBw7KE8wDSo)",
"Step 1: secure bear in a closed container.\n\nStep 2: get away from bear.\n\nThis isn't fucking rocket science.",
"> What size is a bear dangerous at?\n\nAny size",
"That's called a displacement behavior! We can observe it in our pet dogs too! These behaviors are done to diffuse stress. In dogs, we see it as itching, sniffing the ground. The bear in this clip also \"shakes off\" like it would if it was wet - something dogs do all the time as a way to diffuse stress. A tongue flick on the face can also be an indicator of stress, which the bear here does at the very end of the clip.",
"In my experience black bears are chill cuties. Just don't antagonize and they'll move on and do their own thing.",
"“jfc, lady. You scared the hell out of me. Now what was I doing?”",
"Nah, looks like a young bear. I bet it doesn't have a driver's license yet.",
"God damn, she is an absolute idiot!",
"Bears way less scared then she was",
"Its sort of natural to find weakness amusing. \n\nThis is a woman who has no survival techniques.\n\nEveurthing says that best was super chill when first discovered. Not tjntil she freaks out and aggressively shuts the door does the bear react then she FURTHER freaks out more.\n\nThis is a woman who shouldn't be alive and needs care. We often find stuff like this bemusing (think of a cat \"attacking\" you).\n\nIts just society tells us it's not kind to have these thoughts for humans.",
"So people can pull into the garage, looks like. I park into branches if I’m making room or at the bank.",
"Unless the young bear is really cool, then he's probably out doing his own thing or meeting up with friends.",
"They put the trained bear into the car.",
"Can't they open doors tho",
"Black bears rarely attack unless starving or directly threatened. 99% chance they'll run from you.",
"It's hard to be sensible when you're in fight or flight mode. 90% of people would react the same way regardless of how often they've been told not to",
"It's hard to believe many people would try to trap a harmless black bear into their vehicle, just to scare the bear more. Just walk/run away.",
"The people responding to you are being misleading. A bear this size or bigger could definitely hurt you. If it were any smaller, the possibility of a mother being nearby could make it even more dangerous. MOST IMPORTANTLY: never expect a bear of any species to run from you. Maybe they'll run, or maybe they'll do [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEmzBaT-nZc).",
"A black bear is not going to chase a person down and eat them",
"Probably not, I know.\n\nShe probably doesn't. Even if she does, panic reactions exist.",
"Yep. And she's too afraid to make sure.\n\nWhat point are you trying to get across here?",
"Dogs and bears are actually pretty closely related, which is kinda funny to think about. Every time I see videos of black bears I'm just like \"oh yeah, no, I definitely see that.\"",
"Yea, just lock the bear in your car. So its in there when you go back.",
"Lock it in, that will help.",
"Thanks for taking time to comment. That's something I noticed but thought of it as the animal not being sure how to act.",
"That’s basically what displacement behaviors are! They take the place of other behaviors that the animal may not know/when there is some conflict between behaviors. Humans do them too - things like pacing, scratching our nose, or bouncing our leg/tapping a foot in moments of uncertainty. If you’re curious about that kind of stuff, you can find more by searching for behavioral ethograms for animals. Cool stuff!",
"Even bears appreciate high end cars. Who knew? 😋",
"Welp. There's what forever regret of letting your husband move the family into the woods looks like.",
"Hey Booboo. I found me a pickanick basket!",
"Free apples for the bear!",
"A mature big black bear has a much different mindset than a regular black bear. Once they get big they start taking down bigger animals and gain confidence."
] | 108 |
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Woman Finds Bear In Her Car
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSdReXbIDEg
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/r/videos/comments/qy7vvn/this_workout_targets_a_specific_scientific_bias/
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[
"[You are absolutely right](https://youtu.be/DGV3kuf8Wz8)",
"I thought the only fat people in the 1600 were well off enough to afford to eat, most dirt poor people were skinny because they couldn’t eat. Also I’m against fat shamming any one that wants to be healthy. But I don’t agree with the idea that you can be fat(clinically obese) and be healthy. The truth is some people are born with genes and some people are born with different genes. If I’m born with a genetic disposition to diabetes I’m not going to hate people that can eat as much sugar as they want. I’m also not going to blame the food company’s and say they are discriminating against me. I literally just accepted my body and I work to be healthy and achieve a lifestyle that suits my needs. It’s my problem not everyone’s is.",
"I’m really tired of all this anti-fatness and discrimination in medicine, it’s almost as bad as the anti-smoking discrimination in medicine…",
"So you clearly didn't watch the video and only reacted to the title...",
"So you didn't watch any of the video but took the time to leave your TED Talk? Wow.",
"Smoking is a behavior. Fatness is a characteristic. If you want to talk about behaviors to combat, feel free, but this is a false equivalence.",
"So you think sadness is a characteristic with no relation to behavior?",
"...and now you've outed yourself as a bigot, so I can end this conversation. Thanks.",
"That was a mistype from fatness.\n\nAnd if you think fatness has nothing to do with behavior, you’re not capable of a real conversation."
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This workout targets a specific scientific bias: anti-fatness and discrimination in medicine. Societal fatphobia is the result of extremist Christian acetic ideals in the 1600s made popular by white supremacists in the 1700s.
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https://youtu.be/oIOvCgka3jw
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/r/videos/comments/qy81sd/someone_drank_pepsi_and_milk_to_celebrate_1k_subs/
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[
"I am extremely disappointed that it did not end with a projectile puke",
"I was fully expecting it to go that direction",
"Cola and milk is actually very delicious. Very odd combination, but it works surprisingly. Kind of tastes like an icecream float. 50/50 mix."
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videos
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Someone drank Pepsi and milk to celebrate 1k subs on YouTube
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwglOlD7e0M
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/r/videos/comments/qy9nrs/making_a_lego_car_cross_gaps/
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[
"What an epic ending haha. Just ram the bridge",
"That was most entertaining",
"Very fine engineering",
"I love this guys ideas",
"Super cool design iteration.",
"Very cool",
"This is awesome",
"The best engineering is to minimize iterations but this was interesting nonetheless. \n\nEdit: lol at non engineers downvoting",
"Well, the problem continually changed by widening the gap. Their solution required minimal enhancements with each iteration. That's where the great engineering is. I'm sure there are some behind the scenes trial and error we don't see though.",
"Reminds me of the lego bridge builder which is modeled on a real life bridge builder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny-ighFGg98&t=739s&ab_channel=WolfZipp",
"That was cool as hell. Holy shit, didn't expect to enjoy watching the full thing.",
"Upvote for just getting it done at the end",
"That is definitely not always the best approach.",
"I understand what you are saying, but then there wouldn't be much of a YouTube video.",
"I love these",
"That was strangely satisfying",
"Very clever.",
"That was very entertaining!",
"Correct, but each time the gap widened it is possible and actually ideal to solve the problem with zero iterations. I should've explained myself better, and you're right every time the gap widened then the design requirements changed meaning a new design makes sense. Just saying that ideal engineering would never have failed attempts. Not to say iterations can't be part of the design process, just that it's of course better to come up with the best design without them if possible.",
"Cool video, super weird timestamp.",
"It really depends. But iterations are costly, so IF they can be avoided then that's best. Of course sometimes iterations are fine and are part if the engineering process.",
"Agreed lol and I thoroughly enjoyed the video- just wanted to comment from an engineering perspective. I'm an aerospace design engineer and in order to meet cost and schedule our goal is to minimize iterations as much as possible. Of course they happen, sometimes intentionally and sometimes because we discover unforseen issues along the way. However, by being diligent during the requirements gathering phase, as well as through design reviews iterations can many times be avoided. When it takes over a year to manufacture something I'm sure you can understand why it's desirable to avoid iterations.",
"Reminds me of that old flash game Fantastic Contraption, especially the \"add more wheels and make longer\" parts",
"The Engineer and the Moving Goal Post",
"Somehow I just imagine the army needing to build a temporary bridge to cross a river.",
"I can’t believe he let it crash for real each time. Pillows man. Pillows!",
"That's where they earned the upvote from me.",
"Oof",
"[They did. ](https://youtu.be/EDfYcqIHHDU)",
"> actually ideal to solve the problem with zero iterations.\n\nYou're describing perfect solution, which is usually a bad thing in engineering",
"If you wanted to make something similar is there a particular Lego term or kit available?",
"Are you really incapable of understanding the difference between engineering a 20cm lego car, and engineering an airplane?\n\nLet me tell you a secret. This Youtube video has not been 20 years in the making. It does take the youtuber a year to make a physical iteration, and then to test does it work or not. You do not want to spend a day calculating will the design work or not, if you can spend 5 minutes and zero material loss trying if it does.\n\nDoing everything as if you were making an airplane is not good engineering.",
"That last one made me feel a little dirty.",
"I agree with you. Your last sentence is a good point actually. \"Good engineering\" heavily depends on what you're trying to engineer. Not sure why that didn't click with me earlier. Maybe I've gotten too involved with complex engineering projects, or maybe I was simply being narrow minded. I certainly don't treat every design solution so rigidly, because at home I'll often do trial and error solutions if the cost is low enough. Regardless I'm glad I got an insightful response from my \"trolly\" post.",
"Here's a video that talks about the real life version. https://youtu.be/vCsRkHlECQQ",
"Eh depends on your definition of perfect solution and also how \"perfect\" you are trying to make it. But I see what you mean, just that it doesn't really apply to my statement. I'm not saying to come up with a perfect solution, I'm just saying that coming up with the solutions shown in the video without having to have an interim \"failed\" design is better. For large scale, expensive projects I wholeheartedly believe this to be true (most of the time), but for something like this I can see why that's not the case, as pointed out by one poster.",
"I flinched every time I heard that noise, remembering how expensive those sets were as a kid.",
"Sweet! :^)",
"I was thinking the same question. These folks have some suggestions for us.\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/gg44yo/best_starter_motor_set/\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/legotechnic/comments/icsgnb/can_someone_explain_to_me_the_best_motors_to_get/\n\nLooks like the kit in OP is discontinued and you can get some 'rc car' specific kits that are newer and better. \n\nhttps://www.lego.com/en-au/product/remote-controlled-stunt-racer-42095 [edit: actually I think this one uses the kit in OP, at any rate there's old kits called power function and new kits called power up that are different.]",
"This made me giggle.",
"[The one where he made the car climb books](https://youtu.be/MwHHErfX9hI) was pretty awesome as well.",
"This should work on a 20cm gap… ok but what will we have to do to cross 30cm gap?\n\nI don’t know, we’ll cross that bridge when we get there.",
">add moving beam\n\nIs it even a car anymore? Not that I'm complaining.",
"But is it still the same vehicle he started with?",
"If you like this type of problem-solving, you might enjoy games like Besiege and TrailMakers!",
"The point is to show the process. You're coming across as an insufferable smartass.",
"Cool. It's Reddit, I don't care if I'm being a smartass.",
"Maybe you should and consider changing yourself for the better regardless of Reddit or not. It's an honest and valid opinion that you dismissed.\n\nBut you're right, it's Reddit and completely anonymous... so what do you care?",
"I don't think a smart-ass comment on reddit had any indication on being a good person or not. In fact I'm an incredibly kind and generous person",
"So humble too.",
"You're not kind or generous? That's too bad. Maybe you should consider changing yourself for the better.",
"I always try.",
"As we all should"
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"I don't speak Italian, but the way that guy is negotiating the keyboard makes me think this video is super fake.",
"its comparable to the hackerman meme in italy. very famous...stacaaaa",
"Che diavolo è questo?",
"Cool if real"
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"I have this model and traded it out for the six. I've only had one issue with it, and it was with a number of keys that stopped functioning. The Z, X C, V buttons were all intermittent for a time until the X just stopped working altogether. Did a simple exchange and it's up and running just fine now.\n\nWindows 11 is actually...not bad? It's like Microsoft designed this OS with what people wanted, rather than what they liked and thought others would grow to love (it never happened).\n\nIt's great overall, but the price tag is prohibitive to most. It's overpriced and it's always been.",
"Sorry yours gave you issues. Windows 11 seems more simplistic and glassy. I feel they are gradually moving to a specific goal. A Blend.",
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"hiuy",
"I have this model and traded it out \nfor the six. I've only had one issue with it, and it was with a number \nof keys that stopped functioning. The Z, X C, V buttons were all \nintermittent for a time until the X just stopped working altogether. Did \n a simple exchange and it's up and running just fine now.",
"Word for word what u/WordNERD37 posted. Interesting.",
"Thanks for tagging me here, that's is just the oddest thing to copy and paste. Like, why? And it's a shoddy copy of my post, and only part of it!",
"Probably a bot. I dunno. It was just blatant and obvious, that I had to say something."
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