Shameless plug of my playlists:
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Long video game essays (30min - 1h)
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Longer video game essays (1h+)
Edit: Yes the playlists are very much still incomplete and a work in progress. I promise I’ll eventually add the recommendations yall made!
Short list of favorite long YouTube “documentaries”:
- https://youtu.be/fIuhg0bjvQI
- https://youtu.be/Qe5WT22-AO8
- https://youtu.be/yXbJe-rUNP8
- https://youtu.be/0twDETh6QaI
- https://youtu.be/suRdLbdfdhA
All of these are very good
Damn, these playlists are gold, some of the things I watched are included.
I have never played genshin impact and I object fundamentally to gatcha games. But I like video games a lot. Should I watch?
Definitely! I never played it too and the video was amazing!
Bobby broccoli! So good
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/fIuhg0bjvQI
https://piped.video/Qe5WT22-AO8
https://piped.video/yXbJe-rUNP8
https://piped.video/0twDETh6QaI
https://piped.video/suRdLbdfdhA
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I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Glad to see Tim Rogers on that playlist - guy is one of the best in the biz
*Riloe
*Architect of games
*Nakey Jake
*Gamer makers toolkit
*Curious archive
*Lemino
*12 tone
*AI and games
*Alpha Phoenix
*Barely sociable
*Be smart
*Branch education
*Brick immortar
*Bytebytego
*Cgp grey
*Coffeezilla
*Defunctland
*Eckharts ladder
*Electroboom
*Every frame a painting
*History of the earth
*History of the universe
*Internet Historian
*Kurzgesagt
*Lockpickinglawyer
*Markrober
*Mustard
*Cold fusion
*Polymatter
*Minute physics
*No clip documentaries
*PBS spacetime
*Pursuit of wonder
*Real engineering
*Scishow
*Secret base
*Stevemould
*Technology connections
*The b1m
*The history guy
*The squidd
*Throttle house
*Tom Stanton
*Tom Scott (retired now)
*Veritasium
*Vsauce
*Wendover productions
Missing all the mathematics channels smh. (Numberphile, mathologer, 3blue1brown)
I know several of those. One I don’t see listed is stuff made here. If you’re a fan of backyard scientist, you’re gonna love stuff made here.
Smarter everyday is really a special one. The way that guy involves his kids and his own boyish excitement when he finally gets an experiment right is downright heartwarming. Then there was the whole episode checking in on physics girl. He had no particular incentive to do that. He just really seems to care.
Based on the names I know on this list, I am super excited to check out the ones I don’t. Thanks!
Also check out miniminuteman too. Good pseudoscience/conspiracy theory debunking.
How you gonna have Wendover and not Half as Interesting (his shorter form side-channel)?
No Road Guy Rob? Or Practical Engineering?
No Extra History? (I only know him from Nebula but I think he’s on YouTube too)
Also recommend 8bit-Guy for retro computing and Modern Vintage Gamer for retro gaming.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
I thought hbomberguy uploaded :(
In case you didn’t know, Münecat recently uploaded a three-hour video debunking evolutionary psychology: https://youtu.be/31e0RcImReY
I figure the overlap between hbomberguy and münecat viewers in the Venn diagram is basically a circle, so that should help if you have an hbomberguy craving.
Sorry to give you false hope 😔
But I still believe that we’ll get at least one video this year!
Yeah ditto :( but Jenny Nicholson released a 4 hour video on the Star Wars Hotel just recently.
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And it’s so ridiculously good. The NYT even wrote an article about it.
Wait, that’s awesome! I’ll have to check that out :)
10/10 video. She knocked it out of the park.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=ZlK51P0vuc4
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Video essays somehow skip past my eternally short attention span
Only when they become a recap of the subject for 90% of it do I get annoyed, lol.
I’ve never even thought to look into JP lore. But this is my front page now
The real commitment is when somebody like Plainly Difficult uploads an annual omnibus of all their videos for the year. I watched them all individually, then I watch them again in 9 hour form.
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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
There’s a lot of YouTubers that started doing big videos like that and i just don’t have the time to watch something like that and give it all my attention. Same with caddicarus, used to watch both of these a lot but since they started having massively long videos i just haven’t bothered with them in ages
I would guess 80% of the people who watch these aren’t actually watching them. Hell, background play is the real reason I pay for YouTube Premium. Not having to worry about ads is a nice bonus.
You definitely don’t have to watch it all in one go. I usually just watch however much of it I want to watch that day and then send myself a time stamped link to pick it back up whenever I have the time and interest again
Of course if you’re just not interested that’s totally fair
I usually have those kind of things in the background while I cook or wash dishes.
At that point, you’re basically just listening to podcasts. Leaning into it might be a good choice, since there’s no visual element that gets lost when listening to podcasts, as compared to YouTube videos.
But seriously it’s that Christian Bale?
is* that
Technology connections.
Ahoy.
My favorite is summoning salt.
Yeah me too. I had no idea I could be fascinated by something I had absolutely no interest in.
Also Cathode Ray Dude
And then for a hat trick, throw in Big Clive.
He’s the perfect size—they shouldn’t make YouTubers bigger than that
I think you’d also like NakeyJakey’s game design essays and infernoplus on halo modding.
Thank you for sharing your playlists!
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
NakeyJakey’s game design essays
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Where’s pannenkoek2012’s Super Mario 64 invisible walls explanation video on your list?
Also chec km out Fredrik Knudsen’s DTRB
I have not been able to get up from a single one of his videos. They’re all addictively well-paced and written. All great vids.
The 6 hour video about EVE Online was a ride.
One of my absolute favorites!
I only get sucked into these if I like the narrator’s style. Some people just have a natural way of talking that can keep my attention no matter what they’re talking about.
