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!
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
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.
Missing all the mathematics channels smh. (Numberphile, mathologer, 3blue1brown)
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.
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.
I mean, you gotta learn about the failure of the Star Wars hotel!
My wife: we’re not going to watch a 4hr video about the Stars Wars Hotel.
My wife, 3hs50min into the Star Wars Hotel video: I need to know more!!
I didn’t wake up planning to watch a 4hr video in the failure of the Star Wars hotel but I’m weirdly glad I did
Jenny’s video was so damn good, I’ve started watching her back catalog.
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 :(
Sorry to give you false hope 😔
But I still believe that we’ll get at least one video this year!
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.
Yeah ditto :( but Jenny Nicholson released a 4 hour video on the Star Wars Hotel just recently.
YT pushed me her Evermore one last night, was the first I ever heard of it. Good video, accurate meme
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.
dude I’m supposed to learn how to taxes, not be reminded to crawl back into the rabbit hole of how to sharpen a knife on a whetstone by hand
Why are you teasing me like this? He didn’t upload anything.
It seems like I will only watch either a 15 min video or a 4 hour one. I just don’t seem to like the very short form video format. It does allow enough time for even a single subject.
With one exception, I’ll watch a lockpicking lawyer at any length.
Your playlists are missing all of Noah Caldwell-Gervais’ video’s.
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.
If you want a rabbithole watch mort theory
Also sponge bob skin theory. Dude had a little video putzing around, then a couple years later dropped a couple hour long video to convince people of some absolutely wild shit about sponge bob, then just disappeared.
holy shit thank you, i needed something to do nothing with my night
Mort is the devil or whatever. Real shit
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Bobby broccoli! So good