What Did You Watch Today? - YouTube video recommendation general

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Watched anything good on YouTube lately? In the sea of 'just good enough' YouTube videos some manage to still feel special, please share the videos which you found particularity interesting, funny or else. Any length and any genre is fine as long as it was something that stood out.

To kick this off. Here is a video about metagaming, the fascinating ongoings of people who will do anything to gain an edge in a social video game. This is a video about Habbo and the inner workings of its larger ingame groups (corporations). I never got into Habbo so seeing that kids were willing to spend hundreds of hours doing menial digital task to reach play pretend ranks in player run agencies was pretty funny and endearing. Major corporations would war with each other employing various metagaming strategies to grief each other. Spying, rioting and even going as far as to turn game mechanics into rudimentary weapons. The video takes a real turn half way through when the creator reveals he's a high functioning sociopath who actually ran a corporation on an alternative Habbo server. As corporation head he developed anti-griefing tools which such names as 'the blacksite' all while also developing even more powerful weapons on the side :story:
 
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FUCKING, THANK YOU @Avenue for making this thread, I really need new suggestions for new videos. The quality of YouTube videos has gone down a lot, I can't even find anything to fill the silence while I'm working on stuff (:_(

I used to watch YouTubers review a lot of shit games but I never knew the history behind them at all so this video was really insightful and interesting
Very well made video that explains something that I felt for a long time. The decline of the Internet and its community
I fucking LOVE MattKC. He's one of my big inspirations for getting good at programming
 
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Perhaps one of the coolest yet simplest video editing tricks I have ever seen. A slightly older and popular video which I still rewatch from time to time, especially the shot with the windmills is very mesmerizing.
Posy is a Dutch guy making videos which usually revolve around either retro tech or the intersection between art and technology. As a creative everything in the video is done by posy himself, from the cinematography down to the music. Its not a 'stop what you're doing and watch the latest' nor a particularly 'bingeworthy' kind of channel but I'm never disappointed when I do watch one of his videos.
 
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Guy creates his own NES emulator from scratch just so he can add functionality that lets you swap roms every clock cycle. He uses this to create a chain that results in jumping to a certain address that triggers the SMB3 ending. Its pure grade autism and the guy isn't a fucking tranny freak. Good Stuff
 
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Avenue said:
To kick this off. Here is a video about metagaming, the fascinating ongoings of people who will do anything to gain an edge in a social video game. This is a video about Habbo and the inner workings of its larger ingame groups (corporations). I never got into Habbo so seeing that kids were willing to spend hundreds of hours doing menial digital task to reach play pretend ranks in player run agencies was pretty funny and endearing. Major corporations would war with each other employing various metagaming strategies to grief each other. Spying, rioting and even going as far as to turn game mechanics into rudimentary weapons. The video takes a real turn half way through when the creator reveals he's a high functioning sociopath who actually ran a corporation on an alternative Habbo server. As corporation head he developed anti-griefing tools which such names as 'the blacksite' all while also developing even more powerful weapons on the side :story:
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I browsed through his channel and found this video interesting.
The Minecraft section is my favorite.

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Because direct democracy isn't really possible, the right wing coalition on DemocracyCraft overthrew the government in a soft coup.

They won the March 2024 elections and gained a supermajority in both houses when an opposition member resigned to serve in the administration. They used this to purge the entire opposition, Supreme Court, Vice President, and President.
 
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As long as locks have been around people have been trying to manipulate them, this talk goes over the history of noteworthy lockpickers and the tools and methods they used. Normally I despise history videos, every time a video opens with a hint of a history section I reach for the seek bar faster then the crappy VPN sponsorship hits. However the world of lockpicking is extremely fascinating yet very opaque which makes this talk a worthwhile listen. Lots of this history is kept in old books or obscure digital archives so this serves as a nice highlight reel, especially interesting are the ultra custom lockpicking tools made by hobbyists and governments.
As this is a conference talk there is some filler and live 'performanceness' which do add to the runtime so feel free to skip around. Also watch for doublespeak by the author, its not malicious but its obvious that he sneaks in some easter eggs for people 'in the know'.
 
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Gattaca and Racial Replacement​

Wyatt Stagg (the creator of the video) also linked an article (archive) related to the video.

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Had this in my recommends for a couple of days and decided to watch it today:

Pretty good. I didn't know the artists before watching this, i like the whole concept and that Lamour dude is mad talented with a pen. Main artist loves to hear himself talk but i'm still gonna follow this project.
 
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Quest for Internet Control​

Review of communication theorists Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis, and how their respective theories apply to the internet.
Uploaded: 13 feb. 2010
 
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The Weird Rules of Evolution​

Uploaded: 3 okt. 2021

The many odd “rules” and “laws” of organisms and nature. Short and simple list video I hope you guys enjoyThere aren’t any true sources for this video, instead, I used the main article from Wikipedia (along with all articles attached) to make this video. Many of the rules don’t have full articles. I also left out a few rules I thought would be too complicated or uninteresting to explain. Article of Biological Rules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_rules
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Invasive Species​

Uploaded: 31 mars 2019

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The Future is Black (and Female)​

Uploaded: 24 sep. 2020
 
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Lately Gamers Nexus videos... Causing me to get iron fever... I think I have watched channel like long ago a little. But was kind of new channel to me as I found it now again. And I really like how they just shit on bad products, there is no 7/10 for garbage.

"Corsair, obliviously you can't trust their marketing. This is misleading to the point that it is a lie."

Clearly independently funded channel.
 
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