Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted December 8, 2016 Report Share Posted December 8, 2016 Throwing watermelons off of high buildings is fun. Coating watermelons in a high tensile strength elastomer epoxy so that it can survive the fall is even more fun: At 5:10, I really cringed with the dude actually sniffed the reacting polymer. Dude, you see the guy in the respirator? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanagandr Posted December 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2016 I'm gonna go ahead and say that it was the coating that survived, not the watermelon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted December 13, 2016 Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 Everyone's favorite underage critic is at it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted December 13, 2016 Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 She's like if Mike Stoklasa was a young, attractive, 20-something woman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted December 13, 2016 Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 She's like if Mike Stoklasa was a young, attractive, 20-something woman. Stop it. I'm in public and don't need a third strike on my Public Indecency record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted December 15, 2016 Report Share Posted December 15, 2016 Neat: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted December 17, 2016 Report Share Posted December 17, 2016 One of the best YouTube videos I've ever seen: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sturgeon Posted December 17, 2016 Report Share Posted December 17, 2016 Oh I should have told everyone, you can get fucking banned for posting rap battles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogensthegreat Posted December 17, 2016 Report Share Posted December 17, 2016 Oh I should have told everyone, you can get fucking banned for posting rap battles. Oh, ok. Anyways, happy first day of Saturnalia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 "I'm a '90s kid, I was born in '94."BITCH. NIGGA. NO. YOU ARE NOT A '90s KID. By the time you were 3, which is pretty much the earliest possible point that you could have memories, it was already 1997. You probably have almost no memories from before age 6, by which point it wasn't the '90s anymore. Virtually ALL of your formative memories were from the early 2000s.That makes you a 2000s kid. I am a '90s kid. Sort of. Real '90s kids were born in the 1980s, but my family was backward so I got exposure to a lot of '80s living standards and technology wrapped around late '90s pop culture. But you remember the Macarena? Yeah, because middle school dances are lame, and they play lame music. Doesn't make you a fucking '90s kid. Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted December 22, 2016 Report Share Posted December 22, 2016 Cody continues to earn the title of "Absolute Madman": Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 2017 is definitely shaping up to be just as weird as 2016. For starters, I now respect PewDiePie somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 On 12/20/2016 at 0:29 AM, Sturgeon said: But you remember the Macarena? Yeah, because middle school dances are lame, and they play lame music. Doesn't make you a fucking '90s kid. I didn't watch the video, but is the big reveal that the Macarena was actually written by Serbian ultra-nationalists and it's a call to exterminate Albanians and support Slobodan Milošević? Because if the shocking revelation is that it's actually about sex or something, I'm going to be really bored. Sturgeon, Lord_James, LoooSeR and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 What the fuck Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted May 4, 2017 Report Share Posted May 4, 2017 More good journalism from Tim Pool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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EnsignExpendable Posted July 4, 2017 Report Share Posted July 4, 2017 This song has enough dakka Sgt.Squarehead and Xlucine 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted July 25, 2017 Report Share Posted July 25, 2017 Some of the YouTubers I've been giving a test run recently have started making me wonder out loud whether some people shouldn't be allowed to have opinions. Like, just try to watch the part of the video below at timecode 12:21 and not laugh out loud: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted August 1, 2017 Report Share Posted August 1, 2017 Priory_of_Sion 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanagandr Posted August 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2017 Well he's finally done it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 Pretty good and concise overview of the Diversity Memo shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted August 20, 2017 Report Share Posted August 20, 2017 Bloke on the Range has a much more plausible sounding explanation for the YouTube Adpocalypse: Quote Was discussing the whole "Admageddon" thing with The Chap yesterday in the car, and the fact that Google/YouTube/Adsense have not been entirely honest with YouTubers. Right from the start. Basically, as I understand it (and my sister's friend sells ads for them in London, so I've a little inside info) was that once the advertisers had pulled out in April following bad media reports of ads being shown on racist vids, the amount of ads to go round was massively reduced. Instead of being straight-up with people about this, YouTube started rationing ads but not explaining how or why. They could have just come out and said "this is how it is, we've got reduced volumes at the moment so we're going to put them where we can have the best value add for our advertisers, who are the ones paying for all this. No advertisers, no revenues for anyone. Yes, it'll be mostly on innocuous viral kitten videos for a while, sorry. We hope that normal service will be resumed as soon as possible." Yes, it'll annoy everyone making other types of videos, but at least it's being honest and upfront. But what they actually did was basically the same thing but by subterfuge, and communicating about it very belatedly and in a creepy manner. This was the era of the "shadow demonetisation", which BotR suffered - my vids were monetised, but no ads were showing. Contacting YouTube just got bot-generated boilerplate about "community standards" and "maximising revenues for our content providers". Which was great, when revenues had dropped to practically zero. This is the kind of propaganda-type nonsense that I basically interpret as "blatantly lying to my face". Cos you're talking about "maximising revenue" for me while actually minimising my revenues. And you won't explain to me at all as to why no ads are running. If they'd just said, "look, firearms content is obviously adult, we've got lower volumes, so like all adult-classified channels you'll be getting less ads for a while, sorry, we're working on it, it's in our interests too that every monetised vid shows an ad on each view", I'd have accepted it. But no..... The other thing they seem to have been doing is randomly demonetising stuff - which is what Ian has dealt with in the post below. By demonetising new vids and with the time-lags for appeal corresponding to a fair number of views, they can ration ads artificially in this manner. A very big channel also had all of his hundreds of videos demonetised suddenly. Which he had to individually appeal. Add this dodgyness up over thousands of popular channels, and it's a way to squeeze a bit more distance out of the ads they've got to run. And of course they can hide behind their algorithm, "community standards", "maximising revenue for content creators", "blablabla" while never, ever having to tell people exactly what's going on. What bothers me is not the loss of revenues so much, which I understand - there's less ads sold than vids to run them on. Fine. It's the complete lack of timely communication, no clear and honest explanation, and the Pravda-style BS when they *did* comment on it that really stick in the throat. /rant out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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