The we should really have a YouTube thread thread

Bleach-themed wrote:"I'm a ReMAX guy myself,"

Dude, Yada is going to leave again now. Don’t do this.

important PSA from George Clooney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Drqiss4_tg

important PSA from Scotland: https://www.facebook.com/deryck.henley/videos/10206613783098707/

best damn thing i've seen on a screen in a while: AlphaGo - The Movie | Full Documentary

it's nominally about AI and a research team's attempt to master the game of Go.  but it ends up being a treatise on why we play games, the meaning of winning and losing, and the pursuit of self-improvement.  it's powerful stuff.  fav youtube comment: "never expected to cry about a computer playing a game I don't even understand"

highly recommended.  protip: in the second half of the movie, when they get to Korea, turn on the closed captions.

i thought this was pretty damn excellent:

Bizimkilər 3.0 HD Pink Floyd Another brick in the wall

I mean, standards are different these days.

this is absolutely hysterical

https://youtu.be/hFZFjoX2cGg
Squirrel Ninja Obstacle course!

^ muy excellente!  gawd i love over-achieving engineers…

JeroldNuale wrote:
https://jobs.thelocal.de/employers/502752-plain-white-t-s-hey-there-delilah-lyrics

Jerold?  I've not heard of these Plain White Ts folks …they any good? 

Edit - I clicked your link and now somebody is asking for a bitcoin ransom!
Edit 2 - he now has my stimulus check!

A classically trained flutist listens to Jethro Tull for the first time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKSrq_qjB_Y

Heilung4eva wrote:
A classically trained flutist listens to Jethro Tull for the first time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKSrq_qjB_Y

wow, good watch.

i have very mixed feelings about these "reaction" videos.  this one seems legit, but 99% of the genre is folks gushing incessantly over something they've never heard in order to harvest likes & subs.  this genre of video seems made to pander to fans of the subject of the review: if you like jethro tull, then you'll love a video of someone gushing over JT.  it provides validation - "yeah, i do have good taste in music - see?  this person who has never heard my fav band before loves it too!"  it's so easy, so patronizing… yet it feels good. 

i have yet to come across a single reaction video where the reviewer/reactor trashes what they heard.  makes sense, since there is less emotional attachment.  would you bother watching a 12-minute video of someone trashing nickleback?  of course not, you can do that on your own and having your hate validated isn't nearly as powerful as having your likes confirmed (unless you're a sith, obvs).  the genre seems very formulaic: find a crowd you want to suck up to, identify their preferred musical genre, then record a butt-load of videos of you declaring that this music you've just heard for this first time has changed your life for forever.  repeat and monetize.

Also, its a good solo.

Heilung4eva wrote:
A classically trained flutist listens to Jethro Tull for the first time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKSrq_qjB_Y

I do like how she says Yetrho Tull

side-KNEEL wrote:

Heilung4eva wrote:
A classically trained flutist listens to Jethro Tull for the first time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKSrq_qjB_Y

I do like how she says Yetrho Tull

she addresses this in another video of hers.  she says that's the way it would be pronounced in Finnish, but has switched to the "correct" English pronunciation, and she thinks it sounds weird as hell.

Fred Schneider on Conan O'Brien 1995
kinda gotta wait for this to kick in…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWbmPHx5R2Q

Purl jam: Finland hosts heavy metal knitting championship
this event has Heilung4eva written all over it

squinting wrote:
Purl jam: Finland hosts heavy metal knitting championship
this event has Heilung4eva written all over it

This is far better than that eurovision tripe all over netflix.  With the possible exception of Netta Barzilai. https://youtu.be/92sDnLblj38