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Приєднався 17 лис 2014
Books. Comedy. Tomfoolery. Miscellaneous other forms of chaos. What more can one ask of life?
Відео
Guy Who Only Reads "Cozy" Fiction
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Don't come at me, cozy fantasy fans, for this is but a joke. For my part, I'll sadly never be able to enjoy this genre of literature, as I only drink tea... #cozybooks
When the Preface Spoils the Entire Book
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On today's episode of "Watch me have imaginary conversations with myself about minor inconveniences"... Music: George Street Shuffle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
I'm obsessed with this insane comedy from Ancient Rome | The Satyricon Review
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Those Romans sure liked to party hard, I guess. 00:00 Introduction 02:20 What even is this book? 03:32 Menippean Satire 05:15 Who was Petronius? 06:19 Content Warning and Further Context 07:56 Summary 13:55 Insight into Roman Life 15:47 Pederasty 18:12 Hedonism 21:00 Concluding Thoughts Music: Tango de Manzana Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 c...
If Subatomic Particles Could Talk
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I've wanted to make this one for a long time. Sorry to fans of electron neutrinos and W and Z bosons. And I know muons also couple with photons, like electrons, (as implied by muon having a "new electric field") and blah blah blah this video was already too long anyway, please don't think too hard about the implications of some of these jokes or it will stop making sense. (But if you are a phys...
Hollywood when a Book isn't "Marketable" Enough
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Haha, Hollywood is so dumb and bad when they try to adapt books, please laugh at my original critiques, fellow book readers.
I finally read The Sunlit Man
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Book reviews are so back. 00:00 Spoiler-Free Thoughts 02:44 Structure 05:00 Nomad's Characterization 09:29 Dialogue/Prose Rant 12:56 Immersion 15:56 Magic System 20:17 The Cinder King 21:02 Fan Service and Cosmere Connections 22:35 Elegy 24:24 The Ending 25:08 Hoid 26:30 Closing Thoughts Music: George Street Shuffle and Tango de Manzana Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Co...
Apparently, this is what a Cinephile™ is like
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Guys, I have a confession to make. There is a shameful secret I have been hiding from you all: I like movies. I know, I know, it's embarrassing. I'll see myself out now. #cinephile #cinema #art
Making Friends Online: Then vs Now
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Subscribe if you want us to be friends.
If Toxic Authors Made Video Essays
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Oh boy, I love stock footage. Who else can relate? #writer
How the internet acts if you try to Like More Than One Thing
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So do you like the Land of the Whirlpool or Zhortep IV? (You can only pick one.) Music: George Street Shuffle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
When You Take Writing Advice Too Literally
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Who knew writing was so easy? #writing Music: George Street Shuffle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
NASA: "Discovery of Extraterrestrials has Huge Implications for Sci-Fi Worldbuilding."
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How could we have let this happen? Music: George Street Shuffle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ #scifi #aliens #nasa
Two Types of Alt-History Worldbuilding
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Crazy to think that history could have gone this way. Music: "The Hunger" and "Burn Them All" by White Bat Audio George Street Shuffle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
When a "Plot Twist" is WAY too Obvious
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You're never gonna believe how this video ends... By the way, if you're wondering if this particular example is inspired by a particular book, yes it is: a certain plotline in the second John Carter book. I wouldn't heartily recommend it. Music: Hutsul Havoc (by Rockot on Pixabay) March of the Spoons & George Street Shuffle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Att...
Netflix's Three Body Problem: An Extremely In-Depth Review
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Netflix's Three Body Problem: An Extremely In-Depth Review
When you just want to look at spoilers
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When you just want to look at spoilers
When there are way too many subgenres...
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When there are way too many subgenres...
Thinking About Writing vs. Actually Writing
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Thinking About Writing vs. Actually Writing
Guy Who Overhypes His Favorite Book
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Guy Who Overhypes His Favorite Book
The Two Types of Sci-Fi Worldbuilding
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The Two Types of Sci-Fi Worldbuilding
When You Just Want to Find a Nonfiction Book to Read, but Apparently They're All Bad
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When You Just Want to Find a Nonfiction Book to Read, but Apparently They're All Bad
When Your Friend Takes a Book Recommendation Too Seriously
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When Your Friend Takes a Book Recommendation Too Seriously
Just one of those days, I guess...
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Just one of those days, I guess...
A new theory of humanity's uniqueness? | Breaking down "The Secret of Our Success"
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A new theory of humanity's uniqueness? | Breaking down "The Secret of Our Success"
Dune: Part Two but this happens instead...
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Dune: Part Two but this happens instead...
How Brandon Sanderson Fans "Recommend" the Cosmere
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How Brandon Sanderson Fans "Recommend" the Cosmere
The CGI mustache adds depth I didn't know could exist. The Mariana's Trench of generic entertainment, if you will. Wait. It's not CGI? It moves as if it is. I'm legitimately impressed.
I was expecting him to paraphrase Descartes with the famous candle bit too and instead he went on a totally different tangeant, pretty amazed at how subverted my expectations were.
I'm happy to be represented by such a sympathetic character. 😌
In my sci-fi setting everything is fucked forever
Sometimes the prose in your dialogue makes me feel like Will Ferrell watching Mark Wahlberg in the Other Guys. “Wow, you learned to do that ironically? That was beautiful.”
The COMMITMENT to such a long build up for the punchline, 11/10. Haven't had a joke hit that hard since Nichijou!
I want to think that I'm Type I, but I ain't that deep. I want things in my fantasy world to make sense, for fear that some hypothetical reader would point out inconsistencies that I may have overlooked. I feel like it stifles some creativity that I can't just make stuff up on a whim. For example, I want to introduce (anime-fied) harpies in my world. Where did they come from? How do they live and procreate? Are there male harpies? Why does my world think there are no males? What does a society of winged creatures look like? What clothes can they wear if they have wings and giant claws?
The overall joke might have been improved just a bit of that was a 24 hour funeral candle
Oedipus the Baker made me choke
All the ovens The Qu discover different baking processes
Why don’t I rub dust in your eyes and then we’ll see how insignificant it is.
0:56 I'm unironically interested in this book.
I love this one. I can already tell "There is not a single thought that you have had in your entire lives that I had not had by the age of ten." is going to be one of the lines that I just randomly think about every so often. It's... I know what it's meant to mean but I just keep imagining it as a claim that every single thought they've had ever, he had already had. Including things like "I really like pastrami but the local grocery store never has it in stock", "Oh wow it's 2024 already?", "I feel like I've never seen a movie like that before, the way it forces you to adopt a new perspective", and "Did I really just get spoiled on It Has Been Said by the actual fucking book?"
the facial hair must have itched like some horrible truth that you can't fully understood but only accept as the explication of this all wronged geometry of this acursed place
I love how reincarnation of René Descartes wears star wars t-shirt through whole speach
Why do I know this person
Oh my god he's an existential crisis gatekeeper 😂
Double sided scotch tape with sticky on both sides would work perfectly with your mustache. I kept waiting for it to fall off.
I love comedy that makes me feel smart, but also tells me I'm stupid, but I still feel smarter, another smashing success my good man.
*Watches one Man Carrying Thing video*
Cozy cant really be a thing, can it?... society is doomed...
You need to read the Satires of Lucian.
Impassé
Saying we are insignificant next to the cosmos has always been a lazy form of nihilism. As Chesterton says, “Why should a man surrender his dignity to the solar system any more than to a whale? If mere size proves that man is not the image of God, then a whale may be the image of God; a somewhat formless image; what one might call an impressionist portrait. It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.”
While I personally don’t disagree and prefer the post-nihilism viewpoint of “nothing matters” doesn’t matter, to play devil’s advocate to Chesterton and be the voice of the small man, I guess small man’s advocate would be more succinct, the small man can chop down the tree, kill the whale, climb the mountain, circumnavigate the globe, plunge the deepest depths of the oceans, even step foot on the moon, but not even an infinite lifetimes can the small man cross the universe. The small man is made to feel big by conquering, and he cannot conquer the universe, it is too vast. What makes the small man truly small however is not the limitations of his deeds, but the limitations of his insistence that deeds make the man. Understanding makes the person, he can learn about the tree, the whale, the universe. People are of the universe and its way of seeing itself, we are how the universe can self reflect and understand its own beauty. We can plant the tree, save the whale, discover the origin and age of the universe and its vast complexity. We are infinite, so f that little shit of a small man.
Cozy cosmic horror is Twin Peaks
*When your friend wasn’t impressed by the Generic Entertainment video
postpostmodernism? isn't that metamodernism?
i am very upset that this feels relatable, and i love it "if i couldn't share my realizations when i had them, you can't do that now and feel good about it, it's unfair!"
A perfect depiction of, "having no hope and without God in the world", as described in Ephesians 2 in the Bible.
Excuse you the tooth bunny is absolutely real!!
you forgot the part in the type two where the human says "how about I jsut steal form you" and pulls out his lasgun kills the laien and then proceeds to exterminatus the planet
Bald cap (bad)
me when my high school english teacher said we'd have our first existential crisis in our 20s
I love reading cozy fiction aswell. It's like when I'm too stress with work or my life 😅 my go to happy place is book with cozy theme on it 😌☺️📚
Why do i think that the sunglasses friend was kind of spitting.
dammit, actually spoiled Macbeth
Happy to see that Anthony Fantano has expanded to movie reviews now. You love to see the growth.
Mr Mustache Sunglasses, I have a question for you: How do you know you're real? You could just be a construct created by another being. You're whole purpose might just be "Nilhistic Asshole who refuses to improve themselves or find hope", either by accident or as part of a lesson for someone, somewhere. Like imagine if you were Generic Entertainment for someone. You're not based, you're not based on anything. *Drops the microphone*
sophomoric banalities. christianity is based
I checked out after he started talking about the candle
I was feeling sad today. Thank you I just laughed so hard I was crying through the last half of this. It's good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
but what is a candle
No david foster wallace was pynchoned here in this video. Only michal chabon
This is how I felt getting my homie to watch End of Evangelion 😭 it was rough
thats a lot of word salad to basically say your a arrogant nihilist
The idea of a seven year old thinking to themselves "I've been duped" is just wildly hilarious to me.
Read Calvin and Hobbes!
@@jiminyhickerbottoms1846 oh absolutely great example
This sounds like it’s about Everything Everywhere All At Once (incredible movie)
Your stuff is always good but to this I must say…very impressive.
Just finished the Netflix version. Never read the books and won’t bother tbh. The Netflix characters were universally unlikable for most the show. 2 characters took 6 episodes to be remotely relevant (probably an artifact of the series adaptation that the writers should have accounted for). And they needed a better science advisor if they wanted to avoid gaffs like calling the brain capsule the fastest ship ever when the Parker Solar Probe from 2018 beat it by more than twice the speed (though perhaps the episode was shot before 2023). It did have some entertaining moments at least and the fact that I finished the series with my ADHD is a compliment to the story (excuse it by reminding the audience this is an alternate universe to ours)?. The acting was overall excellent. And finally, can we talk about the elephant in the room: the fact that CCH Pounder hasn’t aged a day since I saw her in Lifepod? Not. A. Day. 😅
6:24 Worst part is that this is the most realistic part of it all 😭😭😭