5 mo. ago • 97%

me whenever hbomberguy uploads a new video

Shameless plug of my playlists:

Long video game essays (30min - 1h)
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!

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I mean, you gotta learn about the failure of the Star Wars hotel!

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- 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
  
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  Jenny’s video was so damn good, I’ve started watching her back catalog.
  
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- 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!!
  
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Technology connections.

Ahoy.

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- Also Cathode Ray Dude
  
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  And then for a hat trick, throw in Big Clive.
  
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  He’s the perfect size—they shouldn’t make YouTubers bigger than that
  
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- My favorite is summoning salt.
  
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  Yeah me too. I had no idea I could be fascinated by something I had absolutely no interest in.
  
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I thought hbomberguy uploaded :(

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- Yeah ditto :( but Jenny Nicholson released a 4 hour video on the Star Wars Hotel just recently.
  
  https://youtu.be/T0CpOYZZZW4
  
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  And it's so ridiculously good. The NYT even wrote an article about it.
  
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  10/10 video. She knocked it out of the park.
  
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  YT pushed me her Evermore one last night, was the first I ever heard of it. Good video, accurate meme
  
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- 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.
  
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  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  
  https://piped.video/31e0RcImReY
  
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
  
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- Sorry to give you false hope 😔
  
  But I still believe that we'll get at least one video this year! 😭
  
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Why are you teasing me like this? He didn't upload anything.

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*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

*Lessons from the screenplay

*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

Edit: things I forgot or didn't know about and had suggested to me below

*Half as interesting

*Undecided with Matt Farrell

*3blue1brown

*Numberphile

*Mathologer

*Miniminuteman

*Sam o'nella

*Alternate history hub

*Road guy rob

*8-bit guy

*Modern vintage gamer

*Bobby Broccoli

*Jenny Nicholson

*Animagraffs

*Captain disillusion

*Driving 4 answers

*Engineering explained

*Jeff geerling (raspberry pi type projects)

*Kings and generals

*Michael Reeves

*Noah caldwell-gervais

*People make games

*Pointless hub

*Smarter everyday

*The engineering mindset

*The great war

*The operations room

*The modern rogue

*Zack Freedman

*The backyard scientist

*Brew

*I did a thing

*Neo

*Stand up maths

There i think that's it. That's a ton of stuff but I really follow more quality YouTube than anything else and I like sharing great YouTube channels. If you enjoy interesting YouTube I would honestly just check a couple of these out and see if the topics fit your interests.

These channels range from science, space, physics, to history, sports, cars, to tech, movies, games, to makers who build stuff seriously as well as builders who make stuff silly.

Not everything here is video essay, but it's high quality content imo

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- 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.
  
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  Nice! My list here is science, videogames, tech, cars, sports, spooky conspiracy stuffs, and space
  
  So if youre interested in a topic let me know I can point you to the right channels.
  
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- Missing all the mathematics channels smh. (Numberphile, mathologer, 3blue1brown...)
  
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  It's true, I'm subbed to 2 of those
  
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- 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.
  
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  Oh shit practical engineering! I have Grady!
  
  Also undecided with Matt Farrell
  
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- 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.
  
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  You're right about stuff made here. Love that.
  
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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.

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But seriously it's that Christian Bale?

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- is* that
  
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  It's no tits
  
  Or it's not it's
  
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Defunctland has some of the best researched stuff I've seen. His dive into the Disney Channel Theme is absolutely incredible.

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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.

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Where's pannenkoek2012's Super Mario 64 invisible walls explanation video on your list?

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- I know that name, what a legend
  
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There's a lot of YouTubers that started doing big videos like that and i just don't have the time to watch something like that and give it all my attention. Same with caddicarus, used to watch both of these a lot but since they started having massively long videos i just haven't bothered with them in ages

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- You definitely don't have to watch it all in one go. I usually just watch however much of it I want to watch that day and then send myself a time stamped link to pick it back up whenever I have the time and interest again
  
  Of course if you're just not interested that's totally fair
  
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  I usually have those kind of things in the background while I cook or wash dishes.
  
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- I would guess 80% of the people who watch these aren't actually watching them. Hell, background play is the real reason I pay for YouTube Premium. Not having to worry about ads is a nice bonus.
  
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Video essays somehow skip past my eternally short attention span

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- 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
  
  I blame my office job
  
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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.

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- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  
  Plainly Difficult
  
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
  
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Your playlists are missing all of Noah Caldwell-Gervais' video's.

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- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  
  Noah Caldwell-Gervais
  
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
  
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I think you'd also like NakeyJakey's game design essays and infernoplus on halo modding.

Thank you for sharing your playlists!

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- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  
  NakeyJakey's game design essays
  
  infernoplus on halo modding
  
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
  
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If you want a rabbithole watch mort theory

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- 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.
  
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- holy shit thank you, i needed something to do nothing with my night
  
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- Mort is the devil or whatever. Real shit
  
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False alarm,hbomberguy did not publish recently

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Also check out Fredrik Knudsen's DTRB

I have not been able to get up from a single one of his videos. They're all addictively well-paced and written. All great vids.

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- The 6 hour video about EVE Online was a ride.
  
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- One of my absolute favorites!
  
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- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  
  DTRB
  
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
  
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- Nice I'll check this out for sure
  
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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

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Short list of favorite long YouTube "documentaries":

https://youtu.be/fIuhg0bjvQI

https://youtu.be/Qe5WT22-AO8

https://youtu.be/yXbJe-rUNP8 (5 fucking hours about the sm64 a button challenge)

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.
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- 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.
  
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- Bobby broccoli! So good
  
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- I have never played genshin impact and I object fundamentally to gatcha games. But I like video games a lot. Should I watch?
  
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  Definitely! I never played it too and the video was amazing!
  
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Glad to see Tim Rogers on that playlist - guy is one of the best in the biz

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Technology connections.

Ahoy.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Long video game essays

Longer video game essays

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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Majuular does great video game retrospectives :3 n he funni too

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I love Ed's auto reviews no matter how random the car he covers

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlK51P0vuc4

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- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  
  https://www.piped.video/watch?v=ZlK51P0vuc4
  
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