Youtube thread

[CiG]

Checking it out today at some point. I need to catch up with the JRE videos, last one I watched was the Dr. Debra Soh episode and only because I recognized her name. Been skipping a lot I guess.

 

[no country for old wainds]

this is inexplicably captivating

 

[Vegard Pompey]

This is one of my favorite JRE videos that I've seen. If you don't feel like watching the whole thing, Dan Carlin tells a very amusing story about being invited to a Central Command Planning meeting around the 50-minute mark.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

What in the fucking fuck

This was 20 years in the making

 

[CiG]

Arnie says he is the first non-military civilian to own the humvee? That's hilarious if true.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

 

[CiG]

Quality advice.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

this is inexplicably captivating

That was pretty cool. So Paul Murphy was the most skilled chess player of all time?

 

[no country for old wainds]

the most dominant for his time maybe. i know bobby fischer worshipped him and said that given modern chess theory he’d have beaten anyone.

the scale in that vid expands though, guys like carlsen and kasparov peaked much higher in rating than morphy, but elo rating scales do inflate over time so it gets complicated comparing across generations tbh. especially given everyone builds on the theory and innovations of the previous generations, not to mention the rapidly improving quality of chess computers etc. nobody from the 1800s is gonna beat even the 1000th best player today, but that doesnt mean they weren’t more naturally gifted, they just had way more primitive theory to study.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

the scale in that vid expands though, guys like carlsen and kasparov peaked much higher in rating than morphy

yeah my mistake. There are quite a few who were/are higher than him.

nobody from the 1800s is gonna beat even the 1000th best player today,

hmmm, i'm no sure sure about this one.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i mean, if you actually brought morphy into the 2010s as a kid and let him have access to the same studies as everyone else for however many years, maybe he'd be the best player in the world. but throwing him into games against modern GMs (1000th in the world would still be a GM as there's about 1500 of them i believe) without any knowledge of the last 100+ years of advancements in the theory probs wouldn't go well for him i think. there's just such a massive wealth of knowledge about openings and endgames n shit that's just commonly understood by any grandmaster now, whereas back then people were mostly winging it and used all kinds of weird openings etc that were later proven to be unsound and vulnerable in specific ways. it's not that people are smarter now or something, just that each generation builds on the knowledge of the generation before, and chess computers have accelerated this by basically showing mathematically what's sound and what isn't.

i'm sure the top guys from the 1800s would easily kick my ass though.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

hah, i play like the old schoolers because all i do is wing it and looks for openings.

but yeah, that makes sense.

 

[CiG]

Murray Siple's feature-length documentary follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts down the steep hills of North Vancouver. This subculture depicts street life as much more than the stereotypes portrayed in mainstream media. The film takes a deep look into the lives of the men who race carts, the adversity they face and the appeal of cart racing despite the risk.

Guy in the Canadian band Hive showed me this one. Basically a documentary about homeless dudes who collect plastic bottles, glass bottles, cans and bomb gigantic slopes on shopping carts and then get wasted.

 

[Sirjack]

l like that he doesn't say a word and speeds up the whole process.

 

[CiG]

The Aladdin one has me rolling.

 

[CF87]

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... oh mama mia!

 

[Satanstoenail]

Restored and enhanced footage of 9/11 from just after the first tower collapsed. Shot by a CBS cameraman at ground zero. Amazing and insane camera work.

 

[CiG]

Important shit.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]