Post a video, entertain me!

akelm88 wrote:

This is what my sister calls TV. Watching Driver's View of Trains going through various countries. It's actually pretty relaxing.

Cab ride St. Moritz - Tirano (Bernina pass), Switzerland to Italy

I stayed at a train-themed hotel in Paris next to Gare du Nord. The front desk was made up like the train cab, and these were playing in the front "window".

Cast of Community (and Pedro "The Mandalorian" Pascal) read season 5 ep 4 "Cooperative Polygraphy"

I guess, season 5 spoiler warnings if you haven't watched the show. And if you haven't watched the show, why not?

Cross posting from the Love thread:

Okay, I have gone to Secret Stanta levels of digging around these forums to find the original post of this video so I could reply, but I just can't find it. Clearly I've failed. But this is one of the best things I've seen in a long time! So thank you to whomever it was, wherever it was.

Edit: turns out it was from my news feed: from the Verge. So yay! Enjoy!

"This short documentary explores some of the influences behind Denis Villeneuve's work, to know what Denis is trying to do with DUNE."

Getting my hopes up about Dune again.

Antichulius wrote:

Sudoku video

I posted this to twitter too; I do not particularly care about nor do suduko puzzles, but I'll be damned if that wasn't a 26-minute video of watching someone solve a sudoku from 2 numbers that was downright riveting. Watching him work it all out was just pure joy. You may think to yourself "I don't want to watch a 26-minute video of a guy solving a sudoku puzzle, that's crazy!" but you are wrong, give yourself a treat and watch it.

Somehow that channel started getting suggested to me by YouTube a few months ago and I’ve watched a number of their videos and they all have the same tone of wonderment and joy of discovery.

This one linked here may be the best ever though. That was amazing to watch.

Oh I also got their classic sudoku app for my phone, but got stuck with puzzle eleven where it took me over 45 minutes to place one number into the puzzle.

I don't care how transcendent it is. I am not watching some dude solve a Sudoku.

But I appreciate the thought.

BadKen wrote:

I don't care how transcendent it is. I am not watching some dude solve a Sudoku.

But I appreciate the thought.

I recommend doing exactly what the solver says in regards to the puzzle:

"I'm gonna give this five minutes, and then we will probably turn the video off... otherwise this is going to be a work of sublime genius."

Grenn wrote:

Getting my hopes up about Dune again.

IKR. I’m so trying to not hope but I’ve been dreaming of a good Dune movie for decades.

Antichulius wrote:

I recommend doing exactly what the solver says in regards to the puzzle:

"I'm gonna give this five minutes, and then we will probably turn the video off... otherwise this is going to be a work of sublime genius."

I'm a big logic puzzle person but I never quite got Sudoku. The first 3-4 times, sure, but after that isn't it just applying the same handful of heuristics over and over? It feels like doing a bunch of crossword puzzles that all use the same words.

On the other hand, many years ago I set out to write a program to solve Sudoku, and that was very challenging and enjoyable. I've noticed there's a whole class of games that are more interesting to automate than to play.

pandasuit wrote:
Grenn wrote:

Getting my hopes up about Dune again.

IKR. I’m so trying to not hope but I’ve been dreaming of a good Dune movie for decades.

Am I the only one that really liked the Sci-Fi Channel version from 2000? I thought it was miles better than the 1984 movie...

dewalist wrote:
pandasuit wrote:
Grenn wrote:

Getting my hopes up about Dune again.

IKR. I’m so trying to not hope but I’ve been dreaming of a good Dune movie for decades.

Am I the only one that really liked the Sci-Fi Channel version from 2000? I thought it was miles better than the 1984 movie...

I enjoy it. Good performances from Alec Newman (Paul) and Saskia Reeves (Jessica) with the MVP going to Ian McNeice (Baron Harkonnen). Very accurate to the book. I think it was SciFi's first attempt at a series or show you can take seriously. It was a precursor to Battlestar Galactica. That said, it was kinda dated even when it came out. The CGI tech wasn't quite there yet and the obviousness of the sound stages filled with sand were distracting. They swung for the fences but I felt they couldn't do it justice in this format yet (the mini-series has come long way since 2000). What I really want was that kind of effort, but as a big budget spectacle. It'll always be in my movie collection, but I'm hoping the new movie will really give me what I want. Can you imagine Paul calling his first sandworm in IMAX?

Grenn wrote:
dewalist wrote:
pandasuit wrote:
Grenn wrote:

Getting my hopes up about Dune again.

IKR. I’m so trying to not hope but I’ve been dreaming of a good Dune movie for decades.

Am I the only one that really liked the Sci-Fi Channel version from 2000? I thought it was miles better than the 1984 movie...

I enjoy it. Good performances from Alec Newman (Paul) and Saskia Reeves (Jessica) with the MVP going to Ian McNeice (Baron Harkonnen). Very accurate to the book. I think it was SciFi's first attempt at a series or show you can take seriously. It was a precursor to Battlestar Galactica. That said, it was kinda dated even when it came out. The CGI tech wasn't quite there yet and the obviousness of the sound stages filled with sand were distracting. They swung for the fences but I felt they couldn't do it justice in this format yet (the mini-series has come long way since 2000). What I really want was that kind of effort, but as a big budget spectacle. It'll always be in my movie collection, but I'm hoping the new movie will really give me what I want. Can you imagine Paul calling his first sandworm in IMAX?

^ this

I liked it and bought it on DVD when it came out. I own the Children of Dune series on DVD as well (yay for James McAvoy). Definitely better than the Lynch movie. I've watched them at least a half dozen times.

I want that big budget movie. In fact I'm dreaming of it being so successful we get the other books as movies as well. I don't think that will ever really happen though. I can't see it having a wide enough appeal over a long enough time period unless they dumb it down a lot. I can still dream.

If you haven't seen it I highly recommend watching Jodorowsky's Dune. It's interesting to see how many people working on that failed film took what they learned and went on to create some of the best scifi movies ever made. Jodorowsky's Dune was not going to be faithful to the books at all but it still looks like it could have been amazing.

Walk off the Earth--Shake it off:

I've always wondered if they mic'ed the Electric Griddle in this video. The beats are measure perfect to the track.

VULFPECK /// Birds of a Feather, We Rock Together (feat. Antwaun Stanley)

Stevie Ray Vaughn---Ain't Gone and Given Up on Love:

Ninja warrior course for squirrels.

I want a movie.

Spoilered because the logo is stick figure point gun at self.

Spoiler:

That reminds me of my favorite prank video.

I just watched an interesting Korean movie called Keys to the Heart which has the coolest version of Chopsticks I've ever hear.

Grenn wrote:

I just watched an interesting Korean movie called Keys to the Heart which has the coolest version of Chopsticks I've ever hear.

That's great! Is that movie streaming on Netflix or Amazon Prime?

Neither. It was on Asiancrush, but it seems they've pulled it. Hmmmmm.....