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pineapplelover, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

Sam O nella Academy

gamermanh,
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For once he’s posted recently enough for “still” to count, even!

kinther, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?
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The Dungeon Dudes are always solid if you want DnD content. Even their episodes where you wouldn’t expect great talking points they somehow pull it off.

cerement, in Is it just my circle, or has it been a challenge getting into the Christmas/holiday spirit the last couple of years?
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Jólabókaflóð – forget gifts, exchange books and sit around a fire drinking hot chocolate

Jilanico,
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That is an amazing tradition!

nodsocket, (edited ) in Is it just my circle, or has it been a challenge getting into the Christmas/holiday spirit the last couple of years?

Christmas is a whole month dedicated to consumerism and kitsch. It’s no surprise you’re bored of it now.

speck,

yup! It can be hard to sustain holiday cheer for 5+ weeks

skybreaker,
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You’re right that it’s about consumerism for many people, but it doesn’t have to be.

Damaskox,
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There are ideas and arguments that can counter consumerism.

For instance - putting away same old decorations and reusing them should lower consumerism somewhat.

afraid_of_zombies,

I reuse the same decorations over and over again and don’t really think I am doing anything special.

BeardedSingleMalt,

Xmas 2020 with all the "shortages", at the Target and WalMarts near me the holiday aisles was very scant, and practically completely picked over by the week before. I had genuinely hoped that could have been an eye opener for America.

Spoiler alert: it didn't

0110010001100010,
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For instance - putting away same old decorations and reusing them should lower consumerism somewhat.

Wait, do people NOT do this? I use the same shit every year unless it’s broken and I can’t fix it. Usually my cats are in some way to blame for that.

sxan,
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My cousins have upped this game. They have toddlers. Starting in Feb, they begin stealing back the least popular toys and hiding them in the attic. Then they regift them back to the kids next Christmas. They only buy a couple new items every year.

It reduces clutter in the house and will probably work until around 6, when they plan to shift from regifting to donating.

afraid_of_zombies,

I assume most do. No I am not going to spend hours trying to remember some cheap plastic thing I bought a decade ago from the dollar store but if it’s fine sure I put it away for next year

Damaskox,
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Dunno how many do/don't do it 😁

I just wanted to point out a rather obvious idea 😂
Earth would also thank you!

BeardedSingleMalt,

Or you could be like my mom, who has to buy a new fake tree like every year.

sik0fewl,

They actually have these things now called real trees that are perfect for discarding every year after you are done with them.

Starbuck,

I even paid extra for a biodegradable one!

Blamemeta,

They leave needles everywhere. Imo, better to just use the same fake tree for decades.

SgtAStrawberry,

They have actually found way of making some of them so that they ether don’t leave needles around or if they do that needles are soft. Super nice, it has been our tree type of choice for a few years now.

Fosheze, in Is it just my circle, or has it been a challenge getting into the Christmas/holiday spirit the last couple of years?

My impression is just that nobody has the money for it anymore.

jeffhykin, (edited )

really? For me it’s more of a not having time. Doesn’t cost much to go caroling, watch Charlie Brown, cut paper snowflakes, make handmade gifts, etc

Fosheze,

Money is time. When you spend all of your time and energy focusing on working, eating, and sleeping because you’re too broke to do anything else, it doesn’t leave you with much time or energy to care about christmas.

SlopppyEngineer,

Yeah, if you’re working it all just becomes decorations along your commute, interrupted by a few busy family days followed by more work.

CaptKoala,

Money is the issue with all holidays in recent times. Take the fuckin’ money out of it, it should never have been involved in the first place.

Witchfire, (edited ) in What do you think would happen if Putin was assassinated right now?
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Worldwide party for the last 10 minutes as every nuhe Russia has gets launched

Appoxo, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?
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XboxAhoy (The channel name is just Ahoy)

clearleaf, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

Ashens has been the most stable and consistent thing in my life since 2008.

BilboBargains, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik

MintyAnt,

All hail the king of the Internet, Big Money

BilboBargains,

Co-hosted by 911 Yoga Dude

Tattorack, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?
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  • Lemmino. Quality only got better over the years. Started as a top 10 memes channel. Then became top 10 cool subjects presented like documentaries. Now it’s actual documentaries.
  • Gameranx. Watched them when they were still just two or three dudes just talking about games. All those years, they made it pretty big on YouTube, and they still didn’t lose that vibe.
ferralcat, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

Things I haven’t seen.

’ Steve mould - does cool little kiddie explanations of physical phenomenons.

  • Foureyes furniture - a bit asmr, but a woodworking channel. Guy makes neat stuff and talks about life while doing it.
  • Wristwatch revival - alsp kinda ASMR, but guy takes apart and repairs mechanical watches. Very repetitive after the first few watches, but I keep watching anyway.
thejodie,

It seems that Steve Mould looks progressively more tired in his videos as he goes along.

ook_the_librarian,
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Are you a Paul Sellers fan too?

UniversalMonster, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

TechMoan

Bahalex,

Nice to see an audio gear guy say “if it sounds good to you who cares about what the ‘audiophiles’ say” and “more flashy lights on the hi-fi!”

mynamesnotrick, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

Lets get Steve1989mreinfo out onto a comment… nice.

coaxil,

Nice hiss

Riven,
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Let’s put this out onto a tray.

koolkiwi, in Which of your favorite creators content quality went downhill very quickly?
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Hate to say it, but Wintergatan and his Marblemachine X. In the earlier days his videos were an exciting mix of mad genius, cool music improv and crafting. Then he became obsessed with making the machine play tight, precise music to a level that is beyond what anybody in an audience would be able to hear, and it became obvious that the machine would never get finished because he was stuck in an improvement loop.

Z4rK,

His goal wasn’t to create an art project though, but to create an actual instrument he can use. The artistry stuff and making it look cool was what made MMX a failure. I agree that the MMX videos were still fantastic content, but that thing was doomed.

Tightness: it’s a compound effect of every part, so afaik he’s just trying to make sure each part is as precise as possible, and selecting the most precise / consistent design out of the available choices.

MonsieurKoala,
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Yup, one lf the most painful un subscribing I did. He forgot he was making an art instrument and got lost into engineering nonsense that he doesn’t even understand. Under every videos there are people screaming that he is making assumptions that won’t work in the real world and others that are just sad because the magic is gone.

Abandoning the MMX felt like being scammed by a shady Indigogo (can’t imagine how it felt for the patreons) after so much progress and many years of anticipation.

I still check his videos every few months and just randomly watch a few seconds of the videos, his new plans are ridiculous and uninspiring :/.

koolkiwi,
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Yeah, pretty much this. Would have been best had he never bothered with 3d printed and manufactured parts as they allow a level of control (or illusion thereof) that would have never been possible with wood. Who cares if you’re losing a couple of marbles during a show (no pun intended), or if the snare drum isn’t tight to the thousandth of a second?

Pirasp,

The MMX is not completely abandoned btw, the guys at Musikkabinett are bringing it up to a classmate state

www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6bJc3ieykQOdqnQOmSdGw

Sure, Martin is not involved, but the machine is the same and the spirit is similar too.

Z4rK, (edited )

The MMX was doomed and not possible to save. It is exactly what it looks like: A cool looking contraption that can make some nice sounds using marbles, but it’s not an instrument you can use reliably in a band. You think it was hard for you to unsubscribe; how hard don’t you think it was for Martin to abandon the MMX? He wished it to succeed more than any of us, and probably abandoned it way too late because of it.

toasty_mcboost, (edited ) in Which of your favorite creators content quality went downhill very quickly?

Possibly controversial but… Hot Ones.

I prefer the older videos with less/no post production effects. I tried watching the interview with Elijah Wood but the fading video overlapping, music, zoom ins/outs, the voice echoing, and I couldn’t deal with these stupid transitions. Closed the video and haven’t got back since. The channel has one job and that is to make people eat progressively hot wings but the stupid post production effects ruin the video quality and make the whole interview less engaging. COOL IT SEAN!

Their content is good but how it’s presented is garbage.

SasquatchBanana,

I liked it a lot when they had smaller content creators. Do they do that anymore or is it only celebs?

BigBananaDealer,
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i think they also got rid of a lot of the really really hot sauces

its mostly just dabomb or last dab that are actually super hot

hactar42,

I feel like Sean’s interviewing has gone down too. He used to be so good about asking unique and interesting questions you wouldn’t hear elsewhere. Now he seems to like to interject his own thoughts and anecdotes, way too often.

RetroGradeBE,

I never really enjoyed his interview style, granted I only watched some of the later episodes but it never really got me. Quite monotone voice and very rehearsed feeling questions.

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