66 posts tagged with video by JHarris.
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"Sounds like Kermit the Frog during a rectal exam."
Waluigi sings "Rainbow Connection." It'll consume two minutes and 44 seconds of your day, but no more than that. That's all. That's enough. [more inside]
10 Years of Jeremy Parish's Works Projects
Jeremy Parish, dedicated game journalist and Retronaut, and creator of design deep dives, has been covering Gameboy (1989, gaiden), Game Boy Color (1998), Game Boy Advance (2001), NES (1985, 1986, 1987, 1998, 1999, gaiden), SNES (1991, extra, gaiden), N64 (1996), Sega, Virtual Boy and Metroidvania games now for ten years! His terrific and scholarly videos don't get nearly the views that much less worthy series get, so please give them a try if you have any interest in this area.
COOOOKIIIEEEES! (a-rum-rum! a-rum-rum-rum-rum!)
Muptown Funk (previously) keeps rolling along, recently with two longer videos concerning Sesame Street: ranking every Waiter Grover sketch (50 minutes), and a deep dive into the stomach history of the Cookie Monster (20 minutes)!
More D&D Info Cartoons
Six years ago (really? wow) I posted about Zee Bashew's terrific D&D explainer videos. Well he's still making them, and is trying to do one a week for the next few months! Here are some he's made since I last told you all about them: What is a grognard? - Ceremony - Encumbrance in 5E - The Awful Way I Ran 5E Survival - Magic Mouth - Oops! All Wizards - 5E Players Try 1E (AD&D) - Healer Feat - The Problem With The Awaken Spell (sad/funny) - Dangers of Metagaming - Option: Quantum Inventory - Grappling in 1E. If you enjoy D&D, or just learning or watching videos about it, Zee Bashew's Channel is great.
"Magical Cat!"
✨There he is, ✨he's a magical cat, ✨everybody loves him ✨he's a ＭＡＧＩＣＡＬ ＣＡＴ!✨✨✨🧚🦄🧜♀️🧝🐈
(5 1/2 minute video, claymation animation compilation, silly, meow)
(5 1/2 minute video, claymation animation compilation, silly, meow)
A matter concerning a square and a circle
Snif & Snüf (five minutes), a cartoon about two friends who find a couple of mysterious shapes, by Michael Ruocco, an animator who's worked on New Looney Tunes, the Cuphead Show and Bojack Horseman.
peepy is about crime and peanuts, peanuts and crime
What the hell is Peepy? "A peepy thrives in the shadows, using its wit to stun enemies. Its ability to steal may surprise you. It loves peanuts and will commit any heinous act to get them." In our sad real world, Peppy is a little plush animal that's vaguely peanut-shaped itself, with a beak and big eyes both round. In the lore, a Peepy has two loves in life: eating peanuts and committing crimes. The adventures of Peepy and "friends" on video are part of an elaborate ad campaign by itemLabel with a jolly but vaguely unsettling vibe. Most of it has strange and infectious music by Japanese musician Emamouse. Here's Peepy's Theme Song; a Nintendo DS-like console explains how to care for Peepy; and then there's the amazingly trippy animation Peepy's Secret (warning: bright lights and flashing). [more inside]
tl;dw: RUN FOR THE HILLS
A helpful Adversary explains to a Sunday School class the many ways that Evangelical Christian teaching doesn't match up to what pastors learn in seminary, in the animated documentary Satan's Guide to the Bible. (1 hour 26 minutes) Watch out for that Jen!
That poor reindeer
Putting 31 volts through various holiday toys. (Youtube, 10 minutes)
He thought a good meal was one he could shape into a smiley face
Here is Uncle (6 minutes), a stop-motion short from 1996 by Adam Elliot. Elliot makes "clayographies," bittersweet and quietly funny stories about lives. Uncle had two direct successors, Cousin (1998, 4m) and Brother (1999, 8m). Here is an interview with Elliot about Uncle. Later on he made Harvie Krumpet (2003, 22m), Mary and Max (2009, clips + trailer: 11m; full movie [buy or rent] 1h32m), and Ernie Biscuit (2015, 20m). These are mostly all viewable, in much sharper detail, on Elliot's website, but they're harder to directly link to.
The popcorn preparation primer on every package of popcorn
If the customer wants wheat toast, we simply flip the jelly pack over
Welcome, new grill trainee, to the Waffle House family! Today in this training video, recorded by Area Vice President Greg Hall, you will be introduced to the "Magic Marker System," the only approved method of "marking" orders at Waffle House, and is absolutely used in all of its restaurants really honest. It isn't at all what those heathens at Huddle House and IHOP would call "batshit insane." Ready? Let's begin! [more inside]
Let's get down to pigness!
Fact: if you open a pen of pigs with expected food at the end of a run, the pigs will dash down it to the food at high speed. Some pigkeepers in England decided to take advantage of this essential trait of pigness, and so they bring us LEAGUE OF PIGS, a series of charmingly over-produced pig racing videos, now beginning its epic tenth season! A few selections: the oval track, the most recent video, and a trickier idea to accomplish than you might at first think; racing through water; the most recently completed season and the first season, from two years back. hippybear made a post about the 9th season finals last month, but it turns out there's more fun to be had there! [more inside]
NES Strider was not programmed well
When people mention Strider, they tend to think of Capcom's flashy classic arcade platformer, with Strider Hiryu slashing apart fur cap-wearing robots with his plasma sword. Hardcore Gaming 101 has its history. The arcade game was a classic; the NES game, somewhat less so. It was extremely badly implemented, and not even released in Japan. Displaced Gamers' Behind The Code series currently has two videos about it, about why it displays garbage sprites (15m) and its awful physics (19m), which let you wall jump, but only with frame-perfect timing, and not even the right frame. It's rather technical, but I trust that you can fast-forward through the bits you're not interested in.
The working name for Croönchy Stars cereal was "Stoopid Flakes"
The wonderfully-named Muptown Funk makes a couple of fairly new video series: The Muppets Deep Dive and Muppet History Lesson. They offer comforting and entertaining information on Rowlf, Lew Zealand, the Muppets' Lipton Tea Ads, Thog, Walter, Croönchy Stars cereal, Danny Trejo(?), and Fully Operational Automated Tony Bennett. (Avg length 10 minutes) [more inside]
Red is beautiful. But red is difficult. PURE RED
Neil Cicierega edited a bunch of George Lucas and Panasonic-related Japanese things together into THE GEORGE LUCAS EGGSPERIENCE. (4 minutes)
No waka waka to be heard
Atari Archive, an excellent game-by-game video retrospective of the library of the Atari VCS (aka the Atari 2600) covers its infamous port of Pac-Man. (38 minutes)
Grickle!
Grickle is Eisner award-winning artist and animator Graham Annable, featured on Metafilter twice before, that second time by missing, and missed, Mefite oneswellfoop. He worked for Lucasarts and created the award-winning two-game Telltale series Nelson Tethers Puzzle Agent. He's made two books of his frightfully funny artwork, The Book of Grickle and now Eerie Tales From The School of Screams. He has a terrific Mastodon account and a channel of funny/creepy Youtube animations. Favorites: Space Wolf (1:42), The Last Duet on Earth (3:54), The Hidden People (3:27), We Sing the Forest Electric (1:51), The Smartest Dog in the World (4:34), Soup Leprechaun (2:51), Blower (6:13), Pickle Sandwich (3:20), and... Maybellene (2:28, Maybellene was everything, and everything was Maybellene) [more inside]
📦boy of Scottish Fold 📦
On July 10, 2008, Youtube user mugumogu uploaded a video of their young cat Maru, but it was a collection of clips posted on January 11, 2009, with "まるです," "I am Maru," that made him a superstar, with over 26 million views. One of the first internet cats with a sizable following, last month, Maru celebrated his 16th birthday with fellow housecats Hana and Miri. Here's to a long and happy life of playing with boxes and sometimes embarrassing moments. [more inside]
Decrapifying Youtube
If you hate how Youtube's home page is lately full of clickbait thumbnails and titles desperate for you to load them, you might want to take a look at DeArrow, written by Ajay Ramachandran (Chrome, Firefox), an extension that can replace them with crowdsourced alternatives, or in their absence provide de-emphasized titles and random thumbnails. Ramachandran also produces SponsorBlock (Chrome, Firefox), a crowdsourced system for skipping past the sponsorship ads in videos, as well as the non-music portions of music videos. [more inside]
Clup into the Blobtrix
A sludge clapper never chubs a bubble, or at least that's what I'd murm if these keeblies scruffed a skimple a sun in their ivies. Zee Bashew is back, with a cartoon depicting every crunchy dystopian RPG.
Use Your Claws Luke
A new Engineer's Guide to Cats, on the subject of Cat Future Technology, with bonus reenactment of Star Wars with cats. A lot of other feline-focused film frivolity can be found on klusmanp's Youtube Page. (Engineer's Guide to Cats previously, again, also.)
PU (Pendulum Undoing)
Pannenkoek is the person who's been doing the A-button Challenge in Super Mario 64, and along the way has made a number of extremely geeky, but also informative, videos on Mario 64's internals, that explain a number of computer science principles along the way. You know, the person who brought M64's Parallel Universes (PUs) to our knowledge. He has a new video, on crashing the game in Tick Tock Clock by walking into a corner at the right moments (1 hour 12 minutes), and in this one they speak! [more inside]
Faster Than Light Newsfeed
I've mentioned it in past posts, but now there's a Youtube list of 633 30 to 60-second episodes of the first SyFy Sci-Fi Channel original series, FTL Newsfeed (IMDB), a commercial-length glimpse into the future, from the past when cable networks could actually be cool in their attempts at branding. It begins with an hour-long video containing the Sci-Fi Channel's pre-launch promo footage, so you'll have to fast forward to get to the first episode. After that each is over quickly, and it's easy to watch several in a row. FTL lasted for over four years, and the entire run does not appear to exist online, but transcripts of all the episodes exist on a pretty extensive fan wiki. [more inside]
Zelda Day 2022: 841 facts you probably didn't know about Zelda games
Gamespot has an epic series of videos covering various bits of esoterica concerning The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Here's a playlist of all of them. Youtube channel Looygi Bros has a similar playlist covering Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and Wind Waker. Added together, it totals 841 miscellaneous pieces of Zelda lore! By the time you've finished watching them all, it'll probably be Zelda Day 2023! [more inside]
This video isn't sponsored by anybody
Youtube creator GiantGrantGames gives the details of how Youtube assigns the ads on a video, why there are so many ads there now and only more coming in the future, and what you can do about it (hint: uBlock Origin), in a video titled YouTube Ads Are Getting Insane And I Hate It. It also reminds us that, in 2023, you won't be able to block ads in Chrome anymore. [more inside]
Tories are only found in the most humididulous jungles of the Vorp
Nearly completely forgotten in this age is an early Rankin/Bass cartoon that aired on NBC in 1970, The Tomfoolery Show (WIKIPEDIA), which animated nonsense works from Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, and Lewis Carroll, as well as containing original silliness. Seventeen were made, but most seem to be lost. Four episodes are preserved on Youtube by video rarities collector Anthony Gonzalez: one, two, three, four. Here's a playlist I made with all four. Some highlights are inside. WARNING: contains puns, limericks, and things that don't fit into traditional systems of logic. [more inside]
RAAAIIIID? (explosion)
With your host BOB SMiTH
AIT, the Agency for Instructional Television (WIKIPEDIA), was one of a number of organizations who made programs that PBS stations would air midday, for teachers to record for later use. One of these was the inexplicable Wordsmith, that explored the roots of words. Host Bob Smith, standing on a gameshow-like set with his 70s attire and mustache, takes foam balls with syllables on them out of a machine, opens them up to show inside is printed their meaning, then puts them back into the machine, which makes a sci-fi noise. Then Sesame Street-like short clips demonstrate its meaning. While it moves slow, it's still kind of interesting! A number of episodes survive, as well as some other programs from AIT, in the Indiana University Moving Image Archive. [more inside]
She keeps agricultural catalogs on her bedstand
The Rifftrax guys did their show for The Return of Swamp Thing last night, and to commemorate it they did a novelty bluegrass song:
Your Ever Lovin' Swamp Thing. [more inside]
Your Ever Lovin' Swamp Thing. [more inside]
MAY THE FINGERTIPS BE WITH YOU
They Might Be Giants' Fingertips, set to The Last Jedi. Set to other Star Wars movies. (Previously, set to The Force Awakens) [more inside]
Why should I smile while they toss me around?
Finally, a questionable sixteen-year journey comes to an end: the finale of Charlie the Unicorn, in which they finally explain what the hell is up with those two other obnoxious unicorns. Previously and again. Here are the previous parts, in one video.
Journey to EAT
Youtube show Adam Walks Around has Adam traipsing around places like the Phillippines, Indonesia, Malasya and Cambodia, and California, but nothing will prepare you for the end of Season 4, where our hero visits as many Californian locations of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes as he can. It has disturbingly appropriate music and a lot of special appearances from actors, musicians, and relatives, the State Historian of New Mexico, Gumby and Pokey (or maybe impersonators), and a certain "J. Elvis." Locations include Bronson Cave, Griffith Park, Coleman Francis Mountain, and the former locations of The Haunted House, Club Scum, and, of course, the diner known only as... EAT.
[secret found jingle]
It's Zelda Day 2020! Here's some video links on various things about Legend of Zelda games:
- Find out how speedrunners tackled a hard problem (25m): conquering the highly pseudo-random, Battleship-like "Sploosh-kaboom" minigame in The Wind Waker by writing a solver that runs in a web browser
- Watch suckerpinch showing off his attempts to 3D-ify the original Legend of Zelda (and other NES games too), in a video titled "the glEnd() of Zelda" (16m)
- And, here is the world-record "Low%" Twilight Princess speedrun where the player does nothing for 17 hours (16m)
A MERRY CHRISTMAS IN THE FACE OF DOOM
"Meteors are raining down, zombies marching through your town, tidal waves are heading right your waaay..." Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy wrote and performed a song about Christmas in 2020, and @JoshFlowers on Twitter edited clips of RiffTrax Christmas videos into it. It's APOCALYPSE CHRISTMAS. HO HO HO
It's Zelda Day in July!
Kleric (previously) posts entertaining YouTube videos showing off glitches and tricks in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Tricks like, how physics changes during 'bullet time' and how to make a 'spaceship' out of a Guardian and a boat, how to make a stable flying machine out of two minecars, information on causing 'glitched blood moons', shield sliding, hold smuggling, creating a flood of Ancient parts, what 'skew' is and how to take advantage of it, menu overloading basics and a better way to do it, how to ensure the day/night timer never begins, and how to make as many horses as your little equine-loving heart desires. [more inside]
A musical undersea space adventure!
Hammerhead Shark Song, from the album Domingo, by Chip Tanaka (aka Hirokazu Tanaka, aka Hip Tanaka, composer for Metroid, Kid Icarus and some of Earthbound), video programmed by Toby Fox (Undertale, Deltarune) with help from Temmie Chang and others.
Always follow directions on package
"Ball save!"
If you don't mind killer latency, not being able to nudge the table, waiting for your turn to play and creating an account on surrogate.tv, you can play a physical Stern's Batman 66 pinball machine live on the internet. Here's how they did it.
How to play Call of Cthulhu, 7th edition
Wanted to get into cosmic horror roleplaying game Call of Cthulhu but thwarted by the rulebook? The 7th edition of the game makes combat a lot more rigorous where most attack rolls are opposed, adds more specific procedure to insanity, and beefs up a lot of other areas of the system. It can be a lot for a new player, so CJ has made an entertaining and informative animated series that lays out how the game works, with lots of examples.
1. Introduction — 2. Basic Rules — 3. Combat — 4. Firearms — 5. Insanity — 6. Character Creation — 7. Investigator Development — 8. Chase — 9. Magic [more inside]
1. Introduction — 2. Basic Rules — 3. Combat — 4. Firearms — 5. Insanity — 6. Character Creation — 7. Investigator Development — 8. Chase — 9. Magic [more inside]
Baby Burping Made Easy
The Useless Duck Company has unveiled their new system for releasing air bubbles from the stomachs of infants, using their custom-built, ergonomic apparatus in conjunction with a handy app. Come see the future of child care!
Brought to you by a grant from GreenCheat and Smarty Juice
And now settle back for an unusually calming pair of new Homestar Runner shorts that's right Strong Bad teaches you to draw familiar-looking "cartoon characters", and then it's time for an episode of the unusually soothing children's show characters from yonder website, or rather, 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝔂𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝔀𝓮𝓫𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓮, far out. [more inside]
"If we had to do that at Rifftrax it would truly drive me insane."
A couple of days ago Kevin Murphy of Rifftrax & MST3K screened some 16mm shorts online. No riffs, just films. One of them that he cut off halfway in was called "The Baggs." It's about two living sacks of garbage and the beard guy who tries to catch them.
Oh look, it's on YouTube (12m). To explain more would be to deny you the wonder of discovery. [more inside]
Oh look, it's on YouTube (12m). To explain more would be to deny you the wonder of discovery. [more inside]
So these are basically sarcastic YouTube videos
So this is basically [MLYT]....
Steven Universe - Gravity Falls - Adventure Time - Miraculous Ladybug - Cowboy Bebop - Overwatch - Pokemon [more inside]
Steven Universe - Gravity Falls - Adventure Time - Miraculous Ladybug - Cowboy Bebop - Overwatch - Pokemon [more inside]
Supper Mario Broth
Supper Mario Broth is a wonderfully obsessive blog devoted to all sorts of Super Mario Brothers minutia. Really, you are not prepared for this. Things like.... [more inside]
The Adventures of Edward the Less
Back when the Mystery Science Theater guys were still on the Sci-Fi Channel, they made a series of short (very) limited animation cartoons called The Adventures of Edward the Less, a silly Lord of the Rings parody. It seems to have been narrated by the wonderfully-voiced Mike Dodge (RIP). While hard to come by for a while, the whole series is now on YouTube. (Previously) [more inside]
Obligatory Monty Python Reference Goes Here
Geekfilter: A series of video lectures on how Python works under the hood. (MLYT)
"Google Glass: 2013-?"
Here are some useful websites from our pals at Google. Well actually, the websites and tools have all been killed, but their dev blogs helpfully remain!
Google Notebook - iGoogle - Google Desktop - Google Video - Orkut - Jaiku (Here's a hilarious-in-retrospect article from Venturebeat about Google buying Jaiku.) - Google Talk (semi-dead, hasn't updated since 2010) - Google Reader.
A good list of killed Google services can be found on Slate's Google Graveyard, unrelated to the one Joe Beese linked in 2010 which has, itself, died. [more inside]
Google Notebook - iGoogle - Google Desktop - Google Video - Orkut - Jaiku (Here's a hilarious-in-retrospect article from Venturebeat about Google buying Jaiku.) - Google Talk (semi-dead, hasn't updated since 2010) - Google Reader.
A good list of killed Google services can be found on Slate's Google Graveyard, unrelated to the one Joe Beese linked in 2010 which has, itself, died. [more inside]
The epic story of 30 circles as they battle the squares, and themselves
Here's a collection of Sesame Street "30 Dots" shorts, from the show's classic days. They build in an entertaining way, but whatever they're supposed to teach beats the heck out of me.
It's A Licensed Character Christmas
For use spreading misery and pain during this holiday season, have a heaping shovelful of bad bad 80s Chrismas cartoon specials. Hail Grinch!
He-Man & She-Ra's Christmas Special (YouTube 44m)
Christmas Comes To Pac-Land (Dailymotion 23m)
The Wacky 12 Days of Christmas (YouTube 24m) (with Phil Hartman)
And the one that inspired this post, the amazing Deck the Halls with Wacky Walls (YouTube 23m) That is to say, the Wacky Wallwalker Christmas Special. Written by Mark Evanier!
After the break... TWENTY-ONE MORE OF THESE THINGS. You're welcome! [more inside]
He-Man & She-Ra's Christmas Special (YouTube 44m)
Christmas Comes To Pac-Land (Dailymotion 23m)
The Wacky 12 Days of Christmas (YouTube 24m) (with Phil Hartman)
And the one that inspired this post, the amazing Deck the Halls with Wacky Walls (YouTube 23m) That is to say, the Wacky Wallwalker Christmas Special. Written by Mark Evanier!
After the break... TWENTY-ONE MORE OF THESE THINGS. You're welcome! [more inside]
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