Yeah, it’s wild. I actually never realized how much I loved Super Mario until I played all the 2D ones in the same year with my then two year old son. Since then I’ve become somewhat obsessed with Mario.
I’ve even been planning on writing a level by level analysis of some of the games. And I was just talking to my brother the other day about how basically no game has surpassed what Mario 3 did, which feels bonkers.
So, yeah, very excited to watch this.
I thought that all there ever was to say about Silent Hill had been said. And yet here we are. This is what I want. We are past lore. We are past themes. Now turn the gaze around to see what that place says about us.
Apologies if this has shown up in other peoples youtube feeds as well, but I’m still impressed by this guy (especially since he can’t read Japanese) - consider this topical since Aquapazza is getting a PC release. His video on Zero One SP is also fantastic
The sincerity of this conversation, I’ve never felt so antagonized by AI.
Love this guys vids. The falcom one is also great!
Helped a friend out by making a thumbnail for his latest video. Found it pretty interesting, I hadn’t noticed the Space Invaders are all about correcting typos, haha.
Came here to post this, but looks like acollier is already getting her due credit around here:
I’ve never been a Feynman worshipper, but I was just sort of ambiently aware of his legend for most of my life…really wish I could send this video to my younger self, it’s incredible how normalized the elevation of asshole behavior was and, well, continues to be :/ I’ve been following her stuff for a while, this one tipped me over to becoming a patreon supporter.
I know talking about any form of “positivity” can be really challenging right now, but I do think it is important to not get sucked into the hole of nihilism and continue to be mindful in our day to day lives. I really like the Baldwin quotes this creator decided to use and I think she really hits home when speaking on the zeitgeist.
As a physicist I think she is probably doing the best physics communication on youtube and I really enjoy her channel. I don’t always 100% agree with her videos and sometimes she will make an off-hand comment about some physics (not the main topic of the video) I know which is somewhat wrong, but I would for sure do the same if I wasn’t fact checking everything I said (probably more so). It is one issue with making videos that are stored forever without being extremely scripted.
Anyways, I enjoyed this video as well, although I think it may be somewhat US-specific.
Based on the video is seems like Feynman is pushed way more in the US, at least compared to Denmark, because I don’t remember hearing about him until I was an undergrad and even then it was like one or two people who mentioned some of those funny anecdotes about him picking safes or whatever. The US has many famous physicists, so it is a bit interesting that Feynman is the one pushed so hard. Like in Denmark there is definitely a bit of bias when talking about famous physicists to younger people, probably pushing Niels Bohr harder than is warranted as he is our most famous physicist, but nothing like the Feynman mythos. Since Niels Bohr was famously interested in many topics beyond physics, it is harder to use him to push the sort of physics superiority some people do with Feynman anecdotes about how Faust is pointless or whatever. Actually a lot of the famous early 20th century physicists were well-versed in cultural pursuits as this was considered part of being an intellectual at the time. From my undergrad I remember seeing more mythos surrounding some of the famous mathematicians, like lists of exaggerated Gauss facts or whatever.
I developed a small antipathy to the “Feynman legend” when I started encountering conversations about him on the internet because the way he is revered compared to many other physicists whom I consider to have made equally or more important contributions bugged me. But I’ve always had a bit of a contrarian view when something is pushed a lot (which is definitely not always a good trait to have) and I think some of my antipathy towards various public figures in physics are not always coming from an entirely objective/good place. I remember reading some of the stuff about how much sexist content was in “Surely, you’re joking Mr. Feynman” before, but seeing it all laid out and hearing her personal experiences with it in relation to sexism in academia is really damning. A much better reason to be critical of the Feynman legend than my initial annoyance which was based more around how people value “zaniness” and self-promotion a bit too much. I think some of my initial antipathy is also covered in her thorough discussion of the way the Feynman name has been milked for all these books only tangentially related to him.
To be clear, based on my PhD, post-doc and quantum computing industry experience, Feynman is for sure a well-known figure and people like to quote/cite him to introduce a topic because he is famous, but there are many other physicists who are just as famous. In general, while it is not something people talk about in relation to actual physics discussions, when physics is taught and physicists talk about the history of science there is a lot of mythologizing of “great” scientists which is often based less on real history and more on collective mythmaking. To be clear I don’t want to go to far in the other direction, some of these people were clearly extremely smart and made very important and significant contributions that are certainly far beyond anything I and a lot of others are capable of. Not all legends are equally toxic, but the general disregard for real history in favor of mythologizing is a bit of an issue. Ironically, the misinformation pushed by some physicists surrounding Galileo vs the church/geocentrists has the unfortunate side-effect of supplying crackpots with their favorite example of how they are totally persecuted truth-tellers.
The person with the most annoying internet legend is Nikola Tesla, however, who is idolized by standard internet nerds, crackpots and conspiracy theorists in equal measure, while his actual contributions are nowhere near as important as they are made out to be. I don’t think he is that idolized by actual physicists, because a lot of the more out-there things people bring up about him are patently absurd to anyone with a physics education. The following video is not as interesting as the Feynman one, but it’s a good short primer on some of the actual facts regarding Nikola Tesla
By the way the person asking questions in class to sound smart and wasting everyone’s time is definitely a universal phenomenon which seems to happen whether they have read Feynman anecdotes or not.
apologies if this isn’t the best venue for this question, but I feel like I need to take this opportunity to ask you as a physicist: if I was on a elevator and the cable and brakes failed and the elevator car was plummeting down, if I jumped at like just the right moment before it hit the ground would I be ok?
a preemptive followup question: what if the jump looks really sick, like, yeso does the splits in midair or poses or something?
I don’t think that would matter
Unfortunately not. You will have already accelerated to a high downwards velocity during the free-fall and the small amount of upwards velocity you would gain from a jump would make no difference.
If someone makes a really sick pose during the jump, they may end up making for a more interesting looking body, so there is that.
guess I don’t need to ask if the same strategy would work for a plane crash
In anticipation of the plane touching down I tend to raise my butt ever-so-slightly above the seat surface (or, at least, lower the pressure I am exerting on the seat) with the intention of lessening the impact of landing. I guess what I’m trying to say is that you can draw whatever conclusions you want if you take this practice to its logical extreme.
would a pogo stick or perhaps trampoline make any difference?
Thank you for making such a great video, and for reminding me that Kazutoshi Iida had the Sekigun PFLP Sekai Senso Sengen dvd on his shelf - I knew when I watched that interview when it came out that he was automatically a cool guy, and this video just cements it even further
Thanks, forgot to post it here!
