He’s a software engineer with a history of operating anti-tank weapons in the US military. For some reason, his recent videos on how to go about taking out Russian tanks seem to have some sort of relevance. If you know anyone who might be in the market for enlightenment on how to convert a Russian tank into ex-Russian scrap metal, point them this way.
Also some interesting general knowledge videos.
Professor Tosspot finally got around to reviewing the year 2020. Star Wars, Star Trek, Rice Rabies, Orange Man Bad vs. Dementia Patient Sad and cities going up in Mostly Peaceful Firestorms all get touched on.
This couple, “Brad & Lex,” are “reactors,” generally reacting to songs that they claim they’ve not heard before or are basically unfamiliar with (they *seem* genuinely to be unfamiliar with most of the ones I’ve seen them react to. They are Millenials, so I guess it’s fair to assume that they might have somehow missed out on the best music from the 80’s and 90’s.). This is sort of the lowest common denominator of YouTube entertainment, but these two are more interesting and amusing that the majority of the youngun reactors I’ve seen. A lot of this is on Lex: she subverts expectations. She, a young black woman, turns out to be an 80’s-style metalhead, and the way she goes kinda bonkers sometimes while Brad remains stoic is just friggen’ awesome to see. She displays unrestrained joy; he displays restraint and self control. The two very different approaches really seem to work together very well (it’s almost as if “feminine” and “masculine” actually complement each other. Weird, I know). For example:
They have a second channel where instead of reacting to music, they react to current news events and political doings. And once again… they subvert expectations by *not* being woke Millenials.
Arkham Reporter, one of the more sadly underappreciated YouTube channels, discusses matters related to H.P Lovecraft, cosmic horror, etc. Refreshingly, he has not knuckled under to the woke mob, and has put out a number of videos over the years discussing various efforts to smear, cancel, erase, mutilate or subvert Lovecraftian horror. But his latest video provides a large measure of hope that Lovecraft will be able to survive in a way that Star Wars and Star trek have not: Lovecraft is in the public domain. There is no Controller of The IP. nobody dictates canon. This means that *anyone* can write stories along the same lines as Lovecrafts; anyone can use his ideas, even his characters. Good writers or bad, people who respect Lovecrafts work, or people who hate it and him, it’s open to all. And the only thing that elevates one story and buries another is the fandom. If your work sucks… it’s gone. HBO can crank out as many hours of nonsense where The True Monsters are not deep-sea abominations or uncaring cosmic gods… but white people. And the fandom, if it decides that that’s crap, can ignore it. HBO can’t declare their rubbish to be *the* canon. My own “War With The Deep Ones” tales can be worthy of either the Nobel or the dumpster; it’s not up to some cabal of progressive-infected corporations to decide.
If you have a few minutes to kill and want to learn some disturbing facts about the horrible, horrible animals that evolution saw fit to plop down onto the planet, “Casual Geographic” is the YouTuber for you. He’s informative, rapid-fire, deadpan and funny as hell. Note: this is nature red in tooth and claw, so if Bad Things happening to critters ain’t your thing, this channel might not be your thing.
So, a bit of a “fail” here. As I’ve been working on the books, I’ve had things on in the background, TV and YouTube videos and the such. The perfect thing to have on is something interesting enough to serve as functional background noise, but not interesting enough to distract from the work. The YouTube channel “Fascinating Horror” turned out to be a mistake by that reckoning… every time one of his vids comes on, book productivity grinds to a halt. His videos are descriptions of historical events you may or may not have heard of, events where horrible, horrible things happened. Some, like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the Carrington Event, resulted in no known deaths. others, like the Halifax Explosion, were mass casualties.
The Lock Picking Lawyer is always a channel worth watching. And if you ever find yourself in need of defeating a lock, he might well have a video that can show you how to do it… and often how to do it *very* quickly. Some locks turn out to be ridiculously easily defeated.
Such is the case here. This is not a practical lock, but a lock meant purely as a gift. It is a keyless lock that, once closed, is supposed to never be opened again, to demonstrate the permanence of love. He opens it in about three seconds.
This feller has brought H. P. Lovecraft back to answer your questions. Ya gotta respect the commitment to cause… he’s been doing it since 2012, with hundreds of uploads, and only getting a few thousand views per video.
https://www.youtube.com/c/LeemanKessler/videos
YouTube kept recommending videos from “Virtual Railfan,” I guess because I watched one showing a train derailment a week-ish ago. I started noticing the same name popping up: Ashland, Virginia. They seem to have a problem with one of their intersections.
And there are quite a few more. The intersection doesn’t *seem* to be that badly designed, but I guess it must be.