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About That Idris Elba Gold Documentary
Clickbait Title: Can this magical metal make you immortal? Godkings hate this one weird trick!
This was a lot of fun to work on because I got to spend a lot of time learning THE TRUTH ABOUT GOLD and by that I mean actually interesting facts about how humans use gold. The mythology of gold actually makes a lot of sense through the lens of its physical properties, the fact that ancient humans could make things out of it and those things would outlive generations. It's just rare enough that societal elites can monopolize it, but common enough you can gather enough to actually make stuff with it. So these things, namely jewellery for the leaders, are so resistant to the elements that you can see how the gold itself became representative of the power of the kings, of their claimed immortality.
Written and performed by Dan Olson
Crowdfunding: www.patreon.com/foldablehuman
Twitter: FoldableHuman
00:00:00 - Gold Open
00:00:53 - Ads for gold
00:03:05 - Gold is interesting
00:07:17 - Not everything is rosy for gold
00:11:45 - Enter the World Gold Council
00:14:56 - A journey with Idris Elba
00:20:02 - It's boring
00:22:22 - Colonialism
00:24:50 - The environment
00:33:52 - The rest of the doc
00:36:03 - Reception
00:37:47 - The Golden Thread
00:39:53 - Selling shovels in a gold rush
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The Darkmoon Fiasco
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Clickbait Title: grown man gets owned by a line of people Taliesin & Evitel invited me to be on a panel and talk about video games while I was in Anaheim, and you can watch that here: ua-cam.com/video/Ng71xI3BGjg/v-deo.html Blizzcon 2023 was an interesting experience. I personally had a lot of fun, but maybe not for the reasons or in the ways that the organizers intended. Written and performed ...
This is Financial Advice
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Clickbait Title: if the price is zero then you can buy all the shares I tell you what, when you try and tell this story you either sum it up in ten minutes with the broadest strokes or you settle in for a rabbit hole made entirely out of onions and ogres. Conspiracy theorists flock together and constantly try and rope each other into the orbit of their personal hobby horse conspiracy, so once y...
The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse
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Clickbait Title: I spent three months living in the metaverse and now I'm starving The metaverse salespeople have a weird fixation with Animal Crossing, in specific. The number of times we saw New Horizons specifically cited as an example of the metaverse was bizarre, like it was their first time experiencing a multiplayer game that wasn't CoD and it melted their brains. Written by Dan Olson an...
Why It's Rude to Suck at Warcraft
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You enter a bright new digital world, exited to explore and hyped just to enjoy the vibe. Ten months later you're yelling at someone for standing in fire. What changed? Produced by Dan Olson Written by Nathan Landel and Dan Olson Choice's channel - ua-cam.com/users/Choice_au Bibliography A Reports/Books/Articles Ask, Kristine, ‘The Value of Calculations: The Coproduction of Theorycraft and Play...
Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins
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Clickbait Title: I'm here to teach you about an unmissable business opportunity! Thank you to Savy over at Savy Writes Books for helping out with this video - ua-cam.com/users/SAVYLEISER Emma Thorne - The Mikkelsen Twins' "Publishing Life" Scam? - ua-cam.com/video/Klu8U5P35a4/v-deo.html I spared everyone the part of the story where I got COVID and spent months recovering. A Skeptic's Guide to H...
Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs
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If someone pitches you on a "great" Web3 project, ask them if it requires buying or selling crypto to do what they say it does. Sources and Further Reading web3isgoinggreat.com/ tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/ davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/03/11/nfts-crypto-grifters-try-to-scam-artists-again/ amycastor.com/2021/03/14/metakovan-the-mystery-beeple-art-buyer-and-his-nft-defi-scheme/ www.ste...
Jamie Oliver's War on Nuggets
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Clickbait Title: Chefs Hate Him! Big thanks to Hot Dad for letting me use his absolute banger, you can put the whole song in your ear holes here: ua-cam.com/video/qr-sDJX72WY/v-deo.html I wanted to make this because I see this clip make the rounds again and again and every time I'm like "of all the arguments you could make, that's the worst one." So I decided to make a whole video around "of al...
An Exhaustive History of Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings
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While the video talks mostly about The Lord of the Rings (1978) there is a discussion of Bakshi's earlier R-rated and NC-17 films, which deal with heavy subject matter like racism, police violence, transphobia, drug abuse, and various adult scenarios. This was intended to be a quick little video that I could churn out in a couple weeks at the end of June, but it's now taken almost the whole sum...
The Nostalgia Critic and The Wall
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Clickbait Title: I remember it so you don't have to. Mild flashing effects in the last 40s. "Pink Floyd - The Wall" deals with mature subject matter and contains intense imagery some viewers may find distressing. As a full disclosure, I was briefly a contributor to Channel Awesome for about six months in 2014/15. Channel Awesome CEO Mike Michaud severed the relationship after he received angry ...
Let's Argue About Christmas Movies (ft. Movies w/ Mikey)
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Clickbait Title: Die Hard Isn't A Christmas Movie The Trial of Christmas Movies: ua-cam.com/video/68JSod6pIRM/v-deo.html Go watch Mikey's companion video for the other half of the Dan and Mikey Christmas Special. His is way better and he put so much work into it. We had a proper blizzard a couple days ago, so I just had to dig my car out from under over six inches of snow. And that's not like "...
That Time Geocentrists Tricked A Bunch of Physicists
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Clickbait Title: Is There Proof We Really Are The Center of the Universe?! Shortly before the election my cat escaped the house and got her belly covered in sticky mud which then picked up all sorts of junk. During the extremely needed bath, which she hates, I lost control of her head and she managed to latch onto my arm and break the skin with two teeth. It looked kinda rough, so I figured I s...
The Minnewanka Curve Experiment [2K/1440p]
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A companion video for "In Search of a Flat Earth" containing the details of the Minnewanka curve experiment in greater detail. Appropriate for a classroom environment. Dizzib's curve calculator: dizzib.github.io/earth/curve-calc/?d0=30&h0=10&unit=imperial Written and performed by Dan Olson Music: Trampled by P C III Crowdfunding: www.patreon.com/foldablehuman Twitter: FoldableHuman ...
In Search Of A Flat Earth
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Clickbait Title: The Twist at 37 Minutes Will Make You Believe We Live In Hell More Lake Footage: ua-cam.com/video/y8MboQzXO1o/v-deo.html This has taken a long time to make, and it was a very winding road, but I'm glad I did it. Hiking out to the north shore of Minnewanka, a 19km round trip, is one of the worst decisions I've ever made but I'm glad I did it. I'm not sure what else to say. I'm s...
Cooking Food On The Internet For Fun And Profit
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Clickbait Title: World's Largest Activated Charcoal Superfood Epic Burger Made With Acai Cake In this video I mention Gourmet Makes a bunch and I actually felt really insecure about that just because for a long time during the edit it was feeling like I only had one example. But the reason it was on my mind so much is that the recent video with the gourmet Tater Tots was just so perfect with th...
I Can't Stop Watching Contagion | Folding Ideas
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I Can't Stop Watching Contagion | Folding Ideas
The Art of Editing and The Snowman | Folding Ideas
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The Art of Editing and The Snowman | Folding Ideas
CATS: An Existential Crisis
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CATS: An Existential Crisis
The Snyder Cut Does (Not) Exist | Folding Ideas
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The Snyder Cut Does (Not) Exist | Folding Ideas
Tuca And Bertie Can't Make It Alone | Folding Ideas
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Tuca And Bertie Can't Make It Alone | Folding Ideas
What's Gone Wrong With the FTC's COPPA Agreement With YouTube
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What's Gone Wrong With the FTC's COPPA Agreement With UA-cam
I Saw Three Versions of Gemini Man In One Day: A 60 FPS Vlog
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I Saw Three Versions of Gemini Man In One Day: A 60 FPS Vlog
World of Warcraft Classic And What We Left Behind
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World of Warcraft Classic And What We Left Behind
Minecraft, Sandboxes, and Colonialism | Folding Ideas
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Minecraft, Sandboxes, and Colonialism | Folding Ideas
Is Detective Pikachu Mathematically The Worst?!
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Is Detective Pikachu Mathematically The Worst?!
Let's Spoil The Endgame
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Let's Spoil The Endgame
Manufactured Discontent and Fortnite
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Manufactured Discontent and Fortnite
Wonder Park: Why Movies Generally Need Directors
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Wonder Park: Why Movies Generally Need Directors
What Is Vsauce?
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What Is Vsauce?
That 2019 Movie Called Serenity About a Fish Named Justice - a Spoiler Rich vlog
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That 2019 Movie Called Serenity About a Fish Named Justice - a Spoiler Rich vlog

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @mrbuttocks6772
    @mrbuttocks6772 25 хвилин тому

    58:06 Jesus that is BLATANT copyright infringement.

  • @u4iadreams
    @u4iadreams 41 хвилина тому

    12:30 - as someone who hasn't played since TBC, I completely lost track by this point. I was keeping up with the essay, but when he started talking about WoW stuff, I was completely lost.

  • @lisaj2269
    @lisaj2269 5 годин тому

    It’s crazy. They are crazy. But the numbers speak to a bigger problem. People feeling alienated and attacked and cut off and unheard and powerless and will fork communities and conspiracies. I think if we didn’t live in such a divided culture with groups pitted against each other and so much hostility on both sides of the political spectrum we’d have hope. Whenever I say that to my liberal or conservative friends they quickly agree then start to tell me how the other side are so awful and divisive and crazy etc

  • @gabby3036
    @gabby3036 8 годин тому

    They want $2000 just for talking bullshit at you, while their business model relies on paying the guy writing a fucking book only $250.

  • @jeremy24tyler74
    @jeremy24tyler74 9 годин тому

    Dan being a Blizzcon attendee just feels right

  • @gabby3036
    @gabby3036 10 годин тому

    2:56 "Let's set aside morality or ethics..." - Every NFT ever.

  • @marsriver
    @marsriver 10 годин тому

    some people are just so uncreative that it actually psychically hurts people around them.

  • @xXKris_DreemurrXx
    @xXKris_DreemurrXx 10 годин тому

    0:54 .... I'd rather live behind the Wall then step foot in this septic tank-

  • @travisrameysadler9924
    @travisrameysadler9924 12 годин тому

    WoW is a n00b game, no one is bad at it lol.

  • @Waluiginumberone
    @Waluiginumberone 13 годин тому

    Decentraland feels like limbo

  • @forcinghandlesisdumb
    @forcinghandlesisdumb 18 годин тому

    Dan, you're working on saving us all from the AI future right? Pretty please?

  • @peteroliver9042
    @peteroliver9042 19 годин тому

    All metals require mining. The aluminum for your trendy e-bike. The copper for all the electrical wiring in your house. Even the spoon you eat your cornflakes with required mining.

  • @user-gb6kn1ue2x
    @user-gb6kn1ue2x 20 годин тому

    I feel like they meant no day but today by him committing to mimi not the heroin mark is his friend why would mark want him to go down that path also the blocking roger is up shes looking up at him even though hes in the dark hes headed towards the light

  • @clightning300mi
    @clightning300mi 22 години тому

    With my radar app i touch cloud layers. During the day cloud patterns can be matched to the cloud layer app. I make a game out of it. 300mile clouds can be easily identified. According to the internet earth curve calculator that is 11miles over the curvature of the earth.

  • @clightning300mi
    @clightning300mi 22 години тому

    Betelgeuse the star. ua-cam.com/video/jOGIxSF0j2s/v-deo.htmlsi=AZniGMqoejycBcdz

  • @clightning300mi
    @clightning300mi 22 години тому

    Sirius the star. ua-cam.com/video/Og27UJNHOns/v-deo.htmlsi=mwkr0DDPnIAbf7Pr

  • @kristinak1972
    @kristinak1972 23 години тому

    Dollar General winkle vi. What even is that? 😂

  • @WoobooRidesAgain
    @WoobooRidesAgain 23 години тому

    "An online presence consists of two major cost factors: storage and bandwith. And video hosting is kind of the worst of all worlds." The future AI industry: "Hold my beer."

  • @directAction3389
    @directAction3389 День тому

    I also still vividly recall playing save the world mode on Xbox and ran into one of these kids that legit spent 500 bucks just to deck out his little fortnite avatar. Totally blew me away. I had only paid for the "founder's" package way back when the game was still in development. Couldn't ever bring myself to spend even more on the digital store that eventually popped up. Sadly that kid didn't want to play with me anymore after I pointed out that I could probably build a decent computer for how much he spent on his Avatar 🙃🫠

  • @j.warburton5269
    @j.warburton5269 День тому

    UBI would be a huge disincentive to work

  • @directAction3389
    @directAction3389 День тому

    Save the world was the game I wanted to play. What does that say about us when a cooperative experience is massively outsold by a competitive one? I guess hunting people down and murdering them to become "king of the hill" is more appealing than working together with others towards a shared goal? Fortnite could've been something awesome instead it's just depressing as all hell. Thanks capitalism 😭

  • @jimflam354
    @jimflam354 День тому

    10:13 Noah Caldwell-Gervais!!

  • @soacnsmiley3718
    @soacnsmiley3718 День тому

    i open cans with my thumb

  • @Mcwollybob
    @Mcwollybob День тому

    At 29:07, I wish this youtuber had mentioned the fatphobia present in this animation instead of just praising it. The movie intentionally equates fatness to being monstrous, treating fat people as symbols for evil. That's extremely bigoted and not okay.

  • @directAction3389
    @directAction3389 День тому

    Why did I set up the Trans Atlantic slave trade? To get a kitty cat of course! I love my kitty cat!

  • @MashedPotatoes136
    @MashedPotatoes136 День тому

    Decided to go for a walk wearing my quest 3 in Alberta and got jumped by 3 rednecks. Didn't even file a report because I don't know what I expected lol

  • @BaronVonQuiply
    @BaronVonQuiply День тому

    Hey, what are you doing, Dan? _"Working on my book"_ Oh, fantastic, I didn't even realize you'd become an author. _"I'm not, I'm making a video"_

  • @Cloudy573
    @Cloudy573 День тому

    The sequence starting at 2:04:15 gets me every time. Really a perfect summation of how many degrees of separation there are between apes and reality.

  • @silvershocknicktail6638
    @silvershocknicktail6638 День тому

    I've always enjoyed the movie, but as with lots of pieces of art, it seems that people pick and choose their own message in the face of the obvious narrative. Men online idolise Tyler Durden, when the movie's ending quite explicitly states "fuck that guy". I'm here in 2024 and a whole bunch of Internet cretins think Helldivers 2 is a great game because it "isn't political", ignoring the colossally obvious anti-fascism message because they're sympathetic to fascism and want to pretend the game is playing itself straight.

  • @directAction3389
    @directAction3389 День тому

    All the other capitalists like Elon Musk should be really mad at these two idiots. They're basically revealing all the details behind the free market magic trick known as "passive income". Hire desperate people, overwork them, underpay them, and mark up their products you now own the rights to as much as possible. The whole thing does indeed make you angry as hell when you know how it works.

  • @mattphillips538
    @mattphillips538 День тому

    There is no end of a book called FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING; Tolkein wrote one long book called LORD OF THE RINGS which his publisher broke up into 3 volumes.

  • @comradet0m
    @comradet0m День тому

    A thing that bothers me every time I hear it is Doug saying "Put him in the wall" during his rendition of In the Flesh. Like, did he not get that the phrase is "against the wall", meaning to put someone in front of a firing squad?

  • @xxivletxx
    @xxivletxx День тому

    The way you describe Ape psychology and reasoning makes me think of, like... actual apes. A chimpanzee squealing and howling when they don't get their way. It's an interesting way to think about MOASS and put it into perspective.

  • @AtomekKotalke
    @AtomekKotalke День тому

    Now the same happens with generative AI “art” remember that the same N-F-T people are pivoting to AI. It's just a new layer of paint on the same old vague promises and rug pulls.

    • @Ruinwyn
      @Ruinwyn 2 години тому

      The thing about AI is, that I see it actually being useful in lot of stuff. Just, mostly not in a way people talk about it. The more examples of use I see of it, the less impressed I am. Not because it doesn't work, or what it does is pointless, but because often the functionality already existed before under different name.

  • @emmaarmo379
    @emmaarmo379 День тому

    It was revealed this week that Hudson Bay Capital made over $300 million off the BBBY apes, most of whom got involved with BBBY as a way to take down hedge funds and make 'easy money'. There are still hundreds of BBBY bagholders who mistakenly believe that somehow, someone will make them whole.

  • @ciaranbarata-hynes6391
    @ciaranbarata-hynes6391 День тому

    I’m a fan of all of your work, but having just rewatched this, it’s my opinion that ‘Line Goes Up’ is one of the most comprehensive, important and powerful documentaries I’ve ever seen. Truly Dan, this should have won awards. Thank you.

  • @sharktoothjack8854
    @sharktoothjack8854 День тому

    I got served a crypto ad with this video, so, yeah.

  • @infinitefes2812
    @infinitefes2812 День тому

    Clearly, you haven't hit a 31

  • @banksuvladimir
    @banksuvladimir День тому

    I’m so glad NFT’s failed. Among all of the other depressing crap that was happening a few years ago, getting to the point where both everything was a subscription model and people just selling essentially nothing for big money was pretty dystopian

  • @PeterW-ski
    @PeterW-ski День тому

    V good stuff, was always interested in someone analyzing this scam in more details. I did guess how it roughly works, but it’s interesting to see solid analysis

  • @sciencereviewwithmr.blades2567

    I have a degree in engineering and I am not sure I would have any idea that would rise to the level of "sabotage."

  • @dwntherabbithole9785
    @dwntherabbithole9785 День тому

    I hate that people feel the need to do this to almost every multiplayer game now. Guess I'll just go hide in single player games where having fun isn't tied to being optimal. Makes me pretty sad.

  • @violentfrog_
    @violentfrog_ День тому

    gandaff

  • @TechMetalRules
    @TechMetalRules День тому

    "...even more shimmer-like..." cracks me up every time I hear it.

  • @Dell88music
    @Dell88music День тому

    Loved the joke "the longer it is, the more 'due' the 'diligence".

  • @mvfusion
    @mvfusion День тому

    No. Sorry, but no. Not everyone wants to play at top tier, some folks just want to have fun. That's the point of a game.

  • @multispeciesangler
    @multispeciesangler День тому

    All that I had to do here was get 15 minutes in. Even that's a ton of time listening to this person. I'm sure that most people have a very limited amount of time that they can stand him talking. But anyway, the reason that we can see Denali from so far away is because "it's really really big." That's your explanation. Did you get your own explanation how it's a non-explanation and shuts you down instantly, or no? Think that you were onto something here where you see the curve raising and lowering your camera eh? Wowza

    • @George-zj9rr
      @George-zj9rr 23 години тому

      Do you think the earth is flat?

  • @nickmagrick7702
    @nickmagrick7702 2 дні тому

    42:45 wait... whats the shovel? The peace of mind that the gold industry is a good thing? For someone like me who has no interest in gold, whats the shovel I potentially could be interested in? Usually I get your points but this one went over my head and it seemed like the punchline to the whole damn story

    • @toomanyaccounts
      @toomanyaccounts День тому

      the shovel is that gold mining makes one poor. selling supplies to the gold miners is how one gets rich. a saloon owner in a gold mining town in the old west would retire a millionaire while all the miners would die in poverty

    • @nickmagrick7702
      @nickmagrick7702 День тому

      @@toomanyaccounts You sure thats the point? If it was I think he would have, or should have been more obvious about it. I know hes not always on the nose, which I actually like about him. But theres a difference between respecting the audience intelligence and being so open ended to leave things to multiple interpretations incompatible with each other. I also don't think its directly making anyone poor. Its an asset you can turn around and sell pretty quickly, plus the people buying it are the ones that can afford to buy extra stuff like that (usually), and its also got more than plenty practical applications like mentioned. It might be misguided and clouded with narrative biases, but its not a full out scam or anything. They just exaggerate its usefulness in a clearly manipulative deceptive way. Diamond and gem sellers are a lot worse imo, but I suppose in a manner of degrees If the point was that buying gold does nothing for you in the short term, that was already obvious and doesn't seem worth re-iterating as a punch line.

  • @nickmagrick7702
    @nickmagrick7702 2 дні тому

    28:27 Thats funny, I thought this WAS a miner problem

  • @nickmagrick7702
    @nickmagrick7702 2 дні тому

    12:03 at least they are honest, I respect that