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Riding, Testing and Driving at the Red Bull Ring: Michelle Khare Takes On Formula 1
In this episode of Challenge Accepted, Michelle Khare tries to find out how Formula 1 drivers are actually trained, and how a former competitive athlete measures up against them. After six months of e
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Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 19: Rick Prelinger's Archival Tour of Streets, Labor, Loss and Play
Rick Prelinger's annual Lost Landscapes screening is less a lecture than a live, collectively narrated film. For the nineteenth edition, presented with the Long Now Foundation, Prelinger stitched toge
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Clearing Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake with Only the Hero: Defeating Baramos and Zoma on Draconian Quest
This video records a playthrough of the HD-2D remake of Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation cleared by the hero alone, without recruiting a single companion, on the "Draconian Quest" difficulty.
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How Copia Automation Is Bringing DevOps and AI to Industrial Code: A Conversation with Adam Gluck
Adam Gluck, CEO and founder of Copia Automation, came to manufacturing from outside it. He studied sociology, taught himself software engineering, and learned DevOps at Uber. He then went looking for
4:03Neal Stephenson on the Polo-Pony Ranches He Chose Not to Write About
In a conversation at the Long Now Foundation marking the launch of Polostan, the first book in his new Bomb Light series, Neal Stephenson was asked how he handles the research digressions that pull ev
30:34Blasphemous All Boss Fights Let's Play: Narrating a Grim Pilgrimage as a "Heartwarming" Tale
This video is a let's play of the 2D action RPG Blasphemous, from the first boss through to the ending. The voice is A.I.VOICE Kotonoha Akane. The narrator introduces the game's heavy story, which del
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MrBeast Pits Everyday Challengers Against Tom Brady, Ronaldo and Other Elite Athletes
This video sets up a series of one-on-one contests between world-class athletes and ordinary people: a high school quarterback, a friend of the channel, a Little League hitter, an amateur golfer, a st
8:53Clearing All 20 Floors with a Magnet-Armed Crane: A Dungeon Clawler Playthrough
Dungeon Clawler is a roguelike where you explore a dungeon using a claw machine. You stuff the claw machine with whatever items you like, then grab them and drop them in to defeat monsters. In this vi
49:42Getting Into the Doughnut: What Doughnut Economics Can Learn From History
At their kitchen table, economist Kate Raworth and social philosopher Roman Krznaric take up a question that joins their two bodies of work: what can Doughnut Economics learn from history? Raworth bri
34:13Live Playthrough of Kusodeka Bayashi: Breaking a Family Curse with Ear-Splitting Festival Music
This video is a recorded playthrough of Kusodeka Bayashi, a first-person horror-comedy game, narrated all the way to the ending in the voice of A.I.VOICE's Kizuna Akari. Set in an unsettling rural tow
54:45Neal Stephenson on Polostan, Rabbit Holes, and Writing History Like Science Fiction
At a Long Now Foundation event marking the launch of Polostan, the first volume of his Bomb Light series, Neal Stephenson talked with journalist and author Charles C. Mann about how the book took shap
19:17Aiming for a Rocket Launch from a Crash-Landed Planet: A Chunk-by-Chunk Factorio Factory-Building Log
This video is a playthrough of the factory-building game Factorio, played for the first time all the way to a rocket launch. The protagonist crash-lands on a planet and aims to gather its resources, a
17:34From a $1 Camel Ride to the Top of the Burj Khalifa: MrBeast Ranks Experiences by Price
The video sets out to answer a simple question: what does an experience look like at different price points, from a single dollar up to half a million? Jimmy (MrBeast) and his friends Chandler, Karl,
1:17:49Michelle Khare's 90 Days From White Belt to a Black Belt Test in Taekwondo
According to the video, the average student takes three to five years to earn a black belt in Taekwondo. Michelle Khare wanted to find out whether the right student, working with the right master, cou
1:19:13Following Metaphor: ReFantazio to the Ending: A Let's Play Record of Becoming King by Throwing Money
This video follows Atlus's fantasy RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio all the way to the ending, narrated by the VOICEROID Kotonoha Akane. At the start, the narrator says the video will focus on boss fights and
41:19Dexterity's Bet on Robots That Can Handle an Unstructured World
Michael Patrick Perry, Dexterity's VP of Marketing, returned to the Manufacturing Happy Hour podcast for a third appearance. Host Chris recorded the conversation on January 9, 2024, at the company's R
20:29Seven Days in a Romanian Salt-Mine "City": How MrBeast's Underground Challenge Grew from a Quiet Camp into Pure Chaos
MrBeast and his longtime crew set out to spend seven days living inside a vast underground complex built in an old mine. He describes it as more than a thousand years old and full of uncharted tunnels
50:05The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Let's Play to the Ending: Sealing the Rifts with Brawn Rather Than Wisdom
This video is a playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom all the way to the ending, with commentary voiced by A.I.VOICE's Kotonoha Akane. In this game, Princess Zelda is the protagonist, a
35:32100 Pairs of Identical Twins, One $250,000 Prize: How the Competition Played Out
The video puts 100 pairs of identical twins in individual cubes and gives one pair the chance to leave with a quarter of a million dollars. Two rules frame the contest. If either twin crosses the red
8:45Voiceroid Let's Play "TCG Card Shop Simulator": How a Card Shop Turned into a Plushie Shop
This is a let's play of the management simulation game TCG Card Shop Simulator, narrated with the voice of Yuzuki Yukari. In this game, you play as a trading card game shop clerk and grow your store w