I've been watching Yahtzee Croshaw for ~5 years now, but he's been around for more like 15. He did change channels, but the style of videos he made stayed the same, and the quality, if anything, has only gotten better
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FortNine: both the content and the video quality are top notch.
TechnologyConnections is the only channel where you'll waste an hour nerding out on washing machines, even if you don't own one.
Louis Rossmann has been instrumental in the fight for right to repair in the US.
Yeah i could list many more but you asked for one (and i already overran that), plus these are the ones that stand out to me.
+1 for technology connections. Who knew I could watch 3 hours about dishwashers and stay interested?
Rossman does good work but I wouldn't call his videos "High Quality"
He's like Gamers Nexus, very rambly and angry. If you like that vibe and just want a techy "Grinds my gears" ass rant channel to put on while you do anything else, he's fine.
Rossmann fights the good fight, but his two hour rambles could be a blog post instead
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Primitive Technology. He started the whole "build a shelter in the woods" genre that has become so dumb, but his videos are still just as great as ever. No narration or music, other than the sounds of the birds and insects, just interesting experiments into basic technology like shelters, fire, charcoal, kilns, pottery, small machines, bricks, roof tiles, etc., all using only the most primitive stone age tools, created from materials found in the forest and stream around his camp.
Even his attire is as spare as his videos, just a pair of khaki shorts.
Currently, he's working through a series of experiments to make fire hot enough to smelt metal.
I've been watching him since he started, and he's the only channel that I stop everything to watch when a new video drops.
If you're interested in why he is doing what he is doing - I would highly suggest turning on the close captions. It was a game changer as someone that is entertained by infotainment!
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Captain Disillusion - Does videos about fake videos and pictures and about video editing in a humorous way. He has had same high quality over 18 years now.
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Practical Engineering. His videos are about all the infrastructure that makes the modern world function.
Primitive technology. There are many imitators, but the original is a man on his own in Australia. His videos focus on building structures in the woods. Starting with river mud, he will make a furnace in order to make bricks in order to make a building to sleep in in order to use it for kiln drying for larger structures etc.....
Be sure to watch with subtitles to read his explanation of things!
Edit to fix: he is based in Australia, not new Zealand.
All true, except he’s in Queensland, Australia.
I'm still amazed he's alive after all this time working in the Australian jungle
Also needs to be said that he's been creating for a decade and every video is consistently as good as the last one. The man single handedly spawned an entire genre and he just kept doing his own thing, algorithms and influencer culture be damned.
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Tom Scott with amazing places & things you might not know.
But he stopped making videos. I'd say that's a significant drop in quality.
He placed the main channel on hold, but has still continued to produce content. He has an extraordinary game show in podcast format that shares very unique trivia called Lateral. He is also in the post-production phase of a new run of videos featuring a big road-trip, according to his newsletter. He also occasionally still makes new series of Technical difficulties.
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Map Men / Jay Foreman
Interesting and genuinely amusing for about 15 years at this point.
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I'll hop on the Technology Connections train and add
Styropyro
CathodeRayDude
Civvie11
Northernlion
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The various PBS YouTube channels almost never miss.
Some of the best science content on the internet and explains everything in layman's terms.
For higher level science:
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas
Puts up conferences and interviews of some of the top scientific minds on the planet.
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Tasting History with Max Miller.
Some of these channels have changed over the years, expanding and adding hosts and things, but they consistently make good content and have either improved or maintained that quality.
Wendover and Half As Interesting
Real Engineering
Mustard
Legal Eagle
Mentour Pilot
Not a channel, but a creator: Yahtzee Croshaw (was Zero Punctuation/Extra Punctuation on The Escapist, is now Fully Ramblomatic/Semi Ramblomatic on Second Wind.
CGP Grey
SciShow (and many of the other projects from the vlogbrothers, including Crash Course and vlogbrothers itself)
Technology Connections
Shaun
HBomberGuy
ElectroBOOM
Videogamedunkey
+1 for Wendover, Half As Interesting, Real Engineering, Mustard, and Mentour Pilot.
Love those channels. Can somehow keep me engaged enough to watch a few hours of content on some random stuff. :)
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Map Men. It's always educational, interesting, and they have amazing Monty Pythonish gags and jokes.
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James Hoffman, it even keeps getting better with time. The prophet for the coffee fans
https://youtube.com/@explainingcomputers
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https://youtube.com/@christopherbarnatt
DOT COM
https://youtube.com/@mothersbasement
I only listen to this one guy for anime reccomendations.
https://youtube.com/@colinfurze
Never has a lull, always good.
https://youtube.com/@chemicalforce
Pretty toxic chemistry
https://youtube.com/@weirdexplorer
If you don't really care about exotic fruit adventures, at least watch his feature length Nutmeg documentary it's most excellent.
Boomer shooter comedic...retrospectives? I like him.
https://youtube.com/@mrcarlsonslab
He repairs very old electronics and is soothing to listen to.
I don't even really care about motorcycles, but their video editing skills are incredible.
https://youtube.com/@lowbuckgarage
Accurate, he will do everything possible to avoid spending money on a project.
https://youtube.com/@styropyro
Mad scientist.
https://youtube.com/@casuallyexplained
His sense of humor doesn't get old for me.
https://youtube.com/@thecodyreeder
Mad scientist.
Taught me more about language than any teacher in my life ever did.
I find a lot of obscure old games to play via this guy and his videos are high effort.
https://youtube.com/@posymusic
Every video is a work of art. It doesn't matter what the subject is, you'll be entranced.
https://youtube.com/@techtangents
Bitrot necromancy enthusiast.
https://youtube.com/@littlevmills
A Canadian who makes high effort metal music covers.
https://youtube.com/@joel-haver
He just likes to make movies. I like his movies. A lot.
https://youtube.com/@theslowmoguys
It's in the name!
Mad scientist.
https://youtube.com/@evenflow2907
High effort vehicular brainrot.
Have a good day!
A lovely weird Canadian artist I adore.
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This one guy Richard Astley. Banging tunes and the smoothest moves.
But really: Technology Connections
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Its a German channel, but I would throw Simplicissimus into the ring. They always had high quality content, and the quality of their videos is constantly rising.
They also have an English channel
Grimbeard, puts out well researched and highly entertaining game retrospectives.
BobbyFingers creates dioramas of famous events with insane tangents while documenting their creation. One video even has a choreographed song.
Lawerence systems covers a lot of self hosted tech with articulate and concise instructions. Really like his method of teaching.
GreenX has some amazing retrospective videos about games, they’re a bit newer of a channel. Every upload has been fantastic though. Insanely funny, highly recommend watching their STALKER video.
Facefullofeyes, same as above but has a very inconsistent upload schedule. Much less humor than greenx but very insightful analysis. Highly recommend the SWAT 4 video.
Phil DeFranco is better than he used to be by a long shot. He's getting senators and journalists in interviews for all manner of new related content. And he stopped with the enlightened centrism angle he had for a bit. Much more mature and level-headed.
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Cross-instance linking is a mess. You linked to an ad for your mobile app, which links to a kbin instance, which links back to lemmy.world... The app page devotes most of its space to download links while kbin demands the viewer log in before it will show them anything.
Technology Connections are great, but this doesn't feel very connected.
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I'll add some that haven't been mentioned.
Tech Ingredients - various experiments and builds. Everything on how to make rum to good novel speakers.
Erik Brandal - makes sound sculptures
/noclip - video game dev documentaries
This old Tony - Machining while being funny
Posy - Quirky beautiful retro HiFi/Tech
Edit: have to add Posy
Red Letter Media. I've grown bored of the content though but that's a me problem.
Majuular. He makes long form retrospectives of old games, his Ultima retros are amazing. Just keeps getting better and better.
Some ones I haven't seen yet:
- Camping with Steve (relaxed Canadian camping with plenty of dry humour, usually some wild stealth camping adventures)
- Budget-Builds Official (tries out random ass computer hardware and finds its limits)
- dosdude1 (infamous for crazy Mac upgrades that require resoldering BGA chips and chip programming)
- EthosLab (already saw Xisumavoid mentioned, Etho is still happily making mature Minecraft videos)
- Flexiny (ASMR-like videos of mechanics fixing old cars to run again)
- FlyTech Videos (Windows experiments and deep dives into how Win32 and NT do things)
- GIFGAS (usual accomplice with shiey in train surfing, although I enjoy GIFGAS' edits more than shiey)
- Side note: His videos are taken down regularly so you have to be quick to download them before they disappear
- Hugh Jeffreys (Australian right to repair advocate, usually repairs smartphones but has dabbled into more vintage items recently)
- Janus Cycle (2000s deep retrospectives into technology)
- Plainly Difficult (British industrial accident examinations with wonderfully shoddy graphics)
- polymatt (absolute 3D modelling wizard who takes on restoring vintage tech to beyond brand new with incredible attention to detail, and very engaging edits)
- Seytonic (cyber security news roundup weekly)
- This Does Not Compute (retro computer repairs and retrospectives)
- Usagi Electric (extremely vintage computer repairs, going right back to vacuum tubes to 1980s minicomputers)
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