The History of Tetris World Records [by Summoning Salt] ~ a 1 hour documentary

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨thingsiplay@beehaw.org⁩ to ⁨gaming@beehaw.org⁩

I just watched an excellent 1 hour long documentary. The build up in stages and showing the evolution of the best players achievements, is intense and very well edited, narrated and written documentary!

I know 1 hour is long and I wasn’t planning to watch everything, but time flew away. If you have any slight interest into this topic, I highly recommend you to take some time to watch. The video itself is broken up in 5 or so sections. So you could just watch a section at a time, if 1 hour is too long. There is a specific reveal that I do not want spoil, which was epic. Just insanity!

BTW have fun.

For anyone who don’t want to watch it on YouTube, here is a link to an Invidious instance:

invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=mOJlg8g8_yw

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Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I love Salt, but man his videos are getting way to long. I put the speed at 1,25x for any of his videos and the pacing is still perfectly fine.

I’ve heard people enjoy his videos with some drugs and I get it, it sounds super chill. But this length is a stretch for me, it could be half the time and lose basically nothing. And this is coming from a guy who enjoys long format videos like hbomberguy.

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- dditty@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Respectfully disagree when it comes to this video! I wouldn’t have fully appreciated the innovations he presents ~80-minutes in without the preceding historical context!
  
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- GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  He’s got a bad case of dramatic video essay voice
  
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- thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You can watch them piece by piece (meaning if its broken up by chapters like this), if its too long. I personally don’t do that, but can absolutely understand it. Nowadays I also watch most videos at higher speed. Some talk really slow, I mean slow that I watch it at x1.4 speed and it sounds like someone else is talking at x1.0 speed. But this video, I didn’t have a problem with the narration itself.
  
  BTW I recommend Looking for an addon or like that if you watch on a browser. I have a more fine control over the speed values, as x1.25 sometimes is too fast. In example I often watch at x1.1 by default or sometimes at x1.2… and in really bad cases even faster.
  
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blindsight@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I already knew the broad strokes of most of what I’ve watched so far (about halfway), but it’s very entertaining. I’m watching at 2× speed, fwiw (which is typical for me).

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