Quoth Adam Savage: “It’s not ‘my experiment failed’, it’s ‘my experiment yielded data!’”
Mythbusters
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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Juice@midwest.social 4 months ago
The Elephant and Mice episode was so wild, because if I remember correctly, the elephant didn’t act afraid of the mouse, it acted afraid it would step on and harm the mouse; as if the elephant had a basic understanding and concern for the wellbeing of another creature conspicuously lacking in many human beasts
IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yep. Elephants are wonderfully kind creatures. With my very limited understanding of elephant body language, it didn’t look like an ‘oh no, im scared’ it was more ‘oh hey little guy, didn’t see ya there. ill get outta your way.’
frezik@midwest.social 4 months ago
Just smart as hell. This video makes me wonder if elephants legit have a sense of humor:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VOvEFHDOaU
Animal behavior can be difficult to interpret (and even from experts, I often find myself asking “yeah, but how do we really know that?”), but this looks very close to being like someone who’s known for lighthearted pranks.
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 months ago
It’s amazing how intelligent and emotionally mature elephants are. It’s not wonder why people were willing to believe that “Elephants have a moon religion!” line for so long, it seems believable with how often elephants seem to act like chonky humans with a trunk instead of arms.
Chev@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If we would, we would be all vegan.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Being able to separate your ego and desire to be right from the learning process is such an important skill.
Zozano@lemy.lol 4 months ago
I remember being stubborn, being proved wrong, continuing to be stubborn, and being proved wrong even harder, in front of others.
It’s such a pathetic and embarrassing feeling to be that wrong.
I don’t want to be wrong a moment longer than I need to be.
There’s no shame in being corrected, but there is in holding on to shit ideas.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is the right attitude more people should have. But all too often, when people are proven wrong, they genuinely believe that it must be the other person/group, because they cannot accept the emotional consequences of being wrong.
I know that I’ve had a hard time learning this because growing up I was never held to account for my actions on an emotional level. It was the 80s and 90s, and adults at that time would either shrug it off, or go straight to the nuclear punishment of corporal punishment. Never once would they sit down and talk to you about why what you did was wrong and how to do it better next time. I, anecdotally, believe that a lot of genx suffer this same way. They simply haven’t learned that there is a better way.
peto@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Or at least use classical conditioning to associate the I’m wrong feeling with the impending new cool facts feeling.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Plus being able to figure out a semilegitimate excuse to blow stuff up. “This could be very dangerous so we’re going to do several things to make it safer. That’s teaching safe lab techniques, so it’s educational!”
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
For anyone missing the show, there was a wonderful project called Streamlined Mythbusters where fans edited each episode down to remove the filler, pre and post ad recaps, etc. They usually also would reorder things so each individual myth was seld contained.
It’s wonderful, but some episodes legitimately got cut down to be 16 minutes long with no real content loss, which can be kind of jarring.
Psythik@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There is also Smyths, which is the same thing.
Unfortunately Mythbusters edits have a tendency to get pulled from the typical video sharing sites rather quickly. I wish someone would make a torrent of the entire series edited this way, and call it a day.
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
What, like the pinned comment on the smyths reddit page?
HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Oh god, I forgot, it was during the “REALITY TV!” boom where marketing and hype had more substance than the shows themselves, and if the show had substance… edit it like it is Reality TV…
I do not miss that.
runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Thanks for the Rec! I definitely miss the show. Adam’s YouTube channel sometimes scratches the itch, but not always.
porksoda@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You can find a torrent of all of them. I love putting Plex on shuffle when I’m doing chores around the house.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 months ago
This is why most skepticism based programs don’t work, and Mythbusters did.
They didn’t try to be smug about it, they didn’t belittle people who believed in the myths, they never brought religion and politics into it, and the biggest pitfall they avoided: They never pretended that the “science was settled” and that they “already knew everything”, they simply did the research and went where the data took them.
Too many skepticism based programs seem to think the scientific method is running into a church, yelling “FAKE!”, and then running outside to hurl insults at passersby.
Mythbusters didn’t do that, they skipped the dogma and went straight to the science.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Also, most of the myths weren’t “serious”- it wasn’t like they were debunking flat earth or something.
candybrie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I hate that debunking flat earth is now seen as serious rather than a 5th grade science experiment.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 months ago
it wasn’t like they were debunking flat earth or something
Though you could do that. And with equipment and a type of experiment that would make sense on their show. The experiment conducted at the very end of the documentary Behind the Curve is perfect. Great big lasers, a simple and easy-to-visualise pass condition. If they had wanted to, they absolutely could have done it.
ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 4 months ago
Being excited about being wrong because either way it's information
This literally is the basis of science that I think a lot of people misunderstand. Science doesn't prove anything conclusively. What scientists try to do is disprove the leading theory and when they can't, it adds to the pile of evidence that increases the likelyhood of the leading theory being correct. Even things that we're very, very, very sure are correct are still like 99.99999999999...% confirmed.
A good example that's often used to show how it's more important to try to disprove a theory rather than trying to prove it is the existence of black swans. It was long thought that all swans were white and every time someone saw a white swan, that idea was reinforced. But when someone actually went out of their way to go looking for a black swan, they found a bunch of them!
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I feel it is my pedantic duty to inform you that 99.9… is equal to 100.
Crowfiend@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Only if you’re rounding. 99.9 is still 1/10 of a digit separated from 100, but it’s not equal to 100 for good reason.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It doesn’t matter how you run because ALLIGATORS WON’T CHASE YOU.
I used to live in Florida on the edge of a big lake where my landlord had carved out a lagoon that mama gators used to hatch their broods, so there would often be between 50 and 100 little alligators chilling out in my backyard sunning themselves. For fun I would try to sneak up on one of them and poke it on the head just to watch it and all the others scatter into the lagoon. Everybody I told about this thought I was absolutely batshit crazy, but I knew that at the time there had been something like 5 alligator attacks on humans in Florida since the 1940s, always on little children playing in water (I was obviously a little child mentally but physically I was a 200-pound adult man). So I knew I wasn’t risking life or limb doing this. For the record, my sneaking up technique was to stand stock still and only move a step or two towards the gator whenever the wind blew; it seems that the gators just took me for a swaying branch and ignored me.
What made me stop doing this was one day I happened to look down at what I thought was a big log and realized that it was actually the mama gator, about 12’ long from tip to tail and probably 2’ in diameter at her midsection. I was fairly confident that she wouldn’t attack me on land either - but not that confident.
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
So, we meet at last, Florida Man!
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No way! I left and I still have all my teeth.
awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
but not that confident.
That’s how you bust myths!
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 months ago
Remember kids: The difference between science and screwing around is writing things down.
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Remember kids: publishing negative results is hard.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 4 months ago
But super important and not done enough! Disproving something can save humanity such time.
BluesF@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There’s a bit more to it than that
Zacryon@lemmy.wtf 4 months ago
Yes. Being exploited by greedy publishers and a failing academia system, while barely making a living for example.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sometimes they called stuff busted because they couldn’t personally do it though, even though the myth involved elite athletics. I was pretty stoked when they brought in an actual ninja to test if ninjas can grab arrows out of the air. The guy actually did catch some arrows, which was quite amazing.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Yeah… There are many pitfalls to doing a Skepticism based program, sadly one of the few Mythbusters DIDN’T avoid was “Well I can’t personally do it, so it’s impossible for everyone!”
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“Could the DOOM marine actually carry all those weapons while running for ages?” - Adam and Jamie couldn’t manage it, but they brought in someone who could.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Which was ridiculous considering they’re a couple of science nerds with no physical aptitude at all. LOL. They nailed the science stuff though.
LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I liked the one where they tested it you could stop a sword by slapping your palms together to stop the swing like in ninja movies They actually built a machine with rubber hands to simulate it. Long and short of it … No you can’t
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
But maybe… JK. The strength required to do that would be inhuman.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah, one that I always think of is the see-saw one where a sky diver’s parachute failed so he aimed for a see-saw with a girl sitting on one end which resulted in the girl launched shot upwards and then landing safely on top of a building.
Their first test used basically a metal plank on a fulcrum and the forces did more to bend the plank than they did to launch the girl and she didn’t get high enough.
Their second attempt used a see-saw that was built using suspension bridge tech to essentially make it instructable, resulting in fatal forces from the launch. At this point, they called it busted.
But I see two unrealistic extremes where reality would exist somewhere in the middle where see-saws are designed to not break easily but not to the point of being indestructible and there might be a sweet spot where the forces are high enough to launch girl several stories up but not high enough that she dies from the forces.
Also, for the bull in a china shop one, I’m guessing that saying resulted from a bull ending up inside a china shop during a running of the bulls event, where stress would be high and there wouldn’t be an easy and obvious path out on the other side, plus maybe a shopkeeper suddenly trying to get it out in a panic. I think that would get the expected result, especially after a few shelves have broken and each step makes more broken sounds.
psud@aussie.zone 4 months ago
If you want to accelerate a person to “fly high into the air” speed over a distance of a see saw’s arc is going to kill the person. There is no sweet spot
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
The last comments in the image are exactly right.
It bothers me when I screw up and someone says “I fixed that for you” without explaining how I screwed things up, or how they fixed it.
If I’m wrong, I get it. I’m not always right, nobody can be right 100% of the time, IMO, that’s impossible. But when I’m wrong, let me learn so I can avoid being wrong in the same way twice.
IMO, schools have failed us, they teach us what we should know but don’t encourage us to always be curious and always be learning. It’s okay to make mistakes, and it’s okay to be wrong. What’s not okay is never learning from your mistakes, and being so stubborn that when you are wrong, you double down on being wrong instead of seeking more information so you can be correct next time.
Being wrong is always condemned. You get low grades, you fail and get held back in some cases… It’s been rare that any teacher I’ve ever had would review anything from a test after its over. A very small number went back and said “a lot of people had trouble with x question from the test, here’s the answer and this is why it’s the correct answer”. IMO, that should be way more common… Review the test after its over and let the class know that low marks are not the end, they’re a wonderful beginning to learning. If you know what you don’t know and you have even the smallest amount of ability and willingness to improve, with the addition of opportunities to learn that, then you will always succeed.
Be successful. Get a bunch of shit wrong.
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m glad you addressed the aversion to being wrong because I think that’s part of the core of what’s causing so many problems in America today (and maybe other places, but I can only speak to my own familiarity).
I feel like as a society we have created an environment where we demonstrate and reinforce to children from like kindergarten onward that the worst thing you can possibly do is be wrong. Someone who is always right is seen as smart, capable…in short, a winner.
Conversely, if you’re ever wrong, that completely and permanently undoes your entire argument/position and not only that, but you’re branded as unreliable/untrustworthy, uninformed, stupid, dishonest, or naive.
We expect perfection in correctness, and while being right is the expectation, being wrong is a permanent black mark that is treated as a more serious negative than being right is considered as a positive. Nobody just assumes that if you’re right about one thing that you’ll be right about all things, but if you get something wrong, there’s a very real shift toward double-checking or verifying anything else that comes after.
We even tease friends, family, and children for mispronouncing words or singing incorrect lyrics. Basically, being incorrect is so stigmatized that we reinforce to everyone, children and adults alike, that it’s better to not even try…not even make an attempt or join into a conversation…than to risk being wrong. When someone is wrong we use words like “admit” like it’s a crime, or admit defeat…and that just creates an environment where nobody is ever encouraged to speak up about anything for fear of (gasp!) being wrong.
And now we’re coming full circle on this at the highest levels, with our leaders being blatantly and objectively wrong…and absolutely dead set on avoiding having to admit that at all costs, setting a precedent that has oozed into even casual discourse among regular people. It seems like it used to be that being wrong was bad enough, but to dig in and refuse to admit it was even worse…lately it seems that admitting you were wrong is now even worse than doubling down on it…so now we have a situation where we can’t even agree on basic facts because one or more sides will be wrong but would rather insist on their position than just acknowledge they were incorrect.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
You’re hitting on every point I could make.
My advice to anyone reading, and wanting to be okay in being wrong, the first step is admitting you don’t know something. Even if it’s something you should know. For example if you’re considered to be an “expert” or at least very knowledgeable about something and someone asks you about that specific thing, but it’s not something you know, avoid making things up, or trying to derive an answer from what you do know. Explain that you’re not sure what the right answer is, but you’ll figure it out, then do some research to figure it out. Don’t go off the cuff and start informing people of what you presume it is based on what you know, without knowing for sure.
The next step is when someone contradicts what you believe to be true, hear them out, then do whatever lookups and research you need to figure out if they’re right, or you’re right. Don’t immediately tell them they’re wrong, just listen, then find the truth and go from there.
The other thing I do, is I stay away from absolute statements as much as I can. Instead of saying that this thing I know is absolute and true, I preface it with qualifying statements like “I believe…” Eg, “I believe you need to use that switch over there to do the thing” rather than “use that switch to do the thing”. If you’re wrong then it was qualified as an uncertainty which can make a correction sting that much less.
Finally, always pursue the truth above all else. The point shouldn’t be whether you are right or wrong, the point is getting and giving true information to/from others. When getting seemingly true information from someone, trust but verify anything you’re told before passing that information along, whenever possible.
Always be learning, always be seeking the truth, always verify the statements of others. After a while, you’ll find that you’re right far more often than when you’re wrong… Having that kind of track record will help in your ability to handle the times that you’re found to be wrong and you’ll have a much easier time with it.
The whole thing is a process, so don’t beat yourself up over it. You will falter and catch yourself doing things wrong and making assumptions and providing information you later determine to be wrong. It will happen. Learn the correct information and move forward. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
There’s a ton more that I could say on the matter, but I think that’s the core points.
For me, I got a huge wake-up call while working at a large software provider doing end user support. I went to the escalation team and asked them about a problem, and they asked me about some of the details, when I provided them, they questioned “did you verify this? Or did you just take the customers word for it?”… I didn’t verify the information. They sent me back to verify the situation before they would engage on the matter, and IIRC, it ended up being one of the assumptions that the end user, or I made, which wasn’t configured correctly, that cursed the problem. I managed to avoid needing escalation. From then on, “trust but verify” was a constant mantra. I’ve been growing and learning ever since.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 months ago
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I only had time to read a few paragraphs, but yeah. That’s a good one.
I’ll try to return to this and finish this reading.
Jarix@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ive told people this many times, we need to create more room for failure. From school, to jobs, to building businesses, to loans, to health.
If we can try something because if we fail we can try something else, we would find a hell of a lot more to care about in this world.
And the most important thing we would care more about is ourselves
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
I cannot agree enough with this statement and especially love your closing. We definitely don’t tend to be able to take enough time to really care for ourselves and try and fail at new things.
Jarix@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh thank you very much
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Mandatory Dwarf Fortress in every school.
Jarix@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Okay thats it im tired of people commenting about this Dwarf fortress. How much of my soul does it cost? Whats that in hours needed?
bob_lemon@feddit.de 4 months ago
Science and academia, too. There’s way too few papers being published about failed experimemts. “I thought A, so I did B in order to achieve C, but it didn’t work out because of D.” is a very useful result.
Jarix@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh is it better to separate school from science and academia. Thank you, noted
ElderberryLow@programming.dev 4 months ago
I loved their episode where they made a led balloon.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Surprise origami!
Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 4 months ago
I would say escaping from quick sand and escaping from an alligator chasing me were two major concerns in my childhood. LoL, global climate change was maybe not even on the list, for which I will curse the petroleum industry.
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 months ago
It make me really sad when I learned that James and Adam were not friend.
James said their relationship doesn’t really extend beyond the show.
Shard@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s fine and I think its pretty much the perfect example of a solid professional relationship (no need to be buddies or “like a family”) and what greatness can be achieved when you work with same endgame in mind. They may have disagreed plenty but only because they wanted to achieve the best outcomes possible.
While they are not friends, if you follow Adam on youtube, you’ll realize there is a huge amount of mutual respect between the two, even to this day.
merc@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
You mean Jamie?
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
No, he means James. James Franklin Hyneman.
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Yeah, I’m sorry English is my second language, sometimes I’m confused how names are spelled.
booty@hexbear.net 4 months ago
I just looked up the elephant vs mouse segment. The way the elephants reacted, I kinda feel like they’re being cautious because they recognize a harmless lil animal and don’t want to step on it. Like they behave pretty much exactly how I do when I see a little spider or frog or cricket or something. like “whoa there buddy, you dont wanna be under my feet”
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My favorite is the fan mounted to the boat blowing the sail causing the boat to move. I mean there are a shitload more experiments in fun episodes that are far better and more entertaining, but this one is my favorite because it flies in the face of logic. It shouldn’t work. My brain rejects the possibility. But physics and fluid flow work otherwise and I found it pointlessly infuriating only because I’d been unassailable in my confidence that it couldn’t possibly work. Yet there it is with a perfectly logical explanation. I still find it irritating even if I accept the reality of it. (Episode 165 if anyone’s wondering)
ultratiem@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
My fav was if you could shoot someone in water. Turns out that just 3 ft. of water was enough to stop a 50 cal! So as great of a film as Saving Private Ryan was, the opening scene where bullets wiz thru the sea killing soldiers was pure fiction.
Jarix@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bigger/faster the bullet the easier it was for water to stop. The small rounds from handguns worked best for shooting into water.
It makes sense once they do the maths but it was a great episode
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It isn’t that the water is stoping the bullet- rather that water’s surface tension creates a shockwave that shatters the bullet, and this distributes the mass over more fragments.
Lower power cartridges are able to survive that shockwave, or it fragments into fewer slugs which keeps its energy concentrated.
Either way, I wouldn’t want to be near the high powered cartridge hitting the water. You’re going to feel that shockwave.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bigger/faster the bullet the easier it was for water to stop.
For bullets that’s probably true because of their light weight, but heavy shells from the big naval guns of battleships (12" to 18" caliber) actually carried a long way through water and sometimes hit and damaged target ships below the waterline. The Japanese in particular actually designed some of their shells to maximize their underwater performance.
zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
True, but smaller arms go further so scenes line the early betrayal in Italian Job were life threatening.
All supersonic bullets (up to .50-caliber) disintegrated in less than 3 feet (90 cm) of water, but slower velocity bullets, like pistol rounds, need up to 8 feet (2.4 m) of water to slow to non-lethal speeds. Shotgun slugs require even more depth (the exact depth couldn’t be determined because their one test broke the rig). However, as most water-bound shots are fired from an angle, less actual depth is needed to create the necessary separation.
lobut@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Boom De Yada: www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0
(for some nostalgic Discovery vibes)
MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
“Failure is always an option.”
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My favorite is planes on a treadmill.
Mostly because fans still argue about it and it’s hit the point they had to ban PoaT comments.
Which is insane as it’s not that difficult to understand. When a plane is on the ground, its gear/wheels will roll at ground speed, but the wings provide lift at airspeed.
If the ground is being moved under the plane (as on a treadmill,) the wheels will just roll faster.
Sure they’re not zero friction and some of that needs to be overcome; but this is something encountered on a daily basis all across the world- or rather, the opposite.
If the wind is coming from ahead, its airspeed is increased and the plane needs a lower ground speed to get into the air where if the wind is coming from behind, then they need more.
(This is why carriers set course into the wind when launching jets,)
At no point is ground speed and airspeed necessarily the same (i suppose you could have a calm day, but most days, the wind is blowing at least some.)
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one [bot] 4 months ago
MythBusters will always and forever be a treasure.
fossphi@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Sometimes there’s a twitch stream of random mythbusters episodes. It’s so fun.
I wish they came back :/
jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I still wanted them to see how much dynamite it would take to remove a dead whale.
kaffiene@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I wish more people in general would be OK with being wrong. Noone ever learned something new without knowing they’d been wrong
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Kind of related but there was a video on StarTalk a couple days ago on NGT rebutting a Joe Rogan interview with Terrence Howard. It’s was joyous watching a breakdown in how science works while very politely calling TH an absolute moron.
hipsterdoofus@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I miss Mythbusters. These days, the closest thing is Maker youtube channels like Failed Mythbuster Allen Pan, Simone Gertz, William Osman, StyroPyro, ElectroBoom, Stuff Made Here.
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 4 months ago
Curiosity is the best trait nature ever gave us.
Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
That and writing down results.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Just because no one else has said, Adam has been involved in EFF for a long time. EEF Podcast episode with him in it:
eff.org/…/podcast-episode-making-hope-adam-savage
Which delights me as he’s more mainstream and so wakes people up to things like the Right To Repair movement.
QuantumStorm@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I miss Mythbusters so much.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
It’s amazing to me that Discovery hasn’t tried to bring Mythbusters back. Instead they double down on Ancient Aliens and Pawnstars garbage.
seatwiggy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I’m pretty sure they did try to bring it back but it wasn’t as popular because it wasn’t Adam and Jamie
Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 months ago
They did try to bring it back, but it was really a show that needed its core cast to be what it was.
Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
If you need you fix Adam savage is very active on YouTube and is just a wonder human being. It’s not MythBusters but Adam was a light during Covid and someone I put on regularly on YouTube.
QuantumStorm@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah its a real monkeys paw situation too. Will they be able to catch that same lightning in a jar again without the same cast?
HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Real Science attracts smart people who want to learn a thing or two about the world, Fake Science attracts the kind of gullible kooks you can sell snake oil and orgonite devices to… and I say this as someone who “wants to believe”
Same reason why scam e-mails and telemarketers intentionally leave big gaping holes in their stories while using dozens of spelling errors. If you’re the kind of person who can notice things like that, you’re too smart to buy what they’re selling.
WiseThat@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
You should checknout SMyths, fan edits that remove the cutting back and forth between stories so you get one myth at a time, and that cut out the repetitive narration meant for people joining mid-episode. Much nicer viewing
QuantumStorm@lemmy.world 4 months ago
On YouTube or somewhere else?