Personally I love it because I hate being alone with my thoughts and listening to someone talk about some bullshit I don’t really care about directly into my ears for four hours at a time while I do other things tends to help my anxiety. Also great for falling asleep.

That said, this isn’t any kind of endorsement of the guy’s content or anything. If someone said this about some kind of essay or analysis I wrote I’d be pretty sad about that lmao

If somebody told me I should travel 4 hours to eat the most delicious meal I ever had but would only say “It’s delicious,” to describe it - I’m not going. I don’t care if the meal is free.

This is wild to me. Of course I’m going, are you serious?! What if they’re right and it’s the most delicious meal I ever had? I wouldn’t want to chance missing that. Even if the meal isn’t particularly good, it’s an adventure. You get to remember the time you trusted some weirdo about a delicious meal and then they were extremely wrong and you got a bit of a road trip out of it. Maybe the difference is that 4 hours of travel time just doesn’t seem like that much to me? I used to live in the desert southwest, everything is hours from everything else.

Also, this is how I suggest games to people sometimes, especially something like Outer Wilds. I can’t explain to someone why Outer Wilds is good without ruining at least a little bit of its magic, so I’m not going to explain why it’s good, I’ll just insist that it is one of the best games I’ve ever played and an absolute masterpiece that I think everyone should play.

You know you can like watch in in chunks right? It’s not like you have to down the thing in one sitting.

The video consists of like 2 hours of some examples of youtube plagiarism, with discussion of content mills and the beginning of an interesting point about how plagiarists view the people they steal from as lesser, which is not expanded upon as much as it should IMO.

The other 2 hours are about James Somerston, a gay video essayist that basically Frakensteined a bunch (if not all) of his videos from queer authors, some well known, a lot of them not. By the end Hbomb makes a good point about erasure, and how young queer people don’t understand their history in part because of people like Somerston.

I’m generally not annoyed by length since I’m a zoomer and watch everything at 2x or more, but in this case I get the point because it actually took me 2 real time hours to watch and I felt there was a lot that could have been cut. I still won’t watch the 3 hour scorcese movie, fuck all of you, movies ARE too long now.

One time I traveled four hours to and from a job site where the only thing I had to do when I got there was plug one thing in and make a phone call. They paid my mileage though so 👍