I love the comment about "There is a voice in your head that you like and a voice on the tape that you don't". SO TRUE! I listen to my own videos and ask "is that REALLY how I sound?" I can't stand it, but my wife says I'm easy to listen to, which is good, because we recently passed our 10th wedding anniversary, so I guess we have a future! :)
You’re not alone. I don’t like my voice on a recording but everyone else says my voice is nice. I think hearing your own voice sound different is unsettling in some way.
"I do want to talk about the importance of being able to change your mind, in general, the trick is to keep your identity separate from your opinions. They are objects in a box you carry with you and should be easily replaceable if it turns out they're not good. if you think the opinions in the box are who you are then you'll cling to them despite every evidence to the contrary. Bottom line, if you want to be always right you need to always be prepared to change your mind." Loved it
I have my term project due in four hours. Good thing CGP Grey came to the rescue suggesting a book entitled "Getting Things Done". All I have to do is read that book cover to cover and I'll be ready to start my project.
CGPGrey is probably the only youtuber I know who gets more views per video than he has subscribers. I was actually surprised to hear he only had 1 million subscribers.
I just watched you drive a car for almost an hour, I would not be bored with a settlers of catan video. please. Give us the catan video we want, and and the catan we need....
Q&A's set up to go every other with your normal videos would be a good idea in my view. That way if anyone has a question about the last informative video you could put the answer in the q&a. Just a suggestion.
+Leo King What else could it bee, a butterfly? Does your mind also blow when you see traffic signs, or have I just opened your mind to the world of iconography?
Your weekly review comment has inspired me and convinced me to do my homework. CGP Grey, you help me be a better person. I'm going to try and do weekly self evaluations.
The cooling down in a hot summer day thing is, I think, related to what people in the middle east do to "keep cool". Or rather, it tricks them in to feeling cooler than they actually are. Think about it. You drink hot coffee, or tea, or cocoa when it is cold to warm you up, but the result when you go back out into said frigid abyss is that it feels even colder than before. Something similar is being happening for those that drink hot tea to "cool off" on a hot day and in no air conditioning. Give it a try, or you could start wearing a scarf (or shemagh) loosely around your neck and then take it off when you get indoors.
1. I think that has to do with how different your body temperature is, compared to the environment that you're in. In the example you gave, you go inside (gaining heat from being in a warmer environment compared to outdoors, assuming indoors is warmer), you drink a hot beverage (gaining more heat) and you go back outside. Therefore, the difference in temperature between your body and the environment is now greater than before you warmed up and so you feel like it's colder. In reality, you're just warmer and are rapidly losing the heat you gained not too long ago. 2. Shemaghs keep the sunlight from directly hitting the skin around your head/neck which is why you feel cooler wearing one in a hot, sunny day than you would if you weren't wearing anything to protect your skin. The energy hits the shemagh first so the intensity or focus of the energy is lessened compared to having the energy hit your skin directly. Essentially, you are left warm/hot while wearing a shemagh as protection, rather than being cooked/burnt alive under the sunlight.
I know you say that your classes aren't like hour long CGP Grey videos, but I do really think that I would very much enjoy being taught by you, although that may be because I enjoy your videos so much.
Your reasoning behind not making videos every week made me think back to all your videos I've seen and I can't for the life of me find one that I didn't find interesting and informative. Better to have quality videos attracting viewers like yours than daily vlogging or weekly updates.
Yes!!! please make that Katan video! I would love to see a video on that, also on boardgame designs, it's... boring? How did you manage that?? Katan is awesome!!! (Or... Catan, if you please...)
I'm not quite sure but I think even the German original of the game spells it Catan - I'd have to go all the way to the closet and look for the game.. or ask google. Both of which I can't be bothered to do right now - so no Katan anywhere. But never mind that, yes I want that video as well and yes it is the greatest board game ever. Apart from the really, really crappy space Catan-thingy. That is just bad, not just because Catan needs wooden pieces (and the spaceships keep breaking)
I'm dyslectic and ignorant, you're correct :P Still... I prefer Katan, the C is an annoying letter. It should make up its mind: either sound like an S or a K. In fact become different sound altogether.
Today I found out My world geography teacher is subscribed to cgp, he played the EU video and I thought it was just mere luck, but today everyone in class was talking about how they liked it, and he said he has many more videos, specifically the one over Great Britain, which I'm excited to see again.
I found you thru hank and John green, who I was led to bu Philly D. Now I'm trying to imagine a channel of my own, thanks for setting the bar so high. Grr... But I do very much enjoy your work, thank you
I think you are too self critical. I wanted to see the 45 minute catan documentary and I think you VASTLY underestimate many peoples ability to watch long form stuff on youtube.
The hot tea thing originates from India and it turns out to be true. your body consuming the hot tea assumes you must be hot so regulates your body to cool down. They did a thing about it in npr, I think it was on the radio lab show
Honestly, I don't care that there's no schedule. The quality of the vids make it worth it. And in a slightly backwards way, it makes me more appreciative of the effort and time put into creating the videos. Because if there's a schedule I might go "oh, of course he's gonna upload a video." whereas a more scattered upload schedule make every time a video come up a "oh my gosh, a new video!!".
I have a question, CGP. Have you ever considered including podcasts into your media-sphere, instead of just videos? I love your videos, but knowing how coomplicated they are to make, would creating podcasts (in addition to videos) be another opportunity to get your voice out even more?
DUDE. Grey here is a dota player. I just liked you a thousand times more. Do you play dota by the name "Mr. Grey"? Because I think it might come to confusions with this strange new cinema film thing...
I think that you should keep the ideas that you throw out, but put them in a junk drawer for lack of a better word. Every once in a while, you pull a bunch of stuff out of the junk drawer and mash them all together with a few revisions and jokes added in, in a CGPGrey teaches you random things video. Then you can teach all of the things, and still maintain a level of quality for your videos. Also, why am I not more glad that you like the interrobang‽
Goddamnit, now that I've commented, I feel silly that I didn't watch more and commented that my heroes are Clinkz and Broodmother... yes, I am the worst kind of person.
OH.MY.GOODNESS. I love Glove and Boots. I'm glad you mentioned that they should have more subscribers. In my opinion, they're one of the best RU-vid channels being produced right now :)
Thanks for sharing your videos with us and for doing some Q&A so that we can understand the work that you go through just a little more. =) I have enjoyed for following you for the past year or so and I must say it has been a joy. I look forward to more vids--and more Q&A when you get more subscribers. ;)
Grey!!! Seeing that you spent so much time on a Catan video and didn't release it depresses me. This is my favorite board game of all time and I play it weekly if not bi-weekly. No matter how boring you thing it is, please reboot and release this. Would be very interested and would love to see it. I promise I'm not alone in this.
DroidC The whole Smosh games team, hell Notch even follows him. All of Game Grumps, Angry joe Show, ashens, Totalbiscuit, a bunch of game developers, akindalewar(obviously), you can pretty much check out his Twitter account and see the youtubers who follows him.
You should do a video on Hong Kong, its complicated relationship with China, and its transfer from the United Kingdom. There is lots to talk about: politics and such. Maybe you should throw in Macau for good measure.
CGP Grey, do you know what MinutePhysics is doing? He is uploading multiple 10-second videos, and allowing his audience to choose which topic they want him to go into depth on. You should put out your "ideas that didn't make it" onto short videos, let us vote for our favorites, and then do videos according to which got voted most.
Dark Seer! Necrolyte! Whooooo. You should totally do a video about the history of Dota and/or eSports! People need to know that professional gaming is a thing!
Celsius at 0: Water freezes. Fahrenheit at 0: The coldest you can get if you mix salts and crushed ice correctly. Celsius at 100: Water boils. Fahrenheit at 100: A bit above human body temperature. Which seems like the best to you?
Fahrenheit because I grew up with it, and perfection doesn't bother me, measuring with the foot is 12 inches, a mile is Idek, and all the weirdness, I prefer metric, (because thats what my school book (I'm homeschooled) taught me) it's more of a "I use cause I always have" kinda thing
I have no idea what that game is. But I was 1000 times more disappointed it got cut. CGP, You've overlooked something you explained in a previous video: Creativity encourages more creativity (and the same for content). I would prefer to see videos from you more often. I think its worth resurrecting the cut videos, because we are all the harshest critic of our own work and they were probably awesome. Please stop judging yourself so harshly.
Not sure I agree with your belief that history is the "ceaseless march of science and technology." History is replete with examples of technological setbacks, less technologically-advanced civilizations conquering their more-advanced neighbors, and changes that have little to do with technology. Plus, the ability to advance technologically is in large part the result of culture, government policies, and wealth, so you have to study those other things to understand the "march of science and technology."
So, just looked up my city's population, updated to Canada and...wait, changing from the United States to Canada uped the number of subscriber estimation. You are popular in Canada!
So diggin deeper, I figured out where CGP Grey seems to be the most popular as a percent of population that is a subscriber. I have found the following: 1: Iceland - 0.36% of the population is a subscriber 2: Czech Republic - 0.27% of the population is a subscriber 3: Canada - 0.21% of the population is a subscriber 4: Faroe Islands - 0.19% of the population is a subscriber 5: Svalbard and Jan Mayen - 0.19% of the population is a subscriber 6: Aruba - 0.16% of the population is a subscriber 7: Gibraltar - 0.16% of the population is a subscriber 8: Netherlands - 0.15% of the population is a subscriber 9: Norway - 0.15% of the population is a subscriber 10: Guam - 0.15% of the population is a subscriber
Apparently, the spreadsheet is now gone... sad. Ok, so the spreadsheet can be found on the Reddit page for this video. One guy in the comments left a link.
That "Greek steam engine" was designed by Hero of Alexandria and is called an aeolipile. It's quite cool, I'm am quite surprised you pointed that out, I study Art History and I haven't ever come across another person who knows about it. Great mind.
I'd love to see that Catan project man! I personally love board game design and gameplay and Catan has been a staple in my family and friend circle for before my birth. I'd love to see that vid if this comment happens to influence you in that direction :)
I obsess about gamedesign all the time and Settlers of Catan is fairly certainly my favorite board game. A CGP Grey video (or documentary, the longer the better) about why Settlers of Catan is amazing would make me so happy. Papa, please, I promise I won't ask anything for my birthday or christmas.
Andrew Del Rosario Is there something I'm missing with him? I feel like everyone on RU-vid loves him, but I can never tell when he actually likes a game and is taking the shit out of it' nitpicks, or if he hates a game.
It's just his review philosophy. He believes that a critic criticizes, and so tears apart games regardless of their overall quality. Not to mention, he has done some positive reviews before (ie Psychonauts and The Orange Box), and claimed that people weren't as keen on those.
Grey, have you thought about trying White Noise? Since the repetitiveness helps you focus White Noise will cancel out most audible distractions and will help you concentrate. Just an idea.
Tea does make you cooler. The TRPV1 receptor on your tounge tastes the hot tea and tells your brain to start cooling your body quicker. A cold drink would do the opposite making your body think it's not as hot as it is, and your body's cooing system is delayed which could be dangerous.
HAHAAHA, sick DOTA 2 reference CGP, My initial level of respect for you just quintupled. Love the vids, I know this one isn't too recent, but keep it up.
Maybe an idea for a site: CCP Rejects. Somewhere to post the script, footage or maybe even full episodes that didn't make the cut. Some people may like them anyway.
