The Thing That Can't Fall Over (Simple Words Episode 1)

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4 ай бұрын

Inspired by xkcd.com/1133/
See the original version of this video with big boy words here: • Gömböc-The Shape That ...
.STL file for the Gömböc: www.thingiverse.com/thing:523643

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@ActionLabShorts 4 ай бұрын

What video from my main channel should I do next? BTW this is the original video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qNyGeZiCvLm9dmg.html

@hyperbaroque 4 ай бұрын

uh oh some of those words were just tooooo big for some of us

@Sajuuk 4 ай бұрын

Do the thing where it tells the thing. Things with numbers.

@gabor6259 4 ай бұрын

The antibubble video. 0:49 By the way, I don't think "1995" is among the 1,000 most frequently used words.

@Games_and_Music 4 ай бұрын

Maybe one of the good 'ol pressure chamber, maybe the Stretch Armstrong?

@HakunaMatataAquatics 4 ай бұрын

Yup

@PastorOogway 4 ай бұрын

If a 5 year old was a super intelligent scientist but still had the vocabulary of a 5 year old 😂

@enderyu 4 ай бұрын

If a very big brain doctor had the word use of a five year old

@PAULY-P 4 ай бұрын

If you move your current surroundings and pay attention to your current vocabulary at the same time for many hrs, you're vocabulary intellect will be less existent. It's the other senses that move you. Edit: And when it moves you, you'll know.

@Catman_CM 3 ай бұрын

I feel like this is how Dexter's Lab would be in real life.

@oOneenOo 4 ай бұрын

Great moving picture about things.

@stevenjones8575 4 ай бұрын

This is a perfect demonstration that overemphasizing accessibility can make something less accessible to everyone.

@stateofmissouri5651 4 ай бұрын

ya this was so rough hahahaha

@unknownman5090 4 ай бұрын

Ngl, I dont get what set perfect mean to the end😂

@felixjohnson3874 4 ай бұрын

Exactly, there *_are_* cases of unnecessary verbosity or general elitism, ("ah yes, the ludonarrative dissonance presents itself as a problem") but most terms are actually just common (and necessary) derivations to make communication easier. ("Falcon amd the Winter Soldier fails because it's metanarrative doesn't match with what is actually written", or, in other terms, the John Walker effect)

@ratenreview3256 2 ай бұрын

Woke niss

@darly5448 4 ай бұрын

"If difficult noun, replace with 'thing'"

@dlberker 4 ай бұрын

Do we get a second version using only words that we can't understand? 😁

@rickh3714 4 ай бұрын

No- but there might be a "Garrulously verbose videographic dissertation dorsally affixed to contemplation of eccentrically perturbed, polygonally faceted, of intermittent optically perceptual determination - apparent amorphously gelatinous plasmoidal interlopers of aerodynamically & submarinally indeterminate egress ingress re levitational & descensional methodologies but in lucent terminology altitudinally & horizontally translocational within a near contemporaneous Post-Babylonian empire, western superpower military overseer boundary " If you want videos on 'Jellyfish' UFOs over a US army base in Iraq?

@lightdark00 4 ай бұрын

Words not part of the 10,000 most used words for the video would be great.

@M23js 4 ай бұрын

@@lightdark00he said 10-hundred.. that's a thousand.. not 10 thousand. Otherwise VIDEO, TURTLE, and others wouldn't have been "dumbed down".. moving picture? Lol

@Vercte 4 ай бұрын

@@M23jsno he actually means not out of the 10,000 used words it’s obvious that this video uses the top 1,000

@neondennon 4 ай бұрын

“It falls over onto the side where it can’t fall over anymore” 10/10 🥚/🍳

@Square_Peg 4 ай бұрын

This was actually harder to understand using the common words then when you explain it in a more complicated way, lol.

@PastorOogway 4 ай бұрын

This is like me trying to explain the most basic stuff but I keep forgetting useful words 😂 Hilarious video

@xPortland 4 ай бұрын

Taking a shot every time he says “ fall over “ who’s with me ?

@crimson90 4 ай бұрын

I'm taking a shot everytime he says thing. See you in the ER.

@mikejettusa 4 ай бұрын

Yeah 😂

@redmadness265 4 ай бұрын

Or when he says "thing" or "things"

@disrespectthemwomensubjuga5471 4 ай бұрын

Don't do it or you will fall over.

@_Skylark Ай бұрын

I'd end up in the ER with alcohol poisoning 🤣

@kamil7280 4 ай бұрын

feels strange to listen to this right after finishing Orwell's 1984 with his idea of newspeak reducing language to bare minimum of words 🤔

@robertmcdonnold3038 4 ай бұрын

Very confusing explanation.

@brandonstews238 4 ай бұрын

Lol, yeah he was limited to the words he could use. 😂

@wmj1860 4 ай бұрын

Really? It's a pretty clear explanation to me. You must not have the mental capacity to get it🤷‍♂️

@purecountry6672 4 ай бұрын

😂The thing with the thing on the thing that falls over.

@ActionLabShorts 4 ай бұрын

I'll do a video using simpler words next time

@Sajuuk 4 ай бұрын

@@ActionLabShorts😂😂😂 Great comeback!

@ketameanii 4 ай бұрын

me when i don’t fall over when i am set perfect 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

@ladiddas 4 ай бұрын

I felt like I was having a stroke trying to understand this video, good job.

@Ryan_Harkin 4 ай бұрын

My head nearly fell over listening to this.

@scrungler_boinbus 4 ай бұрын

it didn't fall over because it was set perfect

@Catman_CM 3 ай бұрын

@@scrungler_boinbus or is it at the place where it can't fall over anymore?

@davematthews6284 4 ай бұрын

You know the thing

@bodegavega 4 ай бұрын

Interesting subject and method. Sounds like reading the assembly instructions from my Amazon furniture order. Or a poorly translated direct marketing ad.

@eas8381 2 ай бұрын

A perfect example of the benefits of having a large vocabulary. Using "simple" or common words doesn't always mean it will be easier to understand.

@bencus11 4 ай бұрын

The guy who loves the numbers is in fact are, Gábor Domokos and Péter Várkonyi. They are the guys behind the gömböc.

@M23js 4 ай бұрын

those words aren't in the top thousand.. can I get a definition? Lol

@rosedempsey9006 3 ай бұрын

So this is a specific writing style called (obviously) constrained writing, and it’s super interesting. It’s primarily used in poetry, so doing it for science is super interesting. The person I bring up whenever this topic presents itself is Georges Perec, who wrote two lipograms (constraints limiting specific letters). One exclusively used words containing the letter e, and the other only used words that didn’t have the letter E. To top that, he wrote in French, so any translator has to follow the same constraints, and it’s a novel so it still has to read like a novel

@arthurg.machado6803 4 ай бұрын

Really shows how language is important to allow us to explore hard concepts. Subjects would get 10x harder if not impossible sometimes if our vocab was that short. That's is maybe why animals couldn't evolve like us as a society, not just a intelligence barrier, some of them are intelligent enough but they lack vocab to communicate and think of compelx concepts (also opposing thumbs and stuff.. Haha)

@Catman_CM 3 ай бұрын

I forget where I first heard or read the following explanation, and I'm basically not even paraphrasing because I don't remember how it went, but: When you're in a conversation, there are two needs that must be met: the speaker needs to communicate their message in the most concise way possible, and the receiver (could be someone hearing or reading) needs the message to be the as easily understandable as possible; mostly, this is because our brains can receive and interpret a message faster than our mouths can speak it or fingers can type it. This leads to two general categories of words: complex, hyper-specific words that convey the speaker's intent in the most unambiguous way possible using the least amount of clarifying words, and simpler words that can be spoken and understood very quickly, but require more words. But, if you use jargon that the receiver isn't familiar with you've completely lost the whole point of using that jargon to speed up the conversation. So, know your audience, and tailor your message to their level of familiarity, if possible!

@Catman_CM 3 ай бұрын

Also, I hate using the phrase "most unambiguous" instead of "least ambiguous", but it conveys my better >:[

@arthurg.machado6803 3 ай бұрын

@@Catman_CM thats cool, never thought about how complex words are just a way of saying something specific using less words

@tristanallen2448 4 ай бұрын

This is hilarious!! I'm looking forward to the next one!!

@M23js 4 ай бұрын

That's what I thought! Hilarious!

@RolandSchlosser 4 ай бұрын

Take a shot everytime he says "thing" XD

@F32_PDX 4 ай бұрын

Was gonna say that too!!!

@bakedatbeen 4 ай бұрын

This is honestly more confusing than the original. I'm stuck in the 'fall over' matrix

@dltn42 Ай бұрын

Lesson of the video: Nature ALWAYS finds the solution, especially in life adaptations. There're innumerous examples of shapes in Nature that use very sophisticated "designs"... This is one example of a very mathematically sophisticated shape, actually being used by nature by ages ❤

@TF8ase 4 ай бұрын

This was actually very entertaining and very informative 😂. Love it 😁

@pacbee 4 ай бұрын

my wife falls over no mater what.

@mikejettusa 4 ай бұрын

She probably read the comment regarding taking a shot every time he said thing

@horsebones727 3 ай бұрын

“Thing and stuff” 😂 Most excellent, dude.

@WarioNumberOne 4 ай бұрын

You made the 1000 most common words even more common

@UnfamiliarPlace 3 ай бұрын

1:42 it's nice that with the most common words you can still do the subjunctive properly

@toddbob644 4 ай бұрын

Ooo ooo! I'm having one of those thingies... You know, a headache with pictures... An idea? Yes that's it!

@VintageFenrir 4 ай бұрын

It's weird how confusing using just common words can make something.

@Vi66666 4 ай бұрын

Me being confused the whole time: 'Yes I understand that perfectly'

@MrsBrit1 4 ай бұрын

WEEBLES WOBBLE BUT THEY DON'T FALL DOWN!

@heathersowder2836 4 ай бұрын

This is great, do more please! I thought it was hilarious. Maybe "How to Make Fuel Out of Trash" next?

@_Skylark Ай бұрын

It's 2 am and my brain is trying so hard to brain and the way he explains things here is just wtf 😂😂😂

@murphygreen8484 4 ай бұрын

Please continue explaining things with these good words

@scorpio6587 4 ай бұрын

I love it!

@weepingsheeps 16 күн бұрын

The AI images and word limitations combined make it feel like I’m having a stroke

@GoMikeG Ай бұрын

Realizing “thousand” wasn’t on the list made me…. feel quite warm🤓

@JAWcat13 4 ай бұрын

This was actually soooo hilarious😅

@Orrcle 4 ай бұрын

I was mesmerised watching this .

@esthergerlitz2359 4 ай бұрын

This is like that book that’s only uses 10,000 of the most common words to explain concepts! I forgot the name of the book

@xkcloud 4 ай бұрын

Thing explainer by Randall Munroe!

@Catman_CM 3 ай бұрын

@@xkcloud I must add this to my library. Thanks!

@earthrooster1969 3 ай бұрын

The fun was in the way it was explained. IMO! It made me think about something that i would not think much about 😊

@327Federal 4 ай бұрын

It’s called a Gömböc

@BigMadMonster 2 ай бұрын

Very clever I found it amusing

@Alexandragon1 4 ай бұрын

Thx for the video!

@SkyfishArt 4 ай бұрын

goes to show how important nuance in language can be.

@GooogleGoglee 4 ай бұрын

"The guy that likes numbers".... A mathematician! Dear Lord ahahahah

@aroundandround 4 күн бұрын

I missed the “simple words” part in the title and the opening and didn’t suspect anything until the latter half when I realized I had seen this short on this same channel before and started wondering why he isn’t calling it what we know it is.

@nebostube3391 4 ай бұрын

What my ears hear: This thing has one spot where it doesn’t fall over and does fall over. When it falls over it goes and doesn’t fall over and then does.

@miked2247 4 ай бұрын

me trying to explain literally anything that i actually know about:

@TK-th9vu 4 ай бұрын

Well, that guy in 1995 never saw my Manfrotto tripod 😂 The three legs that make it perfectly stay standing are less than 4, and it has never fallen over yet.

@lylastuart-alban739 4 ай бұрын

This is like me when I’m giving a presentation in class and I forget the right words

@TruthNerds 4 ай бұрын

The cool thing about this moving picture is how the guy who likes things says the thing and doesn’t say the thing.

@h.mushmann2351 4 ай бұрын

The first step towards newspeak 😂

@chickenfeetfordinner5804 3 ай бұрын

Great explanation, takes concentration but I get it

@Erundilme 4 ай бұрын

this is awesome, it's like reading a book with huge font but make it video

@Erundilme 4 ай бұрын

sorry, I meant moving picture

@EdvardBocMunch 2 ай бұрын

I love how many sentence things you use that have the word things. I think if you get that thing a little bit better you can teach science to my meemaw

@aroundandround 4 күн бұрын

Pictures speak a thousand words though.

@abhishekkumawat8353 Ай бұрын

Newton will be surprised, knowing there's a lot more to things and apples than just falling.

@robertlange1772 11 күн бұрын

Now my head hurts.

@LeonBlack666 4 ай бұрын

What is more confusing is that he upploaded an almost 4 minute video on his shorts Chanel and a shorts video on his normal channel

@EyesOfByes 4 ай бұрын

So literally explaining like a five year old. But it actually works

@johnshropshire3399 4 ай бұрын

That was awesome 👍👍👏😂do it again 😀

@justdoit83388 4 ай бұрын

When you tell the teacher you still don't understand and they try simplify it like

@Ktulu789 4 ай бұрын

I like normal English, James 😅 It's like, too many words to say something that's already obvious half sentence before 😂 This is an experiment, of course, but I like your own perfect mind-blowing explanations! 🤯

@amphibiousone7972 4 ай бұрын

Good use if small vocabulary.... Brain numb now 🤣 Good Stuff Boss 👍😂

@wadezimmer6443 4 ай бұрын

Can you electrify bubbles. Curious of input current and output current through bubble can they store energy?????

@RationalBike 2 ай бұрын

Interesting.

@nanaki-seto 4 ай бұрын

ouch my head... LOL

@zacgoheens639 4 ай бұрын

Bro weebles wobble but won’t fall down!! 😂

@firstnameiskowitz8493 3 ай бұрын

Normal person: one thousand This guy: ten hundred

@chieflief 4 ай бұрын

That's quite a THING

@Sajuuk 4 ай бұрын

Love the ten hundred thing!

@MrJunkye 4 ай бұрын

New approach 🎉🎉🎉

@ryangreen4379 4 ай бұрын

Can you explore magnetic (or electromagnetic) gears for transmissions?!

@kyokoyumi 3 ай бұрын

I don't know what the words "fall" "over" and "thing" mean anymore. Mission accomplished?

@allen604 4 ай бұрын

If only had a teacher like this when I was younger I would have better words to talk about things.

@DF-bx9hd Ай бұрын

That's what she said

@oliviacat 4 ай бұрын

as a gal who likes numbers this made perfect sense thank you

@Koba8 4 ай бұрын

Ya wah 🙃 Somehow think I got there in the end but was definitely wondering aimlessly in the fog for most of it

@KAFKUBA 4 ай бұрын

I feel like it was 6 words rearranged 300 times into an explanation as to why things fall over

@KekusMagnus 4 ай бұрын

this is just funny lmao

@todddixon1549 4 ай бұрын

I am going to have nightmares about the word ‘thing’! That’s what I’m thingking 😬

@orlandomoreno6168 4 ай бұрын

You can have functional with only 100 words? I'll learn the 100 most common words from every language then! (plus grammar and phonetics)... This reminds me of the paper "Growing a Language." In that paper every word with more than one syllable has to be defined prior to use.

@vidhoard 4 ай бұрын

Lol but why did I understand this perfectly.

@SlayerUvAlienGods 4 ай бұрын

Gyro thing, computer thing, processor thing, calculus thing, physics thing, life thing. . . . . .

@SlayerUvAlienGods 4 ай бұрын

Here we are thing

@lily.m7486 28 күн бұрын

This is so cool but confusing 😂😄

@vwluv8283 4 ай бұрын

Listening to this hurt my brain!!

@CYXXYC 4 ай бұрын

nice moving picture

@michaelcastillo6478 4 ай бұрын

If you were to sculpt this shape out of solid rock would the rock wiggle around and pop up?

@letoriouscollin3393 4 ай бұрын

I cant wait to show my dumb physics class mates!

@clauslangenbroek9897 3 ай бұрын

I think the problem is not what words you use, but how. If you use a more specific word each greater logical unit, I think viewers that are not accustomed are still able to get it's meaning, while feeling good about making the connection and therefore keeping engaged. Btw, I am no native speaker of English but I prefer more complex language, as my ADHD makes it boring otherwise. So maybe this is more of a personal (or ADHD?) point of view. Any opinion on this? ☺️

@RCmies 4 ай бұрын

2:12 "But the cool thing about this thing is that this is the same stuff throughout the whole thing" Honestly I'm having a hard time figuring out if this is supposed to be a joke or not. If it's not a joke, using more descriptive words would make this so much easier to understand.

@jendorei 4 ай бұрын

It’s a challenge to make a video using only the 1000 (?) most common words. I think he has a normal version of this video somewhere. Search “action lab gomboc”