I had some nostalgia fever recently and ran across these "Let's Compare" videos a day before seeing your Pac-Man homebrew submission, so I had to post this.

Had you not seen that channel before? Between YouTube and emulators it's fun to revisit the old favourites, and the ones you may have missed. Can you guess which company I was a fan of way back when?

Almost forgot to mention I had that Pac-Man table top game they show at the end.

^homebrew?

And yet, wouldn't ya know it, that is precisely how people got alcohol during the U.S.' aimless Prohibtion.. from their doctors (as medicine) or from the pastors (as sacrament), or as homebrews.

I disagree. Most homebrew I've had has been better than the mass-produced crap you get in a store.

Cool siftup! And with homebrew, yum yum! I will be back in Norway for vacation in mid July, maybe we can make a siftup with even more norwegian sifters. There's quite a lot of us now.

One of my first cars was a hand-me-down Toyota Camry that my parents bought close to the first year they were made. I remember that before it became my car, it broke its timing chain causing it to be dead in the water and required a tow to fix. I don't think that caused any collateral damage when it happened, it just died. Seems like that is likely to mean that it wasn't an "interference engine"?

It seems like having a non-"interfering" engine would be a very desirable thing, to limit the potential damage caused by a broken timing belt/chain. Why isn't that standard design? Takes up too much physical space? I remember when the hood of a car used to have a whole lot of cubic area of air/empty space inside, and now it seems like everything is designed to jam pack in there and fill it to the brim. Or is there some other major engineering or design challenge that makes that difficult/impossible?

Not to sound like a viral ad, but that early Toyota Camry served me real well. My family got 220,000 miles out of it before a CV joint died that it wasn't trivial to find a replacement for. We ended up handing it over to a junkyard at that point since we couldn't track down the part. A local Mexican handyman bought it from the junkyard and either found the part or homebrewed some other solution, and for all I know it could well still be running and up into the 300k+ miles.

Yeah it pisses me off too. I'm a homebrewer and once you find out you can make beers better than any store bought beer for less than .50cents a beer you tend to not want to pay for overpriced beer anymore.

If you can't tell from my username, my name is Bryce. I live in the Seattle/Tacoma area of Washington State. I'm 31, am married, and have two little boys, 5 and 3.

By trade I'm a psychotherapist/counselor/mental health therapist. Or shrink. Whatever my client likes to call me! I have my Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology, so that's cool I suppose.

I've lived my whole life in Washington. Although I have visited all 50 states by the time I turned 30 (a goal I set for myself when I was about 15 years old) - ahh how those inane dreams drive us years and years later!

Being that I work with people and their problems all day, I'm usually tapped out on people during my down time, which brings me to videosift and the opportunity to entertain myself for countless minutes of the day! I also am very much in to mp4/mp3 players and all that fun China gadget stuff! (I help moderate a great community of audiophiles at a place called mp4nation.net) I play guitar - though not as good as I did in my college days.

I homebrew some tasty beer, though it's been a while since I've concocted a fresh batch as I tend to go through it fairly slowly.

Other than that I spend most of my down time at a great little coffee shop fulfilling my caffeine addiction (and to do all my necessary paperwork) in order to avoid the majority of my coworkers!

Heh, pretty much what I expected.

I too am guilty of using the Wii more as an emulator than anything else, and with Homebrew Channel I don't even have to pay for a botched up PAL-conversion of a classic NTSC game. That said there are some games that I enjoy more on the Wii than on anything else. Well, A game to be exact. I got my Motion+ bundled with the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, and while not perfect, it is the best golf game on any console or computer ever. Pretty much the only thing missing now is the height of the club from the ground, and if they decide to include that you're better of just playing real golf. Oh yeah, and they fucked up the spin thing, it's almost disabled if you use the Advanced Swing.

Aaaanyway, the truth is that Motion+ is something that should have been there from the beginning, it's a bit too late now. It makes such a huge difference to what the wiimote can do, but now it's kind of a moot point.

I still like my Wii and play it regularly. Too bad it couldn't live up to the hype.

I think my Wii sees more use with NES/SNES/Genesis emulators (hooray Homebrew Channel) than any of the "real" games laying in a stack next to it under a 3 inch thick pile of dust.

The homebrew version of this http://www.dimensionprinting.com/3d-printers/3d-printing-sst.aspx (We have one at work)

Rather cool they managed to make one themselves.

Mmm, now I want to brew my own beer. But I found this video even more informative:

http://www.videosift.com/video/All-Grain-Homebrewing

*beg
my homebrew will be done in a week!

You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video How to Brew Your Own Beer: A homebrewing primer (1 of 4). Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

I'm against removing voting power from Probies -- That's how I started here, after all. I signed up for an account to vote on videos, then a couple of years later, I got tired of my red 'P' and sifted a video of a guy building a homebrew handheld SNES. Now I'm a few points away from silver star, and while my videos are not all highbrow art, I think there's some good stuff in there. I doubt I would have gotten involved on the site without probationary voting.

Personally I think the site should be moving in a direction of greater customization rather than trying to control the type of videos that get promoted and the culture of the site. Decide on what kind of stuff you want to show the public (unregistered accounts), and then make the site very customizable for registered accounts so it's easy to find what you're looking for. I think VideoSift already does a good job of that, but I'd rather continue walking down that road rather than trying to otherwise restrict what gets promoted.

If grinding up stars for powers is really a huge concern, then maybe the solution is adding other requirements to gain those powers. Some of that already exists in charter memberships -- Some powers are only available to donors of the site. Perhaps a member has to spend a certain amount of time on the site before they can create channels, or view a certain number of videos, or own an existing channel before they can create a new one.