He's lying. Squish him.

Ok, did that kitten just appear out of thin air? I watched frame by frame and couldn't figure it out. Did someone toss it out of a car?

I took my car in for alignment years ago, and the mechanic who was working on it came into the customer lounge holding a kitten. He said he heard it meowing and found it in a front wheel well of my car. It wasn't mine. He had already called his wife to see if it was ok to bring it home if I didn't claim it (no pets allowed where I was living at the time). I was glad it found a home, but I was terrified driving back, wondering how many kittens had fallen out on the way to the shop. Luckily, I didn't see any kittens, squished or otherwise, so I hoped it was the only one. I still have no idea where it came from or how it got into my wheel well.

Wow, the elephant didn't squish it!

Squish it all into a single device (plus printer) and it's fairly accurate.

This cinematic is amazing, technically, although it is sort of frustrating when you then have to go play the ACTUAL game and:
(1) Units are nearly the same size, there's not this epic scale difference between battlecruisers and marines.
(2) You have a pop limit of 200, so you probably don't have more than 60 or 70 office units charging in, not the thousands shown here.
(3) Ultralisks can't actually step on things and squish them
(4) Nydus canals can't actually pop up in battles and be useful, because they're made of wet tissue paper.
(5) Things aren't so amazingly beautiful.

I'm being nitpicky, but the cinematic is great and it kind of makes you think "wow, that WOULD be a cool game" and then you have to go and play SC2, which admittedly is still a very, very well designed game.

Sorry madman-My first reaction to your ramming my car and getting out would be to squish your dumb ass between bumpers and sort out the details later...Used his car as a weapon, attacked me with harmful intent, got it all on film, jury trial.

http://imgur.com/a/EmhRt
So, the first part is just me moving around a few things to make more room, because I think the top of the site is wasting lots of space.

I think the Promoted videos loks sort of like ads, but the sift of the week is exactly like an ad to me - look at picture 2 where it has an ad right above it.

I would like to see the whole right side bar only use small things, while the left main page can show big things.

When something is promoted to the front page like bareboards2's post, I would want that above the promoted videos, as it seems to break the flow of reading - and * frontpage should be more powerful than * promote.

There's something off about the promoted videos. They obviously try to squish in the title in small font so it can be shown, but at the same time it feels weird I think. Compare a promoted thumbnail with a regular one:
http://i.imgur.com/GFnBp.jpg
The bottom bar on the regular one actually presses in vital information about comments, which is the centerpoint of the sift, together with the videos themselves. This should not be overlooked - the promote needs something like that.

The "Featured" banner is unnecessary - "show, don't tell". We know it's featured, because the damn thing is right in our faces!

I also can't see who posted the video, which is part of my "1 second evaluation" of whether or not I should give the video a chance. There are people I know have tastes that correspond to mine, so this will often give a video that I've already "passed" a second chance at my precious vote/view.

Here's a quick mock-up of a different, but similar way of doing it:
http://i.imgur.com/Hqets.jpg

As for the mechanical way of having only three at the top at any point, I think it gives the wrong incentives.

They will only rotate out when someone "knocks another one down", so there's inherent trolling in that.

There's uncertainty in what you get for your precious powerpoint, uncertainty ALWAYS lead to inaction - so people are scared off and won't use them at all.

@dag mentioned the guiding principles:

"1. Changes should promote altruistic social behavior and limit self-interest (that's been with us since the beginning)
2. Changes should increase the usefulness of the site"

If you can align both points in the first, that's much better. People are inherently self interested first and altruistic after that. Just "consuming" videos is a self-interested thing as well, so we have to make it as easy for someone to absorb the content as possible. For the posters, we also must give the fitting incentives for providing value to the site, but the two types of visitors and two very different animals (although almost all posters are also viewers).

I feel the promote system limits the usefulness of the site for the posters. I don't really want to promote anything, because it'll just be gone again as soon as anyone else gets the idea of posting. I also have to consider whether or not I want the currently promoted video to stick around a little longer before posting - maybe the promoted videos are something I don't like, so me and my posse of late night sifters keep promoting them away from the promote reel with our videos of Maru, the wonder-cat, jumping into things.

I hope my ramblings and child-like drawings make sense.

In the light version, the channel names are squished together and very hard to read on the textured gray background. Yellow especially is hard to read.

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"And then?"

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OK. You lady can go first.

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I will throw mandures at your pretty face.

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But I don't want to be squished by your ugly/smelly/dirty foot, honey.

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It better be clean!

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OK, now I think I will have to terminate you.

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Thank you. As for identity, I was pointing out the typo. ;

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Nice mugshot! You look very nice. :

Thank you very much and you don't look so bad yourself antinator ;

As for my identity...I thought we had established I was a fairy! :


Yu dun lik spellng mstks du u? Duz thes driv u krazee?


I'd like to see you try tough guy. Just keep in mind that I carry a can of raid in my purse.


Mmm, Raid. I love sniffing that.

....and there's always my foot.


That would be the least of your worries dear ant.


I'll step in a BIG steamy pile of manure before the big s-q-u-i-s-h...smells even better than Raid.


*licks lips* Bring it on antinator, bring it on...


If I go first, you'll be a sticky mess beneath my shoe.


And then??? Well I guess it would all be over for you at that point wouldn't it?

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OK. You lady can go first.

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I will throw mandures at your pretty face.

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But I don't want to be squished by your ugly/smelly/dirty foot, honey.

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It better be clean!

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OK, now I think I will have to terminate you.

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Thank you. As for identity, I was pointing out the typo. ;

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Nice mugshot! You look very nice. :

Thank you very much and you don't look so bad yourself antinator ;

As for my identity...I thought we had established I was a fairy! :


Yu dun lik spellng mstks du u? Duz thes driv u krazee?


I'd like to see you try tough guy. Just keep in mind that I carry a can of raid in my purse.


Mmm, Raid. I love sniffing that.

....and there's always my foot.


That would be the least of your worries dear ant.


I'll step in a BIG steamy pile of manure before the big s-q-u-i-s-h...smells even better than Raid.


*licks lips* Bring it on antinator, bring it on...


If I go first, you'll be a sticky mess beneath my shoe.

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I will throw mandures at your pretty face.

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But I don't want to be squished by your ugly/smelly/dirty foot, honey.

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It better be clean!

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OK, now I think I will have to terminate you.

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Thank you. As for identity, I was pointing out the typo. ;

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Nice mugshot! You look very nice. :

Thank you very much and you don't look so bad yourself antinator ;

As for my identity...I thought we had established I was a fairy! :


Yu dun lik spellng mstks du u? Duz thes driv u krazee?


I'd like to see you try tough guy. Just keep in mind that I carry a can of raid in my purse.


Mmm, Raid. I love sniffing that.

....and there's always my foot.


That would be the least of your worries dear ant.


I'll step in a BIG steamy pile of manure before the big s-q-u-i-s-h...smells even better than Raid.


*licks lips* Bring it on antinator, bring it on...

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But I don't want to be squished by your ugly/smelly/dirty foot, honey.

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It better be clean!

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OK, now I think I will have to terminate you.

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Thank you. As for identity, I was pointing out the typo. ;

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Nice mugshot! You look very nice. :

Thank you very much and you don't look so bad yourself antinator ;

As for my identity...I thought we had established I was a fairy! :


Yu dun lik spellng mstks du u? Duz thes driv u krazee?


I'd like to see you try tough guy. Just keep in mind that I carry a can of raid in my purse.


Mmm, Raid. I love sniffing that.

....and there's always my foot.


That would be the least of your worries dear ant.


I'll step in a BIG steamy pile of manure before the big s-q-u-i-s-h...smells even better than Raid.

>> ^Nexxus:

That's the way I react when people hold their cellphone cameras vertical instead of horizontal. Don't do it people!!


People complain about this constantly, but I think it's more a problem with youtube and other video sites than with the cell phones.

Holding a phone in portrait mode, you're capturing just as many pixels. For some scenes you might be capturing a more relevant set of pixels, as well.

It's just that the videos are needlessly squished because the Youtube player won't resize accordingly.

Wow, saddened by how people jump right in with 'wow, this is so REAL, so TRUTHFUL'

Really?

0:25 - "Here's my hot and fresh quarter pounder with cheese. Looks good, look at this beauty"

Yeah, that's natural, that's truthful

0:42 - Showing the boom mic in shot to give it that 'real, just shot on the fly' feel... yeah, because documentary makers are incapable of keeping it out of shot.

1:12 - Yeah, that's not a regular burger you get in store, it's far more plumped up, not squished at all

3:13 - Ooooh, yeah, steam, that's what makes the buns be flatter. How long did they sit and think about a 'good' excuse as to why the buns are flatter?


All in all this is a steaming pile of shit. Sure it shows some of the truth as to how they style it, but it's CAREFULLY crafted to show the original burger in as good a light as possible and CAREFULLY worded such that all the excuses are never derogatory to the burger from the store.

Man people, you have ZERO critical thinking ability.