That sounds like Jonathan Pryce (Elliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies) narrating. Is it?

I respect his calmness and the fact he keeps it together enough to speak to his missus and continually tell her that he's okay. I would have been all like "AMAGAD IT'S EATING THE CHILDREN" and then hung up, freaking her out no end.

Riffing on how lots of customs are born from crazy weirdos who thought it was a good idea at the time = upvote!

I wasn't even going to watch this until I saw the "DAMN NATURE..." description. Also, the sound effects remind me of an early 90s computer game, which is always worth a chuckle.

It was the Tim Allen-lookalike dad was who got me choked up. Just listen to him explain why he didn't put her in a home, or his use of the word "awful" at 1:29, and you'll see how much this means to him.

It's truly amazing.

edit: and I wrote than before I even got to the last two minutes of the video. This seriously has to be one of the best sifts I've seen in a long long time.

>> ^mxxcon:

>> ^Friesian:
That has to be some of the worst editing and voiceover work I've seen. Shame though, because the spiders were pretty cool subject matter.

at least it's not bastardized with idiotic special effects or cutesy music.
this is a perfect example that nature is awesome enough as it is that it doesn't need any fancy narratives or fake sound effects or artificial setups the way they do it on Planet Earth or Blue Oceans.
major kudos to this guy for keeping it natural.


Oh, I totally agree that it's a good thing it's not bastardised with idiotic special effects or cutesy music. However, I would disagree that he's keeping it natural. It's clearly been edited (which I have no problem with), but the edited-in narration is, in my opinion, anything but natural.

The beginning of the clip is just fine, with him talking away. It was when it got to the narration part that it irked me somewhat.

Don't get me wrong - this is indeed amazing footage, especially, as @TheSluiceGate said, considering the size of the spiders. Major kudos to Jürgen for capturing it.

That dude has, without a shadow of a doubt, the BEST freaking hair ever. EVER!

>> ^grinter:

>> ^Friesian:
That has to be some of the worst editing and voiceover work I've seen. Shame though, because the spiders were pretty cool subject matter.

If biologist were paid what BBC producers were, then maybe it would make sense that you are complaining. As it is, I think this video is a pretty good value.
If you want cheesy, polished narration, check out the ABC version:
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3160792.htm


I never said I wanted cheesy, polished narration. Nor do I expect high quality swooping shots of glorious vistas, all edited together in a magical and breathtaking piece of art.

However, I would have liked something which didn't have varying background sound levels (it could easily have been muted or evened out during the closeups with voiceover). I would have also liked less shots of the same thing. "This female is watching carefully", followed by "And this one as well", followed by a third "Another female arrives on the scene", followed by 20 seconds of random shots of the females. There was no context to those shots - they could have been stock footage of unconnected females that was added into the film solely to pad it out. They didn't add anything to the purpose of the film, which was showcasing the mating behaviour, and they didn't really tie into the overall direction of the narration.

The video is indeed pretty good value, but I think it's a shame that there are several small things that could be improved without having to be ABC and without a massive time/money investment. No idea if I'm the only one, but while the content was very interesting I did not watch the whole 6.5 minute clip, which to me is indicative of the mistakes I mentioned.

That has to be some of the worst editing and voiceover work I've seen. Shame though, because the spiders were pretty cool subject matter.

Haha - check out the guy at 1:10 chewing his lip, desperately thinking "shit, if I can't score here...".

Serious upvote for the excellent description which accompanies this video.

If they'd SLI'd their graphics output into a DVI channel over SCSI, then lowjacked that across the north bridge while simultaneously compiling an internal object protocol, they might have been able to deflect the incoming Ajax code injection into a root channel PHP dustbin, effectively reversing the polarity of the data hub and causing magnetic failure of the intruder's hard drive.

If only that jackass hadn't pulled the plug then they would have been able to turn the tables!

>> ^kceaton1:

The buildings simply obeyed Newtonian mechanics. First you have inertia.

You make an excellent point, and I doff my hat to you. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

Man does his head look big.

Hooray for David Attenborough. In fact, this has inspired me to go watch Planet Earth again. Him and Patrick Stewart are two of my favourite "celebrities" (I use the term incredibly loosely)—I guess there's something about Knights which makes me like them.

Graphics aside, this is the most dumb game ever made. I mean, he's stuck at 45% awesome for like the entire journey. There's no way to change the meter other than to make it fluctuate before settling at 45% again.

Not only that, but how can the "ways to die" increase the further along the course you go? That just doesn't make sense.

They should fire their dev team and hand it over to the wonderful people who made Big Rigs.