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Thanks! I’ll try my best

Haha yeah! Thanks! 😊 I figured it’s not a real experiment unless I actually stick to the plan. I’ll probably make another of these videos next year and see where I am

Thanks for the recommendations. I have Guns, Germs and Steel but will definitely check out the others 😊

Well they are 2 different things, at least in the context of the video. A lack of money leads to stress because without enough to get by or feed your family, problems arise. Beyond the monetary threshold referenced in the video, happiness doesn’t tend to increase. The point is you need a certain amount of money to avoid a certain kind of unhappiness but being ‘rich’ has no impact on your overall happiness. A wealthy person with bad morals, values or unwise decision-making will spend their money on things that are counter-productive to their happiness. A person on an average salary with a healthy mindset and a balanced perspective won’t need much to live a happy life

Ha very specific 👍

Damn, if only I thought of that answer earlier. It would have saved me making the video 😂

Yeah good point. While you could be earning enough to avoid financial stress, owning a property does bring several positive side effects, both individually and societally. It gives you something to protect and take pride in. I believe that crime and general life dysphoria would be massively reduced if young people had the ability to get on the property ladder. This is what modern governments should prioritise

Yeah that’s a good observation around the different philosophy in The Alchemist. It did come into my thinking and I thought something more hopeful should be part of the list and the Alchemist is also very accessible. I also happen to believe in the idea that the universe will often give you anything you want but not everything. If you decide to prioritise one thing in life and pursue that with unwavering passion, often that will work out in some way. At what cost is another thing though. I’m planning on making another video in the future on my favorite books whereas this one is more about books that I think everyone should read. Thanks for the comment 👍

Immediate downvote for recommending Sapiens, a simplification of history if ever there was one.

Is there any other way of writing about history other than simplifying it? We can’t cover every event from every single persons perspective and this telling of history is very deliberately high level and over a long time frame. The point is that with this perspective, you can then specialise on another more specific aspect of history which is why I recommend everyone to read it. There are other books that do a similar thing like “Guns, Germs and Steel”

Thank you! That’s a very good question. I think for a while there will be a constant evolution. As AI gets better, initially the apps will have to ensure that the their service offers more than what ChatGPT does. If they take the right approach this should be possible since they have the advantage of a dedicated platform for language learning (which will be complemented with AI). Ultimately though, these are just tools so if someone is serious about learning a language, they still need to put the time and effort in. Having the right tools merely reduces some of the psychological friction. Longer term, you’ll see a divergence. People who think that language learning is irrelevant won’t bother and will use an AI solution whereas others will still learn either for business, general interest, etc. Even if AI manages real time language translation, there is something inherently unnatural about this conversation style. Most people will appreciate the human interaction and connection of an organic conversation. Plus it’s a real show of intent within a business context. Imagine flying to Asia for example for a meeting and speaking their language as a British person. Overall though it’ll be interesting since as AI gets better, you could argue it’ll be less necessary to learn a foreign language while at the same time, it’ll become easier to learn.

Maybe it still hasn’t forgiven me for insulting its sibling, the TikTok algorithm 😋 Really appreciate the support though 👍

Thank you! Glad to hear that these resonated with you too. Yeah I have a few videos in the pipeline around useful applications so stay tuned 👍

Yeah I did consider it. You’re right in that it doesn’t get the credit it deserves in terms of challenge, particularly at the top level. It narrowly missed out from this list but if I did a top 20, it would definitely be there

Yeah I guess when I say hoverboards, it’s more of an umbrella term. You have those other hoverboards that you sometimes see people take around cities. But there’s definitely a trend of people who like to have a lightweight means of getting around without using much energy

Haha no, not at all 😄

@@dmorgan I think they meant to say, 'Nice video, would be great with a personal touch' 😅

Yeah I think most types of skiing are contenders but I ended up going with freestyle skiing

Thank you! Much appreciated

Thank you! Maybe one day but I’ll keep trying to improve the videos and see what happens 🤷‍♂️👍

or the second for that matter

I did seriously consider it and the only reason I didn’t include it was because I viewed it more generally as driving or racing rather than F1 specifically (partly because the average person can’t access F1 even if they wanted to and partly because there are other variants like F2). Then the skill floor isn’t as bad. The skill ceiling is still high though and was a close contender. I accept my criminal charges 😄

@@dmorgan true, but I guess that that is what makes the floor so high for that sport. I think that it should be high on the first list then due to how difficult it is to

I appreciate the honest feedback. While I agree that rating by skill floor is easier, I think reducing certain sports like golf to just money is too simplistic. I was a caddy for many years as a teenager and I’ve seen every kind of golfer. Often wealthy people can overcompensate with expensive gear when in reality they just need to sort out the basics. Some of the best local golfers I know work minimum wage. When I think of skill ceiling, I think of mastering the subtleties like golf shots and things like chess which takes huge amounts of practice, refinement and usually talent too

I agree that all sports are tough in their own way, particularly at the top level. But that’s why I wanted to do the skill floor & skill ceiling breakdown. Some sports are harder to get the basics and others have such a high ceiling that simply practicing a lot isn’t enough. Something I didn’t really cover in this video is the talent vs environment concept. You could be Michael Jordan or Messi but without the right development pathway, you could end up a good player rather than one of the best ever.

Thanks for the tip

Yeah even football/soccer is very underrated in terms of difficulty. The fact that it’s so mainstream means that the skill ceiling is very high to be at the top and the fitness demands to be a PL footballer is rarely appreciated.

no gymnastics is crazy

In a way. If we’re talking purely from a performance perspective then sure but there’s also models that suit certain types of use cases which are worth mentioning

Thanks you! Much appreciated. In terms of the criteria, it’s a combination between general consensus (online feedback and polls), personal experience and certain benchmarks which assesses performance in a range of different areas such as knowledge, language and logic

That comment sounds like it was written by AI

Haha you overestimate how much in theme I’m trying to be 😄 Maybe I’ve spent enough time making this video that I’m starting to sound more like ChatGPT 🤷‍♂️

@@dmorgan haha sorry! I meant the original comment

Ahhh fair enough. Well seeing is the video is on the topic of chatbots, I will allow it if it is written by AI. It’s like a homework assignment 😋

Thanks! Good show and a nice balance of humour and poignancy 👌

Thanks Amy 👍

Yeah I’ve played the first one and was impressed. The sequel, from what I’ve seen looks visually amazing so looking forward to that 👍

​@@dmorganso far the sequel has not let me down. The story itself is not as gripping but still well written, especially keeping in mind it being a device as a setup for the third installment. Many of the open questions from the first game are answered in a way that drives the plot nicely forward. As for the third installment I hope the ending will be more satisfying and less controversial than ME3's... As for gameplaywise... It's a complete upgrade :D I've always loved flying and let's just leave it at this; there is way more verticality in this installment ;D

Great to know. Thanks for the insight 🙂

I think there are very few games that offers an experience quite like Dark Souls. The challenge of gameplay combined with the world 👌

Yeah it’s a good point. I may do a video later on older games but I wanted to pick games that people have a realistic chance of picking up now. I did make a video on my older channel for the top 10 best stories in video games and some of your suggestions were in that list 👍

I’m in the middle of playing it again now actually and the attention to detail is amazing 👌

It’s just my opinion but I know many people who really enjoyed some of the other games too like Heavy Rain

@@dmorgan Id never say his games are not entertaining. I've played through most of them. To me they're entertaining specifically because David Cage thinks they're profound.

So then you should say that it's seven games in your opinion that will enrich your life.

This is already an uninteresting argument to me made more so when you don’t back it up with anything, making it clear that you just commented to disagree

@@MrTheyoyoer Oh, you needed more? Life is Strange and Detroit: Become Human are visual novels. If simply interacting with a source of media is a game, then reading is a game or getting cash at an atm is a game. Just because you introduce elements of choice or some manners of interaction, the game doesn't cease with the opponent having won or lost because there is no opponent, it is a narrative that you are progressing through to whatever end the story's path chooses to go.

I personally disagree that they aren’t games. I guess it depends on your definition of game but most games rely on controlling something, often a character and the success of that character, either in a score-based landscape or within a narrative is determined by you the player. In the case of the two games mentioned, they’re more than visual novels, although I get what you mean. Most novels are linear whereas these have different endings depending on how you play. As games are becoming more cinematic, I think the gap between game and interactive movie/story will shrink. Plus, you could argue the last of us is a visual novel too but if that’s the case then a huge proportion of games aren’t games 🤷‍♂️

The reason that argument doesn’t interest me is because it seems more concerned with prescribing a technical definition rather than observing player behavior and how video games have expanded as a medium over time, and basing categorization off of that. I’m not even saying you’re necessarily wrong about these titles not being games, I’m saying it doesn’t make a practical difference when I, and I think many others, play them as if they were video games. By which I mean the experience of interacting with them is unlike anything outside of video games. I think it speaks more to how video games have evolved to include elements of interactive fiction (thereby possibly making the video game label outdated) than it does to a distinction between titles like these and titles that would be considered games more traditionally. I also think the examples you gave are very reductive. When you read a book or use an atm, there is usually only one course of action. Traditional visual novels also typically are linear. I’m not even just referring to making choices in the games you mentioned-there’s also the ability to explore a space, learn about the world by examining objects, finding additional dialogue that the player might miss if they dont proactively seek it out. These are things that distinguish a title like life is strange from any of your examples. So again, even if it doesn’t fit the definition of a game, I don’t think it makes a practical difference when video games have expanded past that definition as a medium, and so I don’t fault anyone who categorizes it as such

Thank you for coming to my ted talk. I didn’t realize how long this was until I posted lol

Thanks for the feedback. My plan is to start more broad and go deeper & more specific later on. I’m also planning future videos on the best games, movies, etc that most people haven’t heard of. But also with this video, I picked games that have been personally significant, even if some of them are quite mainstream

Yea man. Silent Hill 2 deserves a nod. That choice to play the tape that shows you killing your wife is something isn't offered in any of these games you mentioned... FFX being brutally punished for searching for all of the aeons in the end. Knowing that Even though you spent all that time with Tidus he was just a fayth. So all that was more gut wrenching knowing to take in. A recent game Returnal. The character is in an unyielding death loop. The story is only given out in text logs, so every run has lore hidden in it.

Yeah I’m curious about and looking forward to the remake. Hopefully it captures the essence of the original

Xenoblade Chronicles got me started on story heavy games and to this day it and the other two entries in the series are what I consider to be among my favourite stories in all of fiction. They may take a while to get into, but once one clicks, there's nothing quite like them to me. Especially from an emotional standpoint their stories feature some of the best moments I've seen in any kind of media.

The Eternal Cylinder has a very interesting way of developing the story by planting you in the world immediately without a sense of why the things in the game are the way they are. The story itself is very heart wrenching because it is set as a universal (literally the entire universe) threat destroys everything but the world that the game takes place on and throughout the game it is a mystery of how or even if the thing could be destroyed. Overall I think it has one of the best stories of any game I have played and the gameplay in itself is more focused on puzzle solving/making your playstyle work for the game.

Shadow of the Colossus. Simply stunning and breathtaking.

Thanks. And nice pick 👍 I haven’t actually gotten around to playing it yet but I’ve heard really good things

I’d second this comment.

I’ve seen One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest a few times but not for many years. Great film and suggestion. Haven’t seen Girl, Interrupted but I’ll check it out 👍

Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll check them out 👍

Totally agree! It’s one of my favourite romcoms (if you can call it that). Great balance of comedy and meaning 👍

It’s a fair point. I think it will resonate differently with everyone but I thought it was a nice movie overall. The fact it’s based on a true story adds some extra weight to the message imo. Groundhog Day is a great movie though. It’s as entertaining as it is profound and it’s very easy to rewatch. Appreciate the comment 👍