I have automated a good amount of my job at this point, but it took years of working in my free time to build out a system that works for every contingency. Worth it, but I could have used that time to make a game or find a better job :)
ditto. we've all had our moments. I got my first shiny oddly enough when I was looking to get a female delphox for me to use in Omega Ruby. Somehow I managed to get a shiny before I got a female.
I thought this was gonna be some kind of rant about how Shinies are too easy to find or something. But then I remembered who I'm dealing with. TheJwittz, forever a destroyer of my negative expectations.
I would totally assemble the infinity gauntlet to snap shiny pokemon into existence, however I would also snap regular pokemon into this existence then go shiny hunting in real life
8:30 I started to die of laughter when the bird just stayed there from the shot glass. I can't help but image a person who can't hold their liquor drinking alcohol for the first time and then passing out. Great job on the video by the way.
"You would not believe the amount of work it took to get this lazy" Friend, you've just succinctly described all effective programmers. We turn the sin of laziness into a virtue, putting a lot of work into not having to do a task ever again. ^_^
Douglas Adams once said, "I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand." Congrats on that button pusher
This honestly feels like this is an April Fools video. So the fact that this is a real thing youve been doing makes this better than any April 1st prank could hope for.
"How far is too far?" As an engineer, I say this is normal. I have spreadsheets at work that took days to put together that automate sections of my job. Do they make up for the time they cost to make? Eventually, yes. Just like how automating your shiny catching. It's also your effort even though it's automated, as you are the one who designed and assembled everything. The design and assembly time were merely investments that pay themselves off in due time. Always work smarter, not harder.
@@RasMatHam02 Not really Honestly I wouldn't have used the large motor he did as you really don't need it and it's part of the reason it's so loud. I'd have used the M motor with either no gearing (gear wheels the same on both ends) , or a gear reduction (smaller gear on the motor axel, larger gear on the other side) this would have put less strain on the motor producing less noise and in general and the m motors run quieter on top of that. Since the build in the video was hitting about 4-5 time too fast, it should have still worked. Another thing he could have done was shimmed the bottom of the contraption with some plates (1/3 the height of a brick) so t was not lifting it's self and only pressing the button, that may be a little difficult though. Building a sound dampening shroud out of bricks to go over it should have helped too. This is all from my experience of playing with the old technic motors. note: you get more torque from the gear reduction, but that's not useful in this application. (Edit: Stupid Keyboard)
Breaking news: Man discovers method of hunting down animals with slightly different colour variations than normal by pressing a button for a couple of hours
When you pulled out the Legos, I was like, “Is my mans legit going to make a custom size Lego cup for this drinking bird just so it can have enough force to push one of the buttons to trade an NPC in a video game just to get a video game that has a slightly different color palette?”
Nice to see you a little more active, Josh! I’ve been around since the good old days of “Prof It” and your content continues to entertain me without fail.
12:06 The lego model:Yeah you hear that sound??? Thats the sound i made when im being FORCED to do something YOU should have done yourself,you lazy *censored robotic language*
Arduino for a Masters thesis? My apologies ahead of time, but feels like a low bar bro. I hope you surprise everyone with what you come up with and knock it out of the park! 👍
@@TheOneZenith That is EXACTLY what I was thinking. When I was in school, we made a bomb disposal robot using a micro controller that included 4 motors for wheels and 5 motors for a PRR arm with a rotating 3d printed rack and pinion end-effector. We did reverse kinematics and the whole nine yards to pre-program desired positions with limit switches to find zero positions. Didn't splice voltage outputs. Hooked everything up to a PS4 controller. Was just a class project, not thesis or anything. So much you can do to improve a design with a micro-controller, hard to narrow down your efforts into a nice masters thesis. My suggestion, find a simple project off the internet and do it with an improvement based on whatever field you are in.
Me: what are you doing TheJwittz: making a machine to press a button for me Me:Alright, but why on earth are you doing this TheJwittz: because I've lost all control of my life
You know, I went into this with a bit of background on robotics and microcontrollers and watching the first 8 minutes of your solutions made me think that this video was gonna be a really low effort diWHY? for something kind of minor. After seeing the rest, I gotta say that you really made a cool vid on engineering here. Like not a lot of people would have attempted that many VASTLY different solutions for this problem. Never really seen your stuff before, but consider me subscribed. Kudos dude.
@@AxolotlHurricane I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. Bill Gates That's what he said, cut the guy some slack
Its actually a pretty ironicy considering you put all that work and effort into a game, to just let it play by itself. But tbh, its a nice story about "overengineering" stuff you wouldnt have thought of beforehand. I mean you even went into arduino stuff just for pressing one simple button. You had the idea, researched and succeded. Thats pretty much a talent a lot of people will miss. You sir have earned a cookie.
That's not how the saying goes. It goes like this: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I'm mad. Fool me three times, you're officially THAT guy, you know..."
I just love how one of his possible solutions was a remote controlled robot to push a button......so you push a button to make a robot push a button.......riiiiiiiiight!
I don't know if this will help at all, but there is this device called a Cronusmax that allows you to emulate a controller as a different controller on a console. For instance I used it to emulate an xbox one controller using a 360 controller and therefore was able to use my 360 controller on my xbox one. To my understanding, you can do a whole lot more than just that, such as: using a wiimote and nunchuck on a ps4. You need the program on your computer to change the settings around, and in the settings you can setup mods. For fps games it's usually rapid fire mods and jitter mods, but if you learn how to code the mods you can probably emulate the a button being repeatedly pressed. They also sell an adapter for the switch, so I imagine you could even use that pro controller emulated as something else. I hope this helps someone.
Revisited your channel recently. Never change man, you got me to genuinely laugh a few times with just your writing. That's rare for me nowadays. Thank you
"You would not believe how much work it took to get this lazy"
-Engineering in a nutshell.
I have automated a good amount of my job at this point, but it took years of working in my free time to build out a system that works for every contingency. Worth it, but I could have used that time to make a game or find a better job :)
Cream Gravy MMM
@@maskofthedragon lets do this texas style
"Winning's like science, boys: if you wanna steak, you gotta prove it!"
Engineering in a shitshell to be correct
THAT MEWTWO IN THE BEGINNING HURT ME PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALY
*Sorry sir... your adopted*
ditto. we've all had our moments. I got my first shiny oddly enough when I was looking to get a female delphox for me to use in Omega Ruby. Somehow I managed to get a shiny before I got a female.
Yeeesssss!!! Soooo painful to watch!
I understand why
Hey, nice profile picture!
**Repeatedly trades Raichu for an Alolan one**
The random girl npc: *I can do this all day*
man, i sure do hope that this kantonian trainer sends me a shiny kantonian raichu, this batch took a long time to build up
I wonder where she gets the stones for this?
Super fascinating to watch your midlife crisis unfold live.
What u talking about ?
don't you mean quarter life crisis?
Lol
You can never know when it's the middle of your life
Therefore it's always a midlife crisis
spekor Nah I believe Jwitzz is 30 so I’d say third life crisis
_closes on a shiny Mewtwo_
guy in the room: oh my god
guy: *what*
"wHaT????? wHaT dID i sUpPoseDlY dO wRoNG tHis tIMe????"
"It wasn't perfect IVs and shiny, therefore it is trash."
Do anyone got a link for that clip? lol
Bladen Manning same
I feel so bad for that person ;^;
I thought this was gonna be some kind of rant about how Shinies are too easy to find or something.
But then I remembered who I'm dealing with.
TheJwittz, forever a destroyer of my negative expectations.
"We are not cavemen! We have technology!"
-Patrick Star
*destroys the computer*
It didn't work.
@@justyumi4410 Destroys the Joycon.
THIS IS ALL MR KRABS FAULT!
@@Hydra_X9K_Music If they had just made the Pro Controller compatible, this wouldn't happen!
That man reset a shiny mewtwo oh my god, i felt that pain physically
same
It happened to me as well.. I didn't pay attention... As I clicked to close software I was like.. There was green... There was greeeeeeennnnnnnn.
the worst part is the "what?"
like there could be anything else his friend was freaking out about...
I’m at 3300 encounters for a shiny mewtwo if I fail it imma cry
That "what" though.
But what we didn’t know is
This whole video was just a Excuse for him to buy some toys he always wanted..
"that's a twist"
Detective Pikachu wow thats very twisty
**gasp**
Good job never thought of that
I thought it april fools
Did you do it? What did it cost?
Jwittz: everything
Gamora is a Hoppip
More like
Jwittz: yes
Was it worth it?
Pokémon company: what’d you you?
I would totally assemble the infinity gauntlet to snap shiny pokemon into existence, however I would also snap regular pokemon into this existence then go shiny hunting in real life
Laziness is the mother of all invention.
necessity is the mother of all invention.
laziness is the father.
cobrakingofeart You never here about laziness being the father because it bailed
Ironically not a lot of necessity here
@@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat Can YOU press a button for 30 hours?
@@Gloomdrake makes sense 😲
JWittz learns how to code in order to get a shiny Raichu.
Engineering, working hard to achieve optimal laziness
hahahahaha
Ironic.
Ikr
8:30 I started to die of laughter when the bird just stayed there from the shot glass. I can't help but image a person who can't hold their liquor drinking alcohol for the first time and then passing out. Great job on the video by the way.
I THOUGHT THE SAME EXACT THING DUOFHGIJDFILGKSM
I laughed at the same part, but for me it was his use of the Dark Souls "You Died" screen as well as the music/sound at the time.
Someone put that in a meme compilation XD
@@shadowpod13 the dead silence was working as well! XD
"You would not believe the amount of work it took to get this lazy"
Friend, you've just succinctly described all effective programmers. We turn the sin of laziness into a virtue, putting a lot of work into not having to do a task ever again. ^_^
Modern problems require modern solutions.
lol
"You would not believe how much work it took to get this lazy," is like the engineering mantra.
Life o' Riley mmm
Douglas Adams once said, "I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand."
Congrats on that button pusher
*“You would not believe how much work it took to get this lazy” **_- JWittz 2018 (colorized)_*
The Steadfast Duelist
Underrated comment
Thats not how that meme works 🤔
Ah you again
JWittz i've followed you since 2011 and this might be THE greatest video you've ever made.
One time I caught a shiny Plusle and a shiny Minun in the same day
You a normal minun and a normal plusle?
I got a shiny vulpix on the first try!
Would they cancel out to create a regular Pikachu?
I got a shiny woobat in Pokémon y first try
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This honestly feels like this is an April Fools video. So the fact that this is a real thing youve been doing makes this better than any April 1st prank could hope for.
This is a fantastic story and you are a fantastic story-teller. One of my favorite videos you have made
JWittz: "I found a shiny Geodude completely by accident! I wasn't even there!"
Me, 10+ hours into shiny Geodude hunt: *throws Switch*
Well at the very least it won't self destruct in Let's Go
I found a shiny pikachu and grimer by accident
Me, on my 15th hour of hunting a Nidoran shiny: aight my switch is about to head out
Best way to shiny hunt
Complaining
*Sets up autoclicker*
"Real life cheat activated"
H A C K E R M A N
@@TheJWittz *hacker voice* I'm in
@@TheJWittz Banned for botting gf your runescape acc
seeing how lazy/awesome this is, it fills you with determination
What a cool video! Covered multiple topics and connected them with gaming. Favorite one you've made so far. Great work
Cameron Ketch favourite of mine, what a fun video this was
Agreed!
"How far is too far?"
As an engineer, I say this is normal. I have spreadsheets at work that took days to put together that automate sections of my job. Do they make up for the time they cost to make? Eventually, yes. Just like how automating your shiny catching.
It's also your effort even though it's automated, as you are the one who designed and assembled everything. The design and assembly time were merely investments that pay themselves off in due time.
Always work smarter, not harder.
Welcome to Watch Mojo. Today we will be discussing the “Top 10 Ways to Press the ‘A’ button”.
Number 1,Pushing it with your finger
And in honorable mentions..
As soon as I read the first part of this sentence I could hear that stupid Watch Mojo intro in my head...
Pess the A button pokemon hate him
"Push the A button with this ONE WEIRD TRICK!"
Okay this is my favorite video you have ever made.
It's incredible the amount of effort we go though to avoid doing work.
"I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job, because he will find an easy way to do it." - Bill Gates, apparently.
I NEED THIS. I wonder if the new Lego motor would be quieter?
Lol ikr
personally I think it also depends on the gears u using
Yes they are. It's a combination of the gearing he used an the older motors having an axel slippage issue.
@@DaemosDaen Still very loud
@@RasMatHam02 Not really Honestly I wouldn't have used the large motor he did as you really don't need it and it's part of the reason it's so loud.
I'd have used the M motor with either no gearing (gear wheels the same on both ends) , or a gear reduction (smaller gear on the motor axel, larger gear on the other side) this would have put less strain on the motor producing less noise and in general and the m motors run quieter on top of that. Since the build in the video was hitting about 4-5 time too fast, it should have still worked. Another thing he could have done was shimmed the bottom of the contraption with some plates (1/3 the height of a brick) so t was not lifting it's self and only pressing the button, that may be a little difficult though. Building a sound dampening shroud out of bricks to go over it should have helped too.
This is all from my experience of playing with the old technic motors.
note: you get more torque from the gear reduction, but that's not useful in this application. (Edit: Stupid Keyboard)
"An A press is an A press. You can't say it's only half."
A#
Thanks, before I found this trick, shiny hunting really _pushed my buttons!_
Honestly nobody here didn't make that joke.
No, a machine pushed it's buttons. 🤔
@@consistentt r/wooooosh
@@straitjacket000 r/woooooooosh
@All Might r/woooooooooooooooosh
Breaking news:
Man discovers method of hunting down animals with slightly different colour variations than normal by pressing a button for a couple of hours
XdXd
with colress's theme from black and white 2 playing in the background the ENTIRE TIME
When you pulled out the Legos, I was like, “Is my mans legit going to make a custom size Lego cup for this drinking bird just so it can have enough force to push one of the buttons to trade an NPC in a video game just to get a video game that has a slightly different color palette?”
Nice to see you a little more active, Josh! I’ve been around since the good old days of “Prof It” and your content continues to entertain me without fail.
It's like I'm watching a Life-Hack video but i'm entertained.
SO TRUE
12:06
The lego model:Yeah you hear that sound??? Thats the sound i made when im being FORCED to do something YOU should have done yourself,you lazy *censored robotic language*
Hey,stop.
@@puppyproductions6514 no
@@cantthinkofaname521 yes.
The *(A)* button is being pressed! And I don't have to *(B)* there!
😄😊😉👍😮😶
Clap and a half
*Fixed* (A) Button is being pressed! And I don't have to (B) there!
NA Gamer you literally Copied his message
YentlDpGames Ikr
how to break a 60$ joy con for virtual pallet swaps
Microtransactions be crazy.
He'll easily make more than 60 for this video
not break mod it
actually the code can be reversed so you can basically turn it on and off at any time
69 dollars where i live.
we need this machine to auto-craft fish bait in animal crossing: new horizons
the last solution is the best solution as it also does not risk breaking the buttons from repeated use
Who was mad when he closed on a shiny mewtwo?
Jake Davenport that was not ok
I feel so bad for him! He was just stuck in the habit of closing the game
Not me. As long its wasn't a new, I'm not mad...
my heart stopped when I saw it😱
I almost died inside ...
He didnt even watch it so .. He kinda deserved it
At the start I was like "Use a Lego electric Motor". 10 minutes in, I'm very satisfied.
RIP Dipping Bird. That was an unfortunate death
you know what they say "only shiny hunting can reveal a man's true color"
"I am literally Homer Simpson right now."
-TheJWittz
, Dec 15, 2018
A
Now where is my rare pokemon?
aaaaaaaaa*
I would say it's in your profile picture but...
Sembreon here 🐱 oh sorry you pressed A not a you got a normal meowth
@@cousinxtyler9599 pffttt hahahaha. 😂😂👏🏼👏🏼
In ur logo
How ironic! My professor just gave me an Arduino for me to learn how to use for my Masters thesis project
Well now you have the perfect project.
Arduino for a Masters thesis? My apologies ahead of time, but feels like a low bar bro. I hope you surprise everyone with what you come up with and knock it out of the park! 👍
@@TheOneZenith maybe he is doing something on another field that just needed an arduino for some process
@@TheOneZenith That is EXACTLY what I was thinking. When I was in school, we made a bomb disposal robot using a micro controller that included 4 motors for wheels and 5 motors for a PRR arm with a rotating 3d printed rack and pinion end-effector. We did reverse kinematics and the whole nine yards to pre-program desired positions with limit switches to find zero positions. Didn't splice voltage outputs. Hooked everything up to a PS4 controller. Was just a class project, not thesis or anything. So much you can do to improve a design with a micro-controller, hard to narrow down your efforts into a nice masters thesis.
My suggestion, find a simple project off the internet and do it with an improvement based on whatever field you are in.
Not to be that guy, but ironic is not the same as coincidental.
shiny wooloo: YOU FOOL this is childs play!
“You would not believe how much work it took to get this lazy” I love this quote so much.
If it's lazy and it works, it's not lazy.
"efficiency is clever laziness"
This is true. Work smarter, not harder!
The dark souls death screen killed me
This is my favorite JWittz video now.
I just love watching the madness unfold.
Me: what are you doing
TheJwittz: making a machine to press a button for me
Me:Alright, but why on earth are you doing this
TheJwittz: because I've lost all control of my life
Not sure why Everyone is making cartoon references here, but I might as well should
Your not funny
@@focusprx *You're
HeRe'S yOuR pUdDiNg, AnGeLiCa
i realized i had the video on 1.25 speed and i was like how the fueck are you talking at a million miles an hour
This is the funniest part of the video. And it's not even part of the video
XD i get it
This video actually was a lot better and more informative than what I expected going in, good work.
Ever since your shiny alolan Raichu streams, I couldn't wait for this video!
"You Died" Made me laugh as I was drinking a coffee, Liked.
I appreciate that Bionicle reference
Same here.
I love how the entire time he was finding a button presser, he could've already had a shiny normally XD
but now he can get infinite shinies
w o r t h i t
BUT THINK ABOUT HOW MANY _MORE_ SHINYS YOU CAN GET?!?
Gotta love the Colress battle theme playing in the background. SCIENCE! 😂
You know, I went into this with a bit of background on robotics and microcontrollers and watching the first 8 minutes of your solutions made me think that this video was gonna be a really low effort diWHY? for something kind of minor. After seeing the rest, I gotta say that you really made a cool vid on engineering here. Like not a lot of people would have attempted that many VASTLY different solutions for this problem.
Never really seen your stuff before, but consider me subscribed. Kudos dude.
appreciate the slazo refrence
"I give the toughest job to the laziest person because he'll find an easy way to do it." -Bill Gates
@@AxolotlHurricane I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
Bill Gates
That's what he said, cut the guy some slack
Amen
"It doesnt just go nuts unattended" god thats a terrifying thought
I saw the drinking bird on Twitter... I can't believe you actually bought it.
All of this work and money to avoid pressing a button.
Humans are kinda cool sometimes.
weird* but I agree with the rest of that sentence
To avoid pressing about for potentially over 30 hours
technically this applies to pannenkoek too
Its actually a pretty ironicy considering you put all that work and effort into a game, to just let it play by itself. But tbh, its a nice story about "overengineering" stuff you wouldnt have thought of beforehand. I mean you even went into arduino stuff just for pressing one simple button. You had the idea, researched and succeded. Thats pretty much a talent a lot of people will miss. You sir have earned a cookie.
Ahem, three cookies
Operation Dodtrio: Fail
Operation ROB: Fail
Operation Nostalgia: Success
Operation Lightweight: Semi-Success
Operation Circuit: Success
This got... surprisingly educational.
That's not how the saying goes. It goes like this:
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I'm mad. Fool me three times, you're officially THAT guy, you know..."
Different saying
Woosh
@@tommywright1248 Funny.
Fool me twice...
I PuNcH yOuR'e FaCe
Sinaso Martins Regular Show reference! 😆
I read this as, “Pushing a *POKEMON* for a rare *BUTTON*
Crippling deppresion
For the last time eevee, i need to finish my sewing project
throwing pokemon at a wild button?
I love me a rare button
You may have severe dyslexia.
this is how engineers are born
I just love how one of his possible solutions was a remote controlled robot to push a button......so you push a button to make a robot push a button.......riiiiiiiiight!
Just like what Bill Gates said “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
wow so original
*sarcastic woah*
m8 someone already said that so yeah
Lol, that guy who failed shiny mewtwo
"wHaT"
There is now a joy con with a turbo button
Just wait until Verlisfy sees this... 😂
He will do what he always does. Go ape about how bad cheaters are and proceed to cheat himself in other ways.
Lol he'll probably use all the ideas in this video and say he did it himself
He gets pissed if you don't have the same opinions as him
He was fine doing a Lego robot to shiny hunt in SM, so yeah
He used an Arduino board himself to help each shiny Wimpod in Pokémon Sun so...
Josh, never stop being you. Your content is always from a place of heart and it positively shows. Much love!
Dude, this has got to be one of my favorite videos on youtube... It was just interesting for some reason. I subscribed because of this video.
I don't know if this will help at all, but there is this device called a Cronusmax that allows you to emulate a controller as a different controller on a console. For instance I used it to emulate an xbox one controller using a 360 controller and therefore was able to use my 360 controller on my xbox one. To my understanding, you can do a whole lot more than just that, such as: using a wiimote and nunchuck on a ps4. You need the program on your computer to change the settings around, and in the settings you can setup mods. For fps games it's usually rapid fire mods and jitter mods, but if you learn how to code the mods you can probably emulate the a button being repeatedly pressed. They also sell an adapter for the switch, so I imagine you could even use that pro controller emulated as something else. I hope this helps someone.
Absolutely incredible. This was way more entertaining than it should've been.
Wait a second ... there is no A on the pokeball plus xD
Press down the Joy stick on it
Is this another one of those "life hacks"
YOUR VERSE ON THE SMASH ULTIMATE CYPHER WAS *STRAIGHT FIRE* , NO ONE CAN CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE
2 second in and I was already thinking of raspberry pis and arduinos
The drinking bird looks like Porygon2! And its gen 6 sprite has its head bobbing back and forth. Coincidence, i think not!
Epic Marky FTW it's one of the only man-made Pokemon after all haha
I feel like when he said everything is awesome he was trying to reference the Lego movie
puppygaming your comment made me smile I love that part of the LEGO movie EVERYTHING IS AWESOMEEE :)
I 💜 LEGO!!! EVERYTHING IS AWSOME!!!😁
He was.
a metronome with the swinging pendulum hitting against the r button might have worked
Seeing how much Jwittz loves metronome, I am surprised he hadn’t.
I just watched a video about the invention of the year
I’m sorry my A button is broken from playing Smash
Did you *smash* your A button????
Ba dum tiss
Lol our stick is broken from our older bro playing Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild
By the time he assembled this he could of already got one
today on jwittz learns small scale electronic engineering
The moment i heard bionicle, I SLAMMED That like button, only to realize that meant I had to re-click it because i had already liked it.
L0key.P0wer_427 the moment I read Bionicle, I slammed that like button
This is what people mean when people say engineers are ambitiously lazy
“Everything Is awsome”
*ad pops up*
yes. that indeed, happened during this video.
PastelPittyProblem mine is a phone ad
This really pushes my buttons.
Revisited your channel recently. Never change man, you got me to genuinely laugh a few times with just your writing. That's rare for me nowadays. Thank you
This is so convoluted for just a button press I love it
PoyoConCarne sounds like the sort of thing that would happen if I attempted it without any real idea of how I was actually going to achieve it