Vsauce! I’m Jake and if you wondered why I disappeared for the last year, well good news,
I made a video on my personal channel explaining where I’ve been and what happened. There’s a
link to that video at the top of the description or right over here. Long story short, I’m back
and the first thing I want to do is show you some DONGs…things you can do online now, guys!
Let’s use this Pokemon guide as a quick refresher. It has all Generation 1 pokemon and
gives you useful information like type, moves, stats and more. But what we want to focus on
is the sprite. Really focus on it. Memorize the outline because that's all you get with
Who’s That Pokemon? No seriously…who is it. I don’t know. Just kidding I’m cool as heck - it’s
RAICHU. You can select which Generation you want to choose from or just do all of em, change the
difficulty level from easy to elite with Elite only giving you sound to guess from.
But instead of looking at the outside of the Pocket Monsters,
let’s look at their insides……….by exploring the Pokemon Fossil Museum.
If you can’t make it to Japan this is the next best thing. This site allows you to explore
the entire museum, seeing the exhibits and the incredibly cool fossilized remains of Pokemon.
One thing I really appreciate is that they have fossils of the real creatures that inspired these
fictional critters. Oh that reminds me…take a seat. Hey sport…I’ve been meaning to have
this conversation with you for a while but probably best to rip the band aid off. Pokemon
aren’t real. Those aren’t real fossils of them. I know, I’m sad too. Let’s drown our sorrows in
The Deep Sea. An interactive site that takes you through the entire water column so you can
explore all 5 zones of the ocean. The site also provides interesting facts on your way down about
the sea life that inhabits it. For example if we go to 1500 meters, into the Midnight Zone,
we find the big red jellyfish and learn that many deep sea species use the color red as
camouflage since it's the first color to leave the spectrum as you dive deeper. Instead of
exploring the watery abyss that is our ocean, let's explore the abyss that is space with
A Real Time Trip to Mars. Just keep this tab open for 210 days to win. Alright here we go.
Look at us. We are venturing into the unknown. Pushing humanity further not just into the far
reaches of our solar system but deeper into our understanding of the cosmos and this is boring.
It feels like we’ve been traveling forever but it's only been just a minute. This game tests
your internal clock to see if you actually can judge one minute of time passing. Woah, time.
For something a little faster paced lets visit our good friend Tom Scott
and play his game You Can’t Do Maths Under Pressure. It starts relatively easy with
basic addition and subtraction. Then throws in multiplication and division before ratcheting
up the excitement with solving for X and order of operations all while the timer speeds up.
If you’d rather play with numbers but at your own pace, there’s Parity. You have a 3x3 board filled
with numbers. The object of the game is to get all the numbers to be exactly the same. Move the
highlighted section around the board and each space you move to increases that space’s number
by one. You have to plan on your route ahead of time in order to win. Sometimes backtracking to
increase the value, especially when the game starts throwing in negative numbers. But maybe
puzzles and math are not your thing and you would rather have a transition to another
DONG by having everything I’m currently saying be shown as an actual playable spotify playlist
that I will link in the description for you to listen to courtesy of weird spot dot fyi.
Instead of having a spotify playlist speak for you,
have the movies do it with Play Phrase. It has over
7.6 Million phrases so type in what you're looking for and get to the chopper. Perfect.
But movies and song titles already exist…what if we want to create something new? Well good
news we can with These Lyrics Do Not Exist. Pick a topic, style of music, the mood and the AI will
generate some beautiful, grammy winning lyrics for you. Sensational. Now we just need some music…
Which we can create with Song Maker. For the rhythm you can choose between synth, marimba,
piano, strings or woodwind. Once you find the right sound then choose the kind of instrument
for the beat with electronic, blocks, kit or conga. Depending on your selection you’ll end
up with something like this. If you wanna get even more in depth you can also change
parameters like beats ber par, scale and range. One cool feature is you can also use
your voice to make a note and this helpful arrow shows you in what octave range it is.
Last piece we need are some visuals to go with it so lets try Super Shape. Adjust
the selections under path and thickness to get this object looking how you want
and then turn on the Post FX to give it a really neat glow.
But If you don’t feel like making your own music you could always use this archive of
old tapes from Kmart that an employee of theirs from the 1980s and 90s saved
and digitized. The tapes are full of music the stores would play over the
loud speakers while customers shopped. The internet is a wild and fascinating place.
I’m going to leave you with one more DONG. For those of us not fortunate enough to take part in
Mr Beasts squid game or the real squid game which is probably for the best? Thomas Park
made a version using only CSS. You can try your luck with the glass bridge…and
I’m dead. Red light green light…and I’m still dead. Or Dalgona…and I SURVIVED. I DID IT!
Links to all the DONGs can be found in the description below as well as the link to my
personal channel if you want to hang out with me over there. It feels good to be back and,
as always, thanks for watching!