Have we really become this dumb? Even a site for nerds is so dumb we have "ooh let's watch this get destroyed in super-slow-mo!" Ugh.

Telperion:
It looked kinda neat. Maybe the next half a dozen episodes will improve on this basic premise?

How? How can you improve on watching things break in glorious slow motion?
Guys. This is the point. What more do you want?
Well, I enjoyed it. There was a show that was on discovery channel that was pretty much the same thing. Called Time Warp or something. Whatever, what I learned from that show was that a water balloon thrown at someones face in slow motion is one of the coolest things ever... I'll see if I can find it.

Not sure what the point of this series is... it's been done a thousand times before. And it's been done better. It like one of the creators just got a high-speed camera and just had to do something with it.

This is relevant to my interests.

Most pointless show I've ever watched! But it's epic at the same time!!! :D

Optimystic:

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm on your side. I think the ads are ridiculous and should definitely be scaled to the length of the video itself. (Of course, that would probably just encourage the contributors to pad out their videos so Russ can charge the "long ad" rates for them.)

As for the noise pollution, you can just mute it :-) Even if you miss the first few seconds of a video as a result, you can grab the progress bar, rewind it, and the ad stays gone. (Yes, it was the horrendous Slim Jim ads that forced me to do this as well.)

So in short, I agree with you, but no muss no fuss I say.

Fair enough... video padding would be terrible. I suppose it isn't a huge hassle, but it's definitely annoying, and I don't think this daily drop thing is going to be worth it.

Wow, that was pretty good. I don't quite understand how it takes four people to drop something, unless its a couch or other large object.

Part of me wants to say "COOL!"

And part of me wants to say, "Umm...okay.... big deal"

Aqua Trenoble:
Wow, that was pretty good. I don't quite understand how it takes four people to drop something, unless its a couch or other large object.

What you see is fairly simple, true. But what you don't see is a lot of finding & transporting things to be dropped, taking photos of all those things, scurrying back and forth handing Paul items, and a whole ton of picking/sweeping/mopping up after each drop. That's where it's useful to have several people helping & making things go faster. Additionally, many of us have day jobs and other commitments, so we had to rotate in and out.

For the actual dropping, of course, it only takes Paul. No one else can do science like Paul.

Ever time I see that slim jim commercial and the guy says "Now Eat it and Beat it" I have to say that's what she said.

WeedyPirate:

Naturality:

You guys should do a crossover between this and Things on my head. Pure awesome would occur.

i tried to imagin how that would work but i just can't picture it lol :) dropping things on paul's head?

No, silly, you put the object on the floor and drop Paul headfirst onto it. :P

I like this

say goodbye to family heirloom

Interesting. I expected it to flex just a little bit (like a rubber ball), but it just broke. Glass is more brittle than I thought.

After watching this, I wonder if animators use slow-mo photography to try and create more realistic destruction animation in, cartoons, games, cg in movies, etc. That was the first thing I thought when I saw all of the glass crack apart and explode out.

Great work guys, drop more stuff!

Where did the paperweight come from? It looked nice and I might get one myself if it's cheap.

GeneticallyModifiedDucks:
You know, at first I thought this was stupid... and I still do.

Have to say it did look kind of cool with this thing, but really I don't see the point to this.

Wait, there's a point?

Graham_LRR:
Glass Paperweight

It's an ornamental glass paperweight, destroyed in slow motion!

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The music makes me want to play plants vs zombies for some reason, so i'll do just that....

feel obligated to post here since I just watched this first episode for the first time.
Still cant believe the 100th episode was....coins >.>

I can't believe I weighted so long to do my daily pun for this one :-p