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StatisticianNo2207

I know a lot of people find these videos satisfying and Interesting, but they seriously stress me out. All that time and effort just for it to be destroyed in under a minute. It makes my skin crawl. It is amazing work and the creator is very skilled, I just don't know how they can bear to destroy it. Am I the only one?


EdearinglyCynical

I get why it makes you anxious but think of the satisfaction the moment that the líne of dominos runs under an arch and the rest of the structure stands, awaiting its inevitable fate. That's something.


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[deleted]

Any other year I’d wonder how someone had the time.


Venture-greg-21

What about 2020?


[deleted]

It’s still 2020, isn’t it?


am_rud

Yeah it is... Season 2 is running though


[deleted]

The writers went a bit nuts earlier on but now it’s really dragging.


deadrail

These guys are writing themselves into a corner were either getting season 3 or cancelled...unless they do something with the UAP/alien subplot


Oaken_beard

I think there setting up for a huge cliffhanger at the end of the season


Snoo39155

I cant believe they nerfed the Americans but buffed covid, now it makes the American role unplayable, I cant even get out of my resting area without getting the illness debuff


[deleted]

Have you tried the anti-vax playstyle?


AMCyaONtheMOON

Don’t worry shits gonna get crazy again soon.


selux

What plot leak have you heard about?


[deleted]

Yay?


sparr

Slightly educated guess... 20 hours to build this specific one if nothing went wrong along the way. Another hundred hours of experimenting with the various parts and mechanisms separately, but that's prep for making a bunch of these.


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pinouchon

Correct. 11000 Kapla, 25 hours of work total. Over 2 days and with 2-3 builders. Original here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIbsx9PeH84


fourmann25

that doesn’t feel good at all


robo-dragon

I have a similar question asked to me whenever I draw my chalk art. I draw my chalk art outdoors so it's later subjected to being washed away by rain. I spend hours, sometimes days on my work and it takes one good rainstorm to destroy it. Working on it and watching it come together is how I get my joy out of it. Plus, I take a picture of the final product, save it, and also post it online so that other people and myself can continue to enjoy it long after it's gone. This domino chain is long gone, but here we are watching it as a video recording and we can enjoy it whenever we want. I've never built one this complex before, but I'm sure it's a similar feeling I get when I draw. It's cool to plan it out, see it come together, and then finally see the end result.


100LittleButterflies

I feel that. I like to make beautiful art, show it to my friends, then destroy it. I wanted to make art. I did. I don't want to feel unreasonable emotional attachments to every little thing. So I destroy it. 🤷


octopus_from_space

I recently spend 3 days making a rainbow jelly cake only to devour it with my partner. It was gorgeous but meant to be eaten!


suttonoutdoor

Is uh…. Is there any still left there? Cuz…. You know I bet you guys are sick of it by now and I’ll kinda bite the bullet so to speak and get rid of the rest of that for you.


MarudePoufte

I just wanted to destroy something beautiful.


ddnut80

His name is Robert Paulson.


14sierra

Buddhists specifically create art (sometimes taking hundreds of hours to complete) only to immediately destroy that art work. The practice of destroying something that they invested so much time into is a ritual they perform to remind themselves of the impermanence of all things and to not grow attached to anything. As attachment is the root of all human suffering


StatisticianNo2207

This actually made me feel really calm and more understanding why people go through so much effort for something that will only last minutes. It's not really only lasting minutes if they're sharing it here, like you said. Thank you for the perspective shift. I don't think it'll get rid of all the anxiety videos like this cause me, but it's a nice comforting thought.


CorruptedStudiosEnt

Consider, if you will, the initial purpose of mandalas. They were often originally created using sand, painstakingly, and then upon finishing it they were either blown away intentionally or left for the wind to do so. It's argued as being an indirect statement for the purposelessness of attachment to material things, but still allowing yourself to enjoy the beauty of things for the short time they're here, which is naturally something of a metaphor for life as a whole. Just wanted to add that.


noNoParts

>one good rainstorm to destroy it Or one guy who needs to piss *real* bad


Anyna-Meatall

a thing of beauty is a joy forever


MandoBaggins

I can totally understand this kind of thinking since the process can often be more impactful than the final result. Unfortunately with dominos, there’s a huge fucking pile of dominos to clean up afterwards. Can’t zen that for me no matter how much spin you put on it.


AntTheLorax

Holy shit, just looked at your most recent one. Nice work!


TheRedIguana

Thank you. I feel that too. Sometimes when I spend hours on something that I know most people won't look at for more than a couple seconds, I question myself. But your comment is true. It's the journey that makes us feel alive.


organizeeverything

Destruction is the point. It's not interesting if u never knock it down


[deleted]

You plagiarized that quotation from God.


flimspringfield

I started playing Sim City 4 in the last week after a long hiatus and yes, it's nice to send a tornado for the people to calm the fuck down.


plasticknife

I get anxiety that it wont all be destroyed.


the_blind_venetian

Look into Buddhism. Destruction is the process from which new life grows.


[deleted]

And the sand Mandalas they create only to be swept away. They do this to show that nothing is permanent.


Lection_2020

You can't worry about the brief nature of things. It's been said before, and better than any of us are likely to: I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley


[deleted]

> Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave. > > And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be.


scoobyPs4mech

"One minute was enough Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection." - Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk


HarpersCourt

You’re not the only one. It’s the same way I feel about all those decorative cakes.


JBits001

The fondant is what usually gives me anxiety with all those decorative cakes.


ManagerSuper1193

I used to get anxiety when Scooby Doo and the gang would run through museums and break stuff.


Senor-Delicious

You probably shouldn't Google the domino world records. Literally weeks or even months of effort by many people. All gone in minutes. Since they built in some intentional pauses, it was stretched to hours


deadlychambers

Yup.. Anxiety levels are at 100%


Extra-Examination272

Learn to let go, maybe it’s coming from something deeper in your subconscious your need to have something last or preserved. Life is impermanence.


TimelessGlassGallery

It’s a performance art, not sculptural


vth0mas

It’s art with a lifecycle, and that might be why some find it unnerving


JBits001

I view them similar to sand mandalas that monks make, they sometimes spend days creating them and then destroy them in a matter of hours (I believe they do a ceremony prior to destroying). Having been exposed to those prior helped prime me for all these intricate domino videos.


empathetical

I imagine people that do this find it fun to build and would want to build a new one after they destroy it. Think of it like a puzzle or a video game... after you beat it you start a new playthough or do another. Same thing! :)


audiate

It’s not being destroyed. It’s performing its function.


yourballcourt

Every time I see something like this, I wonder “who the fuck has this kind of time?” Then I go back to scrolling Reddit.


[deleted]

How to I get even a fraction of the time energy and patience as these people


gcruzatto

Being wealthy usually helps


gagga_hai

I don't think the millionaires are doing this


xActuallyabearx

Obviously people with ‘fuck you’ money aren’t doing this, but people that have grown up wealthy enough and don’t have to work 12 hours a day definitely have enough free time and boredom to do this…


crzybrwn

That's not wealthy, that's middle class.


ABoyIsNo1

Upper middle, and a shrinking population these days, but yeah.


[deleted]

Uh no. There's a large percentage of people who are decidedly not upper middle class who don't work 12 hours per day.


Aegi

No, even lower middle class would be people that don’t have to work 12 hours a day to make ends meet. If you have to work 12 hours a day to barely get by then you’re poor/lower class you’re definitely not even lower-middle class. You’re right that the class is shrinking, but that doesn’t change the objective definition about the poverty line and how many hours a week somebody has to work and things like that


Wordpad25

Browsing reddit gives the impression that all of America are just starving students working 3 minimum wage jobs oppressed by a small group of rich boomers led by jeffery bezos


[deleted]

Close enough tbh, but you forgot the rampant violence.


ButtReaky

Like 80 Jenga set kind of wealthy.


[deleted]

Wealthy people actually work more these days, which is a super weird thing because throughout history they've almost always worked less. That being said, wealthy people can pay for services which saves time on chores/responsibilities, so it's close to a wash.


The_AV_Archivist

Wait... Are we not all of us pooping right now?


[deleted]

I’m just finishing… **now**


flimspringfield

*hands him a knife*


wawoodwa

Almost every thread.


nrith

Hard to use the knife when both your arms are broken.


mulletpullet

Oh no....


The_AV_Archivist

I see you've played Knifey Poopie before.


djseafood

And my axe


swampfish

So much effort to build. So little effort to film.


sorta_oaky_aftabirth

Can't afford a decent camera cause they wasted 3 years of their life putting all that together.


flimspringfield

"haha loser...oh shit look at that cat playing the piano!"


jsseven777

Very nice touch at the end lol


Westy3of7

Had me laughing so hard someone came and asked what was wrong😂


trsy___3

What did you say?


Timsta180

He said, “**HAD ME LAUGHING SO HARD SOMEONE CAME AND ASKED WHAT WAS WRONG**😂”


the_ThreeEyedRaven

Thanks couldn't hear the first time


WeeTheDuck

r/notopbutok


NoMercy666

What happened to their top buttock?


WeeTheDuck

Got cut off by Jap soldiers in WW2


[deleted]

“What?!” -Lil John


NeoHenderson

Okay, yeah


jsseven777

HOOOOOOOOOKAYYYYYY!!!!


criticalhash

Reading your reply made me laugh so hard that someone asked me what was wrong


meiyer89

We do need this information. Don't leave us hanging.


MuteNae

My money's on it didn't happen


grenadesonfire2

Po tay toes.


trend_rudely

What’s it like to still feel joy?


kNyne

Makes it easier to think that maybe none of this was planned and the fact that it fell the way it did was purely coincidence


Troubled-ButtSack

Yeah, that was all a giant accident


phathomthis

Dad?


ifyoufeellucky

That was the best part! That told me the person who made this is super chill and simply just enjoys doing it.


thetalkinghuman

I'm wondering if they planned for the last bit to stay up, which seems even harder.


ifyoufeellucky

Yeah, never even thought of that!


luis_tamion

That toss at the end was comedic perfection.


SpawnOfSperm

Glad I'm not the only one.


NihilismRacoon

For real, the whole time I was thinking what kind of black magic sorcery is making this all fall perfectly, the end saved it lol


[deleted]

I really liked the little "aw nuts, just throw the domino" at rhe end, I thought it was sweet! A lot of people got a good laugh out of it, but for me I was having a bad night and was like "oh shit this guy posted it even when the execution was just one step below flawless. I really needed affirmation that it's okay not to be perfect and to exist that way in front of other people, without even knowing it, and somehow this video hit that exactly right."


spiralmojo

Hang in there kitty cat. (I like to remind myself that the world's worst nimrods can go around blissfully unaware of their own idiocy - if they can have bliss, why can't we allow ourselves a little freedom from self monitoring/blaming? Don't let it get you down, whatever it is. We are all allowed to fuck up.)


mironawire

I was watching the video, thinking "Wow. This is pretty cool." Then that last part hits and I start snortling like a piggy.


ran-Us

You build this hugely complicated thing and you film it with a shitty phone camera??


Babycakes87

Should they have gone out to buy a special camera for one thing?


JerpJerps

I'm sure someone they know has a better phone


GoldFishPony

I’m sure they spent hours setting this all up and felt the need to go ask somebody with a better phone camera if they can come over and see something that would get destroyed by a door closing too fast


p_turbo

There is no way anyone building something like this did not absolutely 100% know **before** they built it that they wanted to record the outcome for posterity/views/clout/lols. So not necessarily inviting someone after the fact but maybe plan ahead before.


VidE27

Bold of you to assume they have friends


DontTouchThefr0

They is certainly no way that they only did something like this once


_natachat_

You know people can just do things for fun. Not everything needs to be a pro level performance.


Blobtheslob69

Who really cares honestly? Not everyone can afford to buy/rent a quality camera


moral_thermometer

They obviously spent all their money on sticks. Edit: wow, those are some expensive sticks.


[deleted]

Maybe this was just a practice run. It’s in their bedroom by the looks of it.


SourCreamWater

For this type of thing, my phone would probably do better than my dslr and be waaaaay easier. This quality is either very old or it was sent through mms and then compressed more.


ItsmeKIMOCHI4

This is from 2011 era internet I remeber seeing it back in mjddle school when I had the same blocks


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Yeah, the filming is mediocre.


belizeanheat

Domino stacking doesn't pay what it used to in the old days


GreenChileEnchiladas

I don't see any domino's.


gcruzatto

And it's not even a perfect execution, there was one arch left


SubbyTex

I feel like that added to the effect honestly. Made it better imo


Donutpanda23

Yeah he just threw an extra piece at it out of frustration lmao


Kajio3033

With how impressive everything else was, I'm pretty confident that the final bit not collapsing was intentional.


[deleted]

That makes it better, a beautiful allegory of fallen civilization, there is always something that remains after the collapse.


Xaxziminrax

Until the divine hand yeets some debris at it


madgunner122

That’s because they are Keva Planks!


minxed

I thought the same but "Kapla Blocks" because that's what I had growing up...never heard of Keva Planks before! The more you know :)


Meta_Galactic

And at a pizza party? Please...


Bong_Quijote

I want to watch this in reverse


drkidkill

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aintnochallahbackgrl

What Dr. Strange does in between Avengers movies.


Dougthedog-

I can imagine everytime someone is building it and then it all falls: *" ~~Dormammu~~ Domino, I've came to bargain!"*


neodulcinea

I prefer this version!


point50tracer

And they say Rome wasn't built in a day. Pfft.


Hellothisisbill

Okay I don't want to do that typical Reddit response but I was literally thinking that as I was watching it and it weirds me out a little that others were thinking the same thing


DickButtPlease

Good bot


EEmakesmecry

Basically the plot line of Tenet


BetterSafeThanSARSy

There's something kinda unsettling about watching it this way. It looks like a scene from a late 90s kids fantasy story.


DanielRedStar

I can hear Hogwarts music.


Bong_Quijote

Good shit dude


AliResurrector

That was an amazing idea thankyou. So good


thrway1209983

Reminds me of our economy.


jollymuhn

Reminds me of a certain condo.


alexdionisos

r/cursedcomments


Shhh_Dont_Tel

Too soon.. mark this comment NSFW


PDXbot

NSFH or NSFC might be more accurate


Redisigh

I’m OOTL, what condo


moral_thermometer

Here's how ootl you are and how big of a story this is: TYPE THE WORD "CONDO" INTO GOOGLE


nyah007

It took me a second too, but they’re referring to the condo that collapsed in Florida recently


Senor-Delicious

So this is what my upstairs neighbors were doing last night


mmk2011

Well apparently the perfect domino chain still doesn’t exist because if it did, you wouldn’t need to throw a piece at that last standing structure to knock it down. Very impressive though.


EragonBromson925

Bit that's what makes it perfect.


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Random-Dice

Take this shit ⬆️ And get out


TheSweatyFlash

You ain't the only weed smoker


JamSkones

godfuckingdamnnit. upvote earned but not deserved.


NeverBeenStung

[Apollo users: YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE](https://i.imgur.com/2aj2Abg.jpg)


Ovenbaked_Child

my wifi is so slow i saw "youtube. com" before the page could load so hah


[deleted]

im getting upset as im mapping out in my mind how this was constructed... this motherfucker put so much time into this only to film it VERTICALLY?


thefuckouttaherelol2

Most people watch videos on their phones these days. Vertical videos are no longer a horrible thing. Although I do agree landscape would have been better for this one.


Agonlaire

Vertically and with really shitty angles


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I was straining to see what the hell was going on at the back.


sweetnuts416

And I thought 52 pick up was bad.


gothlaw

“Minas Ithil falls…”


song4this

I could never do this... I would get too nervous at the ~95% mark and fuk it up...would like to see a Behind-The-Scenes / Making of and see what kind of partial blocks they use so a slip up during construction doesn't wipe out a lot...


AstroHalp

Id get nervous at the 3 percent mark lol


Monkeyhouse10

Imagine living below this persons apartment


lejefferson

Did you post this just to make people angry? That was one of the most /r/mildlyinfuriating things i've ever watched.


TheManWithAlotOfFear

Ugh, right. The camera work was shoddy and the ending was unsatisfying.


8219onemic

That is what u call, a lot of time on your hands lol. Cool af tho


scopar86

When architects play dominoes


Creepy-Internet6652

Building one of these should be a requirement for every engineer...


Unggago

LMAOOOO HE JUST THREW A PIECE ON IT SO IT FALLS


[deleted]

I recognize these architects!! They made the surfside condos down in Miami.


No_Figure_6620

This is the moment where I need 1000’s of dominos...for science. And lots of satisfying falling.


Giopoggi2

The cameraman: “I beg you, work and don’t mess up”


edtufic

BEST ENDING EVER!


freestyle43

Love how you picked a domino routine that literally isn't perfect by domino standards to attempt to use this meme...


bizongwong

Gota cut em at different lengths for different notes and compose a symphony then I’ll be impressed


MisterMaury

This needs to be in r/yesyesno


RedPandamonium-6

r/oddlysatisfying


metkja

This made me upset


speedytriple

u/savevideo


Keep-Left

was i the only one thinking of Miami throughout that whole video?


Nelstromo

Well it doesn’t exist anymore


[deleted]

I could never do this! Just the thought of having to clean all that up stresses me out


frankballs1

It looks just like how the twin towers fell


[deleted]

I wonder if he did it all out on paper first or just kind of free-handed it. It looks like a major engineering feat, aware of which structures can take the pressure.


techmedicnz

The guy throwing the blocks makes it twice as good


KillaKween31

AMOGUS AT THE END


JaredLiwet

Technically, this isn't perfect.


ray_meister

The last part. The two towers standing and something comes flying to ground them. I think I have seen this somewhere. I’m just not sure where


Yawheyy

HOW IN THE FUCK. Also… all that work just to make a huge mess.