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How the fuck does this guy know so much shit? Is he some sort of actual genius?

>> No.1214901
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>>1214894
Hey uncle bumblefcuk, you surely are fun to watch but is about time you talk about /diy/ in one of your vidjeos.

>> No.1214919

>>1214894
if you believe every word he says of course hes a genius.

he knows a lot of practical/repair stuff, hes a basic hobbyist machinist ( does quite a bit of silly shit on the lathe and mill ), stuff about prospecting, some basic electronics

he does have a lot of money and time to fuck around and do stuff that experienced folk would say 'what the hell would you do that for' and make it interesting

>> No.1214927

>>1214919
Like it or not he's pretty interesting and fun to watch.

>> No.1214932

>>1214927
yeah most ofhis videos are decent, i enjoy his tool teardowns more than his experiments though

>> No.1214933

i wish he would do more fucking around on his mill/lathe videos

>> No.1215059

>>1214894
He is pretty smart, but not everything he tells you is correct.

>> No.1215077

>>1214927
If you are on a level of a 10 year old. Hes actually a fucking retard.

>> No.1215094

You can learn a lot on a given subject if you're interested in it. The problem is, the better you are at retaining information you're interested in, the harder it is to force yourself to learn stuff you're not interested in.

>> No.1215125

>>1215094
lolwhat stop projecting

>> No.1215267

i like him until he starts talking about how we need to let all the immigrants in to do our jobs like some sort of fucking leaf

>> No.1215279

He's terrible at machining or repair or making stuff or doing any sort of actual /diy/ work for that matter, but he is pretty entertaining at tearing things down and giving his input as he is clearly an engineer in his day job.

>> No.1215329

>>1214894
Sometimes I wonder if the guy is even capable of holding a conversation in plain English. If he thought up some funny jokes/stories he would make a better stand-up comedian.

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>>1215077
>a level of a
Of course he's a freaking retard, he tells you so himself. Listen up.

>> No.1215413

>>1215329
I've thought about this. I wonder if his wife and/or kids have adopted his dialect too.

>> No.1215437

>>1215413
theres a video where he goes to nova scotia(?) i think for vacation with his family and yeah hes normal

>> No.1215663

Uncle bumblefuck here.
I see a lot of dickweeds talking shit, but no one's actually saying anything.
If you think I'm terrible, how?
If you think I'm retarded, why?
If you can't fuck around in the shop and have a laugh or two, go fuck your hat.

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>>1215663
>Uncle bumblefuck here.

Tits w/ timestamp or GTFO.

>> No.1215679

>>1214894
Knowledge doesn't make you a genius. Knowledge helps you apply genius if you have it. Genius is synthesis, not thesis.

That being said, he's clever enough to get some more abstract concepts. He's also making a lot of money just doing stupid shit in the shop. Tons of other people do the same type of shit on youtube, but only a modest few make it fun to watch. You have to respect someone who can monetize down time that well, and obviously still have fun with it.

Unless you're a sour cunt, that is.

>> No.1215681

>>1215663

I don't like the battery holder you chose for your over priced ruler, or the buttons.

Also I like fucking hats.

>> No.1215684

>>1215663
I believe this. What is the origin of your name?

>> No.1215700

>>1215684
nigga doesnt know ArduinoVersusEvil...

>> No.1215704

>>1215329
Have said this before, but I grew up in a pretty rural area, and a lot of the things he says I heard as a kid. I think it's interesting that the vernacular is so close, given that he's from British Columbia (I think?) and I'm from Kentucky. It's his schtick, Anon. It's what he does to get viewers, and even though it's been 40 years since I first heard "as hard as a wedding dick" (he says prick), I still smile when I hear it. For the record, a wedding dick is in fact a very, VERY hard dick. Some guys on here probably don't know that.

>>1215663
Seriously. Tits and timestamp, or gtfo. We'd accept your (burned) self healing mat and timestamp probably.

>> No.1215711

>>1215704
>For the record, a wedding dick is in fact a very, VERY hard dick.

How exactly does time-travel work, as long as you're here?

>> No.1215722

>>1215663
50% of time is having a laff
50% of time is talking shit
4chin is noise
the fact that we talk about you is good
-*~_ FoLlOw YoUr DrEaMs _~*-

>> No.1215728

>>1215679
>He's also making a lot of money

>3k monthly
>Lots of money

>> No.1215773

>>1214894
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ZKJAwryeA

Also, is he an /ourguy/?

>> No.1215776

>>1214894
he clearly has interest in a lot of different topics and is smart enough to learn something about them.

my friends often say to me 'how do you know so much about so many things' and to me it just seems like a normal amount of accumulated knowledge. a lot of different things interest me and, thanks to the interwebs, i have access to all the knowledge i want. so i do some research and learning on a particular topic until im proficient beyond that of your average person, then move on.

im guessing he has done the same, combined with life experience putting him in a lot of different situations for work

>> No.1215786

>>1215728
>passive income for your hobby
>not good enough
Fuck you>>1215776

>> No.1215787

>>1215094
I feel you.

>> No.1215849

>>1215663
Yeah no, I believe ave could come here because of how closely he guards his identity. However, we need more proof than just your word. So until then fuck off

>> No.1215857

>>1215728
In addition to his regular income, and whatever people throw him on Patreon, and whatever he gets from his growing collection of merch...

My hobbies generally cost me money.

>>1215776
I'm the same way. My list of interests grows longer and longer as I approach middle age. Some people pick a thing and that's it for them for life. Others just never stop learning and abandoning hobbies when they get really good and lose interest.

>> No.1215860

>>1215773
He is. Check his subscription list

>> No.1215862

>>1215860
>>1215773
On that note as well, so is Matthias Wandel.

>> No.1216106

>>1215329
I see his vocabulary as 1 part jargon file, 1 part grease monkey, and 1 part Letterkenny. If you watch some his earliest videos, his affectation is a lot less pronounced, so its almost certainly developed for the views.

Like what he does or not...
Find him competent or not...
Agree with the "maker" movement or not...
He definitely does a positive job promoting the diy ethos

>> No.1216312

>>1215704
Believing that I was AvE, and that he is the type of person to say "It's me" on the internet (he posts here and never comes out about it), shows that you have no fucking clue what kind of person he is, and (therefore) have no capability to answer the original fucking question.
I hate fuckwits like you. Get the fuck off of this board and go back to your container.

>> No.1216459

>>1214894
Do people actually think he's that smart?

He's fun but sometimes he doesn't know what he's talking about.

I remember a video where he has a machine with a universal motor in it it and he says that if somebody wired the outlets wrong it'll spin the other way.

So yeah, I'm wondering who OP really is ....

>> No.1216466

>>1216459
He also apparantly uses his file wrong. Can an only work in 1 direction.

>> No.1216479

>>1216466
sure it wasn't a diamond file or he was just not lifting but releasing pressure. he clearly has a mechanical background

>> No.1216483

>>1216479
Don't know, I just noticed it in the comments in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24hHwV6SejI

>> No.1216486

>>1216483
doubt he is pushing down hard on the back stroke, its bronze anyway hardly going to mash any of the teeth on that file.

>> No.1216487

>>1216312
Okay. Except I wasn't answering the original question, and if I believed it was him would I have asked for proof? Who's the fuckwit now?

Obvious AvE is obvious. Still, because it's protocol, tits or gtfo.

>> No.1216639

>>1216459
To a layman who has never actually done any electronics work, engineering or machining it is certainly a lot to take in. I'm a carpenter so almost everything he talks about is out of my realm of knowledge. There are like 50 people that frequent this board, do you really think Mr. Youtube guy is one of them?

>> No.1216898

>>1216639
No that part was just a joke.

I'm just saying, he's not that smart. Much of what he knows seems to be from experience as just a general mechanic.

Watch numberphile/computerphile and you'll see smart people.

Not as much entertainement value offcourse

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>>1215700
>ArduinoVersusEvil
Is this real?

>>1215860
Should I be surprised, because I am.

>>1216106
>the "maker" movement
At its best I think it really can be a great cultural movement away from buyfagging, but at its worst it really is pallet furniture and "i am maker, someone love me please" circlejerkery.

I hold the sentiment that AvE is a guy who's wise as opposed to intelligent, into the realm of potential crossover. But either way, be it experience or study, they are both means to the same end, it just depends on what you (and/or your employers) value. My interest in diy and interest in physics used to be completely seperate until I started learning about practical electronics at university. But I like /diy/ much more than /sci/, if only for the occasional diy surgery threads, shipping container shitshows, and other ill-advised ideas.

>> No.1216952

>>1214894
lol genius? are you high mate?

none of the stuff he knows is genius but its knowledge that he has gathered for years so of course he will be ahead of you and so you then think he is smart but he isnt. smart != knowledge

>> No.1217195

>>1216901
>i never knew he had a blog before watching his vidjeos
https://www.youtube.com/user/arduinoversusevil/
summer pls go, and stay go

>> No.1217309

>>1217195
>summer
I've been frequenting this board for over a year now, check you're privilege.

>> No.1217315

>>1214894
He's fucking annoying red dit tier humor and it's cringe and unbearable.
I can't finish a single video of his because his shitty fucking humor ruins it.

>> No.1217323

>>1217315
Different strokes for different folks.

>> No.1217341

@1217315
>another shitty tripfag from /o/

>> No.1217407

>>1217341
>another shitty internet security proxyfag from /g/

>> No.1217614

>>1217309
>for over a year
you might want to re-think your words before opening your mouth again, summer

>> No.1217638

He's a guy that dicks about with shit to see what happens and records it to show us other fucks that would probably do this sort of dicking about with shit if we weren't too fucking lazy.

>> No.1217647

>>1217614
A summerfag is a person here for the summer, not for more than around half a year. I have been solidly contributing to this board for significantly longer than what would classify me under that banner. Your post was assuming that I was a summerfag because I was unfamiliar with something on youtube, which is not 4chan. Someone could have made the same blunder had he been on 4chan for 40 years, being a newfag with respect to 4chan simply doesn't enter into the equation.

And in my needless defence, I watch YT vids from my subscription box and the suggested videos of them, and have probably been to AvE's channel page no more than twice before yesterday.

>re-think your words
And if the "check you're privilege" and didn't give you the hint, my words were chosen to be flaky and ill-advised for the purpose of irony.

>> No.1217650

>>1214932

I dnno man, his teardowns are starting to become a little stale.

>> No.1217652

>>1215862

The canadians are ahead of the rest

>> No.1217657

>>1217650
Because he's done so many that they're all the same. Now I'd like to see him do something like the EEVblog forum's multimeter comparison chart, where he and his subscribers make a spreadsheet that show the specifications of all variety of cordless and corded power tools.

>> No.1217665

>>1214894
You'll understand when you're older that he really doesn't know so much. Not hating. He's pretty good at making vijeos.

>> No.1217666

>>1214894
Condense days of hobbying into a short video and you too can look like a genius polymath.

>> No.1218357

>>1214894
It seems he don't know much about machining but still fun to watch
>That one vid where he lathe out the collet popper on ER collet ring

>> No.1219133

>>>/b/740604060

>> No.1219960

>>1214933
Or more fuckery in general.

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>>1217647
>A summerfag is
>solidly contributing
>needless defence
>"check you're privilege"
>irony
pls go and stay go, summer

>> No.1220168

>>1220013
>he's a witch!
>if he floats in the water then he's a witch
>if he drowns then he isn't
I wonder.

>> No.1220174

>>1214894
I'd say he probably has experience from industry

>> No.1220177

>>1214894
Doesn't he smoke?

Smokers are jokers.

Smokers are jokers!

SMOKERS ARE JOKERS!

>> No.1220290

>>1220177
>Doesn't he smoke?
I think he used to.

>> No.1220423

He knows the intermediate stuff but he is mediocre machinist.

>> No.1221006

>>1219133
wuts this

>> No.1221067

>>1221006
A link to a /b/ thread:
https://t()hebar()chive.com/b/thre()ad/7406()04060/
Definitely not SFW, it's in the realm of self genital mutilation. You have been warned.

>> No.1221249

Ignore the jealousfags. He's a certified genius, a true renaissance man.

>> No.1221259

>>1215663
>A FUCKING LEAF

>> No.1221610

>>1221067
>literal dick in a vise
that's skookum as frig, partner

>> No.1221945

He is usually close to the mark with machining and materials but is pretty mediocre in electronics and design. Still watch him though.

>> No.1222027

>>1217315
>tripfag
filtered

>> No.1222028

>>1217315
Go back to driving off cliffs at 5 mph

>> No.1222033

>>1221945
Machinist here, AvE is funny and resourceful, but he doesn't know anything about machining to be honest. Enough for his little projects but looking at him cutting metal is pretty much a giggle.

>> No.1222050

>>1222033
>but he doesn't know anything about machining to be honest.
he is clearly pretty smart and good at problem solving but fuck i wanted to kill myself from embarrassment watching him try to 'fix' the eccentric retaining ring on a cheap chinese ER collet.

>> No.1222053

>>1222050
That gave me a laugh.

Those rings are there for a reason but honestly the collet will still work without them so nothing of value was lost. Agreed with the rest, I simply meant that I would love to give him a few pointers because watching him cutting metal is again, a slight shitshow. Sure it's an entertaining shitshow that does end up working out in the end, but it's still a shitshow.

>> No.1223211

he just does shit and doesn't spend all days shitposting on 4chan, so he has some practical knowledge. also have in mind some of the stuff he says is complete bullshit, but his confidence makes you believe it's true

>> No.1223238

>>1216898
>Watch numberphile/computerphile and you'll see smart people.
did you try saying it on /sci/?

>> No.1223240

>>1222033
He says he makes the videos for us to have a laugh, who said we can't laugh at him?

>> No.1223245

>>1214894
He's a french canadian and probably voted for Trudeau. He's 100% not /ourguy/

>> No.1223251

ill call him a genius the day he shows us how to do yourself

>> No.1223300

>>1215267
He's a closet Trump supporter. I forget the exact video but he drop's a huge redpill on immigration talking about that Tylenol tampering murders that happened awhile back and saying something to the effect of if you know there's a chance of having one bad pill in a bottle of a lot you don't roll the dice and take your chance you send the shit back.

>> No.1223310

>>1223251
how do i DIY doing myself?

>> No.1223312

>>1214919
He is a dessil and hevy equipment mechanic in the mining industry, of Canada.

I met him at a mine north of yellowknife
He was doing repair on a large genset.
Recognized his voice. Asked if it was him. He said yep.


Told me to keep my dick in a vise.

I was laughed the whole flight home.

>> No.1223314

>>1223312
Does he have a pedo mustache?

>> No.1223317

>>1223314
He had a scruffy face when i saw him. Like he hadnt shaved in a couole of weeks. Kind of normal in a camp.

>> No.1223388

>>1214894
>How the fuck does this guy know so much shit?
That Canuckistani retard is more often wrong than right.
It's just that retards such as yourself can't tell when he's wrong... since you're dumber than him.

>> No.1223410

>>1223238
Just because they're spouting some variety of popsci doesn't mean the guys themselves are stupid, just misguided.

>>1223300
I think he mentioned turning frogs gay, but I guess that's a normie meme now too, eh?

>> No.1224608

>>1214894

Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo.

>> No.1224647

>>1223388
He's also (((civic nationalist))). Fuck him.

>> No.1224709

>>1224647
>civic nationalist
That's already nazi in today's canada.

>> No.1224772

Holy fuck, pol is leaking

>> No.1224808

>>1215849
he lives in some french speaking part of leafland
he works or used to work in some chemical engineering/processing company

>> No.1224860

>>1220290
yeah, ive seen cig smoke drift into frame in a couple of his earlier videos

>> No.1224870

>>1224772
i got some hemp and organic fair trade coconut oil to bung that up, gudentoit

>> No.1224873

>>1217195
>>1217614
>summer
let me guess, you've been here for whole two years and now that's somehow mark of quality

>> No.1224883

>>1215773

Lol what was this?

>> No.1224887

>>1216898

computerphile sucks, most videos are about AI philosophy now

>> No.1225110

>>1224883
>it's deleted
it's over, it's happening

>> No.1225147

>>1224873
>whole two years
its not hard to recall when there was no /diy/, ill leave it at that
>mark of quality
have a (you) and a nice summer

>>1224883
>>1225110
seems like it was staged
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCuh8Dr0npE

>> No.1225183

>>1225147

Old people acting like children tends to appear staged.

>> No.1225205

>>1225147
>club

>> No.1225229

>>1225147
> if you LEAVE then you'll be LEAVING!!!

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>>1224772
>pol

>> No.1225306

>>1223312

I would have thought he was a mechanical engineer

>> No.1225317

>>1225306
>mechanical engineer
>using extruded aluminum profile as a load bearing component
naw, well maybe

>> No.1225452

>>1225306
Doesn't he do prospecting and the like? He's got that gold panning setup, doesn't he?

>> No.1225609

>>1225452
I'm pretty sure that's a hobby

>> No.1227664

>>1217315
Don't you have a cliff to drive off of you dog fucker?

>>1214894
I think a Phd was mentioned in an earlier video

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>>1224772
There's no helping it

>> No.1227921

>>1227665
But how many of the phone-posters are normally desktop posters who, because of those events, decided to put in more posts on the go?

>> No.1228155

i stumbled across this guys channel about a month ago, i just liked the way he threw in random shit and plenty of swearing, also his old man sayings and analogies make me lol irl

>> No.1228191

>>1227921
The same desktop users who joined le gamer gate drumph bandwagon so they can capture Shia's flag IRL

>> No.1228252

Man, that Juicero video was incredible.

>> No.1228377

>>1228252
>tfw Juicero had ball bearings bigger than my industrial lathe

>> No.1228591

>>1228377
Bigger BBs aren't necessarily better.

>> No.1228610

>Bigger BBs aren't necessarily better.

sure, keep telling yourself that if if makes you sleep better at night.

>> No.1228647

>>1228610
>>1228591
Size doesn't matter, it's how you use it

>> No.1229207

> boona-end o-ring

what did he mean by this?

>> No.1229209

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrile_rubber

"Buna-N"

>> No.1229775

> in his latest video he drops acid

lol

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>>1228647
There's no replacement for displacement.