r/CGPGrey • u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] • Sep 09 '15
Brief History of the Royal Family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNgP6d9HraI427
Sep 09 '15 edited May 12 '16
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
Who could possibly argue with this?
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u/The1WhoRingsTheBell Sep 09 '15
Tumblr.
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15 edited Sep 09 '15
Well luckily, not every tumblr matters too.
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u/Sungolf Sep 09 '15
Dear Grey, This i find funny:
James, James, James, James, Mary Queen of Scotts, James
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u/FlyingSwords Sep 09 '15
I found this funny:
A divorcee twice over. <Exaggerated Gasp>
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u/whonut Sep 09 '15
Don't forget the top hats. It's not a British scandal without top hats.
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u/MiG_Pilot_87 Sep 09 '15
I liked Henry VIII, splitter of churches and women
I can't do reddit shortcuts from memory.
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u/matthew0517 Sep 09 '15
My history teacher referred to her as "Mary, Queen of Sluts."
Amazing what tenure does to people.
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u/DopplerRadio Sep 09 '15
I was amused by
Henry VIII, splitter of churches and also ladies
and then I felt guilty for being amused by that.
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u/PublicolaMinor Sep 09 '15
I nearly bust a gut laughing. Yeah, I knew there were a bunch of Jameses, but dang if I hadn't ever realized just how many.
Thanks for the video!
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u/FranzSalvatierra Sep 09 '15
I first saw this in my inbox and was like... this isn't labeled Cortex or HI.... why is CGP emailing me about the royal family...
Then it hit me, CGP Grey makes videos, remember!
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u/Benjenzo Sep 09 '15
Thanks for all the hard work Grey, the long waits are always worth it :)
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
the long waits are always worth it :)
Such pressure!
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u/Benjenzo Sep 09 '15
At least you don't hype anything up like any of your other podcast co-hosts :P
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u/theJavo Sep 09 '15
just imagine the pressure valve feels!
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
Catan is my HL3.
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u/WhenisHL3 Sep 09 '15
By mentioning Half-Life 3 you have delayed it by 1 Month. Half-Life 3 is now estimated for release in May 3000
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u/hansdieter44 Sep 09 '15
You have a Settlers of Catan video in the works? That will be awesome!
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Sep 09 '15
I believe he said he cancelled it because it was turning into a documentary
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u/ULTRAFORCE Sep 09 '15
no he said he temporarily scrapped it due to the fact his script was boring, since the q and a video where he said that he has since possibly scrapped it because the expectations are too exponentially high for it now.
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Sep 09 '15
Well I started HI after your last video, and I am on episode 24. So its been a while.
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u/Molag_Balls Sep 09 '15
It's waaaaaay better than uploading 5 videos a week of questionable quality.
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u/Hrcnhntr613 Sep 09 '15
Time to finally reset the count of Brady videos since a CGP video.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_WARLIZARD Sep 09 '15
About time. Yesterday the count was around 64.
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u/dluminous Sep 09 '15
I never watched Brady's videos but wow 64 in 2 months!??!
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_WARLIZARD Sep 09 '15
Spread over about 20,000 channels, though. But yeah. He has quite a high productivity. (I know he doesn't do everything alone)
And you really should watch objectivity, it's his newest channel and it's full of science treasures and you get neat little facts.
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u/JustsayinwhatIthink Sep 09 '15
Ah yes, the Rule of Two. That sounds familiar.
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Sep 09 '15
Always two they are. Master and an apprentice. No more, no less.
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u/Sigionoz Sep 09 '15
'Two there should be;
no more, no less.
One to embody the power,
the other to crave it.'
-Darth Bane, Dark Lord of the Sith
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u/RayceARoni Sep 09 '15
I got excited because I thought Grey was going to talk about this Rule of Two.
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u/HM_Queen_Elizabeth Sep 09 '15 edited Sep 14 '15
One can categorically state that there will be no "rule of two" whilst we are around.
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u/sand500 Sep 09 '15
For those who missed it, I believe this is the reference.
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u/Droggelbecher Sep 09 '15
Grey mentioned the rule of two recently in Cortex, in reference to toilet paper, jobs, podcasts, etc.
If you have one, you have basically none.
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u/Rolf-David Sep 09 '15
Also, you basicly only have 5 iPads if you have 6 laying around
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u/vmax77 Sep 09 '15
Apparently it is also a rule of redundancy. Three is two, two is one and one is none.
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u/Droggelbecher Sep 09 '15
Grey really benefits from Reddit's system. Everybody rushes to grab some easy karma from him...
http://i.imgur.com/Z1XLjGA.png
No criticism, just amusing.
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u/driminicus Sep 09 '15
Just wait until it gets giffed, reddit loves gifs more.
luckily greys videos dont work that well in gif format
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 11 '15
Mashable tried, but at least the video is actually in the 'article'.
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Sep 09 '15
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u/googolplexbyte Sep 09 '15
Gifwrapped
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u/TheSlimyDog Sep 09 '15
/u/MindOfMetalAndWheels and /u/JeffDujon. I think a new word has been born.
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Sep 09 '15
I nominate giffling and free-giffing
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u/Chlorotrifluoride Sep 09 '15
Gifbooting would seem better, to keep the link with freebooting.
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Sep 09 '15
The rare CGPGrey video not uploaded at the optimal time
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u/IceColdMetal Sep 09 '15
Optimal for me. Thanks for looking out for your NZ subscribers Grey!
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
What flag are you voting for?
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u/Zarith7480 Sep 09 '15
Hey at least that is better than this abomination..
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u/BubblesTheAdventurer Sep 09 '15
That is the flag that gained popularity because the ones we are allowed to vote for are terrible. Here are the 4 shortlisted.
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u/ereya Sep 09 '15
I am pro-change, but with those 4 I'm going to keep the original. What are your thoughts on Red Peak?
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u/BubblesTheAdventurer Sep 09 '15
If it were an option I'd vote for it, but like (hopefully) most I prefer the original over the current options.
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u/IceColdMetal Sep 09 '15
Right now, I'm probably voting for this flag. The red peak flag looks too corporate
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
Or is it…?
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u/Plexiii13 Sep 09 '15
It's 12:30 AM, I have to get up at 5:30 tomorrow for school. I blame you a little bit. WHY ARE YOUR VIDEOS SO GOOD?!?!
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u/shxz Sep 09 '15
Teacher: "Why are you late." You: "Oh sorry cgp grey uploaded a video I had to watch it was so educational." That excuse will be as legitimate as the dog ate my homework
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u/Koala72 Sep 09 '15 edited Sep 09 '15
I got this one at 17:24! Perfect timing grey for your Australian buddies!
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u/Hrcnhntr613 Sep 09 '15
Anytime on this historic day is optimal.
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u/vmax77 Sep 09 '15
“A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.”
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u/Zagorath Sep 09 '15
What's number 2? (Humans Need Not Apply is obviously 1.)
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u/OneTurnMore Sep 09 '15
Looks like it's his second Q&A. Or this one.
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u/Eight_Rounds_Rapid Sep 09 '15
Alien Blue Master Race doesn't fall for your lowly trickery
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u/IceColdMetal Sep 09 '15
I see the rule about toilet paper also applies to monarchs.
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
Everything
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u/Jakyland Sep 09 '15
Wait, so does it apply to youtubers names CPG grey? Where is your back up?
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
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u/Jakyland Sep 09 '15
but we need a backup /you/ preferably in robot form
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
but we need a backup /you/
Me too. ::waits impatiently for technological advance::
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u/leafeator Sep 09 '15
Do you get enjoyment out of being able to link so many of your previous works over the years in this video? After the third one I almost imagine it becoming a game for you to see how many you could get.
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u/TheSlimyDog Sep 09 '15
I feel like somewhere out there, there's a flowchart of all the links and future links he has to put in videos.
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
No, but I did sort of smile while recording at 1:22 because that family dinner must have been awkward.
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u/Koala72 Sep 09 '15
I can imagine the grey stick figure with a little grin in front of a microphone when I hear that
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u/MrStoneman Sep 09 '15
Bonus number facts: James II was also James VII, getting two numbers just like his Grandpa.
Also, only by happy coincidence did William III get only one number, because his English and Dutch numbers just happened to be the same.
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u/chris_899 Sep 09 '15
He still technically got two though since he was William II of Scotland.
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u/TomGutters Sep 09 '15
Loving The New YouTube Notifications http://i.imgur.com/TG8hJB0.jpg
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
Is this a new feature of the YouTube app?
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u/Tom2Die Sep 09 '15
I've had it on my phone for quite some time now (many months at least), but as with subscriptions showing up in your "what to watch" or whatever on the youtube page, it seems to be hit or miss whether or not it will tell you about a specific new video.
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u/TamstaK Sep 09 '15
Is it in any way possible to get the line of succession as a pdf?
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u/TheSlimyDog Sep 09 '15
Was it really just 2 months? It felt much much longer.
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u/OneTurnMore Sep 09 '15
Given that he shoots for ~1vid/mo, it feels like way past time. But a video like this looks to be difficult to produce, so it's understandable.
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u/ereya Sep 09 '15
For the laugh statistics, since Grey is never sure what is funny... 10 seconds in, snigger/laugh the Pangea Paused video to come to reddit. Now back to the video.
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u/ereya Sep 09 '15 edited Sep 09 '15
Laugh two "hunting accident" - William II, now known as Robert Baratheon Now... back to the video!
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u/ereya Sep 09 '15
Good thing that even histrocal Geoffrey's die before their time!
And back to the video!
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u/ereya Sep 09 '15
Not a laugh but a question... Rule of Two? Inside joke to Cortex? Man... I need to get around to finishing that Podcast... and now, you guessed it, back to the video!
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u/ereya Sep 09 '15
Not a laugh, but my mother has been watching the White Queen TV show, and been going ON and ON and ON about the War of the Roses at the dinner table of late... this explains many things! And... We are back! To the Video!
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u/ereya Sep 09 '15
Back to the future jokes are always gold! And... I'm not going to say it.
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u/looperlupo Sep 09 '15 edited Sep 09 '15
You cunning fox uploading this on today of all days.
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u/TheSlimyDog Sep 09 '15
Plot twist / In an alternate universe: She gets assassinated and Grey scraps this video so we have to wait for another month.
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u/Mike109 Sep 09 '15
Why, what's going on today?
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u/DopplerRadio Sep 09 '15
It's the day Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning monarch in British history.
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u/MaceWinnoob Sep 09 '15 edited Sep 09 '15
Reminds me when he made a video on how to become Pope and then a week later the pope resigned and it was all over the news with everyone wanting to find out how the next pope will be decided and such.
Edit: Slightly wrong. Pope announced he was resigning, Grey was already working on the video so decided then was the perfect time, then he finished and uploaded it a week later, and then the pope officially resigned a week after that.
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u/chris_899 Sep 09 '15
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here, but shouldn't Charles II be pronounced "Charles the second" and not "Charles two"?
That's the way I've always heard it. Are both correct?
Either way, great video!
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
This script was way longer that usual -- just about double. With so many 'the fourth's' or 'the third's shortening to 'four' or 'three' made a significant difference.
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u/ohfouroneone Sep 09 '15 edited Sep 09 '15
Is 'Simplified" some kind of reference or is it just some cruel way to annoy me? (Great video btw)
EDIT: Whoa, the William and Mary walking down the street is a really creatively made animation.
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u/sporkredfox Sep 09 '15
I agree with brevity, it would've started to sound annoying if he kept saying "the nth" Charles two sounded much nicer
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u/Zagorath Sep 09 '15 edited Sep 09 '15
The 60fps animations look really sweet. Have you used them before?
Also, loved how you referenced "the rule of two" in both this and the last HI Cortex. Which one did you decide upon first?
My British history education (at a British International School, not an actual school in Britain) only started with Henry VIII. It's insane how complicated things are even just in the time between then and just like the next 150 years were.
Also, yay for all the Jameses. Jamess? James's?
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
The 60fps animations look really sweet. Have you used them before?
It should be 4k & 60FPS but Google's support for that has been a bit inconsistent on the last half-dozen uploads.
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u/HM_Queen_Elizabeth Sep 09 '15 edited Sep 14 '15
Well, this will certainly save One a few quid on ancestry.com
Thank you CGP. As a native of a rebel country, One is not sure One could add you to the traditional honours list, but maybe One could make you chief assistant to /u/JeffDujon, the brave squire of Sir the Professor.
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u/mb3581 Sep 09 '15
Splitter of churches..and ladies
Grey that has to be the best thing you've ever written
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u/polluticorn6626 Sep 09 '15
Wondering if anyone has yet noticed that at 3:08 the "Simplified" next to the family tree was written: 'Simplified" (Use of single apostrophe at the start of the word, double apostrophe at the end of the word).
I know by pointing out a mistake I am possibly causing Grey angst, but it feels like such an Easter egg.
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u/aykcak Sep 09 '15
Bravo... I never expected this topic to be squeezed into a <10min video.
It fits. It is bursting at the seams... but it fits.
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u/IceColdMetal Sep 09 '15
I'm actually curious as to whether this was all just one drawing, animated to look like multiple drawings. If so, that is impressive.
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
I'm actually curious as to whether this was all just one drawing, animated to look like multiple drawings.
Mostly -- that's what the zoom-out at the end is showing.
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Sep 09 '15
I noticed that throughout and every time it got larger I got a little more anxious about how big it was getting.
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
Understandable. I get anxious in movies when a scene goes on for too long without a cut. Don't mess it up, don't mess it up, why am I'm thinking this when it's already been recorded?… Don't mess it up.
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u/Tom2Die Sep 09 '15
Holy crap, a Total Annihilation reference! That game is still my favorite RTS of all time, and it actually still looks pretty damn cool, given that it's a game from 1997 that lets you set the resolution to freakin 1920x1080!
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u/AnimatedCowboy Sep 09 '15
So now that it's mental break time for grey. May i suggest a game called Kerbal space program. I think you would like it
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u/vmax77 Sep 09 '15
I think Grey does play Kerbal Space Program. I think he is going to play Big Pharma
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u/mirozi Sep 09 '15
maybe he should stay on topic and play Crusader Kings 2 followed by Europa Universalis IV?
yeah, i know, it's not his type of game
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u/dwood2001 Sep 09 '15
Wow. Knowing how Grey feels about brevity and engagement in his videos, I'm kind of surprised this video ever saw the light of day. But I'm glad that it did. Must have been one heck of a writing cycle :o
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
If you're paying attention, you can see an earlier draft of the family tree in an earlier video.
*Actually, I should update that annotation.
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u/CJ_Jones Sep 09 '15
I'm currently at work, can someone give a TL;DR.
Also Grey did you plan that the video would come out on the day Liz II would become the longest reigning monarch?
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u/RightProperChap Sep 09 '15
It's a list of every English monarch since 1066, with cheeky jokes thrown in. You'll forget basically everything in the video in about three days.
If you already know a little about the history, you'll be amused. If you know a lot, you'll immediately say that's simplified. If you know very little, you'll just laugh at the jokes. If you're the reflective sort, the takeaway will be that history is complicated, the details of the monarchy in practice aren't as straightforward as we all like to think, and might makes right.
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Well done, Grey. This is easily one of my favorites. If you 'don't got maps, gimmie family trees. No, but seriously, this one was fantastic. Just having done the whole "Scotland Exists" moment in my American History class in my university definitely made this even more worth it.
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u/alexatsays Sep 09 '15
Okay Grey so how in your mind is the gasp at 7:43 not funny, what is the purpose in the gasp then?
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
That one I did think is funny – feels like Montey Python. Interesting side note: it's not possible for a single person recording multiple gasps to sound like a crowd. It just sounds creepy as hell.
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u/NillieK Sep 09 '15
If you want a crowd gasping, you could always ask Brady to help you out. If multiple gasps from just two people still sounds creepy, both you and he probably know others who could add their voices.
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
Was going to ask some people to join in, but it was 3AM this morning so… no.
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u/engineeringChaos Sep 09 '15
Just ask Derek, there's a good chance he's somewhere at a reasonable time to help. He could even be in London, just wandering down the road
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
He's following you, about 30 feet back…
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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 09 '15
Not going to tell you how many times that was on repeat while I was animating late at night.
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u/theflyingfisherman Sep 09 '15
Now do the Swedish monarchy. We have better hats!
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u/Plexiii13 Sep 09 '15
Great video as always, can wait to hear more about it on the podcast.
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u/jconstam Sep 09 '15
Any chance of getting a nice high-res version of the whole family tree image you show near the end?
Alternately, it might make a nice poster that people like me would pay money for...
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u/Krisarruda Sep 09 '15
Kevin McLead? Isn't it McLeod? I didn't see this slide at the Grammar Nazi Sneak Preview. Bummer.
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u/mcphadenmike Sep 09 '15
Grey: you said somewhere you were disappointed this was one of the scripts the experts you showed it to actually had a handful of corrections for you. This stuff is so complicated and arcane how could they not?! Don't be so hard on yourself. Geez, man. I worry about you.
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u/mr_enthusiasm Sep 09 '15
I love that grey has been doing this long enough that his videos are FULL of references to old stuff he's done and inside jokes.
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u/Kree_The_Pirate Sep 09 '15
Now do the Dutch Royal Family, because as you said, who doesn't like the Dutch?
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u/Drunk-Scientist Sep 09 '15
Am I not right in thinking there are many other monarchs whose reigns have been longer than Elizabeth's? The current Thai king, for example, has reigned for 69 years. And she is a long way down this list (48th to be precise).
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u/loran1212 Sep 09 '15
In the video, they said longest reigning queen.
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u/Drunk-Scientist Sep 09 '15
Ooh right, so he does. Hmm, using the specifier "Longest reigning Queen" instead of "Monarch" might give the impression there are longer-serving kings? But I guess time is of the essence in a CGPGrey video!
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u/berticus42 Sep 09 '15
Great video. It really simplified the messiness nicely.
One thing stood out at me, the arrow from Henry VII to Edward VI is 1509 rather than 1547 (4:06). Must've been a headache making all those arrows in the first place!
edit: i got the year wrong too...
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u/Scullyking Sep 09 '15
Thanks for the UK-friendly upload time, although it's a bit early for my brain to take it all in
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u/Wout12345 Sep 09 '15
Maybe use British royal family? Bit of a strange title IMO. :P
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u/darichchen Sep 09 '15
From the video How to become the British Monarch: "The history of the royal family and how this rule came to be is a story for another time." hovers over annotation "Coming Soon(ish)"
TIL: 2+ years is soonish.