OddballGreg - 10 Humorously Strange YouTube Videos

This adorable still was taken from here. It's impossible to not feel happy when you see this fluffy critter.

Sometimes, I spend my days doing productive things like learning how to make games, or learning how to design websites, or learning how to write better blogposts. Other days I watch ridiculous video's on YouTube and wonder why I haven't gotten anything done?

So, naturally, I'd make a blog post about the things that made me not write a blog post. Makes sense right? (Of course it does.) So without further ado, here are 10 Humorously Strange YouTube videos that I think are worth mentioning for some reason.

1. "Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing On Rainbows" by FluffyMixer

This one should be obvious if you're a long time reader of the TCSA blog. Why? Because I have a massive Unicorn obsession for no apparent reason, and find this song extremely adorable. Few things are as effective at brightening my mood as this rather strange song is.

2. "[SFM] Off Limits" by an0nymooose

You ever have those moments of pure: "What the hell did I just witness?" This extremely strange video made with the Source Filmmaker left me in a state of open-mouthed stupor before cracking up into a laugh that clearly dictated just how strange this video is. As they say: "Boredom Kills."

3. "asdfmovie" by TomSka

Technically a series of video's rather than just one, the asdfmovie's have done several things, not the least made me question my sanity as well as that of my friends as we continue to quote these infernally odd skit's, years after we first saw them. If you like strange people, simply say "Hello Mine Turtle" to people when you meet them. If they reply "Hello" in a squeaky voice, they are probably fairly odd.

4. "Defuse On The Fly CS:GO [SAXXY 2014]" by Deviant Picture Films

This one makes the list for taking what seems like a completely serious setting and making it completely ridiculous without you realizing it. Counter Strike matches typically involve the terrorists placing the bomb at the site and defending it. The mental process that must have gone into: "What if we put the bomb... on a chicken?" is surely a wonder to behold.

5. "GUNMAN STYLE - (ASIAN WESTERN PARODY)" by Jervey Hou

Gunman Style? That doesn't sound similar to any hit YouTube song releases by South Korean pop stars from 2012 does it? If it does, I can't remember. Of course, Asian cowboys and blue eyed Ninja's brawling to a western themed parody of Gangnam Style is already funny, but when you have water pistol gunfights and dramatic self-sacrifice by fake-mustache wearing teddy bears, this get some what strange quickly.

6. "Dot Dot Dot (Official Video HD)" by Ricepirate

Perhaps only humorous if you've ever seen the Newgrounds comment section, this particular video was made due, from what I can gather at any rate, due to the maker laughing hysterically at the awful grammar of a strangely outraged gamer who seemed disgusted at the features of one of the game submissions. In any case, Ricepirate's delivery is sure to have you laughing as you question why on earth someone would bother getting so worked up over a free game.

7. "Neg's Urban Sports: Urban Sprinting" by Silmano

While technically not the property of Silmano, I'm pretty sure if someone had a problem with this video being on YouTube they'd have said something. (Which they haven't, since it's been on YouTube longer than I have.) Copyright aside, one probably questions just how bored you have to be to intentionally make mall-cops chase you in the name of Urban Sports. Or trying to smoke as quickly as possible before a bouncer chucks you out of the non-smoking establishment. Or just acting like a complete mong to make someone move away from somewhere. (Those are some of the other Urban Sports from "Neg") Either way, it's pretty funny to watch him try.

8. "Team Fortress 2: Heavy sing Baby(Feat. Scoutacris)" by Reznov's Channel

Hey, I heard some Canadian kid did a cover of this song. (Teehee) Jokes at Mister Beaver *cough* Bieber's expense aside, anyone familiar with the Team Fortress 2 characters will likely find this rendition of Baby strangely amusing.

9. "How To Use a Public Restroom" by Schmoyoho

Ever made a friend in a public restroom? Me neither, but apparently it happens... musically, with woman in the male restroom trying to access the Wi-Fi while the uncomfortable visitor sings about the bathroom's acoustics. Quite simply, this s*** is weird. It's also oddly funny in that: "No bloody way" sort of way.

10. "The Assumption Song - Oney Cartoons" by OneyNG

A song I remember from back when I was in Primary school, this song is a guaranteed corruption o' meter for your mind. Do you know what comes next? If so, then this song is probably going to be stuck in your head for a while as you giggle mischievously at just how hard the creator tried to make the innuendo's obvious. 

Of course, there are probably thousands more absolutely strange and funny videos on YouTube that you probably (hopefully?) think are worth mentioning. If so, do be sure to let us know down in the comments below, or via Facebook/Twitter. We here at TCSA love to hear your feedback. And of course, if you enjoy finding out about awesome stuff on the web and world then do please be sure to like the Official TCSA Facebook page and/or follow us on Twitter using the associated buttons on the bar to the left to get all the latest posts as they're published. Also, do be sure to share posts you enjoyed with your friends as it helps us out a great deal. Regardless of what you do, I thank you for having taken the time to read this post; hope that you have/had an absolutely FANTASTIC day, and I will speak again soon.

Enjoy the videos my friends.

OddballGreg - The Necessity Of Contrast

Black and white are the most common contrasts you'll hear about. Ironically they just serve as the basis of the metaphor.

In a world filled with so many doubts, one might wonder why it is precisely that our world is so precariously based upon choice and options rather than definitive fact. Why can we die? Why do we live? Why is there dark and what is light? The answer is a strangely apt one: Contrast.

The other day, an interesting question cropped up from one of my friends on Facebook, in which he asked: "If the speed of light is c, what is the speed of dark?" While his reason for defining the speed of light as "c" remains unbeknownst to me, I had, of course, learned some interesting things about the way the universe works from my ever-mentioned favorite YouTube channel for all things Science or otherwise; Vsauce. 

The video I referenced is below, but essentially, I made the argument that "C < Dark". Which is to say, Dark is faster than the speed of light. Why? Consider for a moment that light moves at the speed of light, while dark is simply present wherever light is not. Switch off a flashlight in a dark room and the change of illumination is not gradual, but rather instantaneous as dark fills the room at a speed faster than we can perceive with our naked eye.

The reason for this is not that dark is faster than light per se, more a technicality in that it appears to fill space faster than light according to our perception of the situation. What is in fact happening is that once the light source is removed, there is simply nothing left to perceive and so we see darkness. Essentially, darkness is a lack of information, which is interesting since physics dictates that information cannot move faster than light; and light is technically information in the form of moving photons refracting off of surfaces and molecules to produce colours. So what happens when you switch your flashlight off is that you are simply eradicating the presence of information, and darkness fills the information-less zone that was lit up.

But, why then, you may ask, does darkness exist? Shouldn't everything be information, including the darkness itself? While that would be an interesting paradigm, it would be an unrealistic one. Consider the act of swimming. In order to do so, you need to in something that provides you with the buoyancy needed to move like that. A medium, much like the paints and canvas of an artist. Well, in similar vein, darkness is the medium in which light becomes apparent to us.

Which brings us to the axiom of this article's subject. The Necessity of Contrast.  Without a contrasting medium, something cannot be perceived due to it's lack of comparison. (Veritably incomprehensible, at least to the human mind.) Think about anything. Life, Air, Children, Fire, Evil... all of these things have a definable contrast which allows us to define them. Life and Death, Air and Space, Children and Adults, Fire and Ice, Good and Evil. These things all have some definable contrast that allows us to subject them to comparison and comprehension. They are each other's mediums against which they can be shown to the world.

Imagine a world without Evil: could any act be defined as good? Not really. Without a comparison, those acts would simply be acts, devoid of moral definition. A world without Death would be a world without life, and without Adults, children would simply be people, as we could not define them as anything else. Existence itself is not only based on contrast, but justified by it. We live, to die, and there is death so that we can live. People are cruel so that others can be kind, and fire burns so that ice can freeze. (Though those last two technically have more than a single contrast if you're into the whole earthly elements paradigm.)

In any case, I'm sure that this article has given you a very interesting new perspective on the world, or at least made you want to yell at me about your counterargument. If so, do be sure to let us know down in the comments below, or via Facebook/Twitter. We here at TCSA love to hear your feedback. And of course, if you enjoy finding out about awesome stuff on the web and world then do please be sure to like the Official TCSA Facebook page and/or follow us on Twitter using the associated buttons on the bar to the left to get all the latest posts as they're published. Also, do be sure to share posts you enjoyed with your friends as it helps us out a great deal. Regardless of what you do, I thank you for having taken the time to read this post; hope that you have/had an absolutely FANTASTIC day, and I will speak again soon.

Think carefully my friends.