Yeah, I think it’s just the aesthetic that is a problem for me. A lot of auto-generated YouTube content has a very similar vibe.
TAS snake 
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Full documentary on the making of Labyrinth
This video is surprisingly hilarious.
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Fun thread about baby names in 2020 in the UK.
I like the end:
Nigel just needs that helping hand, and it’ll be back in vogue.
I mean what a future, listening to Judas Priest and all.
Okay, this may seem incredibly rude, but I always found that “Nigel” and “Piers” are incredibly pretentious names. They are the names that parents give their children if they are rich and want everyone else to know that they’re rich. It also doesn’t help that the two most famous people with these names, last name Farage and Morgan respectively, are completely horrible people.
Ted Lasso but it’s Batman
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If only I had the tools to build more tools…
If only I had money for tools…
If only I had money…
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So for this thing of the day ONLY watch it if you have played and completed the witness. MAJOR SPOILERS otherwise.
It is a follow up to that one recording that took many people a long time to find/get.
Depending on where you live a used lathe of decent size can be picked up for 1-2k USD which is, for a machine tool, rather affordable. In Europe it likelly isn’t that different? It’ll take some effort to degrease and such most likely but all doable in short order. There probably would be some work required to true it all up again depending on how beat up it was.
Building one DIY is epic and certainly must be patience testing and time consuming. But the process of solving and executing the job is the point, there’s no time and barely any money saved. (Unless there’s just zero supply of used machines locally)
The use of a grinding wheel to form the ways is pretty sweet. Overall really cool!
Yeh, that’s what amazed me. How relatively easy it was to get to a working machine without having to do any scraping or surface plate readings.
It almost makes mass manufactured products appear overpriced.
Well, that’s the thing - Lathes, as machine tools go, are pretty much the simplest precision machine tool in the shop, and can be made without precision tools. You can then make a more precise lathe using that lathe, and so on.
You can make a decently precise lathe with nothing more than hand tools, and a little smarts - in fact, the first lathe ever discovered was found in Ancient Egypt(Operated by two people, and hand-powered), and the first relatively modern lathes(operated by a single person, with hands free) dates back to the middle ages, where they would have treadles and pulleys to spin a flywheel, along with horse powered lathes with bigger flywheels, used for manufacturing larger objects like cannons for the revolutionary war. The first truly modern lathes came about in the industrial revolution with the steam engine, and it was not a matter of precision, but of power.
It also comes down to precision reference surfaces - but those are easier to come by than you think, especially with the invention of the Whitworth three-plate method in the 1830s, where with a series of alternating lapping passes, you can actually take three stone plate(usual granite) and use them to make incredibly precise reference surfaces, which then allow you to transfer that precision over to other objects.
In fact, reference surfaces made with exactly that process are a big part of what enabled us generally and Whitworth specifically to create the first device capable of measuring in millionths of an inch.