[isbjorn16]

or, conversely, turn them off before it starts and try to figure out what he's doing and why. then when it's done, turn the captions on and watch it again!

our living room turns into bedlam when we do this. everyone shouting what is about to happen or why it's happening and we're almost always wrong. it's great!

[pangolinja]

I like going into t mobile stores and changing the loud TV channels to primitive technology. it's beautiful to see the whole place calm down.

[tomcam]

I wish I had as much energy as you

[pangolinja]

I like going into t mobile stores and changing the loud TV channels to primitive technology. it's beautiful to see the whole place calm the fuck down.

[SV_BubbleTime]

So... Maybe in the way back of my brain I knew there were subtitles, but there is a good chance I'm just now learning about this.

I think I've been watching these randomly since the beginning just trying to figure out what he's doing. I thought that was the game here!

[skeaker]

It's been a long time since I've seen anything from his channel, but I recall that he would put out blog posts explaining the processes shown in the videos too.

[tomashubelbauer]

I think the blog is dead: https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com

The video descriptions and the pinned comment are also really information dense though.

And John Plant, the guy running Primitive Technology, has published a book, which I've not read but could be of interest to people who like this kind of content and would like more of it in the text form.

[mlambie]

My 10yr old son enjoys the book a lot!

[kbenson]

Not entirely sure why you appear to be shadowbanned (nothing looked egregious in a quick scan of past comments), so I vouched for this comment so it shows for people that don't have showdead on.

Maybe it's that most your comments are very short and single sentences and it's triggering some automated system looking spam as a false positive? Maybe it's worth being slightly more verbose in replies for a while, in case that's it. I assume if you get enough people vouching for comments the ban reverses itself, but I don't really know. You could also email hn and ask why.

[ArcticCelt]

So many people learn that there is subtitles through the comments section after many years of watching all his videos, probably because the videos are so enjoyable even without the explanations.