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  • That vending machine idea is reeeeeaaasallllyyy good

  • pause at 0:07 :P

  • Hank, this is the future calling, they have made those time lapse cameras, with both still frame and recording capabilities. I know game and wildlife guys in Florida use them to try and find invasive (sp?) species, like pythons and iguanas.

  • but i still like busyness too.

  • I'm curious as to where you were in Maine... and you should come back sometime! Specifically to where I live - there's internet here.

    Maine is awesome.

  • I live in South Berwick, Maine, and we have internaet, tv, and tons of other stuff. I like being cut off from most of civilization, it brings you closer to nature. I live 7 miles from town, but we have a dunkin dougnuts, pizza places, a mini supermarket, and even an eyeglass place. If you want to see a busier spot, check out Portland, Maine.

  • They have those camera type things for hunters, only instead of time-lapse, they're motion-activated. You could possibly break into one and make that edit, Hank.

  • thumbs up about the internetless spaz attack!

  • hey I love maine!!!! There is plenty of cool stuff there, but the further north you go the stuff there is going to be. I guess americans just weren't interested in colonizing the northern half of maine, too much snow in the winter?

  • ok i have lived in maine for my entire life and it is not nearly as boring as you made it out to be! maine is awesome! we have lots of things to do unless you are up to Aroostook then you are in the middle of no where but down on the coast where i live its really nice! and we have internet and phones and stuff

  • That was my life for 4 years.

  • MAINE IS AMAZING :) :) :) :) I"M FROM MAINE

  • the background just reminds me of The Hunger Games that I'm suffering withdrawal from.

  • Wait, if he has no internet, then how did he upload this video?

  • Don't worry, Hank! I think you are exceptionally finny without the internet. it's sort of like me; I think I'm not funny and I'll say what comes to my mind. Then other people crack up. I ask them why, adn they say it makes whatever I say funnier if I'm not laughing myself. So, yeah. You're funny, Hank. Live with it.

  • Middle of Nowhere, Maine? I think I live about an hour away from there, except we have internet here. XP

  • That nerdfighter lass in the outro was freeking cute. 

  • also, if you're suddenly encountering a larger-than-usual number of authors, clowns, telekinetic teenagers and prison guards and inmates, you're probably in a Stephen King novel and therefore about to die in a gruesome fashion.

  • sometimes I just like to read the tags on these videos... :p

    "internet, maine, brain crack, nature, youtube, community, comlpexity of others"...

  • MAINE!!! I'm from Maine! where in maine were you??

  • Dude, I'd react the same way he did at the beginning of the video if I had no internet, because, as he has previously stated, I was born into the internet X3

  • Buses with vending machines in them do exist... In Israel.

  • Hank, you look freaking cute when you look over your glasses just fyi ;D

  • Sept 14th is my bday!! lol

  • me:uhhh try being in the middle of the ocean with friggen retards for drivers and-

    retarted shipmate:sir what does the flashin g red light that sais self distruct do...im gonna press it

    me;OH SHI-

    *TSAR BOMBA*

  • hey ur crying abou-oh u mean the one in montana nevermind then.

  • we (mainers) arent all hicks. i promise. i really do.

  • More good? Really? BETTER!!!

  • #2 happened!

  • Hank? You just summed up why I'm studying anthropology. = )

  • But Stephen King lives in Maine! D:

  • You must have been in northern maine (it can get crazy up there, but man is it pretty), there clearly needs to be a nerdfighter event in maine. [good perspective soapbox!]

  • The camera thing is already made and my dad has one (sorry hank)

  • I just realised how pretty your eyes are.

  • LOL! Maine's boring. That's why I moved to norcal. xD

  • Meat wasn't ever THAT good for you.

  • I admire you Hank, but Maine has a lot more than plumbing and heating. I'm on the internet right now. My phone has a signal. But Maine is a great place, because in many parts of it there is no connection to civilization. Just man and nature in harmony. But I can understand you are used to your industrialized Montana, but I know you're big on the environment, so I suppose it pleases you that more than 50% of Maine is still forest.

  • @Phlemberg I think Hank was saying that his family's house didn't have internet (nor apparently any place near there), not that the entire state is an anachronism from the 1950s.

  • My best friend does that whining thing you did in the beginning of the video. I thought he was the only one. I was proven wrong today.

  • meat was never good for you ;o)

  • No internet you say?? Stay within 50 miles (East or West) of the highway and you can find internet all over the place....just maybe not public internet. Sorry. :D

  • I love this vlog, despite the lack of internet inspired stuff. :)

  • LOL at the annotation that said "Click here if you don't know what Brain Crack is."

  • Thinking about people complexly is sort of the point of my Sociology degree. lol

  • I am from Maine! (and now am stuck somewhere...not as...erm...rural.) Where were you exactly?

  • they do have magical cameras you can put up and take time lapsed pictures... fyi

  • There are those cameras

    but will only take for like a week

    and the cameras are for taking pictures of endangered animals

    :P

  • xDD

  • I've made plenty of vlogs with the iSight camera. It's always worked well for me, but I'm definitely trying to move away from it just so I can get out and make more dynamic vids.

  • Yeah, we have nothing in Maine. Although I don't know why you have good reception, I never have any. Also I sequel like that when far from the internet.

    Still, lovely here.

  • This video makes me say: I love you, Hank. :) I feel your pain.

  • Wow... That noise you made was epic.

    ...

    Could you do it again?

  • Next time you're in Maine let's collab! :)

  • are you feeling okay?

  • you talk to fast haha

  • Food vending on the bus?

    Bad idea.

    The rest room is always a rocking, rolling, and moisturous mess.

    And cameras on trees?

    Dude, did you ever read 1984?

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  • hey im from mainne

  • @cadon93 Then learn to spell the state's name.

  • what did he say? soap box?

  • You know what, I enjoy taking the oppisite view. The Internet can be a dangerous place. The fact we rely on it isn't always a good thing.

  • you're cute :)

  • Hank... you have developed the art of talking with your hands. I am not sure at what point through your vlog adventure it happened, but I have noticed it recently.

    It can be distracting sometimes. Can we work on that? :D

  • I LOVE your ideas!!!

  • hehe cool video budd, its funny how the cell phones dont work at home but on the road they work great lol, and the thing with the net is this, The things we come to see, as things we "want" to do ,or be, are mearly things we have become accustome with,SORRY MY SPELLING SUCKS what i mean ta say is this anything can become overwhelming or become to much of a burden, but being in the forest with out the net is just as it is,we all make our adictions, keep on havein fun tho budd

  • wats a nerd fighter???

  • If this was the first time I'd seen Hank, I'd swear he was out there guarding his meth lab!

    Slow down man! How can you speak so fast? For those of us not from the U.S., the accent is killer!!  Hahaha!

  • you mean american accent?

  • Yes.

    The- "those of us not from the U.S." comment, and the fact that an American accent is the only accent Hank has, gave me away huh?

    Without a hint of sarcasm, well done me!

  • i live in maine!! =) & we have internet & phones! & movie theatres & coffee shops with internet!!!! =P

  • I live in maine too! :D But maine is indeed a huge blackhole anything north of augusta

  • Beg yours?

  • what a fucking nerd, get a life kyle

  • No internet? Man up.

  • So I'm not sure if I'm remember incorrectly but there is a 4 minute time limit on videos is there not? Cause this one looks like 4:01

  • i live in maine :)

  • Man....your style is exactly like that of Sxephil's...I wish people would drop this kind of editing style. It's getting boring.

  • Maybe you should watch some different videos then. Better yet, you should *make* some videos. Be the change you want to see.

  • But I'm not interested in making videos. I'm interested in watching them instead. Two different things.

  • It is really easy to be a critical spectator.

  • Sure. However, videos here are made to be seen. In other words, to be watched, spectated, etc. No one is making videos here that aren't meant to be seen. My criticism of this video is the lack of originality in a particular aspect of the style. That style is a mimick of SexyPhil's on YouTube and SexyPhil's is a mimick of a style used on certain broadcasted shows on TV. It's not a problem to mimick the style when something else is added to it to make it different.

  • Perhaps your criticism would be valid and more welcomed if the vlogbrothers were just starting out, but after almost three years, I think that they are probably not the most impressionable. And who is to say that it was sxephil that they were influenced by? I think that any references to zefrank are completely justified, as John has confessed his love for ze, and considering ze's popularity when they began.

  • Also, be more constructive with your criticism. If you aren't going to lead the change you want to see, then maybe you should leave some textual suggestions, ways to improve (simply asking someone to stop doing something is generally not useful). Otherwise, I have no choice but to assume that if you were to make videos, you would emulate sxephil.

  • You're jumping to conclusions. I never said that sxephil influenced vlogbrothers. I said vlogbrother's editing style is like sxephil's. That statement does not indicate causation. For sure though, the style started before YouTubers. It started at least in MTV channels or the like (and maybe even before).

  • It sure implies that. "Man....your style is exactly like that of Sxephil's" You don't come right out and say that it is directly an imitation of sxephil, but it doesn't quite imply the inverse, nor could it be assumed from the pejorative nature of your comment combined with the comparison that you think they were similarly influenced. Your call for people to stop on this video indicates that this needs to change, but sxephil can stay.

  • Again, a lot of jumping to conclusions. I have left comments on Sxephil a long time ago (way before discovering this vlogger) about changing his editing style which is an imitation of MTV and the likes.

    Since my statement (the one you refer to in your own comments) neither implies one or the other interpretations you give, it behooves you to then not jump to accusatory statements. It's only logical, since as you say there are other implications.

  • Look, instead of trying to boost your statements with logic which falters because you haven't through them clearly, what I think you want to say to me is this:

    I like this vlogger's style and I don't agree with your criticism. So what if his editing style is also used elsewhere in abundance?

    That, seems to me the essence of what you want to say after I strip the inaccurate accusations. And if that's the case, fine. You say what you want to say.

  • That is a fine summation of my point. I'm glad that we could hammer it out so you could understand me clearly.

  • shut up you pretentious fucktard and stop pretending to know you actually have the faintest clue what you're on about

  • I quote from you, "Otherwise I have no choice but to assume that if you were to make videos, you would emulate sxephi."

    Why? Is sxephil's style the only one around? What about the million other YouTubers who don't have this kind of editing style? Why couldn't I imitate them?

    What I'm pointing out here is you're just jumping to conclusion and what I may or may not do if I made videos. A lot of conjecturing without any basis.

  • If you were to imitate them then you would probably spend more time commenting on their videos and less time trolling the channels you don't enjoy.

  • Hours from the Internet? I live in Maine and have never been anywhere in this state where there isn't Internet, movie theaters, art galleries, and coffee shops. Instead of being a jerk and dissing one of the most naturally diverse states in the country where you'll find some of the nicest people on earth, why don't you put your nerdiness to better use...like maybe finding a way to keep my Vista from crashing all the time!

  • LOL

    I doubt that even Einstein could fix your Vista.

  • Just because you can come up with theories on how energy and the universe work with each other doesn't mean you could know how to turn on a computer.

  • heres an idea..instead of talking to yourself or a camera you try talking to a girl or something

  • He has a wife, you idiot.

  • Seriously, it doesn't take much digging to find out about the Katherine. Also...who are people on youtube talking to if they don't face a camera?

  • Are you fucking serious? This is what is popular on youtube? This is a sign that the world is one step closer to hell.

  • Yea, and we'd probably all be a little better off if everyone on youtube made videos featuring a single still image and a song.

    Stellar user name, by the by.

  • Hank I can live like as if it was the 50's but to be here i would soo need the internet!

  • This guy who made this video obviously missed the point of state of Maine. I grew up in this state and hate to see people dis my state. Get a life you moron.

  • Holy fuck, that was annoying.Going to the Congo to teach Digital media? HOW ABOUT TAKING THEM SOME FUCKING FOOD!!!

  • i just wasted 4 minutes watching some nerdy douche talk about absolutely nothing important.

  • You guys rock. Visit MDI- and announce it.

    I WANT TO SEE YOU GUYS!

  • wow do you fail....

  • Wrong! See the difference between him and Franco is Hank actually uses his youtube fame to help out with charities, and he has musical talent. :D

  • This is such an ill-informed notion.

  • youre in maine huh? watch out for pennywise the clown...:)

  • @ATR108 we watched that in math. and then since we didnt get to finish my friend read the book.

  • nothing that hasn't Ben said before.but not so bad. i like it.

  • this is dumb

  • maine rules

  • OMG, you, are so funny, LMAO! My phone is special too~! I live in Brunswick Maine, lol.

  • Dude!,,,,stop talkin so fast.....youl piss off a moose.........or a squirel......whats that behind you,,?

  • Another pair of boring Youtubers, LiveLavaLive comes in 2nd. :)

  • i think i like ur vlogs more when you don't have internet...

  • "I'm dating a girl from Maine."

    "Bangor?"

    "No, I just met her." [rimshot]

    Okay, that one dates back to Vaudeville...

  • haha nice one!

  • We do have Internet here In Maine. It's actually very beautiful here. But of course you don't have Internet way In the wilderness. Silly :) Our beaches are awesome

  • Your so cool.....

  • I think the vending machine idea is the best one yet, and I thought you explained very well why we don't spend as much time as we should in the worlds of other peole, so good job Hank!

  • I live in Maine. But I'm from U.k. I love Maine. It's fantastic.

  • yeah in maine you dont have internet i could tell you that

  • >:-( You went over 4 minutes, Hank. You must be punished!

  • how can you spend 10 hours a day on the internet/computer!?!

  • Who the hell is John? Is it his camera?

  • John is Hank's brother and co-owner of this channel. They each make vlogs and upload them. Check the links in the sidebar, some will be Hank's, some will be John's.

  • LMAOROFLCOPTER

    Ahh, silly. John is his brother.

  • That's awesome- and I feel you on the Isight cam!!! It's where all of my grainy videoes originate from.

  • both of those are good ideas.....do the work to make um and market them and then you could be one of those people on how'd you get so rich with joan rivers asking you stupid questions about how you made money off random inventions....lol

  • Us Mainers are pretty damn tough. lol. 6 months of winter, a rainy spring, kind of a summer and then sometimes we skip fall and go straight back to winter. I've lived most of my life here in Maine with no running water or electricity but that's simply because we were so poor; not because Maine doesn't have those things. This dude is in the Maine woods... where being internetless is expected but he should be happy the mosquitoes aren't eating him alive.

  • Amen to that. Us Mainers kick ass.

  • thats right! ya we do!

  • Wild Blue you fucking nerd!!

  • COME TO ALBERTA HANK

  • i went to maine once, it didn't have indoor plumbing or hot water, but it was still one of my favorite places i've ever been.

  • you sound like the biggest douche ever

  • Hey, I live in Maine!!! You should come visit me! :D

  • Same here! Also Hank YOUR IN THE MAINE WOODS!!! You can't get it there

  • u went over 4 min

  • Is it just me, or does Hank sound like Ira Glass?

  • Go to portland you would like it

  • i live in maine and it sucks i suggest you leave NOW

  • Well, said. I have lived in both worlds, the "real world" from back in my 1980s-90s childhood and the "virtual world" of now. Two very different things, yet both are as stressful and relaxing. The only thing I note is that in real life it's easier to mentally connect with who you are talking with. Over the internet, you don't get the full experience of who other people are.

  • so you're like a fag, right?

  • ok I think this is probably my favourite (or at least one of my favourite) vlogbrothers videos ever! Sweet ideas... vending machines on public transport... why is that not already done? & the understanding ppl thing... too true its scary! Personally I try to surround myself with a variety of personality types, but there's still so many I don't understand.... Nice work verbalising the thoughts of my mind :-)

  • many of the trains i rode in japan had vending machines on them :) it was awesome!

  • GOTTA THE DONUTS!!

  • Maine=Mississippi+snow

  • what a mongoloid creep dickbag

  • Dude.  The iSight camera is where I live.

  • I really do think everyone is being mean to poor Hank. Really, people 1 second over the time limit? D:

    I thought this was nerdfighters. Fight for awesome; not punishments.

  • He was visiting family, pay attention.

  • Someone who's visiting family in Maine...

  • okay woah woah woah woah....

    MAINE IS FUCKING AWESOME

    AND I RARLEY USE THAT WORD

    IF YOU MESS WITH MAINE, YOU MESS WITH ME

    yeah this was a comment response to a major dick who has CLEARLY never been to Maine

    hi Hank! love you and your videos!

  • havent you read stephen kings long walk? maine is the worst state of the entire walk! go go garratty! maines own!

  • Hey, I'm in Maine and we're just as technilogically advanced as any other state. We all (at least here in southern Maine) have phone, internet, and cable, and we DO have stuff to do. We even have our own baseball team. Go Sea-Dogs!!

  • The guy in this video should join the Army! Yes I'm being dead serious

  • 1. calling Hank a faggot is verry rude and inaccurate.

    2. no.

  • you mean, like leaving insulting comments on videos all day? oh yeah, he should totally spend his time as intelligently as you do, rather than decreasing world-suck.

    way to be a stereotype.

    thou artless, idle-headed cankerblossom.

  • um that was rude.

  • these guys are awesome

  • I live in Maine and its nothing like this. Montana is huge and still has 400,000 less people than Maine.

  • hey Im from Maine, man u must be really north, not all of us are in the middle of nowhere....=]

  • hours away from internet? probably not. more like 10-30 minutes