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Re:Simplifier by oh_sigh on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:01PM (#23354803)
This is more like what everyone dreamed primitive technology would be. Instead every video is him using the same four techniques over and over again and not progressing through the tech tree.
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Re:Simplifier by rabidrat on Friday May 29, 2020 @10:07PM (#23357835)
He's 20, we should probably give him a few years before we judge him for not progressing.
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Re:Simplifier by throwaway9482 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @04:23AM (#23359479)
Wow he’s 20? I had no idea
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Re:Simplifier by oh_sigh on Saturday May 30, 2020 @11:28PM (#23366920)
He's not. He(John Plant, which is a great nominative deterministic name for a primitivist) is 36 now, and was 31 when he started the channel.

source(just listing his age as "mid-30s" in 2017 but close enough): https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/15/youtube-primitive-technology...

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Re:Simplifier by rabidrat on Sunday May 31, 2020 @02:55AM (#23367759)
Thanks for setting the record straight, I stand corrected.
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Re:Simplifier by throwaway9482 on Sunday May 31, 2020 @06:42PM (#23373578)
:+1: no worries all good
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Re:Simplifier by throwaway9482 on Sunday May 31, 2020 @06:42PM (#23373580)
Ahhh ok that makes more sense
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