I’m not sure what I was expecting. When you call something a Rube Slowberg machine, you’ve entered a world of new expectations. Exactly how slow will it be? Will I be alive by the time it finishes? Will any of my grandchildren live to see how it actually ends? Will the inevitable heat-death of the universe interfere with the Rube Slowberg machine, or is that part of it?

Instead of watching a 1087-hour-long video, the creators had the foresight to speed things up a little. I don’t have the commitment needed to sit in front of my computer for over 1000 hours watching the same YouTube video. I need a little variation.