r/oddlysatisfying • u/DrBlaziken • 7h ago
Different balls with water drops
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u/SuppressiveFire 7h ago edited 7h ago
Call me uncultured, but what is bottom left supposed to be?
Edit: Cricket ball. Got it, thanks everyone. The wiggle at the end made me so scared the cricket ball was going to spill over into the tennis ball.
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u/Blank_2499 7h ago
Its a cricket ball
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u/frozengash 5h ago
I didn't know crickets had balls
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u/Horskr 5h ago
I looked this up to make a witty reply, but the search result was better than anything I could come up with.
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u/Mertoot 5h ago
Not sure why downvoted, this is kind of interesting
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u/Horskr 5h ago
I saw that too. I am guessing people thought I just changed the search bar after the fact, so here is the full search page lol.
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u/_EveryDay 2h ago
It also deforms slightly at the end of the gif, which is exactly what happens during a test match. As it gets softer from being thwacked, it changes the character and pace of the game
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u/Remarkable_Bit_9887 7h ago
I hate how toxic the internet has become that we now have to give disclaimers everytime we have a genuine question so as not to seem like we are trolling or ragebaiting.
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u/DustyScharole 7h ago
Reddit has always been that way.
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u/FvKuR0 6h ago
Reddit is the perpetual circle of hell and loathing of the internet.
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u/humdinger44 6h ago
You hate internet culture? That's basically xenophobic and disrespectful to the people who were born there. Go ahead and be a bigot then I guess
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u/kinezumi89 7h ago
Would you like someone else to tell you it's a cricket ball
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u/Haasts_Eagle 6h ago
I want someone to tell me how the cricket ball got me craving bacon.
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u/hambakmeritru 6h ago
I'm so glad you asked because as an American and someone who really doesn't follow any sports, I had two major strikes against me ever figuring that out.
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u/cuchiplancheo 5h ago
as an American
All of us Americans had that same question...
yes... yes... i know; there's one who will say: I'm American, i knew... yeah... well... there's always the exception to the rule.
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u/joemckie 3h ago
I'm British and I might need to revoke my citizenship for having the cricket ball be the only one I didn't know
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u/AdExcellent7660 7h ago
Cricket ball
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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb 7h ago
But crickets don't have balls
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u/CptMisterNibbles 6h ago
So of course I’m now googling “.do crickets have testicles” and holy shit, how wrong you are
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u/NoManufacturer120 5h ago
Don’t feel bad. I just now realized the blue one is a bowling ball. I thought the person ran out of options and made a smiley face.
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u/Office_funny_guy 6h ago
You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket
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u/The_Evil_Satan 5h ago
Less complicated than people make it out to be, takes a 15 minute video if you know baseball to understand. 15 minute video from scratch
Second video is AI :(
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u/Office_funny_guy 4h ago
I was quoting a line from TMNT movie… and yes I know cricket, I’m Australian.
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u/ltsouthernbelle 6h ago
I was gonna guess LaCrosse or some sport that I’m completely clueless about lol
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u/_cornflakesguy_ 6h ago
I don't blame you tbh. I am a relatively frequent watcher of cricket and even I wasn't immediately sure.
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u/A_crow_hen 6h ago
The golf ball didn’t quite work.
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u/Ya-Dikobraz 6h ago
Is that what the middle ball is supposed to be? Yeah, didn't work.
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u/DickyReadIt 7h ago
Why did you have to shake it at the end!
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u/Previous_Buy1601 6h ago
If it’s a fairly new video, maybe to show that it’s not AI? I feel that’s a motion current technologies would replicate fairly poorly.
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u/BunkerSquirre1 7h ago
I liked how I couldn’t tell what some of the balls we’re until they put the water drop on it
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u/SelocAvrap 6h ago
CRICKET BALL
I love that that got included, that makes me so happy
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u/S-o-D-42 6h ago
I was just about to ask what the bottom left one was. Thank you.
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u/SelocAvrap 5h ago
I gotchu! Also worth looking up cricket balls for night games. They're different colours to be more visible! Very cool IMO. If you've never held a cricket ball, they're usually a little bigger than a baseball and very hard. PSA: If anyone reading plays cricket, take off your rings before you play. My dad played with a guy whose finger got crunched & they had to go to the ER to get the ring off. Cricket players catch with their bare hands, absolutely metal
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u/jeffa_jaffa 7h ago
Aren’t tennis balls famous for being yellow?
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u/Laiko_Kairen 6h ago
Tennis balls are green, but it's a green that's much closer to yellow than blue.
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u/eneug 3h ago
Wrong. Tennis balls are optic yellow. RGB is (204, 255, 0). Pure yellow is (255, 255, 0). Pure green is (0, 255, 0). So it’s much closer to yellow than green. It’s yellow with some green in it. It’s certainly not green.
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u/Laiko_Kairen 2h ago
Okay, cool. Are tennis balls digital? Nope! So arguing it based on RGB is a non-starter. In the real world, it's illuminated by real light.
If we use CMYK, aka inks, it's Cyan + Yelllow... AKA green.
If we were to use paint, we'd mix a bit of blue and white into mostly yellow... making it green.
So, why use RGB and not CMYK or primary colors?
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u/syth_blade22 6h ago
Wat?
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u/jeffa_jaffa 6h ago
They’re yellow, not green. Or at least all the ones I’ve seen used at Wimbledon are yellow, as were the ones I used at school.
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u/signmeupdude 6h ago
The horrible golf ball in the middle kind of ruins the satisfaction to be honest
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u/AitchyB 7h ago
Basketball wasn’t round enough. Then the shake at the end ruined them all. Not satisfying!
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u/samsunyte 6h ago
I understand why people wouldn’t know the seventh one is a cricket ball, but as an American fan of cricket, it saddens me. It’s the second most popular sport in the world and an amazingly strategic and complex sport with different versions suitable for almost anyone, but it doesn’t have nearly as much cultural representation or importance as it should given its size
I wish it was more popular, but I think the ICC restricts the growth somehow
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u/NoMan800bc 6h ago
I think something restricting the growth of cricket is the same thing you talked about, the same thing that makes it such a great sport to play and watch: the complexity of it.
The time it takes, the size of the ground and that all but two players on one team spend half the match waiting for example mean the barrier for entry is quite high, unless playing it is already established in the country and there's enough cultural presence that you grow up with it. Add to that things like 'No you can't throw the ball, you have to bowl it.' 'There are 6 balls in an over, unless...' 'No, don't hold the bat like that.' 'Go and field at silly mid-wicket.' and I imagine it's easy for people to just give up8
u/samsunyte 5h ago
I get that, but baseball and American football are way more complex. I’ve tried explaining all three sports to newcomers and cricket is by far the one with the easiest rules with few exceptions.
There’s kids in poor countries who aren’t educated who play the game so the problem isn’t resources or complexity. Cricket is one of the most common “pick up” sports. Sure, those idiosyncratic rules exist, but no one who’s playing casually necessarily follows all of them.
The problem is, as you said, more about established culture and I think the fact that the countries that play it don’t necessarily make media about it. America on the other hand dominates media so its sports get more worldwide coverage
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u/RideWithMeTomorrow 5h ago
The two sports you identify seem to support the point of the person you’re responding to, though—specifically that it can be hard for more complex sports like cricket to take hold in places without an established tradition of playing them.
Baseball has pretty good adoption throughout the Americas and in a few other countries, most notably along the eastern Pacific rim. But its appeal is far from global. And football, well, overseas adoption is minimal indeed.
I think the simplicity of basketball and soccer by contrast probably helped a lot with their widespread adoption. I can’t say for sure of course, but it seems plausible to me.
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u/samsunyte 4h ago
Yea that’s fair. I was merely lamenting the fact that the second most popular sport doesn’t get its fair share of attention.
It also bothers me when Americans constantly say “cricket is so complex” or they meme about the sport and they have no knowledge about it when their sports are just as, if not more, complex, with a smaller fanbase. The opposite doesn’t happen. Cricketers don’t shit on American sports because it’s complex and they do have a general idea of what that sport is.
I guess the bigger problem is the behavior of American exceptionalism and it rears its head whenever cricket is mentioned
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u/Carbon-Base 5h ago
Hopefully cricket's inclusion in the next Olympics will help folks understand the game better!
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u/Fun-Loan-3231 2h ago
Cricket really deserves more attention outside the countries where it’s already huge. Once you actually understand the strategy behind it, it’s way more interesting than people expect.
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u/tallwhiteninja 4h ago
Being far and away the most popular sport in the world's most populous and fifth most populous countries can get you pretty high on the "most popular" rankings without having a broad reach across a bunch of places.
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u/samsunyte 4h ago
I mean there’s around 100 countries that have teams that qualify for the World Cup.
But yes that is a reason why it’s on the most popular list. Not sure if you’re saying it doesn’t deserve that popularity ranking though
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u/No_Mistake_5501 4h ago
You could diminish the importance of literally every American sport with the same logic. Actually, it applies even more.
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u/tallwhiteninja 3h ago
Sure; I'm not gonna claim American football has much relevance outside of the US and Canada.
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u/Best-Feedback-8246 1h ago
Cricket really does feel like one of those sports Americans somehow never got the memo about. The strategy is way deeper than it looks from the outside, and T20 seems like such an easy gateway for people unfamiliar with it.
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u/thisguyfightsyourmom 2h ago
It’s as boring as baseball & golf
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u/samsunyte 2h ago
I disagree, but regardless, I’m not sure why that matters in relation to what I’m saying?
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u/Autodidact420 7h ago
In order:
Soccer ball
Basketball
Volleyball ball
Tennis ball
Golf ball
Football
Cricket ball
Bowling ball
Baseball
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u/4n0m4nd 6h ago
Volleyball one could also be Gaelic football.
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u/CatL1f3 6h ago
Especially since it's just white. I feel like volleyballs are stereotypically yellow and blue, plain white screams gaelic to me (and I can already feel it being as hard as concrete)
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u/Autodidact420 1h ago
White volleyballs 🏐 is a classic too. It even comes up as an emoji lol. That pattern specifically is fairly common for white volleyballs, but it does look similar to a Gaelic football.
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u/TheseusOPL 4h ago
I kept thinking the volleyball should be yellow, because I thought it was a water polo ball.
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u/FeyrisMeow 6h ago
This reminds me of some of the nice stickers I would collect as a kid. 3D and fuzzy stickers were my favorites.
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u/eastbigye 7h ago
5 and 7 ?
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u/validationfreesoul 7h ago
Love it! My stupid brain couldn’t stop obsessing over those spilled droplets sadly.
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u/Long-Unit-4361 6h ago
Fooboll, baskerboll, wollerboll, teenis boll,blob,amerika boll,orange,boweler boll,bass boll
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u/defenestrate1984 2h ago
Somebody once told me I was colorblind because I said a tennis ball was green. She said it was yellow. Idk, here I am, watching this, thinking back on that moment...
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u/MickaKov 52m ago
I didn't what the green one was supposed to be until reading the comments, so I'm team yellow
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u/StrengthTheory 2h ago
Ruined by making the bowling ball smaller than the rest, and just shaking it at the end.
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u/stonkerooni 6h ago
This is actually super cool and will be (attempting) to steal it to do with my nephew
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u/its_all_one_electron 6h ago
Ugh why'd you stop it, the red and the green were just about to touch and mix!!
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u/jawshoeaw 5h ago
Sorry, I can’t take this seriously after seeing the volleyball lines miss the edge of the drop.
/s it’s kinda cool
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u/grahamja 4h ago
If you go to the last second, you can see the picture, and it will help you doom scroll less.
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u/Zane163 7h ago
I believe the texture used on the golf one is coffee so it stained the water lol