Tom hits peak nerd

[@PierceArner]

Ben's _"That's not gonna tessellate, you fucking maniac!"_ at 0:29 might be one of my favourite DEEPLY annoyed and arbitrary accusation he's made that makes this payoff for Tom *_INFINITELY_* better.

[@jamesahibbard]

Especially since the fact that they don't tesselate is why they form a dice, and why hexagons (which do) can't form a regular 3D shape. Such nerd outrage in the way he says it too.

[@PsychShrew]

fun fact, since it's impossible to properly tile a sphere with hexagons, on every Rimworld map there are a few pentagonal tiles generated

[@inihccecb1924]

Actually think I've seen some of those

[@Cepheus_Rex]

you always need exactly 12, no matter the size of the "sphere".

[@leeuw16]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

[@DamnCyrus]

Well til

[@KingWesleyIV]

Ya. Coincidentally even then it isn't perfect.

[@RandomUser11170]

Tom's been living in the 3rd dimension his whole life, while the hexagon supporters are 2d nerds

[@hmmurdockofids]

I like that when Dice Lord is holding court his hand doesn't leave his glasses.

[@ieyke]

The phrase they were looking for was "Platonic Solid". No Platonic Solid is hexagonal. A Buckyball is as close as you can get. The only Platonic Solids are: - Tetrahedron (D4) - made of triangles - Cube (D6) - made of squares - Octahedron (D8) - made of triangles - Dodecahedron (D12) - made of pentagons - Icosahedron (D20) - made of triangles By the metric of Platonic Solids, it's clear that the triangle is the best polygon. Triangles are also the best polygon by virtually every other metric that exists.

[@CreativityNull]

What polygon do we use for 3d modeling? That's right, triangles! What can you make a Hexagon out of? Triangles again! The most basic and best shape!

[@isaacwebster8871]

@@CreativityNull without wanting to actually too hard when i'm doing modeling I model mostly in quads (4 sided polys), but I will relent that tri's are still needed

[@CreativityNull]

@@isaacwebster8871 I model in quads... However quads are actually still Tris. The software is just taking two Tris and mapping them together. Some software will dynamically assign where the concurrent lines on the tri for the selected quad are based on the location data of all 4 vertices, but at the end of the day when it is calculated and rendered, it is using Tris.

[@dudekazoo]

I used to think hexagons were the bestagons but then I took trig. Triangles are like the god shape, from which all other shapes spring forth.

[@kingkuma4112]

I like the rombosododecahedron myself.

[@DamianSiIvers]

Ben: "Dodecahedron" Tom: *scoff *scoff *scoff *scoff

[@travishimebaugh8381]

Next thing you know he's going to have a Minecraft avatar that's wearing a Starfleet uniform What kind of hopeless nerd would do something as cringe as that, eh?

[@_ayohee]

Yeah, imagine having that as your skin for years, what a fucking nerd you’d have to be to do that. Glad I don’t know anyone like that

[@kevlead]

Tom is much cooler now that he's not trying to be "cool" lol

[@lordtarrisk1109]

Was he ever trying to be cool? Not that I'm doubting your information, it's just that I don't know if Tom actually went through a phase like that.

[@GrassFudge7]

You make it sound like he hasn't been cool the whole time

[@kevlead]

Watch some of his older content/ first appearances on yogscast and it's a completely different vibe He's a more rounded entertainer now

[@DracoDxl]

@@kevlead I'd imagine it was probably less a matter of trying to be cool and more so just him not being as comfortable in recordings

[@kevlead]

@@DracoDxl for sure! That goes for anyone too, no hate but love to see growth!

[@SoybeanGravy]

Ben, who met Tom playing Warhammer: “When was it you used to be cool?”

[@yakobsoulstorm5187]

That was when it went downhill.

[@Sorc47]

"Name a better gon." Vogon

[@garr_inc]

Damn, good one.

[@Lordborgman]

Egon

[@alansmithee419]

Their art is as a cromfendingly arbituitous renglesnetch, grodling o'er the walls of bejurnon.

[@Pratalax]

haaaa haaa, look at this hexagon nerd without his platonic solid

[@bearVshark100]

Oh my god, I just now realized how computer polygons and model wireframing works because of this conversation

[@w5527]

Tom not even getting the CGP Grey reference smh

[@_ayohee]

Yeah, I honestly thought given the title of the video that he would have gotten it

[@ultrahevybeat]

i just love how he starts with "yeah if your a fucking nerd"

[@CreativityNull]

Best polygon? Triangles. Change my mind!

[@modernkennnern]

What the fuck I literally just finished rewatching that CGP grey video 2 minutes ago and closed and reopened KZbin not even a minute later (as one does..) then clicked on a fairly innocuous video. BAM - it's back. I get that this video was recommended to me because of exactly that, but hearing "Hexagons are the bestagons" from Tom immediately after watching a video about it was very trippy

[@Sp4rt4nSl4ya]

I justfinished this vod, this moment was hilarious

[@JustPlainRob]

The reason the hexagonal prism isn't a -hedron shape is because it's not the same shape on all faces. There are some squares in there, so it's not a true platonic solid.

[@RonnocFroop]

I maintain that squares are the best polygon. They can tessellate in both 2 and 3 dimensions, and when using them as squares you can move in any dimension they're tessellating without having to move in another dimension. What other polygon can do all that?

[@natvanrooyen]

Rhombus

[@yakobsoulstorm5187]

Triangle.

[@RonnocFroop]

@@yakobsoulstorm5187 I can't be bothered to see how well they tessellate in 3d, but they fill the last requirement even worse than hexagons. You can only move in one dimension in one direction at a time, not even the entire dimension.

[@Cyberpansy]

This makes me so happy.

[@jamietus1012]

I see tom supports Matt Parker's soccer symbol change

[@tqit0210]

Graphene's flat sheet for a reason.

[@donkosaurus]

i need to find some context where i can refer to a hexagon as a hexagon and a pentagon and his friend

[@gyleymaskey]

Ben must be thinking of a D-20 or an icosahedron.

[@rocketforthree4479]

Tom is the Dice Lord of Dice Law.

[@ethan-loves]

these two are just the bestest boys, aren't they?

[@rocktalon2]

Better gon than the hexagon? Ore-gon.

[@KingWesleyIV]

there are no hexagon sided dice. It is unfortunately impossible.

[@michaelhulton3143]

I found out what the hexagonal dice is called, its called a Hexagonal Bifrustum

[@bazf7742]

I'm screaming nonagon.......

[@Scio_]

Squares are better for every human use. Always. Forever. On every dimensionality.

[@firewings8246]

CGP Grey was wrong! I don’t know what to do with this info.

[@greatbingus]

lol he has a video about why war won't happen in the 21st century because it's not as profitable as peace..... yeah that one really came true... lol

[@EpsilonZed]

@@greatbingus no major countries are at war with each other though????

[@995cool]

@@EpsilonZed you sure about that

[@EpsilonZed]

@@995cool yep 100% sure

[@MrAnonymoss]

@@EpsilonZed I mean the US went to war from 2001 to 2021...

[@SpydrXIII]

i've wanted a triangle tile game for a while, i think it could be a good movement grid.

[@Bob21150]

Gondor

[@jamesahibbard]

Hexagons tesselate in 2D, therefore they wouldn't be able to form a dice (ie they can't form a regular 3D solid)

[@MarkoPolo1223]

Squares tessellate in 2D and can form a dice.

[@paddycaker]

2:51 made me do a LUL

[@Jcc8t7]

Gon freeks

[@Pokemark17]

I like the octagon

[@VideoSage]

What about Vogons?

[@tokewarming]

Be gong

[@giogio182]

The solid shape Ben is looking for (they find it at the end), made of hexagons AND pentagons, is the Beautiful Game's ball. Ah! Fake Englishmen! Disgustang! 😆 Actually I don't even know why I know. Probably a Numberphile video.

[@stone5against1]

Gorgon? What about shotgun? 🤪

[@karmakomando]

hey that was me that donated :D

[@osga98]

football