Games on my shortlist* to play and make videos on:
Cyberpunk 2077 Nier: Automata Outer Wilds (already played years ago, need to replay to get footage) A Plague Tale Innocence/Requiem The Witcher 1-3 Disco Elysium
Let me know if you have other game recommendations that you think would fit my style!
*shortlist has no definitive timeline and it might very well be a year or more before I actually get around to playing this game
I swear, there are 100-200 individuals who have made it their life's mission to troll me by watching one particular video of mine between the hours of 12 AM and 2 AM.
Who is doing this? Why? It's EVERY NIGHT! I NEED ANSWERS!
So I've done some reflecting since releasing my Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 manifesto, and I've come to the conclusion that I made several mistakes.
1) The video is too long. I mean duh, of course it is. It's SIX AND A HALF HOURS. The length, however, is only a problem because of what caused the length: my inability to leave out any story or character beat, any snippet of dialogue, any single MOMENT that I found meaningful. I felt like I had to include it ALL, and so the video turned out bloated.
2) That refusal to leave anything out while I progressed through the story led to the video being DISORGANIZED. Unlike previous videos (Arthur Morgan, Kratos) this one was not broken down by theme, character traits, or really anything else. It just went through the story plot point by plot point. The viewer was never sure what was going to happen next and I included very few promises about where the video was going.
3) I didn't focus on the characters enough. At least, not in a coherent manner. I will probably remedy this in future videos about the game, but the way I structured the video made it next to impossible to give the viewer a proper sense of any given character's arc.
Lessons to learn for next time. The main one being: write a better outline. Establish a promise early in the video about the themes and character arcs that will be covered, giving the viewer a reason to keep watching because they know what's coming and want to hear about it.
Day job took over my life for a few days last week. Ran 16 miles on Saturday because I’m training for a marathon for some unknown reason. Entire family got a stomach bug Saturday night, and I fell victim to it Sunday night.
So I'm editing the Clair Obscur video right now, and Premiere's auto transcription (which I use to speed up audio editing) has had absolutely no clue how to transcribe "Sciel" and "Lune". It's come up with a lot of different guesses, but "ACL Illuminati" has got to be my favorite.
I just want to say thank you. Don't worry, this is not a "so long and thanks for all the fish" type of message. I'm just incredibly grateful.
I know I haven't uploaded in a while, but I promise it is for a very good reason. Things are in motion now that cannot be undone, and - I hope - this one particular project will mean as much to at least a few people as it does to me. God of War: Ragnarok is almost certainly going to be dethroned, and that is no easy feat.
But while I haven't uploaded in over a month, the channel has barely fallen off at all. You have kept watching. My video on Mr. Incredible has found new life and many thousands more views, which reaffirms my mission of elucidating the good, the true, and the beautiful that can be found in meaningful stories, the ones that stay with us no matter how long ago we first experienced them.
So thank you for that. Thank you for your views, your likes, and your many words of encouragement.
I wasn't going to share this until later, but I feel called to now: I have spent thousands of hours analyzing and critiquing the writing of others. While I enjoy doing so and won't be stopping anytime soon, I think my mission is incomplete if I do not seek to CREATE one of those stories. So I'm going to write a book.
Writing fiction is not something I'm unfamiliar with. I have done National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) at least twice, but it's been a long time. But this November, I will be doing it again, with the intention to use those 50,000 words as a jumpstart to my novel, which I have already begun world building and outlining.
I have no idea how this is going to go, and I'm certainly not pinning my hopes on even getting published, but my resolution is simple: do it. Complete the story. And if my wife and I are the only ones who ever read it, but we enjoy it, then my mission was a success.
If you want to support me on this or whatever endeavor, and if you would like to receive daily snippets of my writing (again, starting in November), please consider supporting the channel on Patreon.
Regardless, if you have read all the way to the end of this post, I cannot thank you enough. I am not nearly as grateful as I should be for the incredible success of this channel. I do not know what lies in store for us, but I am beyond excited to meet it.
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Master Samwise
Games on my shortlist* to play and make videos on:
Cyberpunk 2077
Nier: Automata
Outer Wilds (already played years ago, need to replay to get footage)
A Plague Tale Innocence/Requiem
The Witcher 1-3
Disco Elysium
Let me know if you have other game recommendations that you think would fit my style!
*shortlist has no definitive timeline and it might very well be a year or more before I actually get around to playing this game
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I swear, there are 100-200 individuals who have made it their life's mission to troll me by watching one particular video of mine between the hours of 12 AM and 2 AM.
Who is doing this? Why? It's EVERY NIGHT! I NEED ANSWERS!
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Master Samwise
"We can't change what's done. We can only move on." - Arthur Morgan
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In case you missed it, which you probably did because YouTube auto-dubbed it at first and that messed everything up for a couple of hours.
https://youtu.be/39K8WhpFhbg?si=d7USe...
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So I've done some reflecting since releasing my Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 manifesto, and I've come to the conclusion that I made several mistakes.
1) The video is too long. I mean duh, of course it is. It's SIX AND A HALF HOURS. The length, however, is only a problem because of what caused the length: my inability to leave out any story or character beat, any snippet of dialogue, any single MOMENT that I found meaningful. I felt like I had to include it ALL, and so the video turned out bloated.
2) That refusal to leave anything out while I progressed through the story led to the video being DISORGANIZED. Unlike previous videos (Arthur Morgan, Kratos) this one was not broken down by theme, character traits, or really anything else. It just went through the story plot point by plot point. The viewer was never sure what was going to happen next and I included very few promises about where the video was going.
3) I didn't focus on the characters enough. At least, not in a coherent manner. I will probably remedy this in future videos about the game, but the way I structured the video made it next to impossible to give the viewer a proper sense of any given character's arc.
Lessons to learn for next time. The main one being: write a better outline. Establish a promise early in the video about the themes and character arcs that will be covered, giving the viewer a reason to keep watching because they know what's coming and want to hear about it.
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In case you missed it (and need something to get you through your work day).
https://youtu.be/0MA68311Iy4
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Tomorrow comes.
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Day job took over my life for a few days last week. Ran 16 miles on Saturday because I’m training for a marathon for some unknown reason. Entire family got a stomach bug Saturday night, and I fell victim to it Sunday night.
But we continue.
New video out this week.
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So I'm editing the Clair Obscur video right now, and Premiere's auto transcription (which I use to speed up audio editing) has had absolutely no clue how to transcribe "Sciel" and "Lune". It's come up with a lot of different guesses, but "ACL Illuminati" has got to be my favorite.
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Hello my friends.
I just want to say thank you. Don't worry, this is not a "so long and thanks for all the fish" type of message. I'm just incredibly grateful.
I know I haven't uploaded in a while, but I promise it is for a very good reason. Things are in motion now that cannot be undone, and - I hope - this one particular project will mean as much to at least a few people as it does to me. God of War: Ragnarok is almost certainly going to be dethroned, and that is no easy feat.
But while I haven't uploaded in over a month, the channel has barely fallen off at all. You have kept watching. My video on Mr. Incredible has found new life and many thousands more views, which reaffirms my mission of elucidating the good, the true, and the beautiful that can be found in meaningful stories, the ones that stay with us no matter how long ago we first experienced them.
So thank you for that. Thank you for your views, your likes, and your many words of encouragement.
I wasn't going to share this until later, but I feel called to now: I have spent thousands of hours analyzing and critiquing the writing of others. While I enjoy doing so and won't be stopping anytime soon, I think my mission is incomplete if I do not seek to CREATE one of those stories. So I'm going to write a book.
Writing fiction is not something I'm unfamiliar with. I have done National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) at least twice, but it's been a long time. But this November, I will be doing it again, with the intention to use those 50,000 words as a jumpstart to my novel, which I have already begun world building and outlining.
I have no idea how this is going to go, and I'm certainly not pinning my hopes on even getting published, but my resolution is simple: do it. Complete the story. And if my wife and I are the only ones who ever read it, but we enjoy it, then my mission was a success.
If you want to support me on this or whatever endeavor, and if you would like to receive daily snippets of my writing (again, starting in November), please consider supporting the channel on Patreon.
Regardless, if you have read all the way to the end of this post, I cannot thank you enough. I am not nearly as grateful as I should be for the incredible success of this channel. I do not know what lies in store for us, but I am beyond excited to meet it.
Thank you.
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