Master Samwise

Absolutely thrilled that my vide on Gustave hit 100k views, on the same night that Expedition 33 won Game of the Year, no less! Thank you all to everyone who watched the video and shares my love for this character!

https://youtu.be/JhguFQU8j9Y

2 days ago | [YT] | 121

Master Samwise

Hey, in case you were wondering what happened to the Clair Obscur epic, it has been moved over to my new "long gaming essays" channel. That channel will be getting its first original video around the end of the month! Gonna start out with one of the classics.

https://youtu.be/fg9TKpKezyE

3 days ago | [YT] | 94

Master Samwise

New video! Show it some love if you feel so inclined.
https://youtu.be/Z-S03f9meIw

5 days ago | [YT] | 181

Master Samwise

Hello there!

Just a quick channel update for you lovely folks.

Nothing dramatic is changing, but I am trying to make the channel more... algorithmically pleasing. To that end, the long essays on video games (Clair Obscur, God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, etc...) will be moving over to a separate channel.

I really, really enjoy making these videos, but they don't fit the rest of my content super well and thus have a different audience, which isn't good for the channel as a whole.

What I WILL be keeping on this channel is the videos talking about a single character. So even though the vid on Arthur Morgan is 2.5 hours, future videos of such nature will be staying the same. A video on V from Cyberpunk 2077, for example, will be on the Master Samwise channel, while a video on the story as a whole, its philosophy, or whatever else, will be on the new channel.

This is a move I've thought about making for months, and probably should have made earlier, but couldn't quite convince myself to start from scratch again, but I think it's time. I have a lot of games I want to play and talk about, but also have many other video ideas regarding Tolkien, Avatar, Frieren, Star Wars, and writing and storytelling in general. And the two just don't match up, causing a fragmented audience, which is never good on YouTube.

So, I will not be making any fewer videos (well, not for this reason, anyway), but this channel in particular might be getting fewer uploads as I shift strategies.

TL;DR: Go subscribe to youtube.com/@master-sam-gaming if you want to catch more long videos about video games. I'll be moving the Clair Obscur epic over there today.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 690

Master Samwise

See? 6.5 hours IS brief.

https://youtu.be/4Zo-jM_hOxA?si=fAOtl...

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 180

Master Samwise

Fifty thousand words in 20.5 days. The novel is truly underway.

samrodenauthor.com/ to sign up for email updates.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 714

Master Samwise

To the people who keep watching my Arthur Morgan video between the hours of 1 and 2 AM (Central US Time) for the express purpose of trolling me, I applaud you.

Yes, this is a thing.

4 weeks ago | [YT] | 712

Master Samwise

Tell me why I'm wrong

https://youtu.be/FSoXPquRdL4

1 month ago | [YT] | 144

Master Samwise

Syndrome video got hit with random copyright claim, probably because I dissed Disney on Twitter for proposing user-generated AI slop be shown on Disney+

New version will be up soon

1 month ago | [YT] | 1,092

Master Samwise

10,000 words. I have written 10,000 words of the first draft of my novel in the past 5 days.

So I might not be uploading as much this month. My hope is, in a few years and after who knows how many revisions, you all will get the chance decide if it was worth it.

For you, that is. It’s already worth it for me. I love this story and I’m super excited to discover it even as I tell it.

Follow along: samrodenauthor.com/

1 month ago | [YT] | 1,055