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.
“Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it. In using escape in this way the critics have chosen the wrong word, and, what is more, they are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter.” - JRR Tolkien
It's shocking how many people have told me they fall asleep to my videos. I would be offended, but honestly I think I just need to figure out how I can capitalize on the melatonistic (it's a word, trust me) nature of my voice.
If you would like to know how white I am, here’s an anecdote for you.
My wife and I got takeout from a local Thai place. Like a lot of Thai restaurants, this particular establishment offers spice levels from 1-5, 5 being the spiciest. Knowing ourselves, we both got 1 in our pho and pad Thai.
Hello there! I’m just gonna drop the link to the Lionhearts kickstarter here in case any of y’all are interested in backing the project. Personally I have cause I think it looks cool and I like the guys from the studio whom I’ve had a chance to talk to.
Again, this isn’t an ad, they’re not paying me, I’m just trying to help them out.
I realized there exists a much better way to gather data on your favorite shows than spamming you with polls for the next two weeks. Just visit this link to participate in the poll: pollunit.com/polls/3euvcjbsgetzm5ksc25cbq
Alright I'm going to say something absolutely insane.
I think AI is going to make the arts more popular than ever.
If you look at all the doomsday predictions around generative AI and the creative arts, you'll see people predicting that we will be able to just have ChatGPT generate whatever story we want to read or watch, and will simply enjoy our own little piece of "art" in our own little corner. No one will really create art anymore, the alarmists say, we will simply tell the AI what we're feeling like today.
I'm here to tell you that's bullshit.
There's not a piece of technology in this world that can replace our human need for connection with others. We might imitate it, cheapen it, and seemingly replace it, but we never truly will. We are realizing this now, after the last nearly two decades of social media. We are less relational than ever despite being more "connected" than ever. Perhaps AI will make us more siloed for a while... but I believe the pendulum will swing back the other way, and will do so with a vengeance.
We don't just want to experience a story. We want to share it with others. We want to discuss it, to gush with our friends and spouses about it, even to argue about our different interpretations of it. We NEED to be able to do that. Having pieces of art that bring an entire culture together is absolutely essential. We've been trending away from that for a while, and while AI might just speed up our descent for a bit, it can't last forever. We are naturally inclined to desire community centered around the stories we tell, and we WILL get back there.
Plus, if AI does in fact wipe out a ton of white collar jobs, maybe all those accountants and IT managers will finally get around to writing those novels they've been putting off.
Yes, AI can imitate the art of sub-creation, but it can never truly participate in it. And I think people are going to hunger for the real thing. Just give it time.
Master Samwise
Master Samwise
Tomorrow comes.
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Master Samwise
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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Master Samwise
“Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it. In using escape in this way the critics have chosen the wrong word, and, what is more, they are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter.” - JRR Tolkien
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Master Samwise
It's shocking how many people have told me they fall asleep to my videos. I would be offended, but honestly I think I just need to figure out how I can capitalize on the melatonistic (it's a word, trust me) nature of my voice.
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Master Samwise
If you would like to know how white I am, here’s an anecdote for you.
My wife and I got takeout from a local Thai place. Like a lot of Thai restaurants, this particular establishment offers spice levels from 1-5, 5 being the spiciest. Knowing ourselves, we both got 1 in our pho and pad Thai.
Yeah we both still went for the milk mid meal.
I love spicy food but I am a real wimp about it.
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Master Samwise
Hello there! I’m just gonna drop the link to the Lionhearts kickstarter here in case any of y’all are interested in backing the project. Personally I have cause I think it looks cool and I like the guys from the studio whom I’ve had a chance to talk to.
Again, this isn’t an ad, they’re not paying me, I’m just trying to help them out.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/612741239/lionhearts?…
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Master Samwise
Hello there!
I realized there exists a much better way to gather data on your favorite shows than spamming you with polls for the next two weeks. Just visit this link to participate in the poll: pollunit.com/polls/3euvcjbsgetzm5ksc25cbq
Thank you!
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Master Samwise
Alright I'm going to say something absolutely insane.
I think AI is going to make the arts more popular than ever.
If you look at all the doomsday predictions around generative AI and the creative arts, you'll see people predicting that we will be able to just have ChatGPT generate whatever story we want to read or watch, and will simply enjoy our own little piece of "art" in our own little corner. No one will really create art anymore, the alarmists say, we will simply tell the AI what we're feeling like today.
I'm here to tell you that's bullshit.
There's not a piece of technology in this world that can replace our human need for connection with others. We might imitate it, cheapen it, and seemingly replace it, but we never truly will. We are realizing this now, after the last nearly two decades of social media. We are less relational than ever despite being more "connected" than ever. Perhaps AI will make us more siloed for a while... but I believe the pendulum will swing back the other way, and will do so with a vengeance.
We don't just want to experience a story. We want to share it with others. We want to discuss it, to gush with our friends and spouses about it, even to argue about our different interpretations of it. We NEED to be able to do that. Having pieces of art that bring an entire culture together is absolutely essential. We've been trending away from that for a while, and while AI might just speed up our descent for a bit, it can't last forever. We are naturally inclined to desire community centered around the stories we tell, and we WILL get back there.
Plus, if AI does in fact wipe out a ton of white collar jobs, maybe all those accountants and IT managers will finally get around to writing those novels they've been putting off.
Yes, AI can imitate the art of sub-creation, but it can never truly participate in it. And I think people are going to hunger for the real thing. Just give it time.
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