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I've learned by lesson from when I mispronounced "I.B." so uh... how do you want my to pronounce ENA?

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Just finished ENA: Dream BBQ a few minutes ago completely blind to any prior ENA content, and I have some things to say! I know plenty of people have mentioned the ENA war theory, but I think I have some interesting things to add (especially regarding the strongly implied food shortage in the game, possible economic crisis, and CONSTANT theme with death/dying being seen as a positive).

Would you guys be interested me talking about my version/amendments to the ENA war theory?

I usually try to avoid making theory videos unless I made the theory myself so I'm not just parroting someone else's work, but I think I have enough interesting things to say/add to make it my own. Maybe more of a sub-theory that adds onto what other people are saying and showing more evidence for the theory as a whole?

Just wanted to check with you guys to see if there's any interest in an ENA theory!

3 days ago | [YT] | 335

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**IMPORTANT**
Question, is there a way to see what a channel originally looked like before name changes, image changes, video history if they had one and other things? I found an AI channel that seems really suspicious, as it has an account that's from 2006, but has had next to no account activity until JUST NOW (suddenly posting hour long each 'iceberg' videos that appear to have

I want to know if there's any way of knowing who the channel was originally so I can find out if it's another hacked channel (doubt it was sold as it only had a few hundred subscribers). **Already tried Wayback Machine** but nothing came of it (not like it would have, given the channel changed the URL to match the new channel name, plus it'd be impossible to find the OG URL back before the channel name became baked in.

Really interested in checking the channel history so if anybody has a method I can try, PLEASE let me know. Channel only has 4 videos, a playlist, no channel description other than that it was made July 15, 2006, and an AI generated profile picture, so it looks like any reference to the original channel has been completely wiped.

Any websites that could help be search deeper in some way? Something similar to the Wayback Machine, or something that lets me check every comment an account has made on OTHER videos (as I doubt they'd be able to go through and delete all of those too)? If we can find an old comment from it, then if they were ever replied to we could get the OG channel name from there possibly.

anyways here's a poll so this pops up in people's community tab/home page.

6 days ago | [YT] | 152

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You know what? I have a lot of ideas on my list that I'm not sure I'll ever get to, so I'mma help a homie out. To all my fellow content creators who happen to watch my content (especially smaller ones that do essay-ish content like I do) here's a list of video ideas that I probably won't make, but could be a hit for your channel if written well/improved! They're good ideas, just ones I don't have the time or energy for.

On the off chance anyone makes a video using these idea concepts, I'd love to see it and maybe even shout you out! So feel free to either email me, or have a Youtube Mention ‪@CutCafe‬ in the description or something so I can find it and support you! Anyways...

1.) "How does society work in those terrible Rise of Kingdoms ads?"
Pretty much an analysis of those one ads that are always like "I kidnapped your girlfriend, but you can't do anything about it because I have 10 MILLION POWER ON RISE OF KINGDOMS!", especially given a lot of people in the ads are allowed to commit crimes due to having power, or others will bend their own morals just to help someone who has more power than them. But in that same vain it's apparently super easy to GET high power, as the other character will often immediately surpass them and get their girl/job/whatever they lost back, which weirdly shows a lack of knowledge ABOUT the game they care so much about, which all of the people in the ads seem to have. An analysis of what is an important enough amount of power (as it varies and contradicts eachother a lot), and theorizing how exactly their legal system and everything else works in this very poorly thought out world.

2.) "Better than Wolves: The Pettiest Mod in Minecraft History"
Honestly would be better if you yourself look into it if this topic interests you, but basically the mod had a lot of drama around it, mainly centering around the mod creator intentionally making it incompatible with several competing mods and getting into several verbal arguments with people who played it. Decided to scrap the video idea due to it being too drama-y and not lining up with the kind of stuff I usually talk about, but could be great for any up and coming PNG-tuber commentary channel!

3.) "Will HeartStrings fall to the Yandere Sim Curse?"
Got as far as scripting this one! Had to scrap it due to how frequently they upload, but might consider re-writting it when a more complete beta is made? Pretty much an early review using what we know about the game so far, and talking about the GOOD of the project, but also some of my personal doubts and concerns with it (mainly with an unclear scope/gameplay loop outside of "its going to be Yandere Simulator but I'm making it BETTER" which has harmed past games trying to do something similar.) Though I haven't checked on it in a while, and some of the past concerns I've had about the project have since been rectified, I'd advise forming your own far more original opinions if you take on this one.

4.) "Top 8 OLD Creepy theories in games that still hold up today "
Scrapped because pretty much the only one that I had for the list was the Animal Crossing one about your character being dead/in limbo and the characters there being spirits just trying to give you things to do and show whether you are a good/bad person so you can eventually be sorted to the proper afterlife. Especially valid due to the Gyroid face your character could permanently be stuck with in one of the old games if you powered off the game while in another players town (Gyroids being associated with death). And also the whole mom sending you letters thing, in which she never seems to ask why you aren't sending letters back, and always seems to write in a past tense, akin to how some people leave letters on graves to the spirit receives it in the afterlife. If you can find MORE entries then this could be a pretty valid one talking about lots of old retro (up to even gamecube/ds era) games.

5.) "Unnamed video about the TrugTrug lore"
Basically just taking everything that happens in DougDoug's hardcore World of Warcraft journey way too seriously. Originally planned for January, I put it off due to having to go through 5 very long VODs. Eventually DougDoug posted THEIR video of the edited down VODs, but I then became worried people would just see it as me re-wording everything that happened in THAT video, so could be good so long as it was re-written to be more satirical than "serious" in a funny way.

So yeah, if any of you guys are content creators, feel free to snag one of these if you'd like! I likely won't be making these ones, so feel free to get inspired by them or make them your own! Could do really well if done the right way with a good script and good research.
Enjoy!

2 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 230

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I've gotten enough questions asking why my voice is changing (both happy about it and disappointed) that I figured I'd make a post mentioning it.

Pretty much, the Hat in Time video was made about a month in advanced so it would be ready while I was still moving (seeing I couldn't work during the trip over), and so I was trying to ensure a good transition in regards to what my voice MIGHT sound like in the next video after, because I've been on Testosterone for the past while, and wanted to make sure the voice change wasn't too shocking

When recording the Hat in Time video, I made sure to talk (or try to talk) in a slightly lower octave. Though it seems like upon recording the upcoming Noah video it was a liiiittle more subtle of a vocal change (so far) than I expected, so if my voice sounds higher-pitched again (but also not the exact same as before) THIS video, then that's why.

So TLDR; I had a deeper voice in the Hat in Time video because I thought my next video would sound deeper (due to taking T), and didn't want it to make the transition of my voice slightly less shocking, but it turns out my voice still sounds higher, meaning my next video will probably not sound that deep in pitch.

I try not to talk too too much about the trans stuff, mostly because I prefer people JUST seeing me as a guy rather than people making a big deal over me being a 'trans youtuber' (MAYBE that will change in the future?) especially with what I've seen of other, far more openly Trans Youtubers getting hit with a lot of pretty shitty stuff like mass reportings and being refused sponsor deals for being 'controversial' due to them being open about gender identity stuff. (In fact I've already had a little bit of hate myself just from having a trans flag on my Bluesky profile, though most of THAT flavor of hate was on my VidIQ video, first time I'd ever been called a slur and it's from AI bros lmao, go ask ChatGPT how to be more original)

But nonetheless I figured it'd be important enough to mention here, seeing it's a direct change you can HEAR in my content and it's not like I'm trying to directly "hide" any of it or be too closeted. Been on T for like 2 and a half months and I'm hoping for a good voice drop soon! I've always been pretty tired of getting dysphoria over hearing my own voice/editing videos, so I've been looking forward to it for a long while, and it's thanks to your guy's support that I could even afford it at all.

Sorry for the long post again, just thought I'd inform WHY I sound deeper there, and will sound pretty much back to normal in the next, and WHY it might get slowly deeper in the future. (Hopefully this post doesn't come off too weird? I'm not really used to talking about this kind of stuff online so I wasn't entirely sure how to go about it?)

Anyways, I love y'all. uhhh Magic the Noah video this month probably
go commit some trans wrongs in my honor, thank you.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 443

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I'M SO CLOSE TO BEING DONE AAAAAAAAA
For context I've been looking over every single Magic the Noah video to mark down things for an upcoming video (Pretty similar in concept to Game Theory's Markiplier Smash or Pass video, but instead trying to figure out who Noah "hates" the most in his game shows, as well as several dozen other things to then build the theoretical "best" and "worst" Noah gameshow contestant, and a strategy guide on how to avoid getting targeted by him should you ever be made to do one)

Point is though, there are over 60+ videos, almost all of which are over an hour long each, and one of which was 4 hours long. BUT I AM ALMOST THROUGH! I only have 4 more videos to get through before my research paper is done and I can actually start writing the script.

I've been working on this video for so long that during my move I straight up had a nightmare about Noah, in which he made a gameshow where whenever you take damage you get electrically shocked in real life.

Anyways, it will still be a good bit before that video is done (as this is just the research part), so I thought I'd give some of you guys the chance of predicting!

Who do you think is the most HATED, TARGETTED person from Noah's gameshows? (as in the people that Noah rigs the game against the most? Who suffers the most out of all the Youtubers brought on?)

You super MagictheNoah fans out there may already know who the LEAST is though (not counting Noah) as unless they appear in these final 4 videos, there's one person who has not had a single bad thing happen to them in any of the gameshows he's run. (well, unless he SEES this video, in which case he'll probably target them the next game they appear in)

You want to say you called it? Then guess away!
(Also here's a teaser of the Thumbnails (A/B) I'm thinking of going with? Might change the Dragon one to fill up more space and swirl around like the Black Hole one, but it's still up in the air.)

UPDATE: i have finished the research document. i have been working for 2 weeks straight on this... haauuughhghh... too much math for my brains. Scriptwriting starts tomorrow...

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3 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 296

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(long post incoming)
Here's my little about-to-go-to-sleep, deep shower thought for you: the price of a game actually matters a lot more than you think when it comes to how people treat/review a game, and how much final enjoyment they get out of it.

I don't just mean the fact of paying less making you feel happier you have more money or anything, but more so on an individual level.

Lets say you make a good mascot horror game or something. If it's priced at a normal price (let's say $15) it'll probably be seen as a good game, or maybe just forgettable. If you price a good game at a HIGHER price point (let's say a full $50) it will probably be seen as mediocre, or even just plain bad even if the game itself had some enjoyable moments. But if the game was priced at a lower amount (let's say $3) then many people will see the good game as a GREAT game, and in some cases, may become a cult classic when it otherwise would be completely forgotten.

I'm sure it's pretty obvious I started thinking this because of the whole "$90 Switch games" thing, but it reminded me of how a lot of the best steam games are relatively cheap, especially when compared to their triple A counterparts and competition. Maybe it's because they're too scared to risk a lower profit margin, and so they want to price it higher on average so even if it's seen by people as a "Bad game" they'll still make their pie... but I feel like there's plenty of games out there that are priced cheaply and probably made far more than if they made it more expensive from the get go because more people played it.

Though that being said, there is also the other end of it, in which we naturally see things that are less expensive as being less quality (They may see the $5 game and have the expectation it's only 30min/45min, and expect the $50 game to be a full on experience with hours and hours of content and branching paths). So maybe a lot of that has to do with expectation? In which when the game is good and you only got it for cheap, you're much more inclined to be surprised by it, but when the game was AAA priced any minor inconvenience, hiccup, or bug will sour your experience of it much more.

That's also probably why people are so okay with chapter-based pricing from Mascot Horror (where you pay for each chapter, each of which is a cheaper price than a full game, BUT if you bought each chapter when they came out you're actually paying way more than you should have, or would have ever willingly paid). Which honestly, I've always hated the whole chapter monetization system. Encourages not having a satisfying ending in favor of theory-bait which, honestly, I really want to make a video about. You can drop that one into the idea bucket too.

Free games are weirder in that people are likely to download it but never get around to play. Pretty much everyone (myself included) have free games in their steam library that they have never opened. As such, games that have a small cost at least make the 'responsible' parts of our brain feel obligated to play it because we spent money on it (even if it wasn't much). So honestly I feel like outside of free games, devs should aim for "realistic cheapness" in regards to the amount of money you put your game up for (to ensure you still make a profit and cover the fees of listing your game at all/development costs) while still aiming to low-ball compared to your competition.

Point being: Consumers - give tiny cheap games a chance because they may rock your world, Devs - don't overprice your games or else people might not like it as much as the content provides them, and for the love of god can we stop with chapter-monetization i hate it so much aaauguugghh.

Like I said I'm writing this before bed so hopefully this all makes sense? Because morning me is NOT going to be able to decipher it if not. Also obviously this isn't meant to be an attack on devs with higher priced games, this is more of a food-for-thought kind of thing, and mostly came with the realization of how much money the greedy CEOs at EA, Blizzard, Xbox, etc... have probably lost to OVERpricing their product to the point people thought it was a Bad game at launch when it could have been considered by many as GOOD if they just priced it reasonably and maybe given them more time to iron out the bugs.

Anyways, Thank you for coming to my Ted-Talk. I'm going to bed.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 241

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I had an idea for a video similar to the Top 8 Horror Characters that would use ":3" video, where I determine what horror characters would be the best to have as your roommate, but the one thing I can't decide is this:
For characters that are PURELY digital beings in canon (KinitoPET, Monika from DDLC, etc...) how should I go with the rules of what "roommates" mean within the context of the video?

(To clarify: this is NOT including characters that aren't digital in their OWN world, so other horror characters like Catnap, Foxy, whoever, would still be considered in the context as physical beings you'd be living with, this is SOLELY asking about canonically digital characters)

(Also this would probably be after the MagictheNoah video, which is after the Hat in Time video scheduled this Friday, I just had the idea pop in my head and was quickly writing down possible candidates, but wasn't sure which route would be more fair/entertaining for folks)

4 weeks ago | [YT] | 115

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Went and posted the SOLO version of of that VibingLeaf-like OVERHEAT segment over on my SECONDARY channel at ‪@SpicesStoriesUS‬ for people who just want to see that part without having to skip through all of the April Fools stuff. Go give it a look! Maybe I'll make another one of these kinds of videos! :D

1 month ago | [YT] | 170

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Just wanted to clarify now that I’m at a rest stop: 1st Pai is REAL, Full Pai and all the lost games are NOT! With that out of the way, thanks so much for the support on this years April Fool’s video! Very proud of the vibing leaf-like segment at the end with Overheat Don!

If you’re curious about everything that i did or did not make up, I preemptively set up on the “British English” captions a text commentary over the whole video, going timestamp by timestamp of little fun facts about the creation of this years video, things I made up (with clarification on what I based it on), and things that are actually true!

Go ahead and give it a look if you’re interested in that kind of behind the scenes look!

(Also hydrate before you become like Overheat Don you hooligan, I know you haven’t drank any water today)

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