ProfessorViral

Is your life going how you expected it would?

The world, and as such my life within it, has changed so much that I feel disconnected from the person who set it in motion. I think, with my current knowledge, I would have done so much differently, but I also believe I would be thinking the same thing if it'd gone otherwise. It's like having an idea of the future at all is just an engine of regret

1 day ago | [YT] | 62

ProfessorViral

Millennium Actress is a story about stories, blending an actress' roles into her own life, and showing how when she was writing her own story, that is living life like a movie, she was more successful and motivated than any other time. It's about how important it can be to let yourself be poetic and artsy and call something utterly replaceable "the most important thing" just because it makes you feel good. Also, it addresses originality, and puts forward an interesting case that "this but in a different genre" is actually important, and not always just a "rip off."

Oh yeah, this is also my video on it. Honestly I could just write a whole post on Satoshi Kon and forget to put the video in at all lol

5 days ago | [YT] | 55

ProfessorViral

For everyone currently enjoying the Edgerunners video, there's another one for you coming tomorrow (as well as Serial Experiments Lain, Akira, and Ghost in the Shell). It's about the link between our body and mind: which one is in control? Would leaving our bodies behind truly be an "evolution?" Would cyberware destroy your sense of self? And is consciousness nothing more than the storing and processing of information? I've been trying to make shorter videos, but there was no way to with this one, there was just too much to explore about this fact we can never escape, the delicate dance of the body and mind.

This was a topic I covered a couple years back, but it was taken down, and has been majorly reworked, including with two new sections, making it an almost entirely new video. I'm excited for it, and hope to see you there tomorrow!

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1 week ago | [YT] | 181

ProfessorViral

If our world actually went cyberpunk, would you get some kind of body-altering cybernetics?

I have a pretty big reason to as you probably know, and its possible the pressures of the world would force us to anyway, but I also just spent a lot of time drawing up arguments for how they may lead to a collapse of the self, especially in a corporate world like ours. Should a mind which is volatile truly be allowed to permanently alter a form which is meant to anchor it? Should money truly become a means of physical distinction as well as class distinction? I'll make the case for these arguments and more on Thursday

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 64

ProfessorViral

I'm considering doing more videos like this one, looking more expressly at set philosophies, with stories as both examples and analysis of them. So, check out this one and let me know if that's something you'd like!

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 106

ProfessorViral

Do you have any desire to be "famous," or at least recognized in a certain field, remembered for a certain event, etc? Or, are you okay with having an "ordinary" life?

I don't have much to add this time, at least not yet. I'm kind of figuring out which I want and why as I go along here

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 75

ProfessorViral

(Trying this out for science, more detail below)

There's a terrible consequence to being an individual; it necessitates lacking a measure for one's worth. This often leaves us lost, knowing that we're unique, but never knowing specifically how or why. I think this is (part of) the origin of games. They're a way to shrink the vastness of the world with rules, measure ourselves, and then expand what we find back out into a wider world. That's what this video is all about.

Okay, so now why I'm doing this. I've seen channels do this from time to time, where they make a post about the recent video a day or two later. I'm assuming its because many users aren't actually using the subscriptions feed, meaning you don't always reach the people who would actually click on the video, and a second source of them seeing it pulls that back a bit. So, I wanted to see how this impacts the number of views, if it all, for how long, and from which sources, to gauge how much control we actually have as creators.
I already have some suspicions that supposedly helpful features actually have a harmful effect, so I want to try and get some actual data to judge my suspicions.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 60